Macroeconomic productivity metrics, such as Total Factor Productivity, register technological breakthroughs with multi-year reporting lags due to administrative survey intervals and national accounting conventions. This paper introduces Hyperspherical Semantic Trajectory Analysis (HSTA), an unsupervised quantitative me...
Sycophantic agreement in language models refers to the tendency to overly affirm a user's stated beliefs or preferences, often at the expense of factual accuracy. Although it is widely recognized as an alignment failure, its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we use causal mediation analysis...
Si-Xing Chen, Zhuo-Fan Ying, L. Smith et al.· 0 citations
Just as Socrates recognized the limits of his own knowledge, Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) should learn to abstain when the retrieved evidence cannot support a reliable response. Existing approaches largely rely on monolithic LLMs to handle heterogeneous retrieval failures in a single step, resulting in l...
Jongbin Won, Sung Geun An, Jay-yoon Lee· 0 citations
Recent work on anchored diffusion language models improves denoising by shaping an intermediate latent space with supervised important-token targets. In this work, we introduce time-based (self-supervised) anchoring, which learns and reuses latent anchors without requiring such targets. Our key observation is that anch...
Joel Anto Paul, Litu Rout, Aditya Akella et al.· 0 citations
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On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student to match a privileged teacher distribution along its own sampled trajectory. Standard OPSD applies this supervision to unverified student rollouts while conditioning the teacher on privileged context, typically a reference solution. We separate these roles in a factor...
Decoder-only transformers are trained only through a terminal next-token prediction loss, yet this loss constrains every intermediate hidden state through the fixed downstream computation. We formalize this constraint by studying layerwise loss-to-go functions: the terminal loss obtained by continuing a candidate hidde...
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Tatiana Petrova et al.· 0 citations
Production RL for language models lets the sampler fall behind the learner and repairs the resulting mismatch with a truncated importance weight. We ask how long the sampler can go without a refresh under that correction, and find a cliff: on Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B and GSM8K, importance-corrected GRPO refreshed every 192 up...
Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) enables expressive multi-head attention with compact caches for its content and decoupled RoPE paths, yet cache memory still scales linearly with context length and batch size. In this work, we establish a systematic model of MLA's dual-path quantization errors, characterizing their di...
Zun-Hai Su, Yuxuan Sun, Jian-Chao Tan et al.· 0 citations
Optimizer momentum is usually stored as a parameter-sized moving average of past gradients, which makes history costly and fixes each past signal in the coordinates in which it was computed. We introduce Backpropagated Output Momentum (BOM), which instead stores a compact moving average of prediction errors at the mode...
Yu-Chen Li, Zong-Qi Fan, Nguyen H. Tran et al.· 0 citations
Large language models have achieved significant progress in event forecasting, yet their probability outputs exhibit systematic calibration bias that varies heterogeneously across different domains and question types, undermining the trustworthiness of probabilistic outputs for decision-making under uncertainty. Howeve...
Wen-Jin Liu, Chen-Xi Wang, Yue Lu et al.· 0 citations
This work introduces MARCO, an evaluator-grounded reinforcement-learning framework that trains molecular editors on bounded proposal--feedback--revision trajectories and aggregates shaped turn rewards into an undiscounted trajectory return for group-relative policy optimization.
Shi-Cheng Fang, Yu-Xin Wang, Zhuo Yang et al.· 0 citations
Looped language models (LoopLMs) increase computational depth through parameter sharing, offering a path to scale inference computation without adding parameters. However, it remains unclear when additional recurrence is beneficial and how architectural choices affect its effectiveness. Through controlled experiments,...
Xin-Lin Zhuang, Si-Yuan Wang, Imran Razzak et al.· 0 citations
A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduAug 31, 2026
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