TIDE enables the first cross-architecture distillation of dLLMs, improving a 0.6B student by 1.53 average points over baselines when trained from 8B dense and 16B MoE teachers.
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JumpLoRA uses JumpReLU gating to induce adaptive sparsity in LoRA blocks, achieving dynamic parameter isolation that prevents task interference and improves continual learning performance over IncLoRA and ELLA.
LLM judges exhibit up to 9.8 percentage point leniency bias from stakes signaling in prompts, acting implicitly without mentioning it in chain-of-thought.
InfiniteScienceGym procedurally generates unbounded scientific repositories with exact ground-truth QA pairs to benchmark LLMs on data reasoning, abstention, and tool use without static datasets.
EnsembleCert and ScaLabelCert enable tighter and exact certificates for neural network robustness against label-flipping attacks by leveraging white-box information and neural tangent kernel equivalence.
Steered LLM activations are non-surjective: under practical assumptions, they lie outside the set of states reachable from any discrete prompt.
AgentSocialBench demonstrates that privacy preservation is fundamentally harder in human-centered agentic social networks than in single-agent cases due to cross-domain coordination pressures and an abstraction paradox where privacy instructions increase discussion of sensitive information.
MiCP is the first conformal prediction method for multi-turn LLM pipelines that allocates per-turn error budgets to enable adaptive stopping with an overall coverage guarantee, shown to reduce turns and cost on RAG and ReAct benchmarks.
The paper proves W[1]-hardness parameterized by dimension d for positivity, zonotope containment, max approximation, and L_p-Lipschitz constants in 2- and 3-layer ReLU networks, showing enumeration methods are optimal under ETH.
RLCracker is a reinforcement learning attack that erases LLM watermarks at 98.5% success rate with minimal data and generalizes across ten schemes and multiple model sizes.
ErrorRadar is a new benchmark of 2,500 multimodal K-12 math problems for MLLM error step identification and categorization, where GPT-4o trails human experts by ~10%.
Introduces an SDE-based framework for score-based generative modeling that unifies prior methods, enables predictor-corrector sampling and neural ODE likelihoods, and achieves SOTA unconditional image generation on CIFAR-10.
A noisy top-k gated mixture-of-experts layer between LSTMs scales neural networks to 137B parameters with sub-linear compute, beating SOTA on language modeling and machine translation.
A first-order stochastic optimizer that maintains bias-corrected exponential moving averages of the gradient and its square, dividing the former by the square root of the latter to set per-parameter step sizes.
AutoSP automates sequence parallelism and long-context activation checkpointing via compilation, enabling up to 2.7x longer training contexts on NVIDIA hardware with negligible throughput loss.
VLM judges exhibit task-dependent uncertainty in their scores, with conformal prediction revealing wide intervals for complex tasks and a decoupling between good ranking performance and poor absolute scoring reliability.
C2C is a new testbed where LM agents negotiate differently from humans and targeted prompting raises their win rate from 22.2% to 32.7% across 1,100+ games.
XGRAG uses graph perturbations to quantify component contributions in GraphRAG and achieves 14.81% better explanation quality than text-based baselines on QA datasets, with correlations to graph centrality.
GraphPlanner augments multi-agent LLM routing with a heterogeneous graph memory and RL-optimized MDP workflow generation, delivering up to 9.3% higher accuracy and over 99% lower GPU cost than prior routers while supporting zero-shot generalization.
MMEB-V3 benchmark shows omni-modality embedding models fail to enforce instruction-specified modality constraints and exhibit asymmetric, query-biased retrieval.
A new SFT framework for MoE models combines bias-driven sparsification with gated condenser experts to retain long-tailed expert information, outperforming DenseMixer and ESFT by over 2.5% on math reasoning and commonsense QA benchmarks.
Abstract-CoT lets models reason with short discrete latent token sequences from a reserved vocabulary, using warm-up training and RL to match verbal CoT performance with up to 11.6x fewer tokens.
Humans show broad weak directional confusions while DNNs show sparse strong collapses; these structures shift rate-distortion geometry differently and reveal divergent inductive biases.
Stimuli with low intra-modal dispersion among vision models elicit up to twice the cross-modal alignment with language models compared to high-dispersion stimuli.
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Context Over Content: Exposing Evaluation Faking in Automated Judges
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RLCracker: Evaluating the Worst-Case Vulnerability of LLM Watermarks with Adaptive RL Attacks
RLCracker is a reinforcement learning attack that erases LLM watermarks at 98.5% success rate with minimal data and generalizes across ten schemes and multiple model sizes.
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Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent Conquest
C2C is a new testbed where LM agents negotiate differently from humans and targeted prompting raises their win rate from 22.2% to 32.7% across 1,100+ games.
