Sliding-Window Merging for Compacting Patch-Redundant Layers in LLMs

LongVT has been introduced as an innovative framework designed to enhance video reasoning capabilities in large multimodal models (LMMs) by facilitating a process known as 'Thinking with Long Videos.' This approach utilizes a global-to-local reasoning loop, allowing models to focus on specific video clips and retrieve relevant visual evidence, thereby addressing challenges associated with long-form video processing.

The introduction of Semantic Soft Bootstrapping (SSB) represents a significant advancement in long context reasoning for large language models (LLMs), allowing them to enhance cognitive capabilities without relying on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). This self-distillation technique enables the model to act as both teacher and student, improving its reasoning abilities through varied semantic contexts during training.

A novel framework named LangSAT has been introduced, which integrates reinforcement learning (RL) with natural language processing (NLP) to enhance Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving. This system allows users to input standard English descriptions, which are then converted into Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) expressions for solving, thus improving accessibility and efficiency in SAT-solving processes.

A recent study published on arXiv investigates the use of generic masculines (GM) in contemporary German press texts, analyzing their distribution and linguistic characteristics. The research focuses on lexeme-specific differences among personal nouns, revealing significant variations, particularly between passive role nouns and prestige-related personal nouns, based on a corpus of 6,195 annotated tokens.

Recent research has uncovered a limit cycle organization in the articulatory movements that generate human speech, challenging the conventional view of speech as discrete actions. This study reveals that rhythmicity, often associated with acoustic energy and neuronal excitations, is also present in the motor activities involved in speech production.

The Natural Language Actor-Critic (NLAC) algorithm has been introduced to enhance the training of large language model (LLM) agents, which interact with environments over extended periods. This method addresses challenges in learning from sparse rewards and aims to stabilize training through a generative LLM critic that evaluates actions in natural language space.

Recent research highlights the limitations of hierarchical instruction schemes in large language models (LLMs), revealing that these models struggle with consistent instruction prioritization, even in simple cases. The study introduces a systematic evaluation framework to assess how effectively LLMs enforce these hierarchies, finding that the common separation of system and user prompts fails to create a reliable structure.

CARL, a new reinforcement learning algorithm, has been introduced to optimize multi-step agents by focusing on critical actions that significantly influence outcomes, rather than treating all actions equally. This approach aims to enhance the efficiency and performance of training and inference processes in complex task environments.