LLMs
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Large language models (LLMs) are large neural networks trained on text that power a wide range of applications, with active research into their alignment via federated RLHF, neurosymbolic fact-checking, and cultural/metaphorical reasoning capabilities.
Quoting Bryan Cantrill
LLMs lack the human drive to optimize and minimize waste, causing them to accumulate unnecessary complexity and bloated abstractions that time-constrained engineers would prune.
APPA: Adaptive Preference Pluralistic Alignment for Fair Federated RLHF of LLMs
Federated RLHF method learns fair LLM alignment from competing human preferences without pooling data centrally, enabling models to balance conflicting user values.
Position: Logical Soundness is not a Reliable Criterion for Neurosymbolic Fact-Checking with LLMs
Researchers challenge the assumption that logical soundness guarantees reliable fact-checking in LLMs, revealing a critical gap where formally correct systems can still fail in practice.
Metaphors We Compute By: A Computational Audit of Cultural Translation vs. Thinking in LLMs
A computational audit finds that LLMs pattern-match rather than truly understand cultural metaphors, suggesting surface-level linguistic facility masks deeper gaps in cultural reasoning.
Testing if "bash is all you need"
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