mlsanity
A map of machine learning research.
474k papers · 18 areas
Busiest: Software engineering coding agents →Areas
233 directions · week from Mon 12 Oct
- World modelsBusiest: Embodied and robot world models · Video-generation world models and simulators · World models for language agents2,62883
- LLM reasoningBusiest: Test-time compute and efficient thinking · Reinforcement learning for reasoning · Spatial and embodied reasoning18,129183
- Multimodal LLMs / vision-language modelsBusiest: Embodied and 3D vision-language models · VLM benchmarks and visual reasoning · MLLM training and visual instruction tuning12,360101
- Vision-language-action modelsBusiest: Reinforcement learning and post-training · Failure recovery and robustness · Reasoning and chain-of-thought in VLA1,50957
- Retrieval-augmented generationBusiest: RAG pipeline design and evaluation · RAG robustness and adaptive retrieval · Agentic RAG, agents and memory4,21817
- Diffusion modelsBusiest: Discrete and text diffusion · Diffusion foundations and sampling · Flow matching, time series and science16,572128
- End-to-end autonomous drivingBusiest: Generative simulation for driving · Reasoning VLA and VLM driving policies · Reinforcement learning for driving2,03316
- LLM agents and tool useBusiest: Software engineering coding agents · Reinforcement learning for LLM agents · General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks15,835328
- LLM alignment / RLHF / preference optimisationBusiest: Diffusion and multimodal model alignment · Reward hacking and misspecification · Reward modeling and RLHF5,32242
- Mixture-of-expertsBusiest: MoE large language models · MoE theory and gating functions · Efficient MoE training and inference systems2,60732
- State-space sequence models (S4, Mamba)Busiest: Core SSM architectures for language · Mamba for medical image analysis · Vision Mamba backbones1,5306
- Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMsBusiest: Self-evolving LLM agents · Self-improving MLLMs and synthetic data · Synthetic reasoning data and bootstrapping1,62622
- Offline RL and imitation learning from dataBusiest: Robot manipulation imitation learning · Imitation learning methods · Language-conditioned policies and VLAs3,78715
- Efficient LLM inference and servingBusiest: Visual token pruning in multimodal models · KV cache optimization · Speculative decoding3,18658
- LLM safety and securityBusiest: Safety alignment, refusal and guardrails · Prompt injection and agent security · Machine unlearning6,76559
- Mechanistic interpretabilityBusiest: Sparse autoencoder training and evaluation · Activation steering methods · SAE features and their applications1,59126
- Knowledge distillationBusiest: On-policy and self-distillation for LLMs · Knowledge distillation for LLMs · General knowledge distillation methods3,51349
- Deep reinforcement learning methodsBusiest: Deep RL algorithms and representations · RL theory and sample complexity · RL for robot locomotion and manipulation7,50960