πŸ“„ Notable* Recent AI/ML arXiv Papers

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πŸ“„ Toward Collective Model Intelligence: Characterizing and Coordinating Models
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24739v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Sinapisai Team, Jian-Dong Liu, Qun Dai, Zhendong Du, Guannan Lai, Hao-Yu Liu, Yi-Fan Ma, Zi-Yu Mao, Tengzhong Sun, Xin-Yi Zhang, Zi-Chen Zhao, Gelin Bian, Zongyuan Cai, Ju Cang, Zhangqin Chen, Shilei Gu, Guoding Ji, Taojian Jiang, Hao-Xuan Ma, Fan Wu, Lin-Xing Wu, Tao Yu (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Xiao Zhang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Tianyi Zhou (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Rong Gu, Ming Li, Zhi-Hao Tan, Han-Jia Ye, Yang Yu, De-Chuan Zhan
Abstract

Independently developed AI models accumulate diverse and complementary capabilities, but a growing model collection does not automatically realize Collective AI. Addressing this gap requires understanding model capabilities with limited evaluation, organizing complementary models to collaborate on diverse tasks, and executing model calls efficiently under resource constraints. We present a systematic approach to pursuing Collective Model Intelligence through three connected components. First, Mo...

πŸ“„ Where Natural Language Ends in Agents: Executable Skill Composition with MetaSkill
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24723v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Meng Shu, Wei He (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Hang Zhou (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Runke Liu, Kai Han, Yunhe Wang
Abstract

Agent Skills express open-ended task knowledge in natural language, but composing them requires persistent execution order and upstream-output handoffs. We propose selective formalization at Skill boundaries: coordination relations with stable references and machine-checkable constraints become executable, while substantive task judgments remain within Skills. We introduce MetaSkill, a hybrid representation that preserves complete Skill packages and local instructions while making invocation dep...

πŸ“„ Selm: Self-Evolving Library Management for Multi-Skill Agent Optimization
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24630v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Mengxi Hu, Yuxuan Hu, Jinbo Su, Ke Wang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Honghao Shi, Wenli Wu, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen, Jing Zhang (possible past University Of Washington affiliation)
Abstract

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly use skills as a lightweight way to acquire task-specific knowledge. Recent work enables skills to evolve from task trajectories. However, these methods often lack systematic management of evolved skills, making it difficult for agents to reuse and accumulate skills across domains, thus limiting performance on subsequent tasks.To reliably accumulate, reuse, and maintain useful skills across tasks, we present SELM (Self-Evolving Library Management), a...

