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Adaptive Agents and Foundation Models

The development of adaptive agents and foundation models marks a significant shift toward AI systems that can continually learn, adapt, and evolve in response to new information, changing environments, and user preferences. Current AI models are typically trained on static data, with limited ability to adapt through context post-deployment. Our goal is to enable agents to continuously absorb new knowledge and compress it into reusable representations for more up-to-date responses. This capability is also valuable for third-party customization, personalization, and safety alignment. We are interested in both the foundational study of sequential learning dynamics in large language models and practical applications that demand adaptive agents, such as personalized assistance, multimodal learning, and news forecasting.

Research Works in the Area

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AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

CoRR · 2026-07-02

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

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

CoRR · 2026-05-26

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.

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The Self Requires Learning

PhilPapers preprint · 2026-04-08

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.

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MA-EgoQA: Question Answering over Egocentric Videos from Multiple Embodied Agents

CoRR · 2026-03-10

We introduce a new benchmark to evaluate multiple embodied AI agents collaborate to answer human queries from their past experiences.

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

CoRR · 2025-12-02

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

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

ICLR 2026 · 2025-10-08

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.

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

CoRR · 2025-08-21

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

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Context Tuning for In-Context Optimization

ICML 2026 · 2025-07-06

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

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

ICML 2025 · 2024-11-13

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.

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CoLLEGe: Concept Embedding Generation for Large Language Models

COLM 2024 · 2024-03-22

CoLLEGe is a meta-learning framework capable of generating flexible embeddings for new concepts using a small number of example sentences or definitions.

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Reawakening Knowledge: Anticipatory Recovery from Catastrophic Interference via Structured Training

NeurIPS 2024 · 2024-03-14

We discover a curious and remarkable property of LLMs fine-tuned sequentially in this setting: they exhibit anticipatory behavior, recovering from the forgetting on documents before encountering them again.

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Learning and Forgetting Unsafe Examples in Large Language Models

ICML 2024 · 2023-12-20

We explore the behavior of LLMs finetuned on noisy custom data containing unsafe content and propose a simple filtering algorithm for detecting harmful content based on the phenomenon of selective forgetting.

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LifelongMemory: Leveraging LLMs for Answering Queries in Long-form Egocentric Videos

CoRR · 2023-12-07

LifelongMemory is a new framework for accessing long-form egocentric videographic memory through natural language question answering and retrieval.

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