arXiv:2602. 09574v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tree-search decoding is an effective form of test-time scaling for large language models (LLMs), but real-world deployment often imposes a fixed per-query token budget that varies across settings.
By Sora Miyamoto, Daisuke Oba, Naoaki Okazaki
arXiv:2505. 05026v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: User interface (UI) design goes beyond visuals to shape user experience (UX), underscoring the shift toward UI/UX as a unified concept.
By Jaehyun Jeon, Min Soo Kim, Jang Han Yoon, Sumin Shim, Yejin Choi, Hanbin Kim, Dae Hyun Kim, Youngjae Yu
arXiv:2606. 06467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context inference in modern LLMs is increasingly constrained by decoding efficiency, especially in reasoning-heavy settings where models generate long intermediate chains of thought.
By Yutao Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Li Dong, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei
arXiv:2606. 06098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundational Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate proficiency on a wide range of general tasks, and achieve remarkable results on various specialized tasks via domain-expert LLMs.
By Eros Fan\`i, O\u{g}uzhan Ersoy
arXiv:2606. 05958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering has become a popular way to control Large Language Model (LLM) behavior without fine-tuning.
By Abzal Aidakhmetov, Donato Crisostomi, Tommaso Mencattini, Adrian Robert Minut, Iacopo Masi, Emanuele Rodol\`a
arXiv:2602. 02680v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The growing scale of deep neural networks, encompassing large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers (ViTs), has made training from scratch prohibitively expensive and deployment increasingly costly.
By Riccardo Zaccone, Stefanos Laskaridis, Marco Ciccone, Samuel Horv\'ath
arXiv:2605. 26046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Customizing an LLM judge to a specific problem or domain often involves optimizing its prompt across multiple evaluation criteria simultaneously.
By Parth Darshan, Abhishek Divekar
arXiv:2606. 05438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the deterministic first-order oracle complexity of finding \(\epsilon\)-stationary points in smooth nonconvex optimization when the objective satisfies higher-order smoothness assumptions.
By Dongruo Zhou
arXiv:2606. 05268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a pipeline for building and aggregating task-specific, LLM-generated weak (imperfect) verifiers into a strong verifier for spatial layout domains.
By Sharon Zhang, R. Kenny Jones, Jiajun Wu, Maneesh Agrawala
arXiv:2606. 05758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many modern vision-language models (VLMs) build on autoregressive decoding of discrete tokens.
By Zhuoming Liu, Jinhong Lin, Kwan Man Cheng, Lin Zhang, Shayok Bagchi, Yin Li
arXiv:2606. 06096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy-gradient methods usually optimize expected return, but many real world applications care about distributional properties of returns: tail risk, outlier robustness, or best-of-K discovery.
By Paavo Parmas, Yongmin Kim, Kohsei Matsutani, Shota Takashiro, Soichiro Nishimori, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo
arXiv:2603. 19294v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While post-training has successfully improved large language models (LLMs) across a variety of domains, these gains heavily rely on human-labeled data or external verifiers.
By Hyunji Nam, Haoran Li, Natasha Jaques
arXiv:2508. 10875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm.
By Tianyi Li, Mingda Chen, Bowei Guo, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv:2604. 07709v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A heavily safety-trained model will hand a physician the full, patient-followable benzodiazepine taper and refuse it to the patient who needs it, over identical clinical facts; the knowledge is present either way.
By David Gringras
arXiv:2606. 06475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in reasoning language models have been driven by Reinforcement Learning (RL) fine-tuning.
By Mykyta Ielanskyi, Kajetan Schweighofer, Lukas Aichberger, Sepp Hochreiter
arXiv:2606. 05609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed, identifying their vulnerability through jailbreak attacks becomes increasingly critical.
By Seungwon Jeong, Jiwoo Jeong, Hyeonjin Kim, Yunseok Lee, Woojin Lee
arXiv:2606. 05168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training on synthetic data causes model collapse, but existing analyses treat this as single-chain degradation.
By Xiangyu Wang
arXiv:2511. 20577v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world time series often exhibit strong non-stationarity, complex nonlinear dynamics, and behavior expressed across multiple temporal scales, from rapid local fluctuations to slow-evolving long-range trends.
By Sumit S Shevtekar, Chandresh K Maurya
arXiv:2310. 04649v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce NPEFF (Non-Negative Per-Example Fisher Factorization), an interpretability method that aims to uncover strategies used by a model to generate its predictions.
By Michael Matena, Colin Raffel
arXiv:2606. 05981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive distillation of the diffusion U-Net inverts the per-frame bottleneck of real-time text-to-image pipelines: once the denoiser is a 4-step or 1-step distilled student, the text encoder becomes the critical path.
By Yoshiyuki Ootani