Data selection is critical for training large language models on massive and heterogeneous corpora. Meta-learning for Training-data Selection offers a principled alternative to heuristic scoring by learning data weights from a target validation objective, but existing methods face a trade-off between fine-grained valua...
Recent years have witnessed the rapid adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) in large language model (LLM) post-training, with substantial gains in mathematical reasoning and code generation. In practical systems, however, policy updates and differences between rollout and training engines can make sampled responses o...
Ya-Fei Zhang, Song-Shuo Lu, Si-Cong Liao et al.· 0 citations
Large Language Model (LLM) agents now take part in organizational work, where many authors record decisions across documents over months. Because a revised decision arrives as a new document rather than an edit, answering a question requires knowing which version held at a given time. However, most memory systems compr...
Ahmad Yehia, Aly O. Abdelkareem, Islam Ahmed et al.· 0 citations
Exam-style accuracy does not establish whether large language models (LLMs) reason well over clinical records. We define clinical reasoning as integrating and updating evidence across time and sources to form, revise and justify a patient's problem representation and a defensible plan. This structured narrative review...
Zhang Jiang, Zina Ibrahim, J. Teo· 0 citations
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Cross-lingual contrastive learning has been a core component of multilingual encoder training, but the ability to explicitly align representations is not possible in decoder-only LLMs because of varying multilingual tokenization. However, a growing amount of research suggests that even in LLMs, higher cross-lingual rep...
Lucas Bandarkar, C. Peng, A. H. Ahmed et al.· 0 citations
Latent visual reasoning equips vision--language models with continuous intermediate states that can process visual evidence without explicit textual reasoning traces or repeated image operations. However, existing methods often allow multiple latent tokens to access the same visual evidence through shared value project...
Yingcheng Liu, Tian-Yi Jiang, Yu-Juan Ding et al.· 0 citations
Model specifications define how large language models (LLMs) should behave, guiding alignment training, inference-time behavior, and evaluation. Yet these specifications may themselves contain defects: two individually reasonable principles may prescribe incompatible behavior when applied to the same situation, leaving...
Zi-Chen Xie, Mrigank Pawagi, Li-Ze Shao et al.· 0 citations
The key design insight is hierarchical ordering: by first compressing spatial dimensions, VETO drastically reduces the cost of subsequent global temporal matching, bypassing the efficiency wall of single-axis approaches, with an advantage that grows with modern fully-fused attention infrastructure.
Difficulty is one of the most fundamental properties of a question: it determines whether the question can meaningfully discriminate between models of differing ability. Although a variety of methods can now estimate or predict difficulty automatically, they yield only a single descriptive number, with no account of th...
Peng Cui, Qiao-Yuan Zheng, R. Debelak et al.· 0 citations
The emergence of foundation models for molecular property prediction requires a high degree of AI data readiness, including reliable metadata annotation. However, both public repositories and industrial screening databases suffer from missing, inconsistent, or conflated assay annotations. In this work, we quantify the...
Laura van Weesep, Riccardo Tedoldi, Jens Sj\"olund et al.· 0 citations
Iterative fine-tuning on synthetic data causes \emph{model collapse}: output diversity narrows as rare patterns are progressively lost, a signature most visible as phrase-level repetition. Existing mitigations either require model log-probabilities, an external oracle, or continued access to real human data. Here we de...
Large language models now generate code, documentation, and analyses, and are increasingly used to review such output. We ask when a second review by a different model helps. Building on the author's earlier preprints, which varied context, repetition, and role structure within one model, we test model independence in...
Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research.
