Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions. While WMs can model distributions over futures, policy evaluation and improvement typically rely on nominal imaginations, which can miss high-impact outcomes of...
Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian et al.· 0 citations
We introduce Score Broadcast and Decorrelation (SBD), a principled framework for broadcast-based credit assignment for general families of differentiable losses. Error broadcast is a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation that sends output information to hidden layers without weight transport. The Error...
Mustafa Uzun, Mete Erdogan, Cengiz Pehlevan et al.· 0 citations
Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers a single scalar prediction from a large foundation model (FM) to compact vertical models (VMs), suffering from diminishing transfer ratio -- the fraction of FM improvement captured by the VM -- as a single scalar cannot convey the rich intermediate knowledge that larger FMs learn....
Hua Zheng, Shali Jiang, Boyang Liu et al.· 0 citations
Text-to-image diffusion models generate images by iterative denoising, so their internal layers produce trajectories of activations rather than single static representations. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently been used to decompose diffusion activations into interpretable features, but most approaches analyze in...
Calvin Yeung, Prathyush Poduval, Ali Zakeri et al.· 0 citations
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for computational social analysis, yet faithfully representing the "thick descriptions" (Geertz, 1973) of human communities remains a critical challenge. Current evaluations often reduce social identity to static labels, sidelining how real-world groups navi...
Agents increasingly modify the procedures by which they solve tasks and improve themselves. Autonomy over improvement, gains in practical capability, and enlargement of computational reach are distinct properties. We develop an oracle-relative model with mutable solvers, evaluators, and improvers. Uniform simulation ke...
Understanding how humans and artificial intelligence systems predict and plan by interacting with their environment is a fundamental challenge at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Most brain-encoding studies focus on aligning artificial models with brain activity during language comprehension or pa...
Learning latent representations from temporal, multimodal, and partially observed data requires specifying what information a latent state should retain, discard, and organize. Existing approaches encode these requirements through heterogeneous objectives, making methods difficult to compare and learned representations...
Model providers increasingly release the weights of large language models. Although these models are safety-aligned before release, their safeguards can often be removed by fine-tuning on harmful data. A growing class of defenses aims to make alignment robust to such malicious fine-tuning, but these defenses are typica...
Itay Zloczower, Eyal Lenga, Gilad Gressel et al.· 0 citations
Discrete diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising all positions in parallel, offering an alternative to autoregressive models. Controlled generation methods for DLMs, imported from autoregressive models, apply uniform intervention at every denoising step. We show this uniform schedule is...
Reliable text generation is critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications, particularly in high-stakes domains such as medicine. To improve factual reliability, various inference-time methods have been proposed, including logit-level methods that modify token probability distributions a...
Active vision -- where a policy controls its own gaze during manipulation -- has emerged as a key capability for imitation learning, with multiple independent systems demonstrating its benefits in the past year. Yet there is no shared benchmark to compare approaches or quantify what active vision contributes, on which...
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.