arXiv:2603. 09995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Behavioral interview evaluation using large language models presents unique challenges that require structured assessment, realistic interviewer behavior simulation, and pedagogical value for candidate training.
By Kewen Zhu, Zixi Liu, Yanjing Li, Jing Chen
arXiv:2606. 08768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers consistently fail to learn certain simple functions that are provably expressible with specific parameter settings.
By Blanka K\"over, Alexandra Butoi, Anej Svete, Michael Hahn, Ryan Cotterell
arXiv:2606. 09456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has become a core technique in the post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) for transferring knowledge from domain experts to student models.
By Yifan Niu, Han Xiao, Dongyi Liu, Zelong Wang, Dihong Gong, Yasheng Wang, Jia Li
arXiv:2605. 28207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is now the dominant architecture for frontier language models, yet it requires all expert parameters to be loaded in memory, making it less preferable for memory-constrained deployment.
By Junhyuck Kim, Jihun Yun, Haechan Kim, Gyeongman Kim, Joonghyun Bae, Jaewoong Cho
arXiv:2402. 08922v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large-scale black-box models have become ubiquitous across numerous applications.
By Myeongseob Ko, Feiyang Kang, Weiyan Shi, Ming Jin, Zhou Yu, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv:2605. 24942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering a language model - intervening on its internal activations to change downstream behaviour - has recently expanded beyond linear interpolation to nonlinear methods such as angular and kernelized steering, which define intervention transformations without learning an explicit geometry over paths in activation space.
By Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke, Manikandan Ravikiran, Jeff Phillips, Shriyash Upadhyay, Amirali Abdullah
arXiv:2606. 08169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to understand and execute tasks from natural language commands while maintaining data efficiency remains challenging.
By Markus Knauer, Valentin Gieraths, Tai Mai, Samuel Bustamante, Alin Albu-Sch\"affer, Freek Stulp, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio
arXiv:2606. 07521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study investigates the phenomenon of hallucinations in domain-adapted Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on the fine-tuning of the Llama-2 model with the Lamini dataset.
By Sanchita Porwal, Sai Prasath S, Xingjian Bi, Madelyn Scandlen
arXiv:2605. 00327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In large language model (LLM)-based recommendation systems, direct preference optimization (DPO) effectively aligns recommendations with user preferences, requiring multi-negative objective functions to leverage abundant implicit-feedback negatives and sharpen preference boundaries.
By Xingyu Hu, Kai Zhang, Jiancan Wu, Shuli Wang, Chi Wang, Wenshuai Chen, Yinhua Zhu, Haitao Wang, Xingxing Wang, Xiang Wang
arXiv:2606. 07690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finetuning data selection requires balancing two competing goals: selecting examples that improve the downstream objective, and doing so without repeatedly finetuning models.
By Ning Wang, Zhengxin Zhang, Maosen Tang, Yitang Gao, Claire Cardie, Sainyam Galhotra
arXiv:2606. 08892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models deployed in critical domains, such as AI safety research, may subtly sabotage our efforts due to misalignment.
By Mikhail Terekhov, Caglar Gulcehre, Vivek Hebbar, Joe Benton
arXiv:2606. 07857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rise of edge-based machine learning has enabled distributed adaptation of language models across mobile and IoT devices, offering privacy preservation and real-time responsiveness.
By Stefan Behfar, Richard Mortier
arXiv:2606. 09500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective.
By Yoojin Nam, Jinhoon Jeong, Namkug Kim
arXiv:2606. 08779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a pivotal post-training paradigm, yet it frequently suffers from unpredictable sub-optimum performance or even training collapses.
By Jiashun Liu, Runze Liu, Xu Wan, Jing Liang, Hongyao Tang, Ling Pan
arXiv:2509. 22097v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model-powered code agents are rapidly transforming software engineering, yet the security risks of their generated code have become a critical concern.
By Junkai Chen, Huihui Huang, Yunbo Lyu, Junwen An, Jieke Shi, Chengran Yang, Ting Zhang, Haoye Tian, Yikun Li, Zhenhao Li, Xin Zhou, Xing Hu, David Lo
arXiv:2510. 27544v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Temporal reasoning involves understanding how systems evolve over time through input-driven state transitions.
By Nikolaus Holzer, William Fishell, Baishakhi Ray, Mark Santolucito
arXiv:2310. 10196v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Temporal data, including time series and spatio-temporal data, are pervasive in real-world applications.
By Ming Jin, Yaxuan Kong, Yuxuan Liang, Chaoli Zhang, Siqiao Xue, Xue Wang, James Zhang, Yi Wang, Haifeng Chen, Xiaoli Li, Vincent S. Tseng, Yu Zheng, Lei Chen, Hui Xiong, Shirui Pan, Qingsong Wen
arXiv:2606. 09157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper revisits our pipeline called Syllogistic Evaluation Framework-Common Logic Grammar Construction (SEF-CLGC).
By Hanna Abi Akl, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Pierre Monnin
arXiv:2602. 02572v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing alignment methods directly use the reward model learned from user preference data to optimize an LLM policy, subject to KL regularization with respect to the base policy.
By Haichuan Wang, Tao Lin, Lingkai Kong, Ce Li, Hezi Jiang, Milind Tambe
arXiv:2605. 11484v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task completion in digital and physical environments increasingly involves complex temporal interaction, where actions and observations unfold over different time scales rather than align with fixed observation--action steps.
By Jialian Li, Yuchen Cao, Junhong Liu, Weiran Guo, Xutao Wang, Jiaming Song, Jiahao Zhang, Jie Chen