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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Also Small Models Can Reasonably Self-Evaluate Their Confidence

This study systematically evaluates self-evaluation-based uncertainty quantification across different language models of varying sizes on question-answering tasks spanning general to specialized knowledge domains. Using various self-evaluation methods where models judge their own predictions, we examine how model scale...

Idil Kapikiran, Thomas Decker, Thomas A. Runkler · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Right Answer, Wrong Mechanism: Detecting Pernicious Divergence in Causal Interventions

Causal interventions such as activation patching and distributed alignment search (DAS) are the main tool for making mechanistic claims about neural networks. Recent work showed that these interventions routinely push representations off the model's natural distribution, and that such divergence is sometimes harmless a...

Bei-Ming Liu, Min-Jie Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Low-Discrepancy Dither for Quantized Recurrent State Caches

Mamba-style and hybrid language models compress their past into a fixed-size recurrent state that is rewritten at every generated token. Storing this state in low precision saves memory bandwidth, but every rounding error is fed back into the next update and can accumulate over long generations. Production systems roun...

Snigdha Chandan Khilar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ID Balancing: Stable Training of Extremely Sparse MoE via PID-Based Load Control

Scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) via Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) enables massive parameter growth with nearly constant per-token computation. However, further scaling the parameter count requires increasingly sparse routing, where expert load imbalance becomes more severe. This imbalance reduces parameter utilization...

Peng Jin, Zi-Han Qiu, Ze-Kun Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SCORE-LM: State-Space Radar Representations with Language Models for Fault Diagnosis

Radar hardware faults threaten automated perception, motivating accurate, compact diagnosis and understandable maintenance guidance. We introduce SCORE-LM, which couples a small scatterer-conditioned operator-response encoder (SCORE) to an adapted local language model. SCORE combines self-referenced complex trajectorie...

Mainak Mallick, Seung-Kyum Choi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Lasting Effects of Abstract Pretraining Beyond Perplexity

The results show that early abstract training can reliably shape the capabilities language models later acquire, and in small language models, such a warm-up improves specific capabilities that are not reflected in language-modeling perplexity.

Zachary Shinnick, Hemanth Saratchandran, Damien Teney et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

How Does Local Landscape Geometry Evolve in Language Model Pre-Training?

The scale and expense of pre-training language models make efficient hyperparameter tuning essential, yet a principled guidance is still missing. In this work, we analyze language model pre-training dynamics from a local landscape geometry perspective. Our study reveals two distinct phases. In Phase I, sharpness of the...

Zhan-Peng Zhou, Yu-Han Sun, Bing-Rui Li et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GFD-OPD: Guidance-Folded On-Policy Distillation of Diffusion Models Across Scales

On-policy distillation (OPD) has demonstrated two important capabilities in language models: compressing large teachers into smaller students and merging expert models into a single model. Existing diffusion OPD, however, mostly focus on the latter, with teachers and students sharing the same backbone and scale. We inv...

Zhen-Xing Zhang, Jia-Yan Teng, Wen-Xu Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Speculative Safety Honeypot: Toward Proactive Defense Against Multi-turn Agent Attacks

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in complex environments, multi-turn interaction attacks have become a significant security challenge. Existing detection methods typically rely on historical context. However, this retrospective logic struggles to identify deep malicious intents that are sp...

Ze-Zhong Wang, Xue-Yang Tang, Rui Lian et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Search to Signal: Online Post-Training in Automatic Heuristic Design

Large language model (LLM)-based automatic heuristic design (AHD) iteratively proposes and refines heuristics, pairing design rationales with executable code. Task-specific evaluators assess programs; execution outcomes and performance scores guide search. Many AHD systems keep the generator frozen; EvoTune and Co-Evol...

Yi-Lun Yuan, Tian-Yu Zhou, Zhen-Zhou Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GRPO Training Dynamics for Small Language Models

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a memory-efficient reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) technique for reasoning-intensive tasks. How- ever, GRPO training dynamics on small language models (SLMs) remain poorly understood, limiting its reliable adoption and reproducibility in open and resource- constr...

Rajat Ghosh, Vaishnavi Bhargava, Henry Wong et al. · 0 citations

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