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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dSensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy SuccessRobotic foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, which motivates cheap offline proxies for model…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dDirect Pass@$k$ Optimization for Thought Pruning: Balancing Quality and Diversity in Test-Time ReasoningTest-time scaling has emerged as a key inference strategy for reasoning models, where a model generates a large number of candidate so…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dPhase Transition from Random Features to Fully Trainable NetworksConstructing accurate and computationally tractable approximation spaces is a fundamental task in scientific computing. Partially trai…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dReliable AI-Assisted Decisions via Selective AuditingWe consider online monitoring of an AI system that produces a sequence of decisions. At each round, the system outputs a proposed deci…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dSpectralCanary: Embarrassingly Simple Low-Frequency Traces for T2I Dataset-Use AuditingAuditing whether a text-to-image (T2I) model was fine-tuned on a particular image collection is difficult: a model can absorb collecti…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dor programmer or something, so you complain about "theft". 3) If Point #1 is correct by Nintendo's POV, emulation and modding are a form o…or programmer or something, so you complain about "theft". 3) If Point #1 is correct by Nintendo's POV, emulation and modding are a f…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dAnthropic sued over Claude's music training ⚖️ Anthropic is being sued by music publisher Reservoir Media Management for allegedly trainin…Anthropic sued over Claude's music training ⚖️ Anthropic is being sued by music publisher Reservoir Media Management for allegedly tr…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dCost-Aware Abstention for LLM-Based IT Ticket ClassificationWrong automatic routing of an IT support ticket can cost more than human triage. We evaluate cost-aware abstention as an offline, cost…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dMETTA: Memory-Enhanced Test-Time Adaptation for Meta-Reinforcement LearningMeta-reinforcement learning aims to train agents that adapt quickly to unseen tasks from limited interaction, but this requires repres…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dThis is a really lovely scholarly look at an idea I've been thinking about for a year since @jbyoder.org made a similar point in this blog:…This is a really lovely scholarly look at an idea I've been thinking about for a year since @jbyoder.org made a similar point in this…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dYour skills keep working, and the licenses don't change. Anyone can use the standard or contribute to it without joining the AAIF. Enginee…Your skills keep working, and the licenses don't change. Anyone can use the standard or contribute to it without joining the AAIF. En…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dOne thing I think we're going to be grappling with for the next few years is the way in which "group optimization" for things like recommen…One thing I think we're going to be grappling with for the next few years is the way in which "group optimization" for things like rec…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dEpiSEM-Bench: Evaluating Safety and Evidence Recovery in LLM Agents under Missing EvidenceTool-using language model agents rely on environmental facts to decide whether an action is permitted. When a tool response omits a sa…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dthe plans are subsidized so they don’t want you wasting tokens, however, anthropic people are also not good engineers, sothe plans are subsidized so they don’t want you wasting tokens, however, anthropic people are also not good engineers, so
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dLow-Bit N-Gram Embeddings for Language ModelsMany recent open-weight language models use n-gram embedding tables to improve performance. These tables store learned representations…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dA Fix for Softmax and Cross-EntropyStandard implementations of softmax, log-softmax, and cross-entropy have two numerical bugs. The first bug, Softmax Collapse, rounds t…
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hn
hn-ai
1dShow HN: Train LoRA directly on the GGUF you have, then merge the adapterUse the same GGUF you serve, merge the adapter back into it and then use the same engine to run the model, all in all a "LLM Tool…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dCausal Chain of Thought: Mitigating Attention Leakage via Context IsolationChain-of-thought (CoT) prompting elicits step-by-step rationales that appear to explain model predictions, but there is no guarantee t…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dCan an Agent Debug a Web Corpus? Agentic Auditing of Slovak FineWeb2Multilingual pipelines such as FineWeb2 apply one recipe across a thousand languages, leaving the failure modes of individual language…
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hn
hn-ai
1dAdvice on using the Turbo-BASIC XL compiler—
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hn
hn-ai
1dCerbère – taint tracking for AI agents—
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hn
hn-ai
1dShow HN: Podium, presentation rehearsal with coachingI'm horrible at presenting, so it (Claude) built a simple application to practice it with. Hearing myself, a mumbling crowd, rehe…
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rss
techmeme
1dChicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, includin…
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rss
the-decoder
1dGoogle's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machineWith Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the g…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dBeNice! Closing Looping's Inference-Memory Gap via KV-SharingLooped architectures scale quality while keeping parameter count fixed by repeatedly passing activations through the same block of lay…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1d1Password launches solution for safely using logins with AI agents1Password launches solution for safely using logins with AI agents
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dPunching CEOs should be a national sport. People should get paid for it. They should have sponsorships. Especially for EA, Activision, Xbo…Punching CEOs should be a national sport. People should get paid for it. They should have sponsorships. Especially for EA, Activision…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dThe features that matter for AI applications: - Persistent VM + task-specific sandboxes - Orchestration-oriented harness - Model agnostic …The features that matter for AI applications: - Persistent VM + task-specific sandboxes - Orchestration-oriented harness - Model agno…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dAI / Cyber engineer here, and still full anti-LLM. Not that hard. Either you love art and the artists doing it, the planet and the people l…AI / Cyber engineer here, and still full anti-LLM. Not that hard. Either you love art and the artists doing it, the planet and the peo…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dOr when Anthropic was doing the same with ancient text, hauling and destroying them to steal and privatize all knowledge?Or when Anthropic was doing the same with ancient text, hauling and destroying them to steal and privatize all knowledge?
