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• Mixture-of-Expert Blocks Contain Strong Hallucination Detection Signals — InnerExpert uses MoE routing signals — router entropy, expert disagreement, expert usage patterns — for per-token hallucination detection, achieving 0.91 answer-level and 0.76 token-level AUROC across five datasets, outperforming existing methods.
• Incoherent by Design? On the Moral Self-Consistency of LLMs — Testing GPT, Mistral, and Llama on morally equivalent scenarios phrased under deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics reveals contradiction rates up to 78% -- meaning LLMs used in ethics-sensitive contexts frequently contradict their own moral positions when context shifts.
• Improving Influence-based Instruction Tuning Data Selection for Balanced Learning of Diverse Capabilities — BIDS (Balanced and Influential Data Selection) fixes a systematic bias in influence-based fine-tuning data selection—where high-influence tasks crowd out others—and a 15% data subset selected by BIDS outperforms full-dataset training on Llama-3 and Mistral-v0.3 across 7 benchmarks spanning 5 capabilities.
• S2-MoE: Enabling Efficient Self-Speculative Decoding for Mixture-of-Experts on Edge Devices — S2-MoE achieves up to 5.3x (average 2.0x) speedup for Mixture-of-Experts inference on edge devices by combining routing-aware adaptive speculative expansion with reuse-aware expert gating, eliminating the verification overhead that makes standard speculative decoding inefficient on memory-constrained hardware. Code is open-source.
• Propaganda Forensics: Recovering the Generation Pipeline of an AI-Driven Influence Campaign — French researchers forensically analyzed the Storm-1516/CopyCop AI propaganda campaign using 2,646 articles, finding prompt instruction leaks on 50 of 84 campaign websites and evidence implicating both Llama 3 and Mistral-family models — the deepest technical analysis of a real AI influence operation to date.
• FreeBalance: Pre-Routing Online Moe Load Balancing via Residual Workload Prediction — FreeBalance cuts MoE distributed inference latency by 13.1% and reduces expert load imbalance by 32.8% by predicting routing distributions before they're needed — letting expert migration overlap with preceding computation instead of sitting on the critical path.
• Explanatory Engagement Under Rare Anomalous Failure: Asymptotic Rarity in Model Behavior (or: The Asymptotic AI) — Elicitation structure is a first-class moderator of LLM self-monitoring behavior: under forced immediate explanation, model confidence rises from ~53% to 70s-90% as failures grow rarer; without prompting, only Llama 3.1:8B spontaneously generates structured self-monitoring reports.
• Distribird: Literature-Informed Prior Distribution Design for Bayesian Model Calibration — Distribird automates informative Bayesian prior design using a multi-agent pipeline that searches the literature, weights reported values by domain relevance, and fits probability distributions — with all LLM calls running locally so no unpublished parameter data reaches external providers.
• XBridge: Entity-Grounded Latent Bridge for Heterogeneous LLM Communication — XBridge lets Llama, Qwen, and Mistral agents communicate via latent representations rather than text, outperforming text-based messaging on all 7 benchmarks for each model pair while achieving 11x lower latency — using only 264M trainable parameters (3.8% of the receiver model).
• MixQuant: Adaptive Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models — MixQuant improves adaptive LLM quantization by accounting for upstream layer dependencies when scoring sensitivity, improving average accuracy by up to 8 points and reducing perplexity from 12.43 to 10.70 on Llama and Mistral models at the tightest memory budgets.