arXiv:2607. 18259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering vectors (SVs), an inference-time intervention technique for large language models (LLMs), guide the generation process by adding a concept-specific direction vector to intermediate activations during inference.
By Brian Becker, Rui Chu, Yingjie Lao
arXiv:2509. 25045v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain opaque with limited understanding of their internal representations.
By Marco Bronzini, Carlo Nicolini, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Andrea Passerini
arXiv:2607. 18476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a language model must choose one answer from a large space of equally valid options, a format clause -- "Reply with JSON only" -- changes which answer it chooses.
By Tapan Parikh
arXiv:2607. 18804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the \emph{latent posterior model} of transformer behavior, the next-token distribution arises from a posterior over latent predictive models conditioned on the context, mixed to generate continuations.
By Garrett Baker, Vinayak Pathak, Daniel Murfet, Susan Wei
arXiv:2409. 07314v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve superhuman performance on standardized medical licensing exams, these static benchmarks have become saturated and increasingly disconnected from the functional requirements of clinical workflows.
By Praveenkumar Kanithi, Cl\'ement Christophe, Marco AF Pimentel, Tathagata Raha, Prateek Munjal, Nada Saadi, Hamza A Javed, Svetlana Maslenkova, Nasir Hayat, Ronnie Rajan, Shadab Khan
arXiv:2607. 19344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllable image generation remains challenging for creative professionals, who often require precise regional control over materials, object identities, and spatial arrangements that cannot be reliably achieved through text prompting alone.
By Rahul Sajnani, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Radom\'ir M\v{e}ch, Srinath Sridhar, Matheus Gadelha
arXiv:2605. 15250v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), the attention used in DeepSeek-V2/V3, jointly compresses keys and values into a low-rank latent and matches the H100 roofline almost perfectly.
By Fanxu Meng
arXiv:2607. 18460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans have always externalized thought onto tools, from the tally and the abacus to the map and, now, large language models.
By David C. Krakauer
arXiv:2607. 19261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-slide image (WSI) diagnosis requires identifying diagnostically relevant regions, examining them across magnifications, and integrating multi-scale evidence.
By Dankai Liao, Tianyi Zhang, Yufeng Wu, Xinyue Zhang, Qiaochu Xue, Zeyu Liu, Dachun Zhao, Linghan Cai, Yueming Jin
arXiv:2607. 18570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discourse relations provide document structure, critical to language understanding and enabling language model performance and ethicality.
By Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira Wein
arXiv:2602. 22647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative retrieval has emerged as a powerful paradigm for LLM-based recommendation.
By Zhengyang Su, Isay Katsman, Yueqi Wang, Ruining He, Lukasz Heldt, Raghunandan Keshavan, Shao-Chuan Wang, Xinyang Yi, Mingyan Gao, Onkar Dalal, Lichan Hong, Ed Chi, Ningren Han
arXiv:2607. 18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge platforms, making post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive for real-time inference.
By Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi, Parastoo Pilevar, Ming C. Lin
arXiv:2607. 19300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM adoption becomes more widespread, there is a growing interest in detecting LLM-generated content, for example through LLM detection tools and through heuristics based on language patterns.
By Meena Jagadeesan, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Jon Kleinberg
arXiv:2607. 19226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been established as a viable paradigm for the post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), including downstream tasks, such as Neural Machine Translation (NMT).
By Michael Jungo, Aixiu An
arXiv:2607. 19104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at general-purpose code generation, yet how well they handle scientific code remains an open question.
By Weifeng Sun, Ye Fan, Yuchen Chen, Gou Tan, Jieke Shi, Yuan Yidi, Swee Liang Wong, Jonathan Pan, David Lo
arXiv:2607. 04572v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) tutors may have access to teacher notes, answer keys, rubrics, or retrieved solutions while producing student-facing explanations.
By Bonan Shen, Dingyan Shang, Youting Wang, Tao Ning, Bowen Liu
arXiv:2602. 18948v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer models contain substantial internal redundancy arising from coordinate-dependent representations and continuous symmetries, in model space and in head space, respectively.
By J. Fran\c{c}ois, L. Ravera
arXiv:2607. 18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce FindStatBench, an execution benchmark for evaluating large language models on combinatorial code synthesis.
By Soham Dan
arXiv:2508. 21378v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, enabling robotic manipulation to be initiated with just a single instruction.
By Chenduo Ying, Linkang Du, Peng Cheng, Yuanchao Shu
arXiv:2607. 19198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Amorphous materials exhibit exceptional mechanical and functional properties, yet their rugged energy landscapes are notoriously difficult to sample.
By Mouyang Cheng, Denis Blessing, Botao Yu, Gerhard Neumann, Mingda Li, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yuanqi Du