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By Sajad Movahedi, Vera Milovanović, Shlomo Libo Feigin, Alexander Theus, Thomas Hofmann, and 3 others
FPRM is a Transformer-based Fixed-Point Reasoning Model for looped architectures, using pre-norm layers, residual scaling, and fixed-point halting to improve signal propagation, adapt compute to task difficulty, and deliver strong results on Sudoku, Maze, state-tracking, and ARC-AGI.
By Michael Etienne Van Huffel, Nathan Kirk, Makram Chahine, Daniela Rus, and T. Konstantin Rusch
NeuroLDS introduces the first machine learning framework for finite low-discrepancy sequences, generating point sequences with low prefix discrepancy and outperforming classical LDS methods across numerical integration, robot motion planning, scientific machine learning, and simulation.
By Bowen Jing, Mihir Bafna, Anisha Parsan, Heyuan Michael Ni, David Kwabi-Addo, and 3 others
SwitchCraft is a programmable framework for designing state-switching proteins using backpropagation through compositional constraints and structure prediction models, enabling allosteric regulation, ligand discrimination, and de novo fluorescent biosensor design for biotechnology.
By Ryan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee, Alfred Wei Lun Leong, Arun Verma, Alok Prakash, and 4 others
MeMo (Memory as a Model) is a modular framework that adds timely, domain-specific knowledge to LLMs without changing model weights, capturing cross-document relationships, resisting retrieval noise, avoiding catastrophic forgetting, and supporting plug-and-play use with open and closed-source models.
By Neehal Tumma, Noel Loo, and Daniela Rus
Preconditioned delta-rule recurrences improve subquadratic long-context modeling by incorporating curvature from online least squares. The method links linear attention and the delta rule, introduces efficient variants of DeltaNet, GDN, and KDA, and boosts recall and language modeling performance.
By Philipp Nazari and T. Konstantin Rusch
Linear attention offers a computationally efficient yet expressive alternative to softmax attention, maintaining a recurrent state that functions as a linear associative memory. However, recent empirical results indicate that the associative memory of trained linear attention models often exhibits a low-rank structure, suggesting that these models underexploit their capacity in practice. To illuminate this phenomenon, we provide a theoretical analysis of the role of rank in linear attention, revealing that low effective rank can affect retrieval error by amplifying query noise, as well as poorly condition query gradients.
By Wanqi Yang, Yuexiao Ma, Alexander Conzelmann, Xiawu Zheng, Michael W. Mahoney, and 2 others
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale computation via sparse expert activations, yet they remain memory-bound because all expert weights must reside in memory. Mixed-precision quantization can substantially reduce this footprint, but existing quantization methods estimate expert importance and assign bits based on calibration data. For frontier MoE LLMs, however, the original training data (and thus its true training distribution) is proprietary and inaccessible. Thus, any calibration set is at best a surrogate and may yield a biased or incomplete view of expert utilization, leading to suboptimal bit allocation. To address these problems, we propose AlphaQ, a novel calibration-free bit-allocation method for MoE quantization.
By Francesco M. Ruscio and T. Konstantin Rusch
Flow Matching typically relies on white noise sources, a choice often misaligned with the power spectra of natural data, which tend to decay with frequency. To address this, we introduce , a variant of Flow Matching based on an operator-modulated interpolant. This formulation induces a time-varying spectral bias that transitions from the source spectrum to a frequency-decaying bias as the path approaches the data. We validate our method on unconditional image generation tasks, including the scientific Galaxy10 dataset. Empirically, we show that our method is particularly effective when paired with adaptive ODE solvers, where it improves or preserves sample quality while substantially reducing sampling cost compared to standard baselines.
By Rohin Manvi, Joey Hong, Tim Seyde, Maxime Labonne, Mathias Lechner, and 1 other
Large language models excel at reasoning but lack key aspects of introspection, including the ability to anticipate their own success and the computation required to achieve it. Humans use real-time introspection to decide how much effort to invest, when to make multiple attempts, when to stop, and when to signal success or failure. Without this ability, LLMs struggle to make intelligent meta-cognition decisions. Test-time scaling methods such as Best-of-N drive up cost and latency by using a fixed budget of samples regardless of the marginal benefit of each one at any point in generation, and the absence of confidence signals can mislead people, prevent appropriate escalation to better tools, and undermine trustworthiness.
By Mihir Bafna, Bowen Jing, and Bonnie Berger
Many methods have been developed to predict static protein structures, however understanding the dynamics of protein structure is essential for elucidating biological function. While molecular dynamics (MD) simulations remain the in silico gold standard, its high computational cost limits scalability. We present DynaProt, a lightweight, SE(3)-invariant framework that predicts rich descriptors of protein dynamics directly from static structures.
By Samuel J Paech, Allen G Roush, Judah Goldfeder, and Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
Repetitive lexical patterns in LLM output, termed "slop," degrade writing quality through over-use and make AI-generated text immediately recognizable. We present Antislop, a comprehensive framework providing tools to both detect and eliminate these overused patterns. Our approach combines three innovations: (1) The Antislop Sampler, which uses backtracking to suppress unwanted strings at inference time without destroying vocabulary. (2) An automated pipeline that profiles model-specific slop against human baselines and generates training data. and, (3) Final Token Preference Optimization (FTPO), a novel fine-tuning method that operates in logit-space on individual tokens, surgically adjusting logits wherever a banned pattern has appeared in an inference trace.
By Makram Chahine, Philipp Nazari, Daniela Rus, and T. Konstantin Rusch
State Space Models (SSMs), developed to tackle long sequence modeling tasks efficiently, offer both parallelizable training and fast inference. At their core are recurrent dynamical systems that maintain a hidden state, with update costs scaling with the state dimension. A key design challenge is striking the right balance between maximizing expressivity and limiting this computational burden. Control theory, and more specifically Hankel singular value analysis, provides a potent framework for the measure of energy for each state, as well as the balanced truncation of the original system down to a smaller representation with performance guarantees.
By Alexander Amini, Anna Banaszak, Harold Benoit, Arthur Böök, Tarek Dakhran, and 28 others
We present LFM2, a family of Liquid Foundation Models designed for efficient on-device deployment and strong task capabilities. Using hardware-in-the-loop architecture search under edge latency and memory constraints, we obtain a compact hybrid backbone that combines gated short convolutions with a small number of grouped query attention blocks, delivering up to 2x faster prefill and decode on CPUs compared to similarly sized models.
By Kohsei Matsutani, Shota Takashiro, Gouki Minegishi, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, and 1 other
Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained by reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on reasoning traces to improve their reasoning abilities. However, how these methods shape reasoning capabilities remains largely elusive. Going beyond an accuracy-based investigation of how these two components sculpt the reasoning process, this paper introduces a novel analysis framework that quantifies reasoning paths and captures their qualitative changes under each training process (with models of 1.5B, 7B, and 14B parameters on mathematical domains).
By Tim Seyde, Rohin Manvi, Maxime Labonne, and Liquid AI Team
We share insights based on our exploration of reasoning recipes for small language models, with the example of LFM-1.3B. We demonstrate how a general chat model, without any math-specific pre-training, can acquire concise reasoning abilities through a combination of extensive fine-tuning and short-horizon reinforcement learning. By sharing our findings with our model, pre-training mix, and architecture, we aim to broaden the understanding of how to effectively instill reasoning abilities into small language models suitable for edge deployment.