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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Metropolis-Hastings Dominates Importance Resampling for Policy Composition

Post-training a large language model (LLM) often requires exploring trade-offs between multiple rewards, but retraining for each trade-off is expensive. Decoding-time policy composition allows these trade-offs to be adjusted by combining reward-specific policies at inference time. This composition targets a weighted pr...

A. Kurennoy, R. Yarullin, Fergal Reid · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Residual Streams Read, Recurrent States Remember: The Global Workspace in Mamba Models

Recurrent state provides a complementary carrier of workspace content, whose recovery, persistence and causal uses require separate measurements, and sign-guarded steering, which improves target top-five success over coordinate exchange on matched verbal-report trials in five models.

Wen-Long Wang, Fergal Reid · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Looped Latent Attention: Cross-Loop KV Compression for Looped Transformers

This work introduces Looped Latent Attention (\lla{}), a post-training cache codec that stores compact K and V latents and reconstructs loop-specific K/V vectors only when attention reads them, and shows that the recurrent cache is low-rank but not safely collapsible to a single state.

James O'Neill, Fergal Reid · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Protoreasoning in Tiny Transformers

We show that tiny transformers can profitably employ a simple form of Chain of Thought, which we call protoreasoning, allowing us to study step-by-step reasoning on ~1M-parameter models and opening up opportunities for much more detailed experimentation and analysis than is feasible for larger models. Current Large Lan...

E. Valle, Fergal Reid · 0 citations

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