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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Inverse Depth Scaling From Most Layers Being Similar

Yizhou Liu, Sara Kangaslahti, Ziming Liu +1

Neural scaling laws relate loss to model size in large language models (LLMs), yet depth and width may contribute to performance differently, requiring more detailed studies. Here,…

cs.LG2026

Universal One-third Time Scaling in Learning Peaked Distributions

Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, Cengiz Pehlevan +1

Training large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, partly because the loss exhibits slow power-law convergence whose origin remains debatable. Through systematic a…

cs.AI2026

Are Your Reasoning Models Reasoning or Guessing? A Mechanistic Analysis of Hierarchical Reasoning Models

Zirui Ren, Ziming Liu

Hierarchical reasoning model (HRM) achieves extraordinary performance on various reasoning tasks, significantly outperforming large language model-based reasoners. To understand th…

cs.LG2026

From Kepler to Newton: Inductive Biases Guide Learned World Models in Transformers

Ziming Liu, Sophia Sanborn, Surya Ganguli +1

Can general-purpose AI architectures go beyond prediction to discover the physical laws governing the universe? True intelligence relies on "world models" -- causal abstractions th…

cs.NI2026

LLM-Based Emulation of the Radio Resource Control Layer: Towards AI-Native RAN Protocols

Ziming Liu, Bryan Liu, Alvaro Valcarce +1

Integrating Large AI Models (LAMs) into 6G mobile networks is a key enabler of the AI-Native Air Interface (AI-AI), where protocol intelligence must scale beyond handcrafted logic.…

cs.LG2025

Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling

Yizhou Liu, Ziming Liu, Jeff Gore

The success of today's large language models (LLMs) depends on the observation that larger models perform better. However, the origin of this neural scaling law, that loss decrease…