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AbridgeKV: Compressing Long Reasoning into the KV Cache of Learned Pause Tokens
Jack Cai, Lijie Yang, Vasilis Kontonis +2
Long chain-of-thought decoding is memory-bound: the KV cache of the generated tokens grows linearly with the test-time compute being spent. Evicting cache entries does not fix this…
Fork-and-Flush: Escaping Idea Basins in Autoresearch Agents
Ziyang Cai, Christos Ziakas, Vasilis Kontonis +5
Autoresearch agents tackle open-ended problems by repeatedly proposing candidate solutions, evaluating them, and using feedback to guide subsequent experiments. We show that indepe…
Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication
Jongho Park, Vasilis Kontonis, Shivam Garg +2
Science advances not in isolation but through collaboration, yet existing agentic systems capture little of this. Whether communicating agents help remains an open question with mi…
MEMENTO: Teaching LLMs to Manage Their Own Context
Vasilis Kontonis, Yuchen Zeng, Shivam Garg +7
Reasoning models think in long, unstructured streams with no mechanism for compressing or organizing their own intermediate state. We introduce MEMENTO: a method that teaches model…
Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?
Charilaos Pipis, Shivam Garg, Vasilis Kontonis +3
Reasoning models (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) generate long chains of thought to solve harder problems, but they often loop, repeating the same text at low temperatures or with greedy decod…
Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
Jaeyeon Kim, Kulin Shah, Vasilis Kontonis +2
In recent years, masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising alternative approach for generative modeling over discrete domains. Compared to autoregressive models (A…