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7 papers

cs.LG2025

How and Why LLMs Generalize: A Fine-Grained Analysis of LLM Reasoning from Cognitive Behaviors to Low-Level Patterns

Haoyue Bai, Yiyou Sun, Wenjie Hu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) display strikingly different generalization behaviors: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) often narrows capability, whereas reinforcement-learning (RL) tunin…

cs.LG2025

RL Grokking Recipe: How Does RL Unlock and Transfer New Algorithms in LLMs?

Yiyou Sun, Yuhan Cao, Pohao Huang +4

It remains an open question whether LLMs can acquire or generalize genuinely new reasoning strategies, beyond the sharpened skills encoded in their parameters during pre-training o…

cs.AI2025

MIRAGE-Bench: LLM Agent is Hallucinating and Where to Find Them

Weichen Zhang, Yiyou Sun, Pohao Huang +3

Hallucinations pose critical risks for large language model (LLM)-based agents, often manifesting as hallucinative actions resulting from fabricated or misinterpreted information w…

cs.AI2025

The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities

Yoshua Bengio, Tegan Maharaj, Luke Ong +84

Rapidly improving AI capabilities and autonomy hold significant promise of transformation, but are also driving vigorous debate on how to ensure that AI is safe, i.e., trustworthy,…

cs.CL2025

OMEGA: Can LLMs Reason Outside the Box in Math? Evaluating Exploratory, Compositional, and Transformative Generalization

Yiyou Sun, Shawn Hu, Georgia Zhou +4

Recent large-scale language models (LLMs) with long Chain-of-Thought reasoning-such as DeepSeek-R1-have achieved impressive results on Olympiad-level mathematics benchmarks. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

Why and How LLMs Hallucinate: Connecting the Dots with Subsequence Associations

Yiyou Sun, Yu Gai, Lijie Chen +3

Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinations-content that deviates from factual accuracy or provided context-posing challenges for diagnosis due to the complex i…