most citedLLMs Can Get "Brain Rot": A Pilot Study on Twitter/X

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cs.LG2026

GradientStabilizer:Fix the Norm, Not the Gradient

Tianjin Huang, Zhangyang Wang, Haotian Hu +10

Training instability in modern deep learning systems is frequently triggered by rare but extreme gradient-norm spikes, which can induce oversized parameter updates, corrupt optimiz…

cs.CL20261 cited

LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot": A Pilot Study on Twitter/X

Shuo Xing, Junyuan Hong, Yifan Wang +5

We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To unveil junk effects, we…

cs.CL2026

Mask-Enhanced Autoregressive Prediction: Pay Less Attention to Learn More

Xialie Zhuang, Zhikai Jia, Jianjin Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are discovered to suffer from accurately retrieving key information. To address this, we propose Mask-Enhanced Autoregressive Prediction (MEAP), a simp…

cs.LG2025

The Path Not Taken: RLVR Provably Learns Off the Principals

Hanqing Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, Hanxian Huang +11

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) reliably improves the reasoning performance of large language models, yet it appears to modify only a small fraction of parame…

cs.CL2025

SEAL: Steerable Reasoning Calibration of Large Language Models for Free

Runjin Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Junyuan Hong +2

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's o1-series have demonstrated compelling capabilities for complex reasoning tasks via the extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning mec…

cs.LG2025

Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity

Lu Yin, You Wu, Zhenyu Zhang +10

Large Language Models (LLMs), renowned for their remarkable performance across diverse domains, present a challenge when it comes to practical deployment due to their colossal mode…