152 upvotes · 14 AUG 2026 · Zhiyuan Jiang, Fangrui Huang, Hanwen Xing et al.
This paper investigates how skills work in LLM agents, when they help, and why they fail, to improve their performance. Practitioners can benefit from understanding these factors to build more reliable self-evolving agents.
112 upvotes · 25 SEP 2026 · Hongyang Du, Yunfei Xie, Junjie Ye et al.
This paper improves the performance of representation autoencoders (RAEs) by training a decoder to work with different layers of a pre-trained visual encoder, rather than relying on a fixed layer fusion. A practitioner might care about this because it allows for more flexible and robust image generation.
109 upvotes · 1 SEP 2026 · Zhengze Zhou, Hejian Sang
This paper introduces LatentPress, a method to compress conversational histories and documents into a continuous memory token format that allows language models to directly read and process the context without text reconstruction. Practitioners might care about this because it could lead to faster and more efficient language model inference.