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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models

Mingtian Tan, Mike A. Merrill, Zack Gottesman +3

A common goal in analyzing time series data is to understand how events cause observed variations. We study whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can infer natural language events a…

cs.CL2026

SynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models

Ken Gu, Advait Bhat, Mike A Merrill +4

Evaluating the reasoning ability of language models (LMs) is complicated by their extensive parametric world knowledge, where benchmark performance often reflects factual recall ra…

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

BLADE: Benchmarking Language Model Agents for Data-Driven Science

Ken Gu, Ruoxi Shang, Ruien Jiang +13

Data-driven scientific discovery requires the iterative integration of scientific domain knowledge, statistical expertise, and an understanding of data semantics to make nuanced an…

cs.AI2025

Transforming Wearable Data into Personal Health Insights using Large Language Model Agents

Mike A. Merrill, Akshay Paruchuri, Naghmeh Rezaei +17

Deriving personalized insights from popular wearable trackers requires complex numerical reasoning that challenges standard LLMs, necessitating tool-based approaches like code gene…

cs.LG2025

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models

Etash Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh +47

Reasoning models have made rapid progress on many benchmarks involving math, code, and science. Yet, there are still many open questions about the best training recipes for reasoni…