πŸ“„ Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24628v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Arash Ebrahim Abtahizadeh, Muna Aghamelu, Adil Ahmed, Juan C. Angeles Acuna, Alexis Audran-Reiss, Asaf Avrahamy, Yoram Bachrach (possible past Deepmind (United Kingdom) affiliation), Can Balioglu, Amar Budhiraja, Onur Γ‡elebi, Gaurav Chaurasia, Joy Chen, Lynn Cherif, Lucia Cipolina-Kun, Gal Cohen, TimothΓ©e Darcet, Beto De Paola, Digant Desai, Sam Devlin, Derek Dunfield, Ivan Evtimov, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Rob Fergus (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Grant Gardner, Bhavul Gauri, Paris Giampouras, Sujan Kumar Gonugondla, Antoine Grosnit, Young Han, Michael Hassid, Monuril Islam, Masoud Jalili Sabet, Songhao Jia, Narine Kokhlikyan, Svetlana Kurtsman, Sandra Lefdal, Chee Hau Leow, Noam Levi, Mike Lewis (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Sanae Lotfi, Xiyang Luo (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Despoina Magka, Saeed Mahloujifar, Neal Mangaokar, Ishita Mediratta, Alexander H. Miller, Hela Momand, Saba Nazir, Kelvin Niu, Mattia Opper, Parth Pathak, Alberto Pepe, Danielle Pintz, Mikhail Plekhanov, Sidhartha Reddy Potu, Anton Protopopov, Shengyi Qian, Shashank Rajput, Joseph Rocca, Scott Roy, Luca Sbordone, Amin Shakeri, Tatiana Shavrina, Michael Shvartsman, Ruan Silva, Anya Sims, Eric Michael Smith, Hugo Touvron, Mabel Ubong, Isabel Urrego, Yanzheng Xiang, Zhiyuan Yao, Alex Yarmula, He Ye, Jade Yu, Luke Zettlemoyer (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Arman Zharmagambetov, Perpetua Fathima Ahlijah, Tremo Ahmed, Enrique Alfonseca (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Pedram Bashiri, Nikolay Bashlykov, Aaron Berman, Rohith Bhatia, Siddharth Bhattacharya, Prashant Bhende, Chloe Bi, Shuchao Bi, Clement Anthonioz Blanc, Allen Bolourchi, Andrea Caciolai, Erica Cai, Xiang Tony Cao, Yue Cao, Andrew Caples, Jinzhao Chang, Lele Chen, Moya Chen, Weijie Chen, Wenhu Chen, Xiaobai Chen, Yinyin Chen, Zhengxing Chen, Wei Cheng, Pavel Chikulaev, Edward Chou, Sy Choudhury, Brian Clerkin, Marta R. Costa-JussΓ , Curtis Davis, Myra Deng, Dujian Ding, Hantian Ding, Shuangrui Ding, Jesse Dodge (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Shweta Doshi, Shirin Eghtesadi, Faith Eischen, Athyu Eleti, Alex Fabbri, Han Fang, Paula Farani, Aiman Farooq, Christoph Feichtenhofer (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Darius Feher, Amanda Felix, Carl Chengyan Fu, Sean Gahagan, Yifan Gao, Itai Gat, Akashdeep Goel, Ahuva Goldstand, Bo He, David Heineman, Dylan Herman, Irene Hjelt, Joonas Hjelt, Alexander Holz, Rui Hou, Annie Hu, Yuan-Ting Hu, Bernie Huang, Jing Huang (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Kun Huang, Pere-LluΓ­s Huguet Cabot, Ashley Hunter, Srinivasan Iyer, Somya Jain, Michael Jiang, Song Jiang (possible past Peking University affiliation), Wenwen Jiang, Lin Jin, Jacob Kahn (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Melanie Kambadur, Yingxin Kang, Justine Kao, Stephane Kasriel, Hossein Kavianihamedani, Ameya Khandekar, Yash Khare, Gefen Kohavi, Kavya Kopparapu, Praveen Krishnan, Venu Kuchibhotla, Ananya Kumar, Leona Lan, Jack Lanchantin, Hunter Lang, Nikolay Pavlovich Laptev, Yuanzhi Li (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Yunlu Li, Asad Liaqat, Johnson Lin, Runwei Lin, Zhichao Lin, Shaun Lindsay, Yaron Lipman, Frederick Liu, Mengchen Liu, Qiang Liu, Yinghai Lu, Yujie Lu, Christopher Luc, Faye Ma, Pingchuan Ma, Tengyu Ma (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Wufei Ma, Xiaodong Ma, Damir Maksyutov, Josh Malone, Udeep Manchanda, Thomas Mann, Kalyani Marathe, Roberto-Rafael Maura-Rivero, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Thomas Mesnard, Julian Michael (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Sagar Miglani, Todor Mihaylov, Naureen Mitha, Archi Mitra, Leo Mok, Naila Murray, Muthukumaravel Muthuraman, Mergen Nachin, Nese Demir Nalci, Saaketh Narayan, Alyssa Newcomb, Peter Ney, Joycelyn Ng, Devin Norder, Maxwell Nye, Rajvardhan Oak, Cody Ohlsen, Artidoro Pagnoni, Yi Pan, Nilesh Pandey, Guan Pang (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Parth Patel, Yash Patel, Vladan Petrovic, Norman Ponte, Yundi Qian, Zengyi Qin, Jack Rae, Emmanuel Ramirez, Ramya Raghavendra, Nikhila Ravi, Hongyu Ren, Riandy Riandy, Harrison Rudolph, Kalyan Saladi, Eduardo SΓ‘nchez, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, Aman Shankar, Paresh Shenoy, Alana Shine, Hamid Shojanazeri, Iva Simon-Bubalo, Mitesh Kumar Singh, Tiffany Siqi, Pawan Sisodiya, Ali Sol, Sten Sootla, Leslie St. Pierre, Dijia Su, Suraj Subramanian, Brian Sun, Tony Sun, Zhiqing Sun (possible past Carnegie Mellon University affiliation), Natacha Supper, Jason Talpalar, Ellen Xiaoqing Tan, Liang Tan, Jean-Christophe Testud, Parth Thakkar, Joseph Tighe, Ty Toledano, T Tse, Igor Tufanov, Alex Vaughan, Josh Walters, Alex Wang (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Bethany Wang, Meng Wang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Rocky Wang, Weiyue Wang, Xiaolan Wang, Xin Wang (possible past University Of Edinburgh affiliation), Zijian Wang, Bram Wasti, Quentin Wellens, Yeming Wen, Mary Williamson (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Yuncheng Wu, Fei Xia (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Tian Xie, David Xu, Jacob Xu, Puxin Xu, Zheng Xu, Shen Yan, Megan Yang, Yining Yang, Nick Yannopoulos, Kevin Yao, Michihiro Yasunaga (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Haoxuan You, Michael You, Dingli Yu, Tianhe Yu (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Summer Yue, Xiang Yue, Shuwei Zeng, Hanwen Zha, Chen Zhang (possible past Peking University affiliation), Hongming Zhang, Kaiyu Zhang, Meng Zhang, Mingyang Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yi Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Shengjia Zhao, Chao Zhou (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Claire Zhou, Shuyan Zhou, Yanjun Zhou, Yaxuan Zhou, Rosalie Zhu, Yun Zhu
Abstract

