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Every Large Language Models (LLMs) story we've curated in Bowl of Data, newest issue first — part of our weekly digest across AI, security, blockchain, and engineering.

18 items · 7 issues

Week 30 · 2026

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  • PagedWeight: Efficient MoE LLM Serving with Dynamic Quality-Aware Weight Quantization

    PagedWeight optimizes the serving of MoE LLMs by implementing a dynamic quantization strategy that adapts to runtime memory pressure. It balances hardware efficiency with model accuracy by monitoring expert routing statistics and prompt-specific sensitivities.

    AI & ML arXiv Source ↗
  • On-Policy Delta Distillation

    This research presents OPD2, a novel distillation technique that focuses on the learning trajectory of reasoning models by using a delta signal between teacher and base models. Experimental results prove it outperforms standard on-policy distillation across multiple complex reasoning domains.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗
  • Beyond Relevance-Centric Retrieval: Rubric-Oriented Document Set Selection and Ranking

    This research presents a novel approach to document retrieval that prioritizes the holistic quality of document sets over individual document relevance. By introducing the SetwiseEvalKit benchmark and the Rubric4Setwise optimization method, the authors demonstrate how addressing redundancy and factual conflicts can significantly improve LLM generation performance.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗
  • PagedWeight: Efficient MoE LLM Serving with Dynamic Quality-Aware Weight Quantization

    PagedWeight optimizes the serving of MoE LLMs by implementing a dynamic quantization strategy that adapts to runtime memory pressure. It balances hardware efficiency with model accuracy by monitoring expert routing statistics and prompt-specific sensitivities.

    AI & ML arXiv Source ↗
  • On-Policy Delta Distillation

    This research presents OPD2, a novel distillation technique that focuses on the learning trajectory of reasoning models by using a delta signal between teacher and base models. Experimental results prove it outperforms standard on-policy distillation across multiple complex reasoning domains.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗
  • Beyond Relevance-Centric Retrieval: Rubric-Oriented Document Set Selection and Ranking

    This research presents a novel approach to document retrieval that prioritizes the holistic quality of document sets over individual document relevance. By introducing the SetwiseEvalKit benchmark and the Rubric4Setwise optimization method, the authors demonstrate how addressing redundancy and factual conflicts can significantly improve LLM generation performance.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗

Week 29 · 2026

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  • SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    The Seed framework addresses the limitations of sparse rewards in agentic reinforcement learning by extracting reusable skills from completed interaction trajectories. It utilizes on-policy distillation to provide dense, token-level supervision that evolves alongside the policy's capabilities.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗
  • Prompt-engineering paper accepted to ICML [R]

    This research identifies that mode collapse in LLMs is driven by a cognitive typicality bias within preference datasets. To counter this, the authors present Verbalized Sampling, an inference-time method that unlocks model diversity without retraining.

    AI & ML Reddit r/MachineLearning Source ↗
  • SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    The Seed framework addresses the limitations of sparse rewards in agentic reinforcement learning by extracting reusable skills from completed interaction trajectories. It utilizes on-policy distillation to provide dense, token-level supervision that evolves alongside the policy's capabilities.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗

Week 28 · 2026

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  • Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation

    This technical paper proposes a new distillation paradigm called Direct-OPD to improve weak-to-strong generalization in reasoning models. By distilling only the policy shift induced by reinforcement learning, the method avoids the capacity limitations inherent in traditional teacher-student imitation.

    AI & ML arXiv Source ↗
  • Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation

    This technical paper proposes a new distillation paradigm called Direct-OPD to improve weak-to-strong generalization in reasoning models. By distilling only the policy shift induced by reinforcement learning, the method avoids the capacity limitations inherent in traditional teacher-student imitation.

    AI & ML arXiv Source ↗

Week 27 · 2026

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Week 25 · 2026

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  • APPO: Agentic Procedural Policy Optimization

    This paper proposes APPO, a method to enhance the training of autonomous LLM agents through more granular credit assignment. It moves beyond trajectory-level rewards by identifying and branching at specific high-impact decision points within the reasoning process.

    AI & ML HuggingFace Papers Source ↗

Week 22 · 2026

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Week 21 · 2026

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  • Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores

    Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt announced that the company is willing to sell AI-written books in its stores, provided that the books are transparently labeled as synthetic content. He stressed that the key criterion is maintaining clarity for the customer, ensuring the book does not falsely imitate human authorship.

    AI & ML Reddit r/artificial Source ↗