In reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), challenging math questions whose sampled groups remain uniformly incorrect yield no informative update, letting easier questions dominate actor updates. This imbalance can contribute to distribution sharpening: low-$k$ accuracy improves while problem coverage co...
Previous work establishing completeness results for counterfactual identification has been circumscribed to the setting where the input data belongs to observational or interventional distributions (Layers 1 and 2 of Pearl's Causal Hierarchy), since it was generally presumed impossible to obtain data from counterfactua...
Code evolution is a family of techniques that rely on large language models to search through possible computer programs by evolving existing code. While code evolution pipelines have shown impressive performance across domains, many are highly complex and are typically not compared to simpler alternatives. To prevent...
Yonatan Gideoni, Sebastian Risi, Yarin Gal· 0 citations
Increasing the thinking budget of AI models can significantly improve accuracy, but not all questions warrant the same amount of reasoning. Users may prefer to allocate different amounts of reasoning effort depending on how they value output quality versus latency and cost. To leverage this tradeoff effectively, users...
Michael Kleinman, Matthew Trager, Alessandro Achille et al.· 0 citations
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While reinforcement learning agents can achieve superhuman performance in many complex tasks, they typically do not become more computationally efficient as they improve. In contrast, humans gradually require less cognitive effort as they become more proficient at a task. If agents could reason about their compute as t...
Adrian Orenstein, Jiajing Chen, Gwyneth Anne Delos Santos et al.· 0 citations
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves LLM accuracy on complex tasks, but CoTs are often unfaithful; that is, the model does not rely on the stated reasoning steps to produce its answer. Existing methods to improve faithfulness require human annotations. We propose LIFT, which automatically scores each reasoning ste...
Anand Swaroop, Maheep Chaudhary, Kevin Zhu et al.· 0 citations
LLM agents are increasingly proposed as substitutes for human participants in social research, usually on the strength of survey responses that match those of the humans they represent. We argue that such output-level alignment is not enough. Drawing on the behavioral sciences, we propose Latent Profiling, a framework...
James Mooney, Josef Woldense, Zheng Robert Jia et al.· 0 citations
Public service systems in many African regions suffer from delayed emergency response and spatial inequity, causing avoidable suffering. This paper introduces OPTIC-ER, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for real-time, adaptive, and equitable emergency response. OPTIC-ER uses an attention-guided actor-critic archi...
Large language models can answer questions correctly and still hallucinate their citations. Most citation systems address this by retrieving documents at inference time. Retrieval adds latency and depends on external infrastructure. Retrieval noise can also affect the answer. We study whether LLMs can cite documents fr...
Yukun Huang, Sanxing Chen, Jian Pei et al.· 0 citations
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) establishes different legal principles for different types of AI systems. While prior work has sought to clarify some of these principles, little attention has been paid to robustness and cybersecurity. This paper aims to fill this gap. We identify legal challenges and shortcomi...
Henrik Nolte, Miriam Rateike, Mich\`ele Finck· 0 citations
How should demonstration quality be used during vision-language-action (VLA) pretraining to improve performance after target-task fine-tuning? We compare weighting, filtering, and conditioning across reward definitions and label granularities using 5,000 naturally suboptimal human demonstrations and 24 target tasks. Wi...
Ming-Xuan Yan, Li-Tian Gong, Di Huang et al.· 0 citations
Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a capability essential to automated discovery and recursive self-improvement (RSI). Yet open-source models still struggle on long-horizon tasks, largely for lack of both train...
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
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