We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware. Muse Glimmer integrates multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use and failure recovery into a single model that runs locally on consumer devices without requiring cloud infrastructure. The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, was trained on data from over a hundred languages, and is quantized to approximate...

πŸ“„ Koi: Evidence-Guided, Self-Calibrating Planning for Multi-Cloud, Heterogeneous LLM Inference Fleets
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24355v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Mankeerat Sidhu, Gangmuk Lim, Hetarth Chopra, Maximillian Eisenberg, Quan Hao Ng, Aryan Gosaliya, Shu Liu (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Luka Govedič, Jiaxin Shan, Hongkuan Zhou, Vikram Sharma Mailthody, P. Brighten Godfrey, Ion Stoica (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Deploying a large language model (LLM) requires choosing the right accelerator, parallelization strategy, engine configuration, and replica count amongst ~140 other variables across clouds, regions, and markets. These decisions are intertwined, and the best cluster-wide plan continually changes as jobs contend for shared capacity on shifting workloads. We present Koi, a self-calibrating cluster planner for heterogeneous, multi-cloud fleets. Koi uses a Recursive Language Model (RLM) hierarchy to ...

πŸ“„ Who Speaks, Who Authorizes, Who Acts? Understanding Trust Boundaries in Multi-Agent LLMs
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24298v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Junru Zhu, Xin Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Hang Lyu, Jiayue Meng, Muzi Li, Yifan Chen, Hengyi Huang, Yu Sun (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Weiwei Qi
Abstract

Multi-agent LLM systems exchange messages before acting through tools, but message delivery, signing authority, and tool-side enforcement are separate trust boundaries. We represent them as communication, authorization, and execution structures, and use the authority cut to characterize the smallest independently compromised signer coalition that can construct a policy-valid false-claim proof under stated assumptions. Controlled paired hidden-state studies reveal four distinctions. First, no fix...

πŸ“„ World of SWECraft: Agent Collaboration at Scale via Simulated Software Worlds
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24061v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Shannon Zejiang Shen, Yapei Chang, Qiyao Liang, Benjamin Newman, Jenny Liang, Rulin Shao, Ziqiao Ma, Junjie Oscar Yin, Yung-Sung Chuang, Weijia Shi, Yejin Choi (possible past Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence affiliation), Luke Zettlemoyer (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Pang Wei Koh, Mohit Iyyer (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Tongshuang Wu (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), David Sontag (possible past Massachusetts Institute Of Technology affiliation)
Abstract

As teams of AI agents take on larger projects and long-standing open problems, agent collaboration offers another dimension for scaling inference-time compute. To understand what makes such collaboration effective and scalable, we develop Software World, a framework for simulating multi-agent coworking in realistic software ecosystems. It comes with a pipeline to create environments of real, interdependent Python packages of different topics, sizes, and dependency structures, which we call softw...

