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 AI
Aug 11

Beyond Static Models: An Evolving Framework for Continual Learning in Large Language Models across Training Stages

arXiv:2603. 12658v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting, a critical limitation of the static pre-training paradigm inherent to modern LLMs.

By Hongyang Chen, Zhongwu Sun, Hongfei Ye, Kunchi Li, Xuemin Lin
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs

arXiv:2603. 20253v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents for scientific tasks has focused on token costs while ignoring tool-use costs like simulation time and experimental resources.

By Yadi Cao, Sicheng Lai, Jiahe Huang, Yang Zhang, Zach Lawrence, Rohan Bhakta, Izzy F. Thomas, Mingyun Cao, Chung-Hao Tsai, Zihao Zhou, Yidong Zhao, Hao Liu, Alessandro Marinoni, Alexey Arefiev, Rose Yu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Explaining, Verifying, and Aligning Semantic Hierarchies in Vision-Language Model Embeddings

arXiv:2603. 26798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space, yet the semantic organization of this space is rarely inspected.

By Gesina Schwalbe, Mert Keser, Moritz Bayerkuhnlein, Edgar Heinert, Annika M\"utze, Marvin Keller, Sparsh Tiwari, Georgii Mikriukov, Diedrich Wolter, Jae Hee Lee, Matthias Rottmann
arXiv AI
Aug 11

CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

arXiv:2604. 03374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insights that connect seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

By Mete Ismayilzada, Renqing Cuomao, Daniil Yurshevich, Anna Sotnikova, Lonneke van der Plas, Antoine Bosselut
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Evaluating Jailbreaking Vulnerabilities in LLMs Deployed as Assistants for Smart Grid Operations: A Benchmark Against NERC Standards

arXiv:2604. 23341v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) as assistants in electric grid operations promises to streamline compliance and decision-making but exposes new vulnerabilities to prompt-based adversarial attacks.

By Taha Hammadia, Lucas Rea, Ahmad Mohammad Saber, Amr Youssef, Deepa Kundur
arXiv AI
Aug 11

DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation

arXiv:2605. 15532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distillation enables compact Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to obtain strong reasoning capabilities, yet the prompts driving this process are typically chosen via simple heuristics or aggregated from off-the-shelf datasets.

By Jaehun Jung, Hyunwoo Kim, Brandon Cui, Ximing Lu, David Acuna, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Yejin Choi
arXiv AI
Aug 11

How to Build Marcus's Algebraic Mind: Algebro-Deterministic Substrate over Galois Fields

arXiv:2605. 21379v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In The Algebraic Mind (2001), Marcus held that any adequate cognitive architecture needs operations over variables, recursively structured representations, and an individual/kind distinction, and that multilayer perceptrons support none of them; he left a register-and-treelet implementation as a conjecture.

By Hiroyuki Chuma, Kanji Otsuk, Yoichi Sato