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6 papers

cs.LG2026

JEDI: Joint Embedding Diffusion World Model for Online Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Jing Yu Lim, Rushi Shah, Zarif Ikram +4

Diffusion world models have recently become competitive for online model-based reinforcement learning, but current approaches expose a tension: pixel diffusion is effective but com…

cs.AI2026

Absurd World: A Simple Yet Powerful Method to Absurdify the Real-world for Probing LLM Reasoning Capabilities

Ryan Albright, Golam Md Muktadir, Zarif Ikram +3

While extremely powerful and versatile at various tasks, the thinking capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are often put under scrutiny as they sometimes fail to solve prob…

cs.LG2026

CrispEdit: Low-Curvature Projections for Scalable Non-Destructive LLM Editing

Zarif Ikram, Arad Firouzkouhi, Stephen Tu +2

A central challenge in large language model (LLM) editing is capability preservation: methods that successfully change targeted behavior can quietly game the editing proxy and corr…

cs.LG2026

Performance Asymmetry in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Jing Yu Lim, Rushi Shah, Zarif Ikram +4

Recently, Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) have achieved super-human level performance on the Atari100k benchmark on average. However, we discover that conventional aggreg…

cs.LG2025

Masked Generative Priors Improve World Models Sequence Modelling Capabilities

Cristian Meo, Mircea Lica, Zarif Ikram +6

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become the leading approach for creating artificial agents in complex environments. Model-based approaches, which are RL methods with world mod…

cs.LG2025

Evolution Guided Generative Flow Networks

Zarif Ikram, Ling Pan, Dianbo Liu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a family of probabilistic generative models that learn to sample compositional objects proportional to their rewards. One big challenge of…