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Omitted Variable Bias in Language Models Under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2602.16784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their impressive performance on a wide variety of tasks, modern language models remain susceptible to distribution shifts, exhibiting brittle behavior when evaluated on data that differs in distribution from their training data. In this…

Defining and Evaluating Physical Safety for Large Language Models

arXiv:2411.02317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to control robotic systems such as drones, but their risks of causing physical threats and harm in real-world applications remain unexplored. Our study addresses the critical gap in…

Continuous-Time Value Iteration for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2509.09135v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods struggle with complex dynamical systems that demand interactions at high frequencies or irregular time intervals. Continuous-time RL (CTRL) has emerged as a promising alternative by replacing discrete-time Bellman recursion with…

Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models

arXiv:2602.16793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the past year, custom and unreleased math reasoning models reached gold medal performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Similar performance was then reported using large-scale inference on publicly available models but at prohibitive…

On the Existence and Behavior of Secondary Attention Sinks

arXiv:2512.22213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attention sinks are tokens, often the beginning-of-sequence (BOS) token, that receive disproportionately high attention despite limited semantic relevance. In this work, we identify a class of attention sinks, which we term secondary sinks, that differ…

Efficient Tail-Aware Generative Optimization via Flow Model Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2602.16796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning pre-trained diffusion and flow models to optimize downstream utilities is central to real-world deployment. Existing entropy-regularized methods primarily maximize expected reward, providing no mechanism to shape tail behavior. However, tail control is often essential:…

Goal Inference from Open-Ended Dialog

arXiv:2410.13957v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied AI Agents are quickly becoming important and common tools in society. These embodied agents should be able to learn about and accomplish a wide range of user goals and preferences efficiently and robustly. Large…