3 papers
cs.AI2026
daVinci-LLM:Towards the Science of Pretraining
Yiwei Qin, Yixiu Liu, Tiantian Mi +12
The foundational pretraining phase determines a model's capability ceiling, as post-training struggles to overcome capability foundations established during pretraining, yet it rem…
cs.AI2026
Data Darwinism Part II: DataEvolve -- AI can Autonomously Evolve Pretraining Data Curation
Tiantian Mi, Dongming Shan, Zhen Huang +6
Data Darwinism (Part I) established a ten-level hierarchy for data processing, showing that stronger processing can unlock greater data value. However, that work relied on manually…
cs.SE2026
daVinci-Dev: Agent-native Mid-training for Software Engineering
Ji Zeng, Dayuan Fu, Tiantian Mi +14
Recently, the frontier of Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities has shifted from single-turn code generation to agentic software engineering-a paradigm where models autonomously…