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
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...
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...
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
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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...
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
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
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
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
The findings support on-policy distillation as an effective warmup for agentic RLVR and identify initial reward discovery as a mechanism that can contribute to the observed acceleration.
Yi-Tong Qiao, Tian-Tian He, Lei Liu et al.· 0 citations
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...
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