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ICDM 20262026Optimizing embedding systems for production recommendation pipelines demands systematic exploration that consumes disproportionate engineering effort at scale. We apply Andrej Karpathy's AutoResearch paradigm [1]—a large language model that iteratively edits a training script and retains modifications that improve a held-out scalar metric—to automate this exploration. We report on twelve weeks of running
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2026A key challenge in reliable LLM deployment is recognizing when uncertainty reflects irreducible variability in the task rather than limitations in the model's knowledge. In language tasks, a central source of such aleatoric uncertainty is input ambiguity or underspecification, where multiple interpretations remain plausible. Existing decomposition methods estimate aleatoric uncertainty by generating multiple
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EMNLP 2026 Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM)2026Autonomous GUI agents have achieved near-perfect task completion on touchscreen benchmarks by tapping directly at target coordinates. However, smart televisions, game consoles, and set-top boxes require users to navigate with a directional pad (D-PAD), turning element selection into a planning problem over an unknown focus-transition graph. We study autonomous task completion on streaming TV devices, where
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NeurIPS 20262026Both full fine-tuning (Full FT) and parameter-efficient methods like LoRA add weight updates without regard to the spectral structure that pretraining has established. This allows noisy gradients from a small fine-tuning distribution to freely perturb the robust features learned through pretraining. We first identify spectral preconditioning as the key missing ingredient: reparameterizing each weight W
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StalePO: Anchored token-level preference optimization using legacy post-edits in machine translationWMT 20262026Machine translation systems are periodically upgraded to stronger models, but the available preference signal is human post-edits of an older system's outputs, which the newer model may already surpass. Moreover, collecting fresh post-edits for every new model is prohibitively expensive. We call this the Stale Preference problem. Standard DPO can fail in this setting: it may increase the likelihood of inferior
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