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Training on Documents About Monitoring Leads to CoT Obfuscation

arXiv:2605.15257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is one of the most promising tools we have for detecting model misbehavior, but its effectiveness depends on models faithfully externalizing their reasoning. Motivated by this vulnerability, we study whether monitor-aware models…

Tadpole: Autoencoders as Foundation Models for 3D PDEs with Online Learning

arXiv:2605.15284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Tadpole, a novel foundation model for three-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) that addresses key challenges in transferability, scalability to high dimensionality, and multi-functionality. Tadpole is pre-trained as an autoencoder on synthetic 3D PDE…

What Is Preference Optimization Doing, and Why?

arXiv:2512.00778v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Preference optimization (PO) is indispensable for large language models (LLMs), with methods such as direct preference optimization (DPO) and proximal policy optimization (PPO) achieving great success. A common belief is that DPO is supervised learning…

Universal Approximation of Nonlinear Operators and Their Derivatives

arXiv:2605.15285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Derivative-Informed Operator Learning (DIOL), i.e. learning a (nonlinear) operator and its derivatives, is an open research frontier at the foundations of the influential field of Operator Learning (OL). In particular, Universal Approximation Theorems (UATs) of…

GQA-{mu}P: The maximal parameterization update for grouped query attention

arXiv:2605.15290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperparameter transfer across model architectures dramatically reduces the amount of compute necessary for tuning large language models (LLMs). The maximal update parameterization ({mu}P) ensures transfer through principled mathematical analysis but can be challenging to derive…

GESD: Beyond Outcome-Oriented Fairness

arXiv:2605.15295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly deployed in high-stakes decision-making domains such as loan approvals, hiring, and recidivism predictions. While existing fairness metrics (e.g., statistical parity, equal opportunity) effectively quantify outcome-oriented disparities, they offer limited…

MoE-Prefill: Zero Redundancy Overheads in MoE Prefill Serving

arXiv:2605.02960v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Production LLM workloads increasingly serve discriminative tasks, such as classification, recommendation, and verification, whose answers are read from the logits of a single prefill pass with no autoregressive decoding. Serving these prefill-only workloads on mixture-of-experts…

How Data Augmentation Shapes Neural Representations

arXiv:2605.15306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data augmentation is widely recognized for improving generalization in deep networks, yet its impact on the geometry of learned representations remains poorly understood. In this work, we characterize how different data augmentation strategies reshape internal…