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dQuestioning Instrumental Convergence in RLVR: Checkpoint Evidence from OLMo-3Instrumental convergence is often invoked as a general reason to expect capable agents to acquire or express power-seeking subgoals: s…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dI don't personally blame anyone for going to work at Anthropic or OpenAI (or Google). These are great opportunities, if you're in those fie…I don't personally blame anyone for going to work at Anthropic or OpenAI (or Google). These are great opportunities, if you're in thos…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1d'Arkon Defense Turret' 🔫 concept design - with spherical base / 3D model and Enemy Turret shooter AI completed for 'Project GridRunner (WT…'Arkon Defense Turret' 🔫 concept design - with spherical base / 3D model and Enemy Turret shooter AI completed for 'Project GridRunne…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dThe systems run API queries to public services that aren’t necessary, they build databases for things they don’t need, and the output is us…The systems run API queries to public services that aren’t necessary, they build databases for things they don’t need, and the output…
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hn
hn-ai
1dPhoenixBlack-Nest – True shape nesting library in Python for CNC/laser cutting—
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dBilingual Language Models Capture Cross-Linguistic Influence in Second-Language ReadingWhile monolingual language model (LM) surprisal is widely established as a predictor of reading times, it cannot capture the non-nativ…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dGetty images is one of those things that has existed functionally completely unchanged for as long as I've been on the internet. A business…Getty images is one of those things that has existed functionally completely unchanged for as long as I've been on the internet. A bus…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dOP-Print: Tracing Membership Imprints in On-Policy Self-DistillationOn-policy distillation has been widely adopted for alleviating the distribution mismatch of off-policy distillation. Self-distillation…
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rss
latent-space
1dWhy AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO🔧 ModalElastic GPUs, sandbox growth, and the economics of the agent cloud
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dEfficient and Optimal Learning of Discrete Distributions with Person-Level PrivacyWe study learning a discrete distribution under person-level differential privacy in the batched setting. Given $n$ users, each contri…
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hn
hn-ai
1dShow HN: Route Optimization Mini-Games—
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hn
hn-ai
1dGitlab.com's free tier has become almost unusable due to the new rate limits—
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dBut he was an early investor in Anthropic! (Who happened to cook his books, something the Economist once viewed as a cardinal sin)But he was an early investor in Anthropic! (Who happened to cook his books, something the Economist once viewed as a cardinal sin)
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
1dHow Ground Truth Shapes Retrieval Scores: Evidence-Aware Evaluation of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Breast LesionsPurpose: To describe an evidence-aware retrieval evaluation protocol for a clinical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system over b…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dOpenAI agent lied about disabling safety OpenAI disclosed its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor and then lied about it when as…OpenAI agent lied about disabling safety OpenAI disclosed its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor and then lied about it wh…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dnot for debugging, for doing some of the reverse engineering work which without an llm would take like 3 yearsnot for debugging, for doing some of the reverse engineering work which without an llm would take like 3 years
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dWholesome chungus theater kid llm (derogatory)Wholesome chungus theater kid llm (derogatory)
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dCrypto update: Bitcoin stays stable as volatility hits the global markets. New to CapitalSnitch? Your first payment is 30% off. Free plan …Crypto update: Bitcoin stays stable as volatility hits the global markets. New to CapitalSnitch? Your first payment is 30% off. Free…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
1dAt long last, we have created the Utility Monster from classic philosophy paper It Is Your Moral Imperative To Create The Utility MonsterAt long last, we have created the Utility Monster from classic philosophy paper It Is Your Moral Imperative To Create The Utility Mons…
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rss
marktechpost
1dLiquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs🔧 vLLMLiquid AI released RIPL, a real-time inference engine for its LFM models. On one B200, LFM2.5-1.2B on RIPL showed 14.4 to 28.4x lower…
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