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20242026
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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Interestingness as an Inductive Heuristic for Future Compression Progress

Vincent Herrmann, Jürgen Schmidhuber

One of the bottlenecks on the way towards recursively self-improving systems is the challenge of interestingness: the ability to prospectively identify which tasks or data hold the…

cs.AI2026

Mindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind

Mingchen Zhuge, Haozhe Liu, Francesco Faccio +23

Both Minsky's "society of mind" and Schmidhuber's "learning to think" inspire diverse societies of large multimodal neural networks (NNs) that solve problems by interviewing each o…

cs.LG2025

Multiple Token Divergence: Measuring and Steering In-Context Computation Density

Vincent Herrmann, Eric Alcaide, Michael Wand +1

Measuring the in-context computational effort of language models is a key challenge, as metrics like next-token loss fail to capture reasoning complexity. Prior methods based on la…

cs.LG2025

Measuring In-Context Computation Complexity via Hidden State Prediction

Vincent Herrmann, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Detecting when a neural sequence model does "interesting" computation is an open problem. The next token prediction loss is a poor indicator: Low loss can stem from trivially predi…

cs.LG2025

Upside Down Reinforcement Learning with Policy Generators

Jacopo Di Ventura, Dylan R. Ashley, Vincent Herrmann +2

Upside Down Reinforcement Learning (UDRL) is a promising framework for solving reinforcement learning problems which focuses on learning command-conditioned policies. In this work,…

cs.LG2024

Automatic Album Sequencing

Vincent Herrmann, Dylan R. Ashley, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Album sequencing is a critical part of the album production process. Recently, a data-driven approach was proposed that sequences general collections of independent media by extrac…