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Autoregressive pretraining increasingly draws on heterogeneous data, making it important to understand how a model learns from an individual token. The next-token prediction objective naturally identifies a token's contribution with its own loss. However, each token is not only a prediction target but also context for …
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Recent vision-language-action (VLA) policies demonstrate promising generalization across diverse short-horizon tasks. However, they remain unreliable on long-horizon tasks, partly because the large-scale training data is biased toward single-stage manipulation tasks that are cheaper to demonstrate. A single weak atomic …
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Human-feedback alignment has made language models useful assistants and is commonly described as aligning them with humans. However, the responses people prefer from an AI need not be the responses they themselves would give. We distinguish alignment with human preferences from alignment with human behavior, and show t …