Large language models

Model releases, architecture work and prompting research on large language models — from frontier-lab announcements to the arXiv papers behind them.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Dustin: Draft-Augmented Sparse Verification for Efficient Long-Context Generation with Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2606. 24957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While speculative decoding improves inference throughput for multi-batch long-context Large Language Models (LLMs), its efficiency is often limited by a verification bottleneck where Key-Value (KV) cache loading dominates latency.

By WenHung Lee, Jian-Jia Chen, Xiaolin Lin, Pei-Shuo Wang, Chi-Chih Chang, Chun-Che Yang, Ning-Chi Huang, Grace Li Zhang, Kai-Chiang Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Rational Neural Networks have Expressivity Advantages

arXiv:2602. 12390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study neural networks with trainable low-degree rational activation functions and show that they are more expressive and parameter-efficient than modern piecewise-linear and smooth activations such as ELU, LeakyReLU, LogSigmoid, PReLU, ReLU, SELU, CELU, Sigmoid, SiLU, Mish, Softplus, Tanh, Softmin, Softmax, and LogSoftmax.

By Maosen Tang, Alex Townsend
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

ATMA: Length-Invariant Language Modeling via Polar Attention and Gated-Delta Compression Memory

arXiv:2606. 25156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models based on softmax scaled-dot-product attention are constrained by their training sequence length: as the key-value sequence grows, softmax probability mass can dilute across a wider distribution, inducing activation shift and long-context performance collapse.

By Habibullah Akbar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

RAS: Measuring LLM Safety Through Refusal Alignment

arXiv:2606. 25750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation of large language models (LLMs) is commonly performed by querying models with unsafe or jailbreak prompts and judging whether their outputs violate a safety policy.

By Chang-Chieh Huang, Yan-Lun Chen, Chia-Mu Yu, Wei-Bin Lee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Logit Distance Bounds Representational Similarity

arXiv:2602. 15438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For a broad family of discriminative models that includes autoregressive language models, identifiability results imply that if two models induce the same conditional distributions, then their internal representations are equal up to an invertible linear transformation.

By Beatrix M. G. Nielsen, Emanuele Marconato, Luigi Gresele, Andrea Dittadi, Simon Buchholz
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

The Interplay of Harness Design and Post-Training in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 25447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-integrated LLM agents are often wrapped within a harness: the scaffolding that determines which tools are exposed, how they are described, and what auxiliary information accompanies each per-step observation.

By Kyungmin Kim, Youngbin Choi, Seoyeon Lee, Suhyeon Jun, Dongwoo Kim, Sangdon Park