Many applications of language models hinge not on individual samples but on the expectation of a test functional under the model. Estimating such expectations reliably can be computationally expensive. In this paper, we show how to make estimation more efficient by exploiting the next-token conditional probabilities wh...
Francesco I. Re, Shubhangi Ghosh, Tim Vieira et al.· 0 citations
System One models output calibrated probabilities over typed answers such as categorical choices, ordinal levels, or binary outcomes, via a non-generative interface. Software can act on these probabilities through thresholds, cost-weighted choices, and escalation rules. Consequently, if these probabilities are miscalib...
Rahul Sharma, Andrew B. Duncan, G. Caron et al.· 0 citations
Reinforcement learning is commonly used to train language agents in interactive environments, but cannot be directly applied when rewards are unavailable. Recent methods use environmental feedback as privileged context for hindsight self-distillation, but our analysis suggests that simply conditioning the teacher on fe...
Hangxi Guo, Fengyuan Liu, Yue Wang et al.· 0 citations
Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, with their sampling procedures routinely modified to control generation and improve efficiency. These modifications introduce perturbations along the sampling trajectory, raising a central question: how do such perturbations affect generated outp...
Wei Guo, Yaowen Zhang, Xingtong Ge et al.· 0 citations
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds language models in external corpora. Agentic RAG enables iterative search, yet exposes the model to isolated chunks without document structure, making it difficult to distinguish relevant evidence from chunks that merely resemble the query. Structure-aware methods such as Pa...
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being applied in a wider range of real-world scenarios. However, due to the substantial labor cost, creating high-quality multimodal instruction datasets for MLLMs remains a significant challenge. Although some methods propose to generate instruction data, they...
Jiaqi Tang, Yi-Feng Wu, Yuting Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Cross-model KV-cache reuse remains a key challenge in modern LLM serving. Coding agents and multi-model systems increasingly route a shared context across models: a user may switch models mid-session, or a cascade may escalate a difficult query. Because KV caches contain model-specific representations, each switch typi...
Sreetama Sarkar, Saptarshi Mitra, Si-Tao Huang et al.· 0 citations
Researchers increasingly use ChatGPT to revise their papers, and recent GPT versions often narrow or even retract the authors'claims. We call such changes defensive writing when the given material does not support them, and we test two explanations: the model corrects the authors'overclaiming, or it writes for an antic...
Language models (LMs) are commonly trained with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, since RLVR does not explicitly account for calibration during training, it can lead to severe calibration degradation, including overconfidence. Recent calibration-awar...
Self-evolving LLM agents promise to improve autonomously through continual interaction and learning, reducing their dependence on manually curated supervision. Realizing this promise requires not only updating the agent, but also evolving its training experience as its capabilities change. However, most existing pipeli...
Physics-based models connect scientific explanation with quantitative prediction. Constructing them requires selecting physical processes, defining states and governing equations, specifying couplings, and identifying parameters from experiments. Existing AI systems remain limited in making these model structure decisi...
Yun-Wei Song, Jinkai Tao, Jun-Dong Zhang et al.· 0 citations
In LLM-based agent systems, failures can originate from early steps whose effects propagate through subsequent interactions, making their origins difficult to identify. To trace such failures back to their origin, failure attribution has been formulated as the task of identifying the earliest step responsible for the f...
Weilin Jin, Mingyu Wang, Taiyu Zhu et al.· 0 citations
Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.