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Agentic Learning AI Lab is a research lab in New York University founded in 2022. We innovate learning algorithms that enable future agentic AI to learn and adapt flexibly in the real world.

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AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

AdaJEPA adapts a latent world model inside closed-loop MPC, using each observed transition as a self-supervised signal before the next replan.

Published: 2026-07-02

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Aligning LLMs with Human Uncertainty: A Beta-Bernoulli Calibrator for LLM Forecasting

A simple post-hoc calibrator that maps an LLM's verbalized point forecast to a Beta distribution over event probability, trained on binary outcomes and human forecasts.

Published: 2026-05-26

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Seeking the Unfamiliar but Memorable: Conceptual Creativity as Meta-Learning

Creativity is producing stimuli that are unfamiliar at first sight but quickly learnable from a few exposures. A Creator-Appraiser meta-learning loop lets a frozen diffusion model generate novel concepts the base model would not.

Published: 2026-05-15

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The Self Requires Learning

We argue self-consciousness requires a learned self — bounded integration of experience produces a perspective that, under continuous order-sensitive learning, becomes a temporally extended identity that current AI systems lack.

Published: 2026-04-08

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Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning

Inspired by the perceptual straightening hypothesis in human vision, we introduce temporal straightening to improve representation learning for latent planning.

Published: 2026-03-12

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When Does Verification Pay Off? A Closer Look at LLMs as Solution Verifiers

Cross-family verification is found to be especially effective, and post-training reduces self-improvement but strengthens cross-family improvement.

Published: 2025-12-02

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In-Context Clustering with Large Language Models

In-Context Clustering (ICC) is a flexible LLM-based procedure for clustering data from diverse distributions.

Published: 2025-10-09

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Local Reinforcement Learning with Action-Conditioned Root Mean Squared Q-Functions

Action-conditioned Root mean squared Q-Functions (ARQ) is a novel backprop-free value estimation method that applies a goodness function and action conditioning for local reinforcement learning.

Published: 2025-10-08

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Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics

Midway Network is a new self-supervised learning architecture that learns strong visual representations for both object recognition and motion understanding solely from natural videos by modeling latent dynamics.

Published: 2025-10-07

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StreamMem: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding

StreamMem is a query-agnostic KV cache memory mechanism for streaming video understanding.

Published: 2025-08-21

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Context Tuning for In-Context Optimization

Context Tuning directly optimizes an LLM's memory representation for efficient adaptation without updating model weights.

Published: 2026-07-03

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Memory Storyboard: Leveraging Temporal Segmentation for Streaming Self-Supervised Learning from Egocentric Videos

Memory Storyboard groups recent past frames into temporal segments and provides effective summarization of the past visual streams for memory replay.

Published: 2025-01-21

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Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as Oracle

Our new benchmark, Daily Oracle, automatically generates question-answer (QA) pairs from daily news, challenging LLMs to predict "future" events based on pre-training data.

Published: 2024-11-13

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ProCreate, Don't Reproduce! Propulsive Energy Diffusion for Creative Generation

ProCreate is a simple and easy-to-implement method to improve sample diversity and creativity of diffusion-based image generative models and to prevent training data reproduction.

Published: 2024-08-05

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