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most citedInference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models

5 citations · 7 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation

Lin Shi, Haowei Lin, Zixuan Zhu +123

Evaluating agents on the growing number of agentic benchmarks is challenging because they often require complex environments and agent integrations. We introduce Harbor Adapters, a…

math.CO2026

Settling the Optimal Exponent Relating Sumsets and Difference Sets

Haowei Lin, Shanda Li

For a finite nonempty subset of an abelian group, let and . The classical sum-difference inequalities state that $$σ(A)^{1/2}\leqδ(A)\leqσ(A)^2…

cs.CL2026

ReproRepo: Scaling Reproducibility Audits with GitHub Repository Issues

Shanda Li, Qiuhong Anna Wei, Jingwu Tang +5

Reproducing research results from papers and released code is central to scientific progress. Existing works have introduced benchmarks to evaluate whether LLM agents can assist wi…

cs.AI2026

Human agency in initial human-AI proof formalization workflows

Katherine M. Collins, Simon Frieder, Jonas Bayer +14

For centuries, human mathematicians have written proofs to substantiate their mathematical arguments; yet, the ability to automatically verify the validity of proofs has long been…

cs.LG2026

Spend Less, Fit Better: Budget-Efficient Scaling Law Fitting via Active Experiment Selection

Sijie Li, Shanda Li, Haowei Lin +3

Scaling laws are used to plan multi-million-dollar training runs, but fitting those laws can itself cost millions. In modern large-scale workflows, assembling a sufficiently inform…

cs.LG2026

Learn Hard Problems During RL with Reference Guided Fine-tuning

Yangzhen Wu, Shanda Li, Zixin Wen +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) for mathematical reasoning can suffer from reward sparsity: for challenging problems, LLM fails to sample any correct trajectories, preventing RL from r…

cs.SE2026

Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces

Mike A. Merrill, Alexander G. Shaw, Nicholas Carlini +82

AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not…

cs.CL2025

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixuan Wang, Kai Hua +30

Modern LLMs are trained to "think" primarily via explicit text generation, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), which defers reasoning to post-training and under-leverages pre-training…

cs.LG2025

Maximal Update Parametrization and Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer for Fourier Neural Operators

Shanda Li, Shinjae Yoo, Yiming Yang

Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) offer a principled approach for solving complex partial differential equations (PDEs). However, scaling them to handle more complex PDEs requires in…

cs.LG2025

Sample Complexity and Representation Ability of Test-time Scaling Paradigms

Baihe Huang, Shanda Li, Tianhao Wu +5

Test-time scaling paradigms have significantly advanced the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on complex tasks. Despite their empirical success, theoretical understandin…

cs.AI2025

CoMind: Towards Community-Driven Agents for Machine Learning Engineering

Sijie Li, Weiwei Sun, Shanda Li +2

Large language model (LLM) agents show promise in automating machine learning (ML) engineering. However, existing agents typically operate in isolation on a given research problem,…

cs.LG2025

FrontierCO: Real-World and Large-Scale Evaluation of Machine Learning Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization

Shengyu Feng, Weiwei Sun, Shanda Li +2

Machine learning (ML) has shown promise for tackling combinatorial optimization (CO), but much of the reported progress relies on small-scale, synthetic benchmarks that fail to cap…

cs.LG2025

CodePDE: An Inference Framework for LLM-driven PDE Solver Generation

Shanda Li, Tanya Marwah, Junhong Shen +4

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental to modeling physical systems, yet solving them remains a complex challenge. Traditional numerical solvers rely on expert knowl…

cs.CL2025

CO-Bench: Benchmarking Language Model Agents in Algorithm Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Weiwei Sun, Shengyu Feng, Shanda Li +1

Although LLM-based agents have attracted significant attention in domains such as software engineering and machine learning research, their role in advancing combinatorial optimiza…

cs.LG2025

TFG-Flow: Training-free Guidance in Multimodal Generative Flow

Haowei Lin, Shanda Li, Haotian Ye +4

Given an unconditional generative model and a predictor for a target property (e.g., a classifier), the goal of training-free guidance is to generate samples with desirable target…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Yangzhen Wu, Zhiqing Sun, Shanda Li +2

While the scaling laws of large language models (LLMs) training have been extensively studied, optimal inference configurations of LLMs remain underexplored. We study inference sca…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Functional Interpolation for Relative Positions Improves Long Context Transformers

Shanda Li, Chong You, Guru Guruganesh +7

Preventing the performance decay of Transformers on inputs longer than those used for training has been an important challenge in extending the context length of these models. Thou…