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DAIR.AI · Curated weekly since April 2023Issue 180 · Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026

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Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts

Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts

Achieves practical Mixtral-8x7B inference on consumer hardware through MoE-aware quantization and offloading.

02Efficiency
SeeAct (GPT-4V as Generalist Web Agent)

SeeAct (GPT-4V as Generalist Web Agent)

OSU researchers adapt GPT-4V into SeeAct, a generalist agent that operates live websites using vision + language planning.

03Agents
DocLLM

DocLLM

JPMorgan's DocLLM is a lightweight extension to LLMs for visual-document understanding that uses bounding-box spatial information rather than image pixels.

04Training
How Code Empowers LLMs

How Code Empowers LLMs

A survey on why training LLMs with code data produces capabilities well beyond coding itself.

05Agents
Instruct-Imagen

Instruct-Imagen

Google's Instruct-Imagen is a multimodal instruction-tuned image generation model that generalizes across heterogeneous generation tasks, including unseen ones.

06Multimodal
CogAgent

CogAgent

Tsinghua's CogAgent is an 18B-parameter visual-language model purpose-built for GUI understanding and navigation, with unusually high input resolution.

07Evaluation
From Gemini to Q-Star

From Gemini to Q-Star

A 300+-paper survey mapping the state of Generative AI and the research frontiers that followed the Gemini + rumored Q* news cycle.

08Multimodal
PromptBench

PromptBench

A unified library for comprehensive evaluation and analysis of LLMs that consolidates multiple evaluation concerns under one roof.

09Evaluation
Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs

Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs

A red-team study of three newer GPT-4 API surfaces - fine-tuning, function calling, and knowledge retrieval - that reveals each introduces new attack vectors.

10Training
Fact Recalling in LLMs

Fact Recalling in LLMs

A mechanistic-interpretability study showing that early MLP layers function as a lookup table for factual recall.

11Safety
Generative AI for Math (OpenWebMath / MathPile)

Generative AI for Math (OpenWebMath / MathPile)

Releases a diverse, high-quality math-centric corpus of ~9.5B tokens designed for training math-capable foundation models.

12Reasoning
Principled Instructions Are All You Need

Principled Instructions Are All You Need

Distills effective LLM prompting into 26 guiding principles and validates them across multiple model families.

13Training
Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models

Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models

A comprehensive survey of reasoning with foundation models, covering tasks, methods, benchmarks, and future directions.

14Reasoning
LLaRA

LLaRA

LLaRA adapts a decoder-only LLM for dense retrieval via two tailored pretext tasks that leverage text embeddings from the LLM itself.

15Retrieval
Gemini vs GPT-4V

Gemini vs GPT-4V

A qualitative side-by-side comparison of Gemini and GPT-4V across vision-language tasks, documenting systematic behavioral differences.

16Multimodal
Gemini's Language Abilities

Gemini's Language Abilities

CMU's impartial, reproducible evaluation of Gemini Pro against GPT and Mixtral across standard LLM benchmarks.

17Evaluation
PowerInfer

PowerInfer

A high-speed LLM inference engine for consumer GPUs that exploits sparse neuron activation patterns to run large models on commodity hardware.

18Efficiency
Antibiotic Discovery with Graph Deep Learning (Nature)

Antibiotic Discovery with Graph Deep Learning (Nature)

MIT researchers use explainable graph neural networks to discover a new structural class of antibiotics.

19Training
VideoPoet

VideoPoet

Google Research's VideoPoet is a large language model for zero-shot video generation that treats video as just another token stream.

20Multimodal
AppAgent

AppAgent

Introduces an LLM-based multimodal agent that operates real smartphone apps through touch actions and screenshots.

21Multimodal
LLM in a Flash

LLM in a Flash

Apple researchers show how to run LLMs larger than available DRAM by streaming weights from flash storage on demand.

22Efficiency
ReST Meets ReAct

ReST Meets ReAct

Proposes a ReAct-style agent that improves itself via reinforced self-training on its own reasoning traces.

23Agents
Adversarial Attacks on GPT-4

Adversarial Attacks on GPT-4

Demonstrates that a trivially simple random-search procedure can jailbreak GPT-4 with high reliability.

24Safety
RAG for LLMs

RAG for LLMs

A broad survey of Retrieval-Augmented Generation research, organizing the rapidly growing literature into a coherent map.

25Retrieval
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