11 papers
How LLMs Might Think
Joseph Gottlieb, Ethan Kemp, Matthew Trager
The paper examines whether large language models can be said to think, arguing that while they likely do not engage in rational thought, they may exhibit a form of arational, purel…
Learning When to Attend: Conditional Memory Access for Long-Context LLMs
Sakshi Choudhary, Aditya Chattopadhyay, Luca Zancato +4
Language models struggle to generalize beyond pretraining context lengths, limiting long-horizon reasoning and retrieval. Continued pretraining on long-context data can help but is…
EvoMAS: Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Agent Systems
Yuntong Hu, Yuting Zhang, Matthew Trager +4
Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) show strong promise for complex reasoning, planning, and tool-augmented tasks, but designing effective MAS architectures…
Geometry and Optimization of Shallow Polynomial Networks
Yossi Arjevani, Joan Bruna, Joe Kileel +2
We study shallow neural networks with monomial activations and output dimension one. The function space for these models can be identified with a set of symmetric tensors with boun…
Experience-Guided Adaptation of Inference-Time Reasoning Strategies
Adam Stein, Matthew Trager, Benjamin Bowman +4
Enabling agentic AI systems to adapt their problem-solving approaches based on post-training interactions remains a fundamental challenge. While systems that update and maintain a…
e1: Learning Adaptive Control of Reasoning Effort
Michael Kleinman, Matthew Trager, Alessandro Achille +2
Increasing the thinking budget of AI models can significantly improve accuracy, but not all questions warrant the same amount of reasoning. Users may prefer to allocate different a…