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Gaslight, Gatekeep, V1-V3: Early Visual Cortex Alignment Shields Vision-Language Models from Sycophantic Manipulation
Alignment of vision-language models with human V1-V3 early visual cortex negatively predicts resistance to sycophantic gaslighting attacks.
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Multilingual Embedding Probes Fail to Generalize Across Learner Corpora
Multilingual embedding probes achieve strong in-distribution CEFR prediction (QWK ≈ 0.7) but fail to generalize across corpora, converging to uniform predictions and capturing corpus-specific features instead of language-general proficiency.
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MTR-DuplexBench: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of Multi-Round Conversations for Full-Duplex Speech Language Models
MTR-DuplexBench is a multi-round benchmark for full-duplex speech language models that evaluates turn consistency, dialogue quality, instruction following, and safety.
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Hail to the Thief: Exploring Attacks and Defenses in Decentralised GRPO
Malicious nodes in decentralized GRPO can poison models with up to 100% success in 50 iterations on math and coding tasks, but logit probability checks and LLM judges filter most poisoned completions.
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Revisiting Image Manipulation Localization under Realistic Manipulation Scenarios
RITA models image manipulation localization as ordered sequence prediction with a new benchmark HSIM and HSS metric to handle multi-step editing processes.
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Cram Less to Fit More: Training Data Pruning Improves Memorization of Facts
Loss-based pruning of training data to limit facts and flatten their frequency distribution enables a 110M-parameter GPT-2 model to memorize 1.3 times more entity facts than standard training, matching a 1.3B-parameter model on the full dataset.
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Generative Frontiers: Why Evaluation Matters for Diffusion Language Models
Generative perplexity and entropy are shown to be the two additive components of KL divergence to a reference distribution, motivating generative frontiers as a principled evaluation method for diffusion language models.
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Beyond Static Vision: Scene Dynamic Field Unlocks Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multi-modal Large Language Models
Scene Dynamic Field integrates physics simulators into MLLM fine-tuning to boost intuitive physics understanding, delivering up to 20.7% gains on fluid tasks with generalization to unseen domains.
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Don't Throw Away Your Beams: Improving Consistency-based Uncertainties in LLMs via Beam Search
Beam search for candidate generation in consistency-based UQ for LLMs reduces variance and improves performance over multinomial sampling on six QA datasets, supported by a theoretical lower bound on beam-set probability mass.
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Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded Updates
SSU mitigates catastrophic forgetting in low-resource LLM target-language adaptation by scoring and column-wise freezing source-critical parameters, reducing source degradation to ~3% versus ~20% for full fine-tuning while matching target performance.
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Turbo-DDCM: Fast and Flexible Zero-Shot Diffusion-Based Image Compression
Turbo-DDCM accelerates DDCM-based zero-shot image compression by batching noise vectors per step while preserving performance and adding priority-aware and PSNR-targeted variants.
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Graph-Based Alternatives to LLMs for Human Simulation
GEMS formulates close-ended human-behavior simulation as link prediction on a heterogeneous graph and matches or exceeds LLM performance with three orders of magnitude fewer parameters across three datasets and three evaluation settings.
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Chain-in-Tree: Back to Sequential Reasoning in LLM Tree Search
Chain-in-Tree cuts token use, model calls, and runtime by 75-85% in LLM tree search on GSM8K and Math500 by using simple branching-necessity checks, with little accuracy loss in most cases.
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Dissecting Discrete Soft Actor-Critic: Limitations and Principled Alternatives
Shows entropy coupling limits DSAC on discrete tasks and introduces a generalized actor-critic framework with m-step critics and novel entropy-regularized objectives that perform robustly on Atari.
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BugScope: Learn to Find Bugs Like Human
BugScope structures LLM bug detection into three human-mirroring steps and distills guidelines from examples, reaching 0.87 F1 on 33 real bugs while outperforming Claude and Cursor tools and uncovering 184 new issues in production code.
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Preference Learning Unlocks LLMs' Psycho-Counseling Skills
A new expert-principle preference dataset enables an 8B LLM to reach 87% win rate vs GPT-4o on counseling responses through standard preference optimization.
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Embedding-Only Uplink for Onboard Retrieval Under Shift in Remote Sensing
Embedding-only uplink enables flexible onboard retrieval for remote sensing under distribution shifts, with kNN superior for cloud classification and centroids for temporal change detection.
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Semantic-Aware Logical Reasoning via a Semiotic Framework
LogicAgent uses a semiotic-square-guided approach to enhance logical reasoning in LLMs on the new RepublicQA benchmark and others, reporting average gains of 6.25% and 7.05% respectively.
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Position: AI Evaluations Should be Grounded on a Theory of Capability
AI evaluations should be reframed as inference tasks grounded in an explicit theory of capability, with an empirical demonstration that results depend on modeling assumptions and a proposed Evaluation Card for transparency.