Paper Discussion - Take a Step Back, Test-Time CoT, LLMs as Optimizers and LMs Beats Diffusions

Junqi Qu Ph.D. Student Florida State University

July 08, 2025

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Papers Discussed

• Language Model Beats Diffusion – Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation
• Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models
• MuSR: Testing the Limits of Chain-of-thought with Multistep Soft Reasoning
• Large Language Models as Optimizers

Slides

• part-1
• part-2
• part-3
• part-4