Lossfunk Letters

Are You Getting The Best Version of Your LLM?

We investigate how language and culture are entangled in LLMs

Feb 18 • Shourya

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Teaching morality to transformers

We train a custom transformers architecture on MIT Moral Machine data and run interpretability experiments on it

Feb 5 • Mayank Goel

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January 2026

Can an AI actually be your research mentor?

An AI research mentor that moves undergrads from "I have no idea" to a paper draft, with stage-aware guidance, tools, and measurable gains.

Jan 21 • Abhinav Rajeev Kumar

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Why LLMs Aren't Scientists Yet

Case study from four attempts at autonomous research and getting an AI-written paper published at an experimental conference.

Jan 9 • Dhruv Trehan

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December 2025

Dreaming Is the New Thinking

The next leap in intelligence won’t purely come from bigger models, it’ll come from machines that can imagine their own futures.

Dec 19, 2025 • Akshat Singh Jaswal

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November 2025

Your LLM is a confused oracle

We show that the forecasting accuracy of LLMs depends on what you ask and how you ask

Nov 26, 2025 • Chinmay and Paras Chopra

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Future of LLMs might not be Autoregressive

Intro to the world of block diffusion

Nov 24, 2025 • Ayush Nangia and Aman Gokrani

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Sequential scaling outperforms parallel scaling for LLMs

AI reasoning just got a upgrade: At the same compute cost, sequential thinking—iteratively refining ideas—beats parallel "crowdsourcing" in 95.6% of…

Nov 6, 2025 • Aman Sharma

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October 2025

Notes on Tiny Recursion Network

aka how a 7M parameter network gets SOTA on Sudoku-Extreme with 87% accuracy

Oct 31, 2025 • Paras Chopra

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Do LLMs know when they've gotten a correct answer?

We show they do and then use it to help cut reasoning cost (in tokens) by up to 50% without losing accuracy

Oct 29, 2025 • Aman Sharma

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How do LLMs "think" across languages

Performance of LLMs differ based on language on reasoning tasks and this difference varies for each task.

Oct 28, 2025 • Shourya

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What's the point of doing research?

The fun of the struggle is the point

Oct 17, 2025 • Paras Chopra

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