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cs.CL · 2021

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…

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cs.AI · 2025

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…

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cs.LG · 2020

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)

CIFAR10: 9.46

Jonathan 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…

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stat.ML · 2014

Generative Adversarial Nets

MNIST: 225 ± 2

Ian 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…

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cs.CL · 2017

Attention Is All You Need — Explaining the Transformer

BLEU: 28.4

Ashish 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…

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cs.CL · 2025

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…

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cs.CL · 2025

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…

cs.LG · 2024

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…

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cs.LG · 2016

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL)

Humanoid-v1 Performance: 10361.94

Jonathan 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…

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Deep Learning ECG Segmentation for Diverse Arrhythmias

LUDB: >99%
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cs.AI · 2026

SkillOpt — Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

best-or-tied evaluated cells: 52/52 cells

Yifan 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,…

cs.AI · 2025

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…

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cs.LG · 2019

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…

cs.LG · 2015

Continuous Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DDPG)

cheetah (lowd): 0.903

Timothy 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…

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The Empowerment of Science of Science by LLMs

DeepSeek-V3 Cost: 0.12 USD/M tokens
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cs.LG · 2025

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…

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Model Domain Mapping Function & Composition

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cs.LG · 2017

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

Average Normalized Score: 0.82

John 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…

cs.LG · 2026

RGSD: Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation

RubricHub-medical + HealthBench: +6.1pp

MohammadHossein 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…

cs.CL · 2023

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…

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cs.CL · 2025

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

AIME 2024: 79.8%

DeepSeek-AI, Daya Guo +198

General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and…

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cs.LG · 2021

Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

DQN-Replay 1%: 267.5 ± 97.5

Lili Chen, Kevin Lu +7

We introduce a framework that abstracts Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a sequence modeling problem. This allows us to draw upon the simplicity and scalability of the Transformer…

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cs.CL · 2020

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Natural Questions: 44.5

Patrick 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.…

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cs.LG · 2022

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness

Wikipedia: 15%

Tri Dao, Daniel Y. Fu +3

Transformers are slow and memory-hungry on long sequences, since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length. Approximate attention methods…

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