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9 papers

cs.AI2026

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou +90

Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations are more scalable but often abstract away human diversity and inter…

cs.LG2026

QuasiMoTTo: Quasi-Monte Carlo Test-Time Scaling

Michael Y. Li, Anthony Zhan, Kanishk Gandhi +2

Scaling inference compute, by generating many parallel attempts per problem, is a costly but reliable lever for improving language model capabilities. By default these attempts are…

cs.LG2026

Simplified Sparse Attention via Gist Tokens

Yuzhen Mao, Michael Y. Li, Emily B. Fox

Sparse attention can reduce the cost of long-context inference, but most variants introduce new architectural components. We introduce Simplified Sparse Attention (SSA), a simpler…

cs.LG2026

General Preference Reinforcement Learning

Muhammad Umer, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Ahsan Bilal +5

Post-training has split large language model (LLM) alignment into two largely disconnected tracks. Online reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards drives emergent reason…

cs.LG2026

Neural Garbage Collection: Learning to Forget while Learning to Reason

Michael Y. Li, Jubayer Ibn Hamid, Emily B. Fox +1

Chain-of-thought reasoning has driven striking advances in language model capability, yet every reasoning step grows the KV cache, creating a bottleneck to scaling this paradigm fu…

cs.LG2026

: Stratified Scaling Search for Test-Time in Diffusion Language Models

Ahsan Bilal, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer +6

Test-time scaling investigates whether a fixed diffusion language model (DLM) can generate better outputs when given more inference compute, without additional training. However, n…