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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. — Ayn Rand 31 items · 3 sections
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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2608.31077v1Lead article

Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization

Jingxiao Yang, Wangjie Gan, Yingxuan Zhuang, Wenqi Zhang, Jintao Chen

his paper introduces TASPO, a method to bridge the gap between outcome-based credit and process supervision in reinforcement learning for language agents. TASPO converts privileged training information into actionable credit for individual decisions, ensuring that each action is appropriately rewarded based on its contribution to the overall task outcome, rather than uniformly distributing credit across entire trajectories.

An explanation of why privileged process supervision should refine, rather than replace, verified outcome credit. (a) Uniform outcome credit and dense process signals can conflict when directly combined. (b) Self-distillation performance depends strongly on the source and relevance of privileged information. (c) Action-level aggregation yields more accurate credit assignment than token-level aggregation across trajectory outcomes and action qualities.
An explanation of why privileged process supervision should refine, rather than replace, verified outcome credit. (a) Uniform outcome credit and dense process signals can conflict when directly combined. (b) Self-distillation performance depends strongly on the source and relevan…
The receding-supervision ladder. Human involvement moves from judgments supplied for individual instances toward learning loops that increasingly obtain rewards and produce experience with less continued human provision. The ladder describes operational responsibility during learning and does not imply the absence of human-originated objectives, data, tools, or environments.
The receding-supervision ladder. Human involvement moves from judgments supplied for individual instances toward learning loops that increasingly obtain rewards and produce experience with less contin…
cs.AIarxiv:2608.31075v1

Scaling Large Reasoning Models beyond Human Supervision: A Path toward Superintelligence

Zhiqin Yang, Jingwen Fu et al.

This paper proposes a method for scaling large reasoning models (LRMs) beyond human supervision by gradually reducing reliance on direct human feedback. The core idea is to transition from human judgments to automated verifiers and self-generated learning curr…

cs.AIarxiv:2608.30987v1

Stick to What You Know: A Study of Knowledge-Aligned Supervised Fine-Tuning

Arthur Becker, Jakob Kemmler et al.

This paper proposes "knowledge-aligned SFT" to reduce hallucinations in language models by ensuring fine-tuning targets are consistent with the model's existing knowledge. The authors introduce new methods like "Recall Rewrite" which only keeps claims the mode…

cs.LGarxiv:2608.31069v1

A Model with No Head and Many Thoughts

Nikita Koriagin, Yaroslav Aksenov et al.

This paper introduces Soft Latent Thinking, a method that replaces the computationally expensive LM head during reasoning with a lightweight projector. This allows reasoning to occur in continuous embedding space, avoiding discrete tokenization at each step. T…

cs.CLarxiv:2608.30902v1

Low-Resource Preference Adaptation of LLMs via Activation-Based Label Propagation

Alessio Galatolo, Meriem Beloucif

This paper proposes a method to adapt Large Language Models (LLMs) to user preferences with minimal labeled data. It leverages the observation that LLM activations for preferred and rejected responses form distinct clusters, even in pre-trained models. By trai…

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S3Gym: Can LLMs Turn Self-Testing and Self-Judging into Self-Improvement?

Jiajun Shi, Siyuan Tao et al.

This paper introduces S3Gym, a benchmark designed to evaluate if Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve themselves. S3Gym tests LLMs' abilities in self-testing, self-judging, and…

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A Universal Context-Reuse Layer for Cross-Model KV Sharing

Yi Li, Dongming Jiang et al.

This paper introduces a "Universal Context-Reuse Layer" that enables KV-cache sharing between different Large Language Models (LLMs), even those with varying architectures or token…

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HSRM: Hidden-State Reward Models for Test-Time Verification

Xianzhi Li, Xiaodan Zhu

This paper introduces HSRM, a method for verifying mathematical reasoning generated by large language models. Instead of re-processing the text of candidate solutions, HSRM directl…

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Learning to Evaluate Before Improving: Automatic Rubric Induction for Automatic Research Agents

Xuehai Wang, Haowei Qin et al.

This paper introduces AutoSciRub, a novel framework for autonomous research agents. AutoSciRub's core method is to first automatically generate an executable rubric that defines sp…

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LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

Shaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo et al.

This paper introduces LightNav-0, a generalist embodied navigation model that directly leverages the spatial reasoning capabilities of pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs). It…

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