Alexi Gladstone ✓

@AlexiGlad

ASI whisperer. Working on EBTs/EBMs, XMs, Generative Modeling, World Models, Reasoning. PhD @ UIUC. Prev @flappyairplanes @Meta, @PalantirTech

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

@AlexiGlad We did this in DeltaWorld, called it BoM. Cool to see that it can improve a DiT! My hesitation is that BoM alone can’t scale to many modes, and doesn’t guarantee noise space coverage. Your Reverse XM is interesting, but wouldn’t it incentivize memorization over general 7.1K views · 34 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

P.S. Every single one of these results was predicted in advance by Mode Forcing, a unifying and predictive theory of generative modeling. That paper drops soon! If you work on image gen, video gen, world models, robot policies, or MDLMs, exploration should be a drop-in 13.6K views · 165 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[10/N] Website: https://t.co/rKTx0sZq2j Paper: https://t.co/hGV6QaWdeC GitHub: https://t.co/gob266aL4j Hugging Face: https://t.co/qvjctxpKRG Huge thanks to @du_yilun, @hengjinlp, @LaudeInstitute, Flapping Airplanes, @bradenjhancock, @k_tighe @HessianFree and so many others for h

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[8/N] Does exploration also help generalization? During generative pretraining, the same input often gets different valid targets. To a model that can only predict one thing, this looks like noise, and fitting noise is memorization. With exploration, each prediction commits to

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[9/N] How end-to-end can generative models actually become with exploration? There are two ways to handle the many-valid-outputs problem: decompose generation (existing approaches), or decompose training, which is Explorative Modeling. It turns out these are interchangeable, h

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[6/N] How do gains from exploration change with scale? They grow. 7%→36% as data scales. 13%→23% as models scale. Efficiency gains more than doubled when we tripled compute. There's a cool reason for this. For the past decade we’ve scaled parameters, which set what a model htt

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[7/N] Does this hold beyond images? We tested video generation and Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs), alongside the image models from above. In all three, more exploration monotonically improved performance. Some video models improved by over 20%, and MDLMs improved http

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[5/N] Exploration doesn't just enable end-to-end models, it turns out existing generative models may also need exploration... Breaking down generation doesn't always solve averaging, as each step's prediction can still face many valid outputs at once. Because of this, even ~SOTA

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[4/N] What happens as models explore more? We trained fully end-to-end models (no breaking generation into steps) on 2D data, images, and text, varying only the amount of exploration K. At K=1 (no exploration), you get the averaging problem where models predict a single dot, a

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[3/N] Can we avoid breaking down generation? Generative models only have two processes to decompose: generation and training. If we can’t decompose generation, the only thing left to decompose is training… So that's what we do. At each training step, the model generates K https

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

[2/N] How do existing generative models solve this problem? They break down generation into many small steps, so each step has essentially one right output and there is nothing to average. Autoregressive LLMs predict one token at a time. Diffusion denoises a little at a time. h

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

Project Page: https://t.co/rKTx0sZq2j [1/N] Why is generative modeling hard? "Generate a dog" has billions of valid outputs. So training a model to directly predict dog images gives you the average of them all, which is just a brown blur. Capturing all those valid outputs, htt

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Alexi Gladstone ✓@AlexiGlad31 Jul

We discovered a third pretraining axis beyond parameters and data: exploration. Scaling exploration monotonically improves existing models across images/video/language, and unlocks end-to-end generation. In the simplest case, it's just a for loop. Introducing Explorative https

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