arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey

Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey reviews how scaling LLMs leads to previously unseen capabilities such as advanced reasoning, in-context learning, coding, and problem-solving. The paper critically examines definitions, inconsistencies, and the conditions that foster these abilities, including scaling laws, task complexity, pre‑training loss, quantization, and prompting strategies. It also discusses the extension to Large Reasoning Models and highlights safety concerns like deception, manipulation, and reward hacking, calling for improved evaluation and governance.

By Leonardo Berti, Flavio Giorgi, Gjergji Kasneci
arXiv AI
Sep 17

What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models

The paper presents a systematic mapping of recent chess research involving humans, engines, neural and reinforcement‑learning systems, large language models (LLMs), and hybrid approaches. It identifies 84 core study families and classifies them by agent type, strategic‑reasoning stages, and evaluation dimensions, highlighting a strong focus on situation assessment, evaluation, and action selection while noting gaps in planning, explanation, metacognition, and human–AI collaboration. The study also distinguishes hybrid systems by integration timing and cautions that improved human performance in evaluations does not automatically imply human–AI synergy.

By Paolo Ciancarini, Remo Pareschi
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Role-Aware Artificial Intelligence Across Augmentation and Automation in Human-Machine Symbiosis

The paper explores how to trace the functional role of AI in natural language generation, distinguishing between AI acting as an assistive editor or a creative generator. It proposes a methodology that infers the latent role from prompts, embeds it during generation, and recovers the role from the output. Experiments demonstrate that the approach can discriminate roles, remains robust to perturbations, and preserves linguistic quality.

By Ching-Chun Chang, Yuchen Guo, Hanrui Wang, Timo Spinde, Isao Echizen