Large Language Models

Curated 550+ free AI tools useful for building projects (LLMs, APIs, local models, RAG, agents)

Over the last few days I was collecting free or low cost AI tools that are actually useful if you want to build stuff, not just try rando...

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[2509.26324] COMRES-VLM: Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration and Search using Vision Language Models

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.26324: COMRES-VLM: Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration and Search using Vision Language Models

[2509.23365] Emergence of Superposition: Unveiling the Training Dynamics of Chain of Continuous Thought

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.23365: Emergence of Superposition: Unveiling the Training Dynamics of Chain of Continuous Thought

[2509.25837] Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.25837: Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching

[2509.25532] Calibrating Verbalized Confidence with Self-Generated Distractors

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.25532: Calibrating Verbalized Confidence with Self-Generated Distractors

[2509.25390] SpinBench: Perspective and Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.25390: SpinBench: Perspective and Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs

[2509.22957] Doubly-Robust LLM-as-a-Judge: Externally Valid Estimation with Imperfect Personas

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.22957: Doubly-Robust LLM-as-a-Judge: Externally Valid Estimation with Imperfect Personas

[2509.25175] EasySteer: A Unified Framework for High-Performance and Extensible LLM Steering

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.25175: EasySteer: A Unified Framework for High-Performance and Extensible LLM Steering

[2509.25087] Scaling with Collapse: Efficient and Predictable Training of LLM Families

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.25087: Scaling with Collapse: Efficient and Predictable Training of LLM Families

[2509.24385] Vid-LLM: A Compact Video-based 3D Multimodal LLM with Reconstruction-Reasoning Synergy

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.24385: Vid-LLM: A Compact Video-based 3D Multimodal LLM with Reconstruction-Reasoning Synergy

[2509.24282] SimuHome: A Temporal- and Environment-Aware Benchmark for Smart Home LLM Agents

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.24282: SimuHome: A Temporal- and Environment-Aware Benchmark for Smart Home LLM Agents

[2509.24245] Prompt and Parameter Co-Optimization for Large Language Models

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.24245: Prompt and Parameter Co-Optimization for Large Language Models

[2509.24203] Group-Relative REINFORCE Is Secretly an Off-Policy Algorithm: Demystifying Some Myths About GRPO and Its Friends

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.24203: Group-Relative REINFORCE Is Secretly an Off-Policy Algorithm: Demystifying Some Myths About GRP...

[2509.21029] FORCE: Transferable Visual Jailbreaking Attacks via Feature Over-Reliance CorrEction

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.21029: FORCE: Transferable Visual Jailbreaking Attacks via Feature Over-Reliance CorrEction

[2509.23383] Train Once, Answer All: Many Pretraining Experiments for the Cost of One

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.23383: Train Once, Answer All: Many Pretraining Experiments for the Cost of One

[2509.22611] Quantile Advantage Estimation: Stabilizing RLVR for LLM Reasoning

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.22611: Quantile Advantage Estimation: Stabilizing RLVR for LLM Reasoning

[2509.22299] HEAPr: Hessian-based Efficient Atomic Expert Pruning in Output Space

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.22299: HEAPr: Hessian-based Efficient Atomic Expert Pruning in Output Space

[2509.22134] Bridging Draft Policy Misalignment: Group Tree Optimization for Speculative Decoding

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.22134: Bridging Draft Policy Misalignment: Group Tree Optimization for Speculative Decoding

[2508.07697] Semantic-Enhanced Time-Series Forecasting via Large Language Models

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2508.07697: Semantic-Enhanced Time-Series Forecasting via Large Language Models

[2508.07638] Data Selection for LLM Alignment Using Fine-Grained Preferences

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2508.07638: Data Selection for LLM Alignment Using Fine-Grained Preferences

[2508.04097] Do Vision-Language Models Leak What They Learn? Adaptive Token-Weighted Model Inversion Attacks

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2508.04097: Do Vision-Language Models Leak What They Learn? Adaptive Token-Weighted Model Inversion Attacks