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most citedSmall Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI

15 citations · 20 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2026

EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation

Zeru Shi, Jindong Jiang, Ryo Hachiuma +10

Complex and long-horizon agent tasks often rely on frontier models deployed in the cloud to achieve strong performance. However, using these models for every step of a long-horizon…

cs.LG2026

Nemotron 3 Super: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

NVIDIA, :, Aakshita Chandiramani +544

We describe the pre-training, post-training, and quantization of Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion (active 12 billion) parameter hybrid Mamba-Attention Mixture-of-Experts model. Nemo…

cs.CL2026

GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization

Shih-Yang Liu, Xin Dong, Ximing Lu +10

As language models become increasingly capable, users expect them to provide not only accurate responses but also behaviors aligned with diverse human preferences across a variety…

cs.CL2025

ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration

Hongjin Su, Shizhe Diao, Ximing Lu +13

Large language models are powerful generalists, yet solving deep and complex problems such as those of the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) remains both conceptually challenging and comp…

cs.AI2025

Universal Deep Research: Bring Your Own Model and Strategy

Peter Belcak, Pavlo Molchanov

Deep research tools are among the most impactful and most commonly encountered agentic systems today. We observe, however, that each deep research agent introduced so far is hard-c…

cs.AI2025★ 15 cited

Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI

Peter Belcak, Greg Heinrich, Shizhe Diao +5

Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise…

cs.LG2025

Minifinetuning: Low-Data Generation Domain Adaptation through Corrective Self-Distillation

Peter Belcak, Greg Heinrich, Jan Kautz +1

Finetuning language models for a new domain inevitably leads to the deterioration of their general performance. This becomes more pronounced the more limited the finetuning data re…

cs.CL2025

Nemotron-CLIMB: CLustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping for Language Model Pre-training

Shizhe Diao, Yu Yang, Yonggan Fu +11

Pre-training datasets are typically collected from web content and lack inherent domain divisions. For instance, widely used datasets like Common Crawl do not include explicit doma…

cs.CL2025

Text Compression for Efficient Language Generation

David Gu, Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

We challenge the prevailing assumption that LLMs must rely fully on sub-word tokens for high-quality text generation. To this end, we propose the "Generative Pretrained Thoughtform…

cs.LG2024

Tiny Transformers Excel at Sentence Compression

Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

It is staggering that words of the English language, which are on average represented by 5--6 bytes of ASCII, require as much as 24 kilobytes when served to large language models.…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Exponentially Faster Language Modelling

Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

Language models only really need to use an exponential fraction of their neurons for individual inferences. As proof, we present UltraFastBERT, a BERT variant that uses 0.3% of its…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Fast Feedforward Networks

Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

We break the linear link between the layer size and its inference cost by introducing the fast feedforward (FFF) architecture, a log-time alternative to feedforward networks. We de…

cs.CL2023

Examining the Emergence of Deductive Reasoning in Generative Language Models

Peter Belcak, Luca A. Lanzendörfer, Roger Wattenhofer

We conduct a preliminary inquiry into the ability of generative transformer models to deductively reason from premises provided. We observe notable differences in the performance o…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Neural Combinatorial Logic Circuit Synthesis from Input-Output Examples

Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

We propose a novel, fully explainable neural approach to synthesis of combinatorial logic circuits from input-output examples. The carrying advantage of our method is that it readi…

cs.LG2022

A Neural Model for Regular Grammar Induction

Peter Belcák, David Hofer, Roger Wattenhofer

Grammatical inference is a classical problem in computational learning theory and a topic of wider influence in natural language processing. We treat grammars as a model of computa…

cs.LG2022

Periodic Extrapolative Generalisation in Neural Networks

Peter Belcák, Roger Wattenhofer

The learning of the simplest possible computational pattern -- periodicity -- is an open problem in the research of strong generalisation in neural networks. We formalise the probl…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

FACT: Learning Governing Abstractions Behind Integer Sequences

Peter Belcák, Ard Kastrati, Flavio Schenker +1

Integer sequences are of central importance to the modeling of concepts admitting complete finitary descriptions. We introduce a novel view on the learning of such concepts and lay…

cs.LG2022

Deterministic Graph-Walking Program Mining

Peter Belcak, Roger Wattenhofer

Owing to their versatility, graph structures admit representations of intricate relationships between the separate entities comprising the data. We formalise the notion of connecti…

cs.PL2020

The LL(finite) strategy for optimal LL(k) parsing

Peter Belcak

The LL(finite) parsing strategy for parsing of LL(k) grammars where k needs not to be known is presented. The strategy parses input in linear time, uses arbitrary but always minima…

q-fin.CP2020

Fast Agent-Based Simulation Framework with Applications to Reinforcement Learning and the Study of Trading Latency Effects

Peter Belcak, Jan-Peter Calliess, Stefan Zohren

We introduce a new software toolbox for agent-based simulation. Facilitating rapid prototyping by offering a user-friendly Python API, its core rests on an efficient C++ implementa…