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Wen-tau Yih

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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

IdeaScientist: Orchestrating Agents for Grounded Scientific Ideation

Despite rapid progress in automating scientific research, generating promising and well grounded research solutions remains a central challenge. We isolate research ideation as a standalone task and build our solution on the intuition that a challenge in one field can often be addressed by a mechanism that solved an an...

Jia-Rui Liu, Ren-Jie Tao, Yi-Wei Liao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Context Language Models

Context Language Models are introduced, language models that natively manage their own context and can be steered with natural-language instructions evolved through a standard skill-optimization loop, improving held-out accuracy by up to 35.9 points on a context-management task while reducing compute.

Ru-Lin Shao, Shannon Zejiang Shen, J. Yin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Knowledge Distillation During Mid-Training Favors Reasoning over Factual Recall

Switch Distillation is proposed, a simple mid-training objective that distills on tokens where the teacher is confident, using teacher predictive entropy as a lightweight routing signal, and otherwise falls back to cross-entropy, which consistently outperforms existing distillation objectives across teacher sizes.

Jacqueline He, Howard Yen, S. Li et al. · 0 citations

Anchored Decoding: Provably Reducing Copyright Risk for Any Language Model

Anchored Decoding is proposed, a plug-and-play inference-time method for suppressing verbatim copying that enables decoding from any risky LM trained on mixed-license data by keeping generation in bounded proximity to a permissively trained safe LM.

Jacqueline He, J. Hayase, Wen-tau Yih et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

S-EMBER: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Streaming Egocentric Memory Retrieval

This work introduces S-EMBER (Streaming Egocentric Memory Benchmark for Episodic Retrieval), a large-scale benchmark comprising 3,141 videos totaling 388 hours of organic activity captured via Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that establishes a hardware-authentic foundation for developing grounded, reliable episodic memory i...

Xiaodong Wang, Xuanyi Zhao, Pedro Rodriguez et al. · 0 citations

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