From Benchmarks to Beakers: Stress‑Testing LLMs as Scientific Co‑Scientists
A comparison-based reading of SDE, a benchmark that tests whether frontier LLMs can move from science quiz performance to iterative scientific discovery.
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Long Thoughts, Short Bills: Distilling Mathematical Reasoning at Scale
Nemotron-Math shows that better mathematical reasoning supervision is not just more data, but a carefully engineered mix of reasoning depth, tool use, source diversity, filtering, and long-context training economics.
Mind-Reading Without Telepathy: Predictive Concept Decoders
A mechanism-first reading of Predictive Concept Decoders and why activation-based audit layers may matter more than model self-explanations.
Stepwise Think-Critique: Teaching LLMs to Doubt Themselves (Productively)
A close reading of Stepwise Think-Critique, a single-model approach that interleaves reasoning and self-critique to make mathematical reasoning more inspectable without pretending self-audit is already trust.
When Tokens Remember: Graphing the Ghosts in LLM Reasoning
A practical reading of CAGE, an attribution-graph method that audits not only which prompt evidence influenced an LLM answer, but how intermediate generations carried that influence forward.
Greedy Enough to Win: When Loss Starts Driving the Learning Rate
A close reading of GreedyLR shows why loss-driven learning-rate scheduling is less a clever trick than a practical way to reduce wasted training motion.
Model First, Think Later: Why LLMs Fail Before They Reason
A practical reading of Model-First Reasoning: why agent failures often begin with unstable problem representation, not weak reasoning.
Picking Less to Know More: When RAG Stops Ranking and Starts Thinking
A mechanism-first reading of Context-Picker, a RAG framework that treats evidence selection as minimal sufficient subset choice rather than fixed Top-K retrieval.
Ports, But Make Them Agentic: When LLMs Start Running the Yard
PortAgent shows how LLM agents can compress vehicle-dispatch deployment by combining retrieval, modeling, code generation, and execution-based correction.
Reasoning Loops, Not Bigger Brains
A mechanism-first reading of URM: why recurrent refinement and strong nonlinearity, not architectural ornamentation or raw scale, drive its ARC-style reasoning gains.