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Statistically Lossless Quantization: How much of your model survives quantization
A quantized model can keep almost the same benchmark score and still behave differently. It can become less confident about a good answer, more willing to try a bad one, or take a different route through a reasoning problem. The final score...
Looped Transformers and Interactive Evaluation
This week, we review:
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LatentLoop: Scaling Looped MoE Models with Asymmetric Compute Allocation
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Instructions Are Evidence, Not Objectives: Measuring Outcome Alignment of Agents
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Interaction-as-a-Judge
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Alignment Generalization, FP4 Rollouts, and Residual Memory
This week, we review:
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SIGMA: Self-Improving Alignment Generalization from a Model Spec
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TRACE: Rollout-Guided Quantization-Aware Training for FP4 Reinforcement Learning of MoE Language Models
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Humanity’s Sixth Sense: Benchmarki...
Benchmark Reliability, Faster Diffusion, and Harness Distillation
This week, we review:
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Schrödinger’s Code Repository: Have LLMs Learned SWE-bench or Memorized It?
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Calibration as a First-Class Criterion in LLM Evaluation
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Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory...
Lossless Diffusion Speedups, Random Attention, and One-Shot Distillation
This week, we review:
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Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion
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Don’t Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference
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Random Attention: Rethinking KV Cache Eviction for Effici...
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