2 papers
cs.AI2026
NEX: Neuron Explore-Exploit Scoring for Label-Free Chain-of-Thought Selection and Model Ranking
Kang Chen, Zhuoka Feng, Sihan Zhao +5
Large language models increasingly spend inference compute sampling multiple chain-of-thought traces or searching over merged checkpoints. This shifts the bottleneck from generatio…
cs.AI2026
ARM: Role-Conditioned Neuron Transplantation for Training-Free Generalist LLM Agent Merging
Zhuoka Feng, Kang Chen, Sihan Zhao +7
Interactive large language model agents have advanced rapidly, but most remain specialized to a single environment and fail to adapt robustly to other environments. Model merging o…