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LEXIC: Lightweight Eye-tracking eXtension via Injected Complexity

arXiv:2607. 08152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On the recent EyeBench benchmark, predicting reading comprehension from eye movements exposes a stark gap: text-aware models using pretrained language models reach 56--63% AUROC, while gaze-only models operate at chance.

arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

Reader Proficiency Shapes Layer-wise Surprisal Profiles

The study examines how reader proficiency influences the relationship between layer-wise surprisal from large language models (LLMs) and eye-tracking gaze measures. Using the MECO L2 corpus, researchers compared high- and low-proficiency readers on first-pass gaze duration (FPGD) and total gaze duration (TGD), finding that lower-proficiency readers exhibit deeper Predictive Depth for FPGD, while TGD shows deeper Predictive Depth across both groups. The results suggest that the distribution of predictive power across LLM layers relates to the timing and breadth of reading processes and varies with reader proficiency.

By Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Language Models Can Control Their Own Attention

The paper introduces Declarative Attention (DA), a protocol that lets language models explicitly declare which parts of their context to focus on during generation. By partitioning decoding into full-context, region-specific, and recent-output-only modes, the inference engine can skip large portions of the KV cache, dramatically reducing attended tokens. Experiments on 15 long-context tasks with off-the-shelf models show significant savings (52.0% and 31.1% reductions) with only modest accuracy drops that diminish as model size increases.

By Namgyu Ho, Huzama Ahmad, Woosung Koh, Se-Young Yun, Tal Schuster, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos
arXiv AI
Sep 1

A.X K2 Technical Report

The report introduces A.X K2, a 688‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts language model designed for agentic applications. Trained on 8.5 trillion tokens, it surpasses its predecessor A.X K1 by over 30 percentage points on several benchmarks, thanks to a higher‑quality data mix and improved token efficiency. Key innovations include Sparse Gated Attention for efficient long‑context handling, Gated Norm for training stability, and a Think‑Fusion recipe that allows switching between thinking and non‑thinking modes within the same model.

By Cheolseung Baek, Dhammiko Arya, Eunki Kim, Gun Song, Gyoungeun Han, Hyunho Yang, Hyunjun Eun, Jin Kim, Junyoung Park, Juyun Wee, Minki Hong, Minkyung Park, Minsang Kim, Minsoo Kang, SaeRom Kim, Sangjin Kim, Sangyeol Lee, Seojin Lee, Seokhwan Jo, Seokyoung Hong, Seongho Choi, Seonghye Cho, Seongmin Ok, Sereimony Sek, Seungmo Cho, Seungsik Kim, Singon Kim, Sohee Park, Sooyeon Park, Subin Yi, Sungbin Yoon, Sungeun Lee, Sung Jun Cheon, Sungwan Kim, Sunwoo Lee, Tae Yoon Kim, Wonbeom Jang, Yohan Ra, Yong-jin Han, Youngjin Kim, Youngrang Kim, Yujin Kang, Yujin Lee