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
Jul 10

Curriculum Learning for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Distillation via Structure-Aware Masking and GRPO

arXiv:2602. 17686v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distilling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning from large language models into compact student models presents a fundamental challenge: teacher rationales are often too verbose for smaller models to faithfully reproduce.

By Bowen Yu, Maolin Wang, Sheng Zhang, Binhao Wang, Yi Wen, Jingtong Gao, Bowen Liu, Zimo Zhao, Wanyu Wang, Xiangyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry

arXiv:2601. 22588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as reference-free evaluators via prompting, but this "LLM-as-a-Judge" paradigm is costly, opaque, and sensitive to prompt design.

By Zhuochun Li, Yong Zhang, Ming Li, Yuelyu Ji, Yiming Zeng, Ning Cheng, Yun Zhu, Yanmeng Wang, Shaojun Wang, Jing Xiao, Daqing He
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution

arXiv:2607. 08124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The behavior of an LLM agent is determined not only by the underlying model, but also by its harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies intermediate results, and recovers from failures.

By Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Song, Qianshu Cai, Dahai Yu, Yike Guo, Xinmei Tian, Bo Han
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Graph-Regularized Deep Learning for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition with Psychologically-Grounded Label Structure

arXiv:2607. 07773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG-based emotion recognition is critical for mental health monitoring and affective brain-computer interfaces, yet existing deep learning approaches often treat emotion classes as isolated labels, ignoring their psychological interdependencies.

By Dongyang Kuang, Zizheng Ma, Yushan Zhang, Xiaocong Zeng
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

arXiv:2607. 07907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associations that originate from their training data.

By Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu, Vaidehi Patil
arXiv AI
Jul 10

WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search

arXiv:2607. 08662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based web search agents are transforming information seeking from simple factoid question answering into complex, deep-and-wide search and research-oriented tasks.

By Xiaoshuai Song, Liancheng Zhang, Kangzhi Zhao, Yutao Zhu, Zhongyuan Wang, Guanting Dong, Jinghan Yang, Han Li, Kun Gai, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou