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

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InterCode

InterCode

A framework treating interactive coding as a reinforcement learning environment.

02Reinforcement Learning
LeanDojo

LeanDojo

An open-source Lean playground consisting of toolkits, data, models, and benchmarks for theorem proving.

03Reasoning
Extending Context Window of LLMs (PI)

Extending Context Window of LLMs (PI)

Position Interpolation extends LLaMA's context to 32K with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps).

04Memory
Computer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language

Computer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language

A modular approach solving CV problems by routing through LLM reasoning.

05Multimodal
Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT)

Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT)

A foundation model for vision-based robotic navigation built on flexible Transformers.

06Robotics
Generative AI for Programming Education

Generative AI for Programming Education

Evaluates GPT-4 and ChatGPT on programming education scenarios versus human tutors.

07Evaluation
DragDiffusion

DragDiffusion

Extends interactive point-based image editing to diffusion models.

08Multimodal
Understanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs

Understanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs

A framework for procedurally generating ToM evaluations using LLMs themselves.

09Evaluation
Evaluations with No Labels

Evaluations with No Labels

Self-supervised evaluation of LLMs via sensitivity/invariance to input transformations.

10Evaluation
Long-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval

Long-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval

Jointly trains a retrieval-augmented LM from scratch for long-range modeling.

11Retrieval
Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias

Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias

Shows MLPs scale with compute despite their lack of inductive bias.

12Architecture
Textbooks Are All You Need (phi-1)

Textbooks Are All You Need (phi-1)

Introduces a 1.3B parameter code LLM trained on textbook-quality data.

13Data
RoboCat

RoboCat

DeepMind's self-improving foundation agent that operates different robotic arms from as few as 100 demonstrations.

14Robotics
ClinicalGPT

ClinicalGPT

A language model optimized through extensive and diverse medical data and multi-turn dialogue.

15Training
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Dan Hendrycks' comprehensive overview of catastrophic AI risk categories.

16Safety
LOMO

LOMO

A memory-efficient optimizer that combines gradient computation and parameter update in one step.

17Efficiency
SequenceMatch

SequenceMatch

Formulates sequence generation as imitation learning, enabling backtracking via a backspace action.

18Reinforcement Learning
LMFlow

LMFlow

An extensible and lightweight toolkit for fine-tuning and inference of large foundation models.

19Training
MotionGPT

MotionGPT

Generates consecutive human motions from multimodal control signals via LLM instructions.

20Multimodal
Wanda

Wanda

A simple, effective pruning approach for LLMs requiring no retraining.

21Efficiency
AudioPaLM

AudioPaLM

Fuses PaLM-2 and AudioLM into a multimodal architecture supporting speech understanding and generation.

22Multimodal
Voicebox

Voicebox

Meta's all-in-one generative speech model supporting 6 languages and many speech tasks in-context.

23Multimodal
FinGPT

FinGPT

An open-source LLM for the finance sector with a data-centric approach.

24Data
Crowd Workers Widely Use LLMs for Text Production

Crowd Workers Widely Use LLMs for Text Production

Empirical evidence that 33-46% of MTurk crowd workers used LLMs on text tasks.

25Data
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