most citedSFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

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cs.AI2025

Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity

Xinran Zhao, Hanie Sedghi, Bernd Bohnet +2

Planning is essential for artificial intelligence systems to look ahead and proactively determine a course of actions to reach objectives in the virtual and real world. Recent work…

cs.CR2025

X-Guard: Multilingual Guard Agent for Content Moderation

Bibek Upadhayay, Vahid Behzadan, Ph. D

Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become integral to numerous applications in critical domains where reliability is paramount. Despite significant advances in safety framew…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Evolving Deeper LLM Thinking

Kuang-Huei Lee, Ian Fischer, Yueh-Hua Wu +4

We explore an evolutionary search strategy for scaling inference time compute in Large Language Models. The proposed approach, Mind Evolution, uses a language model to generate, re…

cs.AI2025★ 7 cited

SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

Tianzhe Chu, Yuexiang Zhai, Jihan Yang +6

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) are widely used post-training techniques for foundation models. However, their roles in enhancing model generalization…

cs.LG2024

Improving Dynamic Object Interactions in Text-to-Video Generation with AI Feedback

Hiroki Furuta, Heiga Zen, Dale Schuurmans +4

Large text-to-video models hold immense potential for a wide range of downstream applications. However, they struggle to accurately depict dynamic object interactions, often result…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Autoregressive Large Language Models are Computationally Universal

Dale Schuurmans, Hanjun Dai, Francesco Zanini

We show that autoregressive decoding of a transformer-based language model can realize universal computation, without external intervention or modification of the model's weights.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Generative Hierarchical Materials Search

Sherry Yang, Simon Batzner, Ruiqi Gao +7

Generative models trained at scale can now produce text, video, and more recently, scientific data such as crystal structures. In applications of generative approaches to materials…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Exploring and Benchmarking the Planning Capabilities of Large Language Models

Bernd Bohnet, Azade Nova, Aaron T Parisi +6

Classical and natural language planning tasks remain a difficult domain for modern large language models (LLMs). In this work, we lay the foundations for improving planning capabil…

cs.LG2024

Soft Preference Optimization: Aligning Language Models to Expert Distributions

Arsalan Sharifnassab, Saber Salehkaleybar, Sina Ghiassian +2

We propose Soft Preference Optimization (SPO), a method for aligning generative models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), with human preferences, without the need for a reward…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Video as the New Language for Real-World Decision Making

Sherry Yang, Jacob Walker, Jack Parker-Holder +5

Both text and video data are abundant on the internet and support large-scale self-supervised learning through next token or frame prediction. However, they have not been equally l…