Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) minimizes empirical risk over observed preference comparisons, implicitly assuming that the training preference distribution matches the deployment preference distribution. In practice, this i.i.d. assumption often fails, as preference distribution shift exhibits a natural hierarchi...
Large language models can solve complex problems across a variety of subjects, such as mathematics and coding. For such complex analytical tasks, models with a long context perform better. Serving models with long context is currently mostly done on powerful systems with multiple GPUs, which are too expensive for most...
Applying South Africa's draft R3337 warning criteria to food-package photographs requires nutrition, ingredient and product-form evidence. This study presents a region-guided evidence extraction and abstention-aware screening workflow for draft R3337. A three-class detector localises nutrition information panels, ingre...
Mayimunah Nagayi, Alice Scaria Khan, Tamryn Frank et al.· 0 citations
This work introduces JAXbounce, a continuous control pong-like benchmark designed to evaluate active inference beyond discrete, low dimensional environments, and releases JAXbounce as a reproducible benchmark for continuous control active inference research.
Chaitanya Kaul, Markus Klar, Sebastian Stein et al.· 0 citations
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Accurate electrical load forecasting supports power-system operation across countries, regions, cities, and buildings, but repeated development of target-specific models is costly. Time series foundation models (TSFMs) provide reusable pretrained backbones, although multi-domain pretraining may not fully capture load-s...
Aliullah, Julian Oelhaf, Edouard Fouch\'e et al.· 0 citations
Object-centric reinforcement learning agents typically receive each object's position in a fixed global frame, even though their decisions usually depend on where objects are relative to one another. These absolute views often fail to capture the local context that is most relevant to the agent's behavior. As a result,...
Cedric Derstroff, Jannis Bl\"uml, Janosch Moos et al.· 0 citations
On-policy distillation (OPD) supervises student-generated responses using sampled-token student-teacher log-ratios. A positive log-ratio penalizes a token that the student assigns higher probability to than the teacher, but its current value does not distinguish sustained high penalties from abrupt increases along a re...
Guang-Yu Liu, Si-Yuan Gan, Shi-Long Zhou et al.· 0 citations
Token merging is an effective approach to reducing KV-cache memory consumption in autoregressive video generation by clustering temporally redundant tokens and retaining only a small set of representatives. Existing methods, however, typically apply a uniform merging ratio across all attention layers and heads. We obse...
The results separate hazard perception from hazard control in driving VLAs, show that unsafe behavior can arise even when the model has both the evidence and the ability to act on it, and propose a simple fix for bridging this binding gap.
Matteo Cercola, Ka-Tie Z. Luo, Simone Formentin et al.· 0 citations
Temporal Evidence-Parameter Co-Alignment (TEPCA), a framework for LLM reasoning over TKGs that aligns LLM reasoning with temporal knowledge at both the evidence and parameter levels, and enables LLMs to better capture fine-grained entity evolution and time-dependent relation semantics while preserving parameter efficie...
Large Language Models (LLMs) depend fundamentally on the diversity, depth, and factual rigor of their pre-training corpora. However, contemporary foundational pre-training datasets (such as The Pile, S2ORC, and Dolma) exhibit a severe structural omission: African scientific, medical, legal, and agricultural scholarship...
This work presents a plant-aware conversational copilot that extends this paradigm in three directions: plant-specific context ingestion, a chat-first interaction model for explanation and debugging, and a graduated tool-access ladder from chat to deployment.
Joschka Kersting, G. Benndorf· IEEE International Conferenc...· 0 citations