The focus of LLM research is undergoing a significant shift from simply increasing model size to making existing capabilities practically usable for deployment. This week’s papers highlight four emerging themes: Reasoning & Agents, Generation & Synthesis, LLM Decisions, and Structured Episodic Memory. The overarching goal is to solve the real-world bottlenecks of agentic systems, such as high inference costs, trajectory instability, and the reliability of self-reported confidence.

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