Unlike autoregressive (AR) models, diffusion language models (DLMs) permit parallel token updates, flexible generation, and bidirectional attention, but leading systems rely on costly pretraining or full-model fine-tuning. We present Build Your Own DLM (BYOD), a generalizable LoRA-only recipe for parameter-efficient AR...
Ruurd J. A. Kuiper, Robert A. Bagheri· 0 citations
DAPS, a dependency-aware premise selector with a structural neighborhood encoder, a group-level contrastive objective, and a Mathlib-then-Blueprint adaptation procedure is introduced, and experiments demonstrate that DAPS premises improve theorem proving on miniF2F and IMO-ProofBench.
Zi-Xuan Chen, Wen-Yuan Jiang, Jun-Ling Wang et al.· 0 citations
Fine-tuning a language model changes how it responds, but where is this fine-tuned behavior instantiated? To better understand this, we evaluate whether the change in model behavior arises only during the generation of the answer tokens where the change manifests, or whether altered processing of previous tokens causes...
Patients often arrive at brief, time-constrained clinical visits unsure of what to expect or ask, and millions of adults now turn to general-purpose AI chatbots to prepare beforehand. Yet whether conversational AI improves visit readiness remains unclear. We designed a large language model (LLM)-based visit preparation...
Xincheng Tan, Matthew Thompson, Xiang Ji et al.· 0 citations
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It is demonstrated that zeroing out a substantial fraction of attention heads prior to inference can significantly suppress verbatim memorisation while preserving, or even improving, language modelling performance on the benchmark used to identify redundant heads.
Effective computer-use agents (CUAs) should seamlessly combine visual GUI interaction with code and terminal execution within a single policy. We present Mage-VL-Cowork, a 4B hybrid CUA trained from a general multimodally aligned checkpoint through an end-to-end, progressive five-stage curriculum across midtraining, SF...
Xiaoyi Zhang, Haoqing Wang, Xinjie Zhang et al.· 0 citations
A capable voice assistant must do more than recognize words; it must understand requests, reason over context, sustain conversations, and act through tools. We present Apriel Voice 27B Preview, an open speech-language model that unifies these capabilities within a shared reasoning backbone while retaining text and imag...
Aman Tiwari, Akshay Kalkunte, Akintunde Oladipo et al.· 0 citations
Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming a mainstream paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs), as it improves training efficiency by updating the model as rollouts arrive. Recent work argues that group-wise sampling in GRPO does not naturally fit asynchronous RL training because rollout leng...
Zichen Bai, Yanli Wang, Yang Liu et al.· 0 citations
When a language model is fine-tuned to follow instructions, or further pretrained on a new subject, it often gets worse at predicting standard web text. This is known as"forgetting."We ask whether this loss can be undone by simple, fixed adjustments to the model's final token predictions. Across 14 pairs of base and de...
Task Vectors (TVs) provide a compact way to steer large language models, but they are typically treated as atomized directions merely extracted from hidden states, leaving their internal functional structure poorly understood. Motivated by prior work that decomposes in-context learning into Task Recognition (TR) and Ta...
Bangla symptom-based disease prediction is commonly evaluated on a small, imbalanced structured benchmark containing many profiles that differ by only one or two symptoms. We test whether train-only asymmetric Bernoulli perturbation improves classification using 725 unique profiles spanning 85 diseases and 172 binary s...
Sabah Nushra, Shovan Samanta Turzo, Moinul Hossain et al.· 0 citations
UpLoop is a pretraining schedule that uses upcycling to train looped Transformers while exactly matching a standard dense baseline in final parameter count, total training tokens, and training FLOPs, showing improvements in language modeling and downstream performance.
Cheng Liang, Teng-Fei Zhang, Ya Zhang 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.