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Stanford University research papers

A university publishing mostly on agents and evaluation, best known here for Direct Preference Optimization.12 papers · 17,673 citations · latest Oct 2026

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ReasoningUnverifiedOct 13, 2026Hybrid Reasoning AgentsThis paper introduces an agent architecture that dynamically switches between latent reasoning and text-based interaction to improve performance and inference speed.Stanford University41 upvotesRead →ReasoningUnverifiedOct 8, 2026Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not ToThis paper shows that explicit controls often fail to stop LLMs from generating internal reasoning traces, a phenomenon the authors call thinking inertia.Stanford University244 upvotesRead →Agents and evaluationUnverifiedOct 6, 2026Stateless Language Agents: Scaling Long-Horizon Automated ResearchThis paper introduces a framework where agents remain stateless, allowing a central harness to manage research state and improve long-horizon task efficiency.Stanford University1 citations30 upvotesRead →Multimodal and roboticsUnverifiedSep 17, 2026FAMOS: Feed-Forward 3D Articulation Modeling from Sparse ObservationsFAMOS is a feed-forward model that predicts articulated object motion from sparse point cloud observations.Stanford University40 upvotesRead →Alignment and safetyUnverifiedJul 30, 2026AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model ApplicationsAISPA is a framework for auditing system prompts in commercial AI products to ensure they are protective of users.Stanford University36 upvotesRead →Agents and evaluationUnverifiedApr 28, 2026Recursive Multi-Agent SystemsRecursiveMAS extends recursive scaling principles from single models to multi-agent systems, enabling collaborative reasoning through iterative latent-space computations with improved efficiency and accuracy.Stanford University12 citations235 upvotesRead →Foundation modelsUnverifiedMar 19, 2026Multi-User Large Language Model AgentsMulti-user large language model agents face challenges in handling conflicting objectives, privacy preservation, and coordination efficiency in multi-principal decision-making scenarios.Stanford University9 citations28 upvotesRead →Retrieval and dataUnverifiedJan 22, 2026Learning to Discover at Test TimeTest-time training enables AI systems to discover optimal solutions for specific scientific problems through continual learning focused on individual challenges rather than generalization.Stanford University118 citations45 upvotesRead →Agents and evaluationUnverifiedOct 7, 2025In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool UseAgentFlow, a trainable agentic framework with in-the-flow optimization, enhances reasoning in large language models by coordinating specialized modules and outperforms top baselines across various tasks.Stanford University76 citations113 upvotesRead →Inference and efficiencyUnverifiedOct 1, 2025LongCodeZip: Compress Long Context for Code Language ModelsLongCodeZip is a code compression framework for LLMs that uses dual-stage compression to reduce context size without degrading performance, improving efficiency in code intelligence applications.Stanford University54 citations77 upvotesRead →Alignment and safetyMay 29, 2023Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward ModelDPO aligns a model to human preferences with a simple classification loss, no reward model or RL loop.Stanford University11.6k citations73 upvotesRead →Inference and efficiencyMay 27, 2022FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-AwarenessFlashAttention computes exact attention with far fewer GPU memory reads and writes, making long sequences faster.Stanford University5,830 citations16 upvotesRead →
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Topics: Agents and evaluation 3, Reasoning 2, Alignment and safety 2, Inference and efficiency 2, Multimodal and robotics 1, Foundation models 1, Retrieval and data 1

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