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most citedSAND-mask: An Enhanced Gradient Masking Strategy for the Discovery of Invariances in Domain Generalization

22 citations · 37 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model

Arash Ebrahim Abtahizadeh, Muna Aghamelu, Adil Ahmed +327

We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware. Muse Glimmer…

cs.AI2026

AI Research Preference Models

Thomas Simon Foster, Bassel Al Omari, Tingchen Fu +30

AI research agents (AIRA) can now carry machine learning experiments from proposal through implementation and evaluation. Yet progress on frontier tasks is throttled by the cost of…

cs.AI2026

AIRA_2: Overcoming Bottlenecks in AI Research Agents

Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicolas Baldwin, Edan Toledo +22

Existing research has identified three structural performance bottlenecks in AI research agents: (1) synchronous single-GPU execution constrains sample throughput, limiting the ben…

cs.AI2026

AIRS-Bench: a Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents

Alisia Lupidi, Bhavul Gauri, Thomas Simon Foster +34

LLM agents hold significant promise for advancing scientific research. To accelerate this progress, we introduce AIRS-Bench (the AI Research Science Benchmark), a suite of 20 tasks…

cs.LG2026

A Scalable Measure of Loss Landscape Curvature for Analyzing the Training Dynamics of LLMs

Dayal Singh Kalra, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Andrey Gromov +4

Understanding the curvature evolution of the loss landscape is fundamental to analyzing the training dynamics of neural networks. The most commonly studied measure, Hessian sharpne…

cs.AI2025

What Does It Take to Be a Good AI Research Agent? Studying the Role of Ideation Diversity

Alexis Audran-Reiss, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Karen Hambardzumyan +17

AI research agents offer the promise to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. However, the field is stil…

eess.AS2025

Scaling and Distilling Transformer Models for sEMG

Nicholas Mehlman, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Michael Shvartsman +3

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals offer a promising avenue for developing innovative human-computer interfaces by providing insights into muscular activity. However, the limi…

cs.AI2025

AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench

Edan Toledo, Karen Hambardzumyan, Martin Josifoski +22

AI research agents are demonstrating great potential to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. We focus o…

cs.AI2025

The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements

Bingchen Zhao, Despoina Magka, Minqi Jiang +20

Rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have the potential to assist in scientific progress. A critical capability toward this endeavor is the ability to reproduce exist…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Effective Latent Differential Equation Models via Attention and Multiple Shooting

Germán Abrevaya, Mahta Ramezanian-Panahi, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet +5

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) is a burgeoning field that synergistically combines domain-aware and interpretable models with agnostic machine learning techniques. In this wor…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

WOODS: Benchmarks for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Time Series

Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Kartik Ahuja, Mohammad-Javad Darvishi-Bayazi +3

Machine learning models often fail to generalize well under distributional shifts. Understanding and overcoming these failures have led to a research field of Out-of-Distribution (…

q-bio.NC2021★ 5 cited

Generative Models of Brain Dynamics -- A review

Mahta Ramezanian Panahi, Germán Abrevaya, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet +3

The principled design and discovery of biologically- and physically-informed models of neuronal dynamics has been advancing since the mid-twentieth century. Recent developments in…

cs.LG2021★ 22 cited

SAND-mask: An Enhanced Gradient Masking Strategy for the Discovery of Invariances in Domain Generalization

Soroosh Shahtalebi, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Touraj Laleh +3

A major bottleneck in the real-world applications of machine learning models is their failure in generalizing to unseen domains whose data distribution is not i.i.d to the training…