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Displacement Is Not Direction: Evaluating Fidelity Metrics for Quantized LLM Deployment

Miloš Nikolić, Ali Hadi Zadeh, Enrique Torres Sanchez, Andreas Moshovos · Jun 17, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • Fidelity metrics, such as per-token KL divergence (KLD) against a high-precision reference, are often used in practice as low-cost proxies for benchmark quality.
  • We test this practice on a 28-quant cohort of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and a 41-quant cohort of Devstral-Small-2-24B, evaluated across a suite of downstream benchmarks.
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Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

Ruixiang Zhang, Richard He Bai, Huangjie Zheng, Navdeep Jaitly, Ronan Collobert, Yizhe Zhang · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
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Breaking Training Bottlenecks: Effective and Stable Reinforcement Learning for Coding Models

Zongqian Li, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Yixuan Su, Lexin Zhou, Li Dong · Mar 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Coding
  • MicroCoder-GRPO achieves up to 17.6% relative improvement over strong baselines on LiveCodeBench v6, with more pronounced gains under extended context evaluation.
  • Additionally, we release MicroCoder-Dataset, a more challenging training corpus that achieves 3x larger performance gains than mainstream datasets on LiveCodeBench v6 within 300 training steps, and MicroCoder-Evaluator, a robust framework…
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Duel-Evolve: Reward-Free Test-Time Scaling via LLM Self-Preferences

Sweta Karlekar, Carolina Zheng, Magnus Saebo, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Shuyang Yu, John Bowlan · Feb 25, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Math
  • Building on this observation, we introduce Duel-Evolve, an evolutionary optimization algorithm that replaces external scalar rewards with pairwise preferences elicited from the same LLM used to generate candidates.
  • Results show that pairwise self-preferences provide strong optimization signal for test-time improvement over large, discrete output spaces.
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Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters

Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong, Bin Wang, Binxing Jiao, Bo Dong · Feb 11, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Pairwise Preference Tool Use MathCoding
  • We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency.
  • Step 3.5 Flash demonstrates strong performance across agent, coding, and math tasks, achieving 85.4% on IMO-AnswerBench, 86.4% on LiveCodeBench-v6 (2024.08-2025.05), 88.2% on tau2-Bench, 69.0% on BrowseComp (with context management), and…
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KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

Konrad Staniszewski, Adrian Łańcucki · Nov 3, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • We test KVTC with Llama 3, Mistral NeMo, and R1-Qwen 2.5 models across benchmarks including AIME25, GSM8K, LiveCodeBench, LongBench, MATH-500, MMLU, Qasper and RULER.
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HEART: Emotionally-Driven Test-Time Scaling of Language Models

Gabriela Pinto, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar, Yiwen Song, Souradip Chakraborty, Zifeng Wang · Sep 26, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics General
  • We introduce HEART, a framework that uses emotional cues to guide the model's focus, much like how feelings contribute to human decision-making.
  • We evaluate HEART across seven high-difficulty benchmarks--including Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, and LiveCodeBench--demonstrating robustness across diverse models.
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Klear-Reasoner: Advancing Reasoning Capability via Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization

Zhenpeng Su, Leiyu Pan, Xue Bai, Dening Liu, Guanting Dong, Jiaming Huang · Aug 11, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • We present Klear-Reasoner, a model with long reasoning capabilities that demonstrates careful deliberation during problem solving, achieving outstanding performance across multiple benchmarks.
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ReflexiCoder: Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Reflect on Generated Code and Self-Correct It via Reinforcement Learning

Juyong Jiang, Jiasi Shen, Sunghun Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Jeonghoon Kim, Sungju Kim · Mar 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Long Horizon Coding
  • Extensive experiments across seven benchmarks demonstrate that our ReflexiCoder-8B establishes a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) among leading open-source models in the 1.5B-14B range, achieving 94.51% (87.20%) on HumanEval (Plus), 81.80%…
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Scaling Data Difficulty: Improving Coding Models via Reinforcement Learning on Fresh and Challenging Problems

Zongqian Li, Tengchao Lv, Shaohan Huang, Yixuan Su, Qinzheng Sun, Qiufeng Yin · Mar 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Coding
  • Evaluations on strictly unseen LiveCodeBench demonstrate that MicroCoder achieves 3x larger performance gains within 300 training steps compared to widely-used baseline datasets of comparable size, with consistent advantages under both GRPO…
Open paper
$V_1$: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners

Harman Singh, Xiuyu Li, Kusha Sareen, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Sijun Tan, Xiaoxia Wu · Mar 4, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • On code generation (LiveCodeBench, CodeContests, SWE-Bench) and math reasoning (AIME, HMMT) benchmarks, V_1-Infer improves Pass@1 by up to 10% over pointwise verification and outperforms recent test-time scaling methods while being…
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Team of Thoughts: Efficient Test-time Scaling of Agentic Systems through Orchestrated Tool Calling

Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Zixi Zhang, Junyi Liu, Yiren Zhao · Feb 18, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Multi Agent MathCoding
  • Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures.
  • Team-of-Thoughts introduces two novel components: (1) Orchestrator Calibration, which identifies models with superior coordination and synthesis capabilities, and (2) Agent Self-Assessment, a protocol where tool agents profile their own…
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Accelerated Test-Time Scaling with Model-Free Speculative Sampling

Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan · Jun 5, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • Extensive evaluations across multiple models and reasoning tasks (AIME-2024, GPQA-Diamond, and LiveCodeBench) demonstrate that STAND reduces inference latency by 60-65% compared to standard autoregressive decoding while maintaining…
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Critique-Coder: Enhancing Coder Models by Critique Reinforcement Learning

Chi Ruan, Dongfu Jiang, Yubo Wang, Wenhu Chen · Sep 26, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Critique Edit Coding
  • We fine-tune multiple models (Critique-Coder) and evaluate them on different benchmarks to show their advantages over RL-only models.
  • We show that Critique-Coder consistently outperforms RL-only baselines on all the evaluated benchmarks.
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ReCode: Reinforcing Code Generation with Reasoning-Process Rewards

Lishui Fan, Yu Zhang, Mouxiang Chen, Zhongxin Liu · Aug 7, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 1/1 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Pairwise Preference MathCoding
  • Additionally, to assess the reward model's discriminative capability in assessing reasoning-process quality, we introduce LiveCodeBench-RewardBench (LCB-RB), a new benchmark comprising preference pairs of superior and inferior reasoning…
  • Experimental results across HumanEval(+), MBPP(+), LiveCodeBench, and BigCodeBench show that a 7B model trained with ReCode outperforms the base version by 16.1% and reaches performance comparable to GPT-4-Turbo.
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