arXiv Machine Learning

Statistical Guarantees for Reasoning Probes on Looped Boolean Circuits

arXiv:2602. 03970v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the statistical behavior of reasoning probes in a stylized model of iterative computation inspired by neural algorithmic reasoning.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Certifiably Interpretable Training of ReLU-MLPs for Boolean Tasks with Guaranteed Truth-Table Generalization

The paper introduces MACCHIATO, a training algorithm that builds a ReLU‑MLP from partial truth‑table data while simultaneously constructing an explicit Boolean circuit over AND, OR, and XOR gates that certifies the network’s computation. The method iteratively projects residuals onto low‑dimensional Boolean classes, compiles the resulting circuit into a ReLU‑MLP, and uses logic minimization and influence‑based variable selection to achieve a six‑layer network with provable truth‑table error bounds. Experiments on synthetic random‑junta tasks show that these certified networks outperform Adam‑trained MLPs in data‑sparse or projection‑aligned regimes and complete faster than flat ESPRESSO in certain settings.

By Hrad Ghoukasian, Anastasis Kratsios
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Entropy-Gated Latent Recursion

arXiv:2606. 16620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time scaling has become the dominant lever for improving language-model reasoning, but existing methods derive rollout diversity from a single source: stochastic token-level sampling.

By Soham Bhattacharjee, Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Salem Lahlou, Martin Takac, Nils Lukas
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Exact Network Surgery: Functional Invariance and Gradient Plasticity in Reactive Computational Graphs

arXiv:2607. 16568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function-preserving network growth techniques such as Net2Net and progressive stacking expand a model's capacity without destroying its learned function, but existing formulations either tolerate numerical perturbations or require a full rebuild of the training program.

By Abdallah Khemais (ISITCOM, University of Sousse)
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 08020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time compute scaling is a primary driver of performance in large reasoning models (LRMs), but extreme inefficiency bounds current approaches, shifting the critical question from \emph{how much} compute to spend, to \emph{where} to allocate it.

By Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Which Algorithms Can Graph Neural Networks Learn?

arXiv:2602.13106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding neural architectures' ability to learn to execute discrete algorithms, a li...

By Solveig Wittig, Antonis Vasileiou, Robert R. Nerem, Timo Stoll, Floris Geerts, Yusu Wang, Christopher Morris