πŸ“„ DrugHarness: An Evolvable Agent Harness for Computational Drug Discovery
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23791v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Yuxing Chen, Zhisheng Zhang, Cheng Tang, Wei Li (possible past Peking University affiliation), Minghui Zhang, Ziyan Huang, Shaocong Wei, Jiawei Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Junru Hu, Hongze Zhu, Jianghan Shen, Min Cen, Xinyuan Zhu, Yaxue Zhao, Jubo Wang, Yuqiang Li, Chun-Mei Feng, Zongyuan Ge, Rui Su, Jie Xu, Yirong Chen, Xi Xu, Ming Hu
Abstract

Computational drug discovery requires agents to compose scientific operations and adapt to changing evidence and constraints. Here we introduce DrugHarness, an evolvable agent harness coupling composable scientific execution with conditional skill induction. Its environment integrates over 80 scientific operations, biomedical resources and task-specific code, preserving associations among candidates, results and artifacts. From execution trajectories and outcome feedback, DrugHarness induces act...

πŸ“„ The Window Is in the Reasoning: When LLM Agents Decide to Follow Prompt Injections
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24048v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Haoxuan Jia, Yang Liu (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Bin Chong, Yingguang Yang, Yancheng Chen, Jiayu Liang, Qian Li (possible past National University Of Defense Technology affiliation), Hanning Lu, Kefu Xu, Hao Zheng, Chongyang Zhang, Yulin Huang, Jianshen Zhang, Yongzhi Qi, Yunuo Lin, Hao Peng (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

LLM agents that read untrusted content can be hijacked by prompt injections. Runtime monitors that try to catch a hijack before the agent acts, and benchmarks that score each task with a single run, share an assumption: whether an agent follows an injection is settled when the injection is read. We test this assumption with branching rollouts that replay an episode exactly up to the step at which the agent reads an injection and then resample the rest of the episode many times, splitting the out...

πŸ“„ Darwin-Claw: Environment-Adaptive Experience Consolidation for Recursively Self-Evolving Agents
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23574v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Mingze Yin, Xiaohan Wang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Dian Li (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Longfei Luo, Jiahong Yan, Yiheng Zhu, Chang-Yu Hsieh
Abstract

While Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across complex tasks, they predominantly operate in isolated sessions, lacking the ability to continually learn from historical interactions or adapt to user-specific environments. Existing self-evolution paradigms often indiscriminately inject raw interaction trajectories into memory or skill modules, leading to obscured behavioral patterns and compromised update controllability. Furthermore, as foundational LLM r...

πŸ“„ FlashReFocus: Interactive Image Refocusing in Seconds
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23297v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Ching-Heng Cheng, Chia-Ming Lee, Ming-Ching Chang (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Xin Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yu-Lun Liu, Chih-Chung Hsu
Abstract

Single-image refocusing changes the focal plane and depth of field of a photograph after capture. It is inherently interactive: users try many focal points and blur strengths on one image, so each edit should be fast and change only the blur. Recent generative methods, however, rerun large diffusion models for every edit. We observe that the two sub-problems differ in kind: recovering the all-in-focus image is ill-posed and needs a generative prior, whereas rendering blur is largely determined b...

πŸ“„ MGE-PO: Entropy-Aware Credit Assignment for Mathematical Reasoning
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23245v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Jihao Huang, Guangjia Chai, Zhirui Chen, Lei Wang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Yao Liu, Liu Qi, Pengjie Ding, Xinyang Liu, Chengxun Jia, Ling Shao (possible past Inception Institute Of Artificial Intelligence affiliation), Hongyu Chen, Junchen Wan
Abstract

GRPO assigns the same group-relative advantage to equally rewarded responses within a question, leaving their generation uncertainty unused. We introduce MGE-PO, centered on four-quadrant (4Q) advantage shaping that combines verified correctness with rollout generation entropy. Correctness determines the sign of an additional correction, while entropy controls its magnitude: lower-entropy successes receive larger bonuses and higher-entropy failures receive larger penalties. An online entropy-bas...

πŸ“„ OfficeTown: Generative Organizations for Evolving Agent Intelligence
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23194v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Hongchen Wei, Daohong Ying, Zhi Hong, Aidan Wu, Bei Liu, Ruichun Ma, Yifan Yang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Qi Dai, Kai Qiu, Rui Xu, Dongdong Chen, Zhenzhong Chen, Chong Luo (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

AI agents increasingly use files and software tools to produce professional deliverables. Such work draws on materials, decisions, and feedback accumulated across assignments. We introduce OfficeTown, a generative simulation framework for professional organizations in which tasks and their context arise from continuing organizational work. From a natural-language description of an organization's purpose and activities, OfficeTown initializes an organization whose members coordinate work, delegat...

