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OrScale: Orthogonalised Optimization with Layer-Wise Trust-Ratio Scaling

A dynamic per-layer scalar derived by adapting the LARS/LAMB trust-ratio principle to the orthogonalized setting, where the standard denominator candidates---the raw momentum norm or the polar-factor norm---either live in the wrong unit space or carry no update-scale information.

Yuxuan Lou, Yang You · 1 citation

Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization for Heterogenous Preference Alignment

Personalized GRPO is introduced, a novel alignment framework that decouples advantage estimation from immediate batch statistics and achieves faster convergence and higher rewards than standard GRPO, thereby enhancing its ability to recover and align with heterogeneous preference signals.

Jialu Wang, Heinrich Peters, A. Butt et al. · 1 citation

MUSE: A Run-Centric Platform for Multimodal Unified Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models

MUSE (Multimodal Unified Safety Evaluation), an open-source, browser-based, run-centric platform for multimodal safety evaluation, demonstrates the value of run-centric, fine-grained evaluation for characterizing multimodal safety behavior beyond a single binary success metric.

Zhongxi Wang, Yueqian Lin, Jingyang Zhang et al. · 0 citations

Constrained Group Relative Policy Optimization

This work introduces Constrained GRPO, a Lagrangian-based extension of GRPO for constrained policy optimization, and addresses the coupling induced by reward scalarization by scalarizing standardized advantages rather than rewards.

Roger Girgis, Rodrigue de Schaetzen, Luke Rowe et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Conference Jan 2026

Audit Me If You Can: Query-Efficient Active Fairness Auditing of Black-Box LLMs

BAFA, the Bounded Active Fairness Auditor is introduced, the Bounded Active Fairness Auditor for query-efficient auditing of black-box LLMs, suggesting that active sampling can reduce resources needed for independent fairness auditing with LLMs, supporting continuous model evaluations.

David Hartmann, Lena Pohlmann, Lelia Hanslik et al. · 7 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Dec 2025

ScalePRM: Training Process Reward Models by Scaling Verification Compute Without Ground Truth

ScalePRM, which scales verification compute as an alternative to ground-truth supervision for training process reward models, generates multiple independent verifications of each reasoning step and aggregate their judgments to produce synthetic step-level labels without ground truth.

Salman Rahman, Sruthi Gorantla, Arpit Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint May 2025

Kronecker Factorization Improves Efficiency and Interpretability of Sparse Autoencoders

KronSAE is proposed, a design that factorizes the latent space into heads and forms post-latent features as pairwise compositions of lower-dimensional pre-latents using mAND, a differentiable AND-like interaction that imposes a compositional co-activation prior while remaining compatible with standard SAE objectives and variants.

Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev et al. · 1 citation

You Do Not Fully Utilize Transformer's Representation Capacity

Layer-Integrated Memory (LIMe) is introduced, a lightweight extension that leverages existing key-value buffers and learns per-head, per-layer routing weights to integrate representations from previous layers to improve perplexity per FLOP and yield strong gains on synthetic tasks while preserving higher value-vector entropy and token separability.

Gleb Gerasimov, Yaroslav Aksenov, Nikita Balagansky et al. · 4 citations

Amortizing intractable inference in large language models

This work interprets chain-of-thought reasoning as a latent variable modeling problem and demonstrates that this distribution-matching paradigm of LLM fine-tuning can serve as an effective alternative to maximum-likelihood training and reward-maximizing policy optimization.

Edward J. Hu, Moksh Jain, Eric Elmoznino et al. · 110 citations · ⚡19

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 27, 2026

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 20, 2026

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.

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