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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
WikiSQL: 74.0%Edward J. Hu, Yelong Shen +6
An important paradigm of natural language processing consists of large-scale pre-training on general domain data and adaptation to particular tasks or domains. As we pre-train…
Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR
MATH-500: 70.8%Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li +12
We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can elicit strong mathematical reasoning in certain language models even with spurious rewards that have…
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)
CIFAR10: 9.46Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel
We present high quality image synthesis results using diffusion probabilistic models, a class of latent variable models inspired by considerations from nonequilibrium…
Generative Adversarial Nets
MNIST: 225 ± 2Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie +6
We propose a new framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, in which we simultaneously train two models: a generative model G that captures the data…
Attention Is All You Need — Explaining the Transformer
BLEU: 28.4Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer +6
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also…
Mem0: Scalable Long-Term Memory for AI Agents
LOCOMO: 67.13%Prateek Chhikara, Dev Khant +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable prowess in generating contextually coherent responses, yet their fixed context windows pose fundamental challenges for…
s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
AIME24: 56.7%Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang +8
Test-time scaling is a promising new approach to language modeling that uses extra test-time compute to improve performance. Recently, OpenAI's o1 model showed this capability…
SkillOpt — Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
best-or-tied evaluated cells: 52/52 cellsYifan Yang, Ziyang Gong +13
Agent skills today are hand-crafted, generated one-shot, or evolved through loosely controlled self-revision, none of which behaves like a deep-learning optimizer for the skill,…
Inside MuZero: Mastering the World Without Knowing the Rules
Atari 57 games (large data): 2041.1%Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou +10
Constructing agents with planning capabilities has long been one of the main challenges in the pursuit of artificial intelligence. Tree-based planning methods have enjoyed huge…
Deep Learning ECG Segmentation for Diverse Arrhythmias
LUDB: >99%KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Knot Signature Dataset: 81.6%Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang +6
Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs…
Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
AIME 2024: 77.5%Kimi Team, Angang Du +94
Language model pretraining with next token prediction has proved effective for scaling compute but is limited to the amount of available training data. Scaling reinforcement…
Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL)
Humanoid-v1 Performance: 10361.94Jonathan Ho, Stefano Ermon
Consider learning a policy from example expert behavior, without interaction with the expert or access to reinforcement signal. One approach is to recover the expert's cost…
The Empowerment of Science of Science by LLMs
DeepSeek-V3 Cost: 0.12 USD/M tokensContinuous Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DDPG)
cheetah (lowd): 0.903Timothy P. Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt +6
We adapt the ideas underlying the success of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain. We present an actor-critic, model-free algorithm based on the deterministic policy…
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
Average Normalized Score: 0.82John Schulman, Filip Wolski +3
We propose a new family of policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning, which alternate between sampling data through interaction with the environment, and optimizing a…
Model Domain Mapping Function & Composition
The Entropy Mechanism of RL for Reasoning LLMs
AIME24: 36.8%Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang +15
This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vast RL…
RGSD: Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation
RubricHub-medical + HealthBench: +6.1ppMohammadHossein Rezaei, Anas Mahmoud +7
Rubrics have emerged as an alternative to RLVR in open-ended domains where a single ground-truth final answer is not available. Existing rubric-based training methods rely on an…
Tülu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
GSM8K: 87.6%Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison +21
Language model post-training is applied to refine behaviors and unlock new skills across a wide range of recent language models, but open recipes for applying these techniques…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Natural Questions: 44.5Patrick Lewis, Ethan Perez +10
Large pre-trained language models have been shown to store factual knowledge in their parameters, and achieve state-of-the-art results when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks.…
Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
Pass@1: 91.0%Noah Shinn, Federico Cassano +4
Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to interact with external environments (e.g., games, compilers, APIs) as goal-driven agents. However, it remains…
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
HellaSwag: 74.8%Bo Peng, Eric Alcaide +32
Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence…
Does RL Really Expand LLM Reasoning?
Omni-MATH-Train: 42.5%Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen +6
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently demonstrated notable success in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs),…