3 papers
cs.AI2026
Beyond Reactivity: Measuring Proactive Problem Solving in LLM Agents
Gil Pasternak, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Julia White +4
LLM-based agents are increasingly moving towards proactivity: rather than awaiting instruction, they exercise agency to anticipate user needs and solve them autonomously. However,…
cs.LG2026
Correcting Stochastic Update Bias in Preconditioned Language Model Optimizers
Nikhil Nayak, Julia White, Urchade Zaratiana +7
Preconditioned optimizers are central to language model training, but their stochastic update rules are usually treated as direct approximations to population preconditioned descen…
cs.AI2026
Pioneer Agent: Continual Improvement of Small Language Models in Production
Dhruv Atreja, Julia White, Nikhil Nayak +5
Small language models are attractive for production deployment due to their low cost, fast inference, and ease of specialization. However, adapting them to a specific task remains…