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Learning to Discover at Test Time
Mert Yuksekgonul, Daniel Koceja, Xinhao Li +8
How can we use AI to discover a new state of the art for a scientific problem? Prior work in test-time scaling, such as AlphaEvolve, performs search by prompting a frozen LLM. We p…
cs.CL2026
Sparse Reward Subsystem in Large Language Models
Guowei Xu, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou
Recent studies show that LLM hidden states encode reward-related information, such as answer correctness and model confidence. However, existing approaches typically fit black-box…