arXiv AI

Spectral Signatures of Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 03377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapidly growing repository of publicly available large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges for systematic management and quantification at scale, such as model lineage tracing, licensing, and evaluation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Stabilizing Native Low-Rank LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2602. 12429v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models have achieved remarkable success, yet their growing parameter counts pose significant computational and memory challenges.

By Paul Janson, Edouard Oyallon, Eugene Belilovsky
arXiv AI
Aug 25

What Transfers from Text to Vision? Capability Scaling Laws and Transfer Dynamics for VLMs

The paper introduces the Capability-Driven Multimodal Scaling Law, a cross-family framework that predicts vision-language model (VLM) benchmark accuracy from a low-dimensional textual capability score extracted via PCA. By training over 150 VLMs on 34 large language models across seven families, the authors demonstrate that the law accurately extrapolates transfer rates from 8B to 72B‑parameter backbones, predicts full training trajectories, and generalizes to unseen model families. The study also reveals actionable insights, such as certain textual benchmarks negatively correlating with multimodal performance and base LLMs outperforming instruction-tuned counterparts as VLM backbones due to higher absorption rates.

By Ziran Li, Qiang Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Shanglin Lei, Borun Chen, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Unveiling Spectral Mechanisms in Training-Free LLM Text Detection

The paper investigates training‑free detection of machine‑generated text using spectral analysis. It shows that spectral energy correlates with variance in token probability trajectories and that human writing produces characteristic fluctuations, termed "generative vitality." The authors find that spectral signals are strongest for long, continuous, constrained generations, while shorter or mixed texts require additional confidence‑based metrics.

By Haitong Luo, Xuying Meng, Weiyao Zhang, Wenji Zou, Shengfeng Lou, Xuefeng Jiang, Chungang Lin, Yujun Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 21

Souper-Model: How Simple Arithmetic Unlocks State-of-the-Art LLM Performance

arXiv:2511.13254v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have displayed remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, but their training remains resource- and time-intensive...

By Shalini Maiti, Amar Budhiraja, Bhavul Gauri, Gaurav Chaurasia, Anton Protopopov, Alexis Audran-Reiss, Michael Slater, Despoina Magka, Tatiana Shavrina, Roberta Raileanu, Yoram Bachrach
arXiv AI
Jul 17

In-Place Tokenizer Expansion for Pre-trained LLMs

arXiv:2607. 15232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A tokenizer fixed at the start of pre-training allocates vocabulary in proportion to the pre-training corpus, reflecting the deployment priorities at that time.

By Jimmy T. H. Smith, Tarek Dakhran, Alberto Cabrera, Simon S. Lee, Paul Pak, Aditya Tadimeti, Tim Seyde, Maxime Labonne, Alexander Amini, Mathias Lechner