Papers
Deep, long-form breakdowns of recent research in AI, machine learning, security & programming languages.
FrugalEvo: Towards Cost-Aware LLM-Guided Program Evolution
by Hui Chen, Xuan Qi, James Xu Zhao, Zhaopeng Feng, Shilong Liu, Kuang Xu, Pang Wei Koh, Bryan Hooi
Pivot-SD: Efficient Self-Distillation for Masked Diffusion Language Models
by Seo Hyun Kim, Sunwoo Hong, Younwoo Choi, Chen-Hao Chao, Se-Young Yun, Rahul G. Krishnan
When May a Bandit Leave Its Anchor? E-Process-Authorized Thompson Sampling under Non-stationarity
by Mayand Gulati, Kerong Wang, WeiChen Au
Embedding Prediction Helps Image Generation
by Sihan Xu, Ji Xie, Zilin Wang, Hui Shen, Stella X. Yu
ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research
by Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu, Dayoon Ko, Rulin Shao, Seungone Kim, Graham Neubig, Pang Wei Koh, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Akari Asai, Omar Khattab, Yejin Choi, Gunhee Kim, Chelsea Finn
VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World
by Qiushi Han, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu, Cathy Wu, Kaiming He
TACO: Ternary Absolute-max Column-wise One-sparse Optimizer for LLM Fine-Tuning
by Jichao Jiang (1), Cristian McGee (1), El Houcine Bergou (2), Hanqin Cai (1), Aritra Dutta (1) ((1) University of Central Florida, (2) Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)
FERPO: Forward Entropy-Regularized Policy Optimization
by Sebastian Sanokowski, Alireza Sarmadi, Majid Khadiv
KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards
by Pengfei Li, Naufal Suryanto, Sicheng Zhang, Muzammal Naseer
Cost-augmented Schrödinger bridges on graphs are exactly solvable: a Feynman-Kac tilt replaces learned control
by Akshay Balsubramani