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Boolformer

Boolformer

The first Transformer trained to perform end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions.

02Reasoning
LLaVA-RLHF

LLaVA-RLHF

Adapts factually augmented RLHF to aligning large multimodal models, reducing hallucination without falling into reward-hacking pitfalls.

03Reinforcement Learning
LLM Alignment Survey

LLM Alignment Survey

A comprehensive survey of LLM alignment research spanning theoretical foundations to adversarial pressure.

04Safety
Qwen

Qwen

Alibaba releases the Qwen family of open LLMs with strong tool-use and planning capabilities for language agents.

05Agents
MentaLLaMA

MentaLLaMA

An open-source LLM family specialized for interpretable mental-health analysis on social media.

06Safety
Logical Chain-of-Thought (LogiCoT)

Logical Chain-of-Thought (LogiCoT)

A neurosymbolic framework that verifies and revises zero-shot CoT reasoning using symbolic-logic principles.

07Reasoning
AlphaMissense

AlphaMissense

DeepMind's AlphaMissense is an AI model that classifies missense genetic variants as pathogenic or benign at genome scale.

08Architecture
Chain-of-Verification (CoVe)

Chain-of-Verification (CoVe)

Meta's Chain-of-Verification adds a "deliberation" step where the LLM fact-checks its own draft before finalizing.

09Reasoning
Contrastive Decoding for Reasoning

Contrastive Decoding for Reasoning

Shows that contrastive decoding, a simple inference-time technique, substantially improves reasoning in large LLMs.

10Reasoning
LongLoRA

LongLoRA

An efficient LoRA-based fine-tuning recipe for extending LLM context windows without expensive full fine-tuning.

11Training
Struc-Bench (LLMs for Structured Data)

Struc-Bench (LLMs for Structured Data)

Studies how LLMs handle complex structured-data generation and proposes a structure-aware fine-tuning method.

12Training
LMSYS-Chat-1M

LMSYS-Chat-1M

LMSYS releases a large-scale dataset of 1 million real-world LLM conversations collected from the Vicuna demo and Chatbot Arena.

13Data
Language Modeling Is Compression

Language Modeling Is Compression

DeepMind empirically revisits the theoretical equivalence between prediction and compression, applied to modern LLMs.

14Efficiency
Compositional Foundation Models (HiP)

Compositional Foundation Models (HiP)

Proposes foundation models that compose multiple expert foundation models trained on different modalities to solve long-horizon goals.

15Agents
OWL (LLMs for IT Operations)

OWL (LLMs for IT Operations)

Proposes OWL, an LLM specialized for IT operations through self-instruct fine-tuning on IT-specific tasks.

16Evaluation
KOSMOS-2.5

KOSMOS-2.5

Microsoft's KOSMOS-2.5 is a multimodal model purpose-built for "machine reading" of text-intensive images.

17Multimodal
Textbooks Are All You Need II (phi-1.5)

Textbooks Are All You Need II (phi-1.5)

Microsoft's phi-1.5 demonstrates that a 1.3B model trained on "textbook-quality" synthetic data rivals much larger models on reasoning.

18Data
The Rise and Potential of LLM-Based Agents

The Rise and Potential of LLM-Based Agents

A comprehensive survey of LLM-based agents covering construction, capability, and societal implications.

19Agents
EvoDiff

EvoDiff

Microsoft's EvoDiff combines evolutionary-scale protein data with diffusion models for controllable protein generation in sequence space.

20Architecture
Rewindable Auto-regressive INference (RAIN)

Rewindable Auto-regressive INference (RAIN)

Shows that unaligned LLMs can produce aligned responses at inference time via self-evaluation and rewinding.

21Safety
Robot Parkour Learning

Robot Parkour Learning

Stanford's Robot Parkour system learns end-to-end vision-based parkour policies that transfer to a quadrupedal robot.

22Robotics
Hallucination Survey (Early)

Hallucination Survey (Early)

Classifies hallucination phenomena in LLMs and catalogs evaluation criteria and mitigation strategies.

23Safety
Agents Library

Agents Library

An open-source library for building autonomous language agents with first-class support for planning, memory, tools, and multi-agent communication.

24Agents
Radiology-Llama 2

Radiology-Llama 2

A Llama 2-based LLM specialized for radiology report generation.

25Training
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