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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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

Partial Identification under Missing Data Using Weak Shadow Variables from Pretrained Models

arXiv:2602. 16061v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Estimating population quantities such as mean outcomes from user feedback is fundamental to platform evaluation and social science, yet feedback is often missing not at random (MNAR): users with stronger opinions are more likely to respond, so standard estimators are biased and the estimand is not identified without additional assumptions.

By Hongyu Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Ruoxuan Xiong
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Polynomial Context-Truncation Sensitivity in Autoregressive Language Models: Sequential Wyner-Ziv Bounds for KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2605. 25085v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the rate-distortion limits of online KV cache compression in autoregressive language models, formulating it as sequential Wyner-Ziv source coding on the filtration induced by the model, with the next-step query as decoder side information.

By Munsik Kim
arXiv AI
Jun 9

From Detection to Recovery: Operational Analysis on LLM Pre-training with 504 GPUs

arXiv:2605. 09370v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale AI training is now fundamentally a distributed systems problem, and hardware failures have become routine operating conditions rather than rare exceptions.

By Daemyung Kang, Eunjin Hwang, Hanjeong Lee, HyeokJin Kim, Hyunhoi Koo, Jeongkyu Shin, Jeongseok Kang, Jihyun Kang, Joongi Kim, Junbum Lee, Jungseung Yang, Kyujin Cho, Youngsook Song
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 18643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner.

By Xingtai Lv, Li Sheng, Kaiyan Zhang, Yichen You, Siyan Gao, Xueheng Luo, Yuxin Zuo, Yuchen Fan, Junlin Yang, Ganqu Cui, Bingning Wang, Fan Yang, Youbang Sun, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Projection and Quantisation: A Unifying View of Learning to Hash, from Random Projections to the RAG Era

arXiv:2510. 04127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search underpins large-scale retrieval, increasingly within the retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that ground large language models, yet the methods that address it have multiplied across communities until they are seldom read as a single field.

By Sean Moran
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Summarization is Not Dead Yet

arXiv:2606. 08000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The progress of large language models (LLMs) has fueled claims that model-generated summaries rival or even surpass human-written references, raising questions about whether summarization remains an open research problem.

By Dongqi Liu, Chenxi Whitehouse, Zheng Zhao, Zhuchen Cao, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Rewrite to Translate, Translate to Reward: Reinforcement Learning for Source Rewriting in Machine Translation

arXiv:2606. 08011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although directly prompting off-the-shelf Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate meaning-preserving source rewrites can effectively enhance Machine Translation (MT) quality, doing so requires manually tuning prompts for different MT models.

By Boxuan Lyu, Haiyue Song, Zhi Qu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura