# Journal Club

> Welcome to our Journal Club! Here, we discuss papers that we find interesting and relevant to our research interests and use-cases. The papers are selected by the team and are presented by members each week! Additionally, a different team member records notes on what was discussed.

- Authors: Bevaya AI Team
- Published: 2023-01-17
- Source: Bevaya Labs, <https://labs.bevaya.ai/post/journal_club/>

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## 📊 Weekly Tracking

| Date       | Paper                                                                                                                   | Presenter | Note Taker | Discussion Notes                         |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| 2025-08-22 | [GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01006)                                                      | Yosh      | Ben        | [notes](glm.md)                          |
| 2025-08-15 | [On the Generalization of SFT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05629)                                                        | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](dft.md)                          |
| 2025-08-08 | [Generative Verifiers: Reward Modeling as Next-Token Prediction](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15240)                      | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](genrm.md)                        |
| 2025-07-11 | [SingLoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05566)                                                                            | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](singlora.md)                     |
| 2025-06-20 | [Reflect, Retry, Reward: Self-Improving LLMs via Reinforcement Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24726)              | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](reflect-retry-reward.md)         |
| 2025-06-13 | [The Illusion of Thinking](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06941)                                                            | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](illusion.md)                                         |
| 2025-05-30 | [The Leaderboard Illusion](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879)                                                            | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](leaderboard-illusion.md)         |
| 2025-05-23 | [Beyond the Last Answer: Your Reasoning Trace Uncovers More than You Think](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20708)           | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](beyond-the-last-answer.md)       |
| 2025-05-16 | [xRAG: Extreme Context Compression for Retrieval-augmented Generation with One Token](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13792) | Olivia    | Hunter     | [notes](xrag.md)                         |
| 2025-05-09 | [Absolute Zero](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335)                                                                       | Yosh      | Ben        | [notes](absolute-zero.md)                |
| 2025-05-02 | [Tina: Tiny Reasoning Models via LoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15777)                                                | Hunter    |            | [notes](tina.md)                         |
| 2025-04-25 | [Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.453/)                | Hunter    | Yosh       | [notes](byte-latent-transformer.md)      |
| 2025-04-18 | [Unintentional Unalignment: Likelihood Displacement in DPO](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08847)                           | Nikhil    | Yosh       | [notes](unintentional-unalignment.md)    |
| 2025-04-11 | [PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01848)                        | Hunter    |            | [notes](paperbench.md)                   |
| 2025-04-04 | [DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14476)                     | Yosh      | Hunter     | [notes](dapo.md)                         |
| 2025-03-28 | [SimpleRL-Zoo](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18892)                                                                        | Hunter    | Ben        | [notes](simplerlzoo.md)                  |
| 2025-03-21 | [LADDER](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00735)                                                                              | Hunter    | Yosh       | [notes](ladder.md)                       |
| 2025-03-14 | [InftyThink](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06692)                                                                          | Yosh      | Ben        | [notes](inftythink.md)                   |
| 2025-03-07 | [Visual-RFT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01785)                                                                          | Yosh      | Hunter     | [notes](visual-rft.md)                   |
| 2025-02-28 | [SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17161)                                                       | Hunter    | Yosh       | [notes](sft-memorizes-rl-generalizes.md) |
| 2025-02-21 | [Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171)                                  | Nikhil    |            |                                          |
| 2025-02-07 | [DeepSeek-R1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948)                                                                         | Nikhil    |            |                                          |
| 2025-01-24 | [rStar-math](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04519)                                                                          | Hunter    |            |                                          |
| 2025-01-17 | [DeepSeek-V2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04434)                                                                         | Hunter    |            |                                          |
| 2025-01-10 | [DeepSeekMath](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300)                                                                        | Hunter    |            |                                          |
| 2025-01-03 | [ModernBERT](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.127/)                                                               | Hunter    |            | [notes](modernbert.md)                   |


## 📶 Presentation Stats

| Team Member | Presentations | Notes | Sum |
| ----------- | ------------- | ----- | --- |
| Hunter      | 17            | 3     | 20  |
| Nikhil      | 3             | 0     | 3   |
| Yosh        | 5             | 4     | 9   |
| Olivia      | 1             | 0     | 1   |
| Ben         | 0             | 11    | 11  |



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