Wrong automatic routing of an IT support ticket can cost more than human triage. We evaluate cost-aware abstention as an offline, cost-conditional readiness assessment: select a routing policy on calibration data under explicit costs, then evaluate that frozen policy once on held-out test data. On a public 47,837-ticke...
\emph{Continuous-space} attacks find prompts that trigger malicious behaviors, such as overthinking, in black-box LLMs by sampling or optimizing over a low-dimensional Gaussian latent space and decoding it to text through a \emph{random mapping} and nearest-token lookup. Because the random mapping is not learned from l...
Ali Al-Lawati, Elsayed Eshra, Dongwon Lee et al.· 0 citations
Given an unseen graph, a start node, $s$, and an end node, $t$, can a language model generate the shortest path from $s$ to $t$? Prior work has found that models fail to learn this task as the graphs scale. We show that this failure has two causes: the supervision signal and the tokenization. First, we theoretically es...
Arvid Frydenlund, FuTe Wong, Katherine Lambert et al.· 0 citations
Vector quantization (VQ), in particular lattice-based methods, offer strong rate-distortion trade-offs for low-bit large language models (LLMs), yet their behavior under quantization-aware training (VQ-QAT) remains poorly understood. We scale lattice VQ-QAT to billion-parameter LLMs and multi-billion-token training reg...
Sebastian Loeschcke, Ivan Koryakovskiy, T. V. D. van der Ouderaa et al.· 0 citations
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Reinforcement learning (RL) is credited with teaching reasoning models to write {wait} before reconsidering a step, yet large RL accuracy gains do not require the word. This view can confuse what RL discovers with what a model inherits from its training data. We trace the word through open models'training histories, re...
Zhi-Zhuo Kou, Si-Zai Hou, Long Chen et al.· 0 citations
On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves reasoning by training a model on its own trajectories with dense token-level supervision from a privileged copy conditioned on a reference solution. Existing methods typically use a single teacher distribution conditioned on the complete reference. We identify a limitation of...
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) were originally motivated by discovering monosemantic features, a property that characterizes individual features but does not specify what the learned feature set should look like as a whole. As SAEs have increasingly been adopted for attribution, circuit discovery, and intervention, researc...
Activation probes are computed directions in a language model's residual stream, used both to detect safety-relevant behaviours and, by adding their direction back into the stream, to steer them, which power an interactive interface through which a user can score and steer text directly.
Beyond basic tool use and coding skills, effectively incorporating visual references into agentic generation is equally essential for applying AI agents to real-world productivity tasks. We study this crucial capability through webpage development, a practical and readily evaluable setting in which existing benchmarks...
Yu-Chi Wang, Rongyao Fang, Wei-Hao Yu et al.· 0 citations
Long-horizon agents must learn heterogeneous capabilities from interleaved trajectories. Updating shared parameters to learn new capabilities can degrade previously acquired ones, resulting in catastrophic forgetting. As a trajectory unfolds, different stages may require different capabilities, yet conventional joint t...
Rui Shi, Xunjian Yin, Jiacheng Sang et al.· 0 citations
We present Stable Signer V3, an interactive high-resolution sign language avatar system built on 4D Deformable Primitive Splatting. It addresses three limitations of existing avatars: restricted facial expression, inaccurate identity-specific body deformation, and loss of fine appearance details. Shared Face Primitive...
We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware. Muse Glimmer integrates multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use and failure recovery into a single model that runs locally on consumer devices without r...
Arash Ebrahim Abtahizadeh, Muna Aghamelu, Adil Ahmed et al.· 0 citations
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.