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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 AI
Jun 18

Speaker Verification with Speech-Aware LLMs: Evaluation and Augmentation

arXiv:2603. 10827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leaving it unclear whether they encode speaker identity.

By Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba-Lopez, Najim Dehak
arXiv AI
Jun 18

LLM Compression by Block Removal with Constrained Binary Optimization

arXiv:2602. 00161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we formulate the compression of large language models (LLMs) by optimally deleting transformer blocks (``block removal'') as a constrained binary optimization (CBO) problem that can be mapped to a physical system (Ising glass), whose energies are a strong proxy for downstream model performance.

By David Jansen, Roman Rausch, Ali Hashemi, David Montero, Rom\'an Or\'us
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Structured Inference with Large Language Gibbs

arXiv:2606. 19264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The knowledge encoded in large language models (LLMs) can serve as a substrate for structured reasoning over variables describing a complex world, but accessing this knowledge in a probabilistically coherent manner poses a difficult inference problem.

By Sanghyeok Choi, Henry Gouk, Esmeralda S. Whitammer
arXiv AI
Jun 18

From Values to Tokens: An LLM-Driven Framework for Context-aware Time Series Forecasting via Symbolic Discretization

arXiv:2508. 09191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series forecasting plays a vital role in supporting decision-making across a wide range of critical applications, including energy, healthcare, and finance.

By Xiaoyu Tao, Shilong Zhang, Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang, Tingyue Pan, Bokai Pan, Changqing Zhang, Shijin Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 18

Are LLMs Ready to Assist Physicians? PhysAssistBench for Interactive Doctor-Patient-EHR Assistance

arXiv:2606. 18613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The most plausible near-term role of medical LLMs is to assist rather than replace physicians, yet current evaluations often test isolated capabilities: clinical knowledge, EHR system interaction, or patient communication.

By Tianming Du, Peijie Yu, Sihan Shang, Danli Shi, My Linh Nguyen, Shengbo Gao, Guangyuan Li, Yinghong Yu, Yan Jiang, Qianlong Zhao, Behzad Bozorgtabar, Shaoxiong Ji, Jiazhen Pan, Daniel Rueckert, Jiancheng Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 18

PatchWorld: Gradient-Free Optimization of Executable World Models

arXiv:2605. 30880v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-agent environments are typically modeled as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), assuming that the simulator's latent state and transition dynamics are hidden from the agent.

By Jiaxin Bai, Yue Guo, Yifei Dong, Jiaxuan Xiong, Tianshi Zheng, Yixia Li, Tianqing Fang, Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie, Hong Ting Tsang, Zihao Wang, Lihui Liu, Jeff Z. Pan, Yangqiu Song
arXiv AI
Jun 18

Learning from Own Solutions: Self-Conditioned Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2606. 18810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in training LLMs for reasoning tasks, but representative methods such as GRPO assign uniform credit across all tokens, wasting gradient on routine tokens while under-crediting pivotal reasoning steps.

By Yingyu Shan, Yuhang Guo, Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Xiangrong Zhu, Xinyi Wang, Jiashu Yao, Wei Lin, Hongru Wang, Heyan Huang