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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Latent Recurrent Transformer: Architecture Exploration, Training Strategies, and Scaling Behavior

Zeyi Huang, Xuehai He, LiLiang Ren +8

We study Latent Recurrent Transformer (LRT), a lightweight augmentation of autoregressive transformers that reuses a high-level source-layer hidden state from the previous token as…

cs.AI2026

Orchard: An Open-Source Agentic Modeling Framework

Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu +11

Agentic modeling aims to transform LLMs into autonomous agents capable of solving complex tasks through planning, reasoning, tool use, and multi-turn interaction with external envi…

cs.CL2026

Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM-based Agents

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu +6

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in language-centric tasks. However, in agentic settings, LLMs often struggle to anticipate action consequences and ada…

cs.CL2025

RL from Teacher-Model Refinement: Gradual Imitation Learning for Machine Translation

Dongyub Jude Lee, Zhenyi Ye, Pengcheng He

Preference-learning methods for machine translation (MT), such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), have shown strong gains but typically rely on large, carefully curated prefe…

cs.LG2025

ThetaEvolve: Test-time Learning on Open Problems

Yiping Wang, Shao-Rong Su, Zhiyuan Zeng +13

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled breakthroughs in mathematical discovery, exemplified by AlphaEvolve, a closed-source system that evolves programs to im…

cs.CL2025

Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less

Silei Xu, Wenhao Xie, Lingxiao Zhao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in solving complex reasoning tasks through mechanisms like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, which emphasizes…