Spring 2025 Reading Schedule

Reading Schedule for Spring 2025

Date	Paper Presenter	Paper(s)	UA Faculty / Student Research Presenter
24-Jan-2025	Haris	Order-Independence Without Fine Tuning	Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun
31-Jan-2025	Thang	Language Agent Tree Search Unifies Reasoning Acting and Planning in Language Models	Dr. Travis Wheeler
07-Feb-2025	Mayank	rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking
14-Feb-2025	Aunabil	Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models
21-Feb-2025	Tuan	Efficiently Learning at Test-Time: Active Fine-Tuning of LLMs
28-Feb-2025	Thang	When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator
07-Mar-2025	Vowe	When to Speak, When to Abstain: Contrastive Decoding with Abstention
14-Mar-2025	N/A	Spring Recess - no classes	N/A
21-Mar-2025	Portia	Prompts have evil twins
28-Mar-2025	Asiful	Token Turing Machines
04-April-2025	Zijie	To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
11-April-2025	Rey	Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
18-April-2025	Harshita	Learning to Retrieve Iteratively for In-Context Learning
25-April-2025	Jacob	Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning
02-May-2025	Kapilan	Stream of Search (SoS): Learning to Search in Language V-STaR: Training Verifiers for Self-Taught Reasoners