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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Can Editing 1 Neuron Fix Repetition Loops in LLMs?

Aristotelis Lazaridis, Aman Sharma, Dylan Bates +3

Yes. Can it cure doom loops? Probably not. The Gemma 4 instruction-tuned models share a reproducible failure: on long factual enumeration prompts, such as listing every episode of…

cs.AI2026

EDGE-OPD: Internalizing Privileged Context with Evidence Guided On-Policy Distillation

Aristotelis Lazaridis, Dylan Bates, Aman Sharma +3

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has gained wide attraction as an LLM post-training paradigm due to its effectiveness in improving capabilities without introducing model distribution d…

cs.CL2026

Measuring and Eliminating Refusals in Military Large Language Models

Jack FitzGerald, Dylan Bates, Aristotelis Lazaridis +17

Military Large Language Models (LLMs) must provide accurate information to the warfighter in time-critical and dangerous situations. However, today's LLMs are imbued with safety be…

cs.AI2025

EdgeRunner 20B: Military Task Parity with GPT-5 while Running on the Edge

Jack FitzGerald, Aristotelis Lazaridis, Dylan Bates +17

We present EdgeRunner 20B, a fine-tuned version of gpt-oss-20b optimized for military tasks. EdgeRunner 20B was trained on 1.6M high-quality records curated from military documenta…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Non-Parametric Sampling with Representation

Vincent Lu, Aaron Truong, Zeyu Yun +1

Scaling and architectural advances have produced strikingly photorealistic image generative models, yet their mechanisms still remain opaque. Rather than advancing scaling, our goa…

cs.MA2025

Symbiotic Cooperation for Web Agents: Harnessing Complementary Strengths of Large and Small LLMs

Ruichen Zhang, Mufan Qiu, Zhen Tan +7

Web browsing agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown tremendous potential in automating complex web-based tasks. Existing approaches typically rely on large LLMs…