πŸ“„ Tree-Aware Posterior Distillation for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23181v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Heming Zou, Qi Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Yuyi Guo, Zeyuan Liu, Chenglin Li, Weijie Liu (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Saiyong Yang, Xiangyang Ji (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a scalable post-training paradigm for large language models. However, training agents over long-horizon interactions presents two challenges: using only terminal rewards makes turn-level credit assignment sparse and high-variance, while sequential mini-batch updates on a fixed rollout batch introduce policy staleness as the current policy drifts from the behavior policy. Existing approaches obtain denser credit via learned critics, proces...

πŸ“„ Cognitively Decoupled Meta-Induction for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/19/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25749v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Yuqian Wang, Yuanzheng Wang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Chaojun Xiao, Ke Xu, Bingxiang He, Jinghan Tan, Zijun Chen (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Lu Chen, Yi-Xin Huo, Maosong Sun (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

In-context learning (ICL) tackles downstream tasks conditioned on demonstrations. This paradigm relies heavily on neighbor-based matching between queries and demonstrations, limiting out-of-distribution (OOD) performance. For better generalization, rule-based inductive reasoning derives task-level regularities, which we term task-level inductive representations (TIR), before directly answering. However, existing methods lack generalizable inductive ability across diverse tasks. Inspired by meta-...

πŸ“„ Paired-Outcome Learning for Selective Spacecraft Attitude Capture under Torque Limits
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24763v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Donghe Chen, Jia Deng (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Zehao Jia, Lin Cheng (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Shengping Gong
Abstract

Torque-limited spacecraft attitude capture requires adapting the maneuver speed to uncertain braking authority. Faster settings can reduce average tracking error while worsening individual maneuvers, making selective modification of an existing controller a baseline-relative learning problem. A paired-outcome method combines three mechanisms: physically interpretable continuation policies with different speed envelopes, separate prediction of task failure and successful-pair tracking gains, and ...

πŸ“„ TideKV: Delayed KV Eviction via Layer-Wise Chunked Prefill for Memory-Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24499v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Yu Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Zhu Wang, Ning Hu (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yifan Guo, Xiu Ma, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu
Abstract

Long-context large language model (LLM) inference is important for modern intelligent applications but remains constrained by peak memory during prompt prefill. Existing KV cache compression reduces decoding memory but typically requires full-prompt prefill to preserve global context, retaining a high construction peak. Online chunk-level eviction lowers memory earlier but selects before each layer has observed the complete prompt, potentially degrading cache construction and decoding. We presen...

πŸ“„ Measuring Empowerment from Offline Data for Intrinsically Motivated Exploration
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/17/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24461v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Ishir Garg, Vivek Myers, Qiyang Li, Catherine Ji, Benjamin Eysenbach (possible past Carnegie Mellon University affiliation), Sergey Levine (possible past University Of Washington affiliation)
Abstract

Large, unlabeled datasets of prior experience have become increasingly available for agentic tasks in domains such as robotics and coding. A common recipe for these tasks is to train a policy using the prior data, and then further improve it with online rollouts. But while much work has studied how to use both the offline and online data for policy extraction, far less work has been done to understand how the prior data can be used to efficiently \textit{explore} during the online learning phase...

πŸ“„ Inside the Loop: A Mechanistic Study of Weight-Tied Transformers on Depth-Bound Algorithmic Tasks
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 10/16/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24135v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Magnus Sesodia, Juil Sock, Philip Torr (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation), Christian Schroeder De Witt (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation)
Abstract

Solving algorithmic tasks with many sequential steps typically requires scaling up transformer depth or chain-of-thought length, incurring unfavorable parameter and inference-compute costs, respectively. Looped transformers, which reuse one block of layers across many iterations, are poised to address this, since they scale effective depth without adding parameters or tokens. Yet, it remains unclear what each iteration is actually computing, or whether the loop merely simulates a deeper untied s...

*Notable papers are those with at least two authors from a "big" AI/ML lab.