mlsanityData to 19 Oct 2026

mlsanity

A map of machine learning research.

476k papers · 21 areas

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267 directions · week from Mon 19 Oct

  1. World modelsBusiest: Embodied and robot world models · Latent predictive world models · Video-generation world models and simulators112,62818
  2. LLM reasoningBusiest: Test-time compute and efficient thinking · Multimodal reasoning · Reinforcement learning for reasoning1718,12947
  3. Multimodal LLMs / vision-language modelsBusiest: VLM benchmarks and visual reasoning · Medical vision-language models · Video understanding with MLLMs1612,36016
  4. Vision-language-action modelsBusiest: Efficient VLA inference and adaptation · Tactile, force-aware and humanoid VLA · VLA for autonomous driving131,5098
  5. Retrieval-augmented generationBusiest: RAG robustness and adaptive retrieval · Medical and biomedical RAG · Legal and financial RAG154,2183
  6. Diffusion modelsBusiest: Diffusion foundations and sampling · Video generation · Discrete and text diffusion1416,57230
  7. End-to-end autonomous drivingBusiest: Reasoning VLA and VLM driving policies · Imitation-learning end-to-end planners · End-to-end system architecture92,0332
  8. LLM agents and tool useBusiest: Web, search, and research agents · Software engineering coding agents · Agent memory systems1615,83574
  9. LLM alignment / RLHF / preference optimisationBusiest: Safety alignment and jailbreak attacks · LLM preference optimization methods · Reward modeling and RLHF105,32213
  10. Mixture-of-expertsBusiest: MoE large language models · Efficient MoE training and inference systems · Vision mixture-of-experts122,60710
  11. State-space sequence models (S4, Mamba)Busiest: Mamba for medical image analysis · Core SSM architectures for language · Vision Mamba backbones101,5301
  12. Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMsBusiest: Self-evolving LLM agents · LLM synthetic data generation · Self-play RL for reasoning131,6265
  13. Offline RL and imitation learning from dataBusiest: Offline RL algorithms · Robot manipulation imitation learning · Language-conditioned policies and VLAs133,7876
  14. Efficient LLM inference and servingBusiest: Speculative decoding · Prompt and context compression · KV cache optimization123,1869
  15. LLM safety and securityBusiest: Safety alignment, refusal and guardrails · Prompt injection and agent security · Jailbreaking126,76517
  16. Mechanistic interpretabilityBusiest: Activation steering methods · SAE features and their applications · Circuits and mechanistic analysis131,5916
  17. Knowledge distillationBusiest: On-policy and self-distillation for LLMs · Detection and dense prediction distillation · General knowledge distillation methods123,51314
  18. Deep reinforcement learning methodsBusiest: Deep RL algorithms and representations · Multi-agent reinforcement learning · RL for robot navigation and UAV control157,50923
  19. 3D reconstruction and neural renderingBusiest: 3D Gaussian splatting methods · 3D scene stylization · Neural radiance field methods157,1414
  20. LLM pre-training data and scaling lawsBusiest: Data mixtures and data selection · Optimizers and stability in LLM pre-training · Pre-training corpora and quality filtering85971
  21. Speech and audio language modelsBusiest: Speech recognition models and training · Multilingual and low-resource ASR · ASR evaluation, bias and atypical speech118,98015