arXiv:2606. 01838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic language model systems alternate between two structurally distinct step types: structured tool calls (short, deterministic, low perplexity) and open-ended planning/reasoning steps (long, complex, high perplexity).
By Prateek Kumar Sikdar
The paper introduces SelfMorph, a method that lets frozen large language models adapt their internal computation topology at inference time based on the input. It combines three morphing strategies—BASE, REPEAT, and BRANCH—into a unified space and uses a lightweight selector trained via distillation to choose the best morphology for each prompt. Experiments on 4B–27B models show that SelfMorph improves performance by an average of 8.06% on in‑distribution benchmarks and 4.45% on unseen benchmarks, outperforming other settings in most cases.
By Junxi Wu, Yiwen Guo, Shu-Tao Xia
arXiv:2609.14717v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by verifying multiple drafted tokens in parallel, allowing a single target forward pass to accept seve...
By Jahyun Koo, Sunghyeon Woo, Jaeeun Kil, Jeongtae Lee, Sungjae Lee, Kyomin Jung, Minsub Kim
arXiv:2605. 21854v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly converged on a small set of architectural patterns: discrete-token autoregression (e.
By Zhi Liu
Large language models can solve complex multi‑hop tasks but often fail on simple two‑hop queries, even when each hop is individually correct. In a controlled symbolic setting, the authors find that models generalize reliably when the second hop follows the training distribution, but always fail when it deviates. Mechanistic analysis shows that successful generalization relies on consistent intermediate representations across contexts, whereas failures arise from a mismatch between lower‑layer representation construction and upper‑layer mapping to outputs. The study proposes a recurrent‑style training strategy that improves out‑of‑distribution two‑hop generalization.
By Zili Zhang, Yilin Wang, Heng Wang, Herun Wan, Minnan Luo
Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs) are a new framework that turns continuous flow models into efficient recurrent reasoners for structured tasks. By self‑conditioning a flow model on its own past outputs, FRMs iteratively refine solutions, allowing parallel decision making and revision. The authors introduce Fixed‑Point Forcing (FPF) to mitigate exposure bias at deeper recursion, and report near‑perfect solve rates on Sudoku‑Extreme, Zebra, and Maze‑Unique, outperforming existing masked‑diffusion and specialized baselines while using far fewer inference FLOPs.
By Alec Helbling, Andrey Bryutkin, Mauro Martino, Duen Horng Chau, Nima Dehmamy, Hendrik Strobelt