The extension of context windows in Large Language Models is typically facilitated by scaling positional encodings followed by Continued Pre-Training (CPT). While effective, this paradigm is notoriously data-hungry and computationally expensive, requiring massive long-text corpora to recalibrate the model to the shifte...
Ning Yang, Hengyu Zhong, Wentao Wang et al.· 0 citations
Complex question answering across text, tables and images requires integrating diverse information sources. A framework supporting specialized processing with coordination and interpretability is needed. We introduce DeALOG, a decentralized multi-agent framework for multimodal question answering. It uses specialized ag...
Latent tokens are gaining attention for enhancing reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet their internal mechanisms remain unclear. This paper examines the problem from a reliability perspective, uncovering fundamental weaknesses: latent tokens function as uninterpretable placeholders rather than encoding faithf...
Yuyi Zhang, Boyu Tang, Tianjie Ju et al.· 0 citations
Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with multi-hop reasoning over knowledge-graphs (KGs), and we identify a previously overlooked structural reason for this difficulty: Transformer attention heads naturally specialize in distinct semantic relations across reasoning stages, forming a hop-aligned relay pattern. T...
Preference tuning typically distributes adapter updates across every Transformer layer. We study how the placement of a fixed LoRA budget affects Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). Hierarchical Alignment partitions decoder depth into Local, Intermediate, and Global regions and restricts LoRA updates to a chosen cont...
An ideal detection system for machine generated content is supposed to work well on any generator as many more advanced LLMs come into existence day by day. Existing systems often struggle with accurately identifying AI-generated content over shorter texts. Further, not all texts might be entirely authored by a human o...
This survey examines evaluation methods for large language model (LLM)-based agents in multi-turn conversational settings. Using a PRISMA-inspired framework, we systematically reviewed nearly 250 scholarly sources, capturing the state of the art from various venues of publication, and establishing a solid foundation fo...
Shengyue Guan, Jindong Wang, Jiang Bian et al.· 0 citations
It is shown that the mean-subtracted ES update is exactly this displacement, scaled by a scalar factor that depends on the mean reward, for any finite population.
Clinical trial prescreening requires distinguishing unmet conditions from insufficient evidence in patient records. Given patient records, criterion questions, and predefined answer options, we retrospectively compared JEV, a non-generative decision model returning native option probabilities, with schema-constrained Q...
Mengxian He, Ziyue Gao, Chun Li et al.· 0 citations
Transformer-based language models exhibit an astonishing capacity to generalize to longer and more difficult problem instances than those seen in training. However, theoretical understanding of this phenomenon still lags behind. Unlike most machine learning models, the generalisation abilities of transformers inherentl...
Marius Henry, Michael Rizvi-Martel, Michael Hahn· 0 citations
Error-targeted learning gives a legible way to improve a model: identify specific weaknesses of the model, train the model to fix these weaknesses, and check whether the weaknesses are fixed. We study how to apply error-targeted learning to terminal agents, which solve long-horizon tasks specified in natural language b...
Runchu Tian, Zaid Khan, Zun Wang et al.· 0 citations
A probe trained on a base model can be reused, in these families, after distillation and after instruction tuning; how much it reads beyond textual cues depends on the test set.