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đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving

đŸ’Ŧ HackerNews Buzz: 66 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
đŸŽ¯ Logical reasoning with LLMs â€ĸ Evaluating LLM capabilities â€ĸ Integrating symbolic and statistical AI
đŸ’Ŧ "The natural source of doubt is: who's going to read a bunch of SMT rules manually and be able to accurately double-check them against real-world understanding?" â€ĸ "LLMs are statistical language models (d'uh) not reasoners after all."
🔄 OPEN SOURCE

Huawei SINQ quantization method

+++ New quantization method cuts LLM memory by up to 70% and runs 30x faster than AWQ, no calibration data needed. Open source, so we'll know soon enough. +++

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss

📊 DATA

Claude 4.5 Sonnet takes #1 in LMArena, the first Anthropic model since Sonnet 3.5 to be #1

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
đŸ’Ŧ Reddit Discussion: 47 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
đŸŽ¯ AI model comparisons â€ĸ Benchmark limitations â€ĸ Subjective user experience
đŸ’Ŧ "Gemini is great. Just useful for specific kinds of things." â€ĸ "I don't care what the metrics say."
🤖 AI MODELS

Open source text-to-image Hunyuan 3.0 by Tencent is now #1 in LMArena, Beating proprietary models like Nano Banana and SeeDream 4 for the first time

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
đŸ’Ŧ Reddit Discussion: 12 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
đŸŽ¯ Text-to-Image Arena Rankings â€ĸ LMArena Credibility â€ĸ Community Skepticism
đŸ’Ŧ "it's literally the leaderboard" â€ĸ "im pretty sure their arena rankings are made with random\[.\]org"
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding

"Video understanding in multimodal language models remains limited by context length: models often miss key transition frames and struggle to maintain coherence across long time scales. To address this, we adapt Native Sparse Attention (NSA) to video-language models. Our method, VideoNSA, adapts Qwen..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Self-Forcing++: Towards Minute-Scale High-Quality Video Generation

"Diffusion models have revolutionized image and video generation, achieving unprecedented visual quality. However, their reliance on transformer architectures incurs prohibitively high computational costs, particularly when extending generation to long videos. Recent work has explored autoregressive..."
đŸŽ¯ PRODUCT

OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third

đŸĸ BUSINESS

Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Most interesting/useful paper to come out of mechanistic interpretability for a while: a streaming hallucination detector that flags hallucinations in real-time.

"Some quotes from the author that I found insightful about the paper: Most prior hallucination detection work has focused on simple factual questions with short answers, but real-world LLM usage increasingly involves long and complex responses where hallucinations are much harder to detect. Traine..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

F2LLM Technical Report: Matching SOTA Embedding Performance with 6 Million Open-Source Data

"We introduce F2LLM - Foundation to Feature Large Language Models, a suite of state-of-the-art embedding models in three sizes: 0.6B, 1.7B, and 4B. Unlike previous top-ranking embedding models that require massive contrastive pretraining, sophisticated training pipelines, and costly synthetic trainin..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Scaling Agents for Computer Use

"Computer-use agents (CUAs) hold promise for automating everyday digital tasks, but their unreliability and high variance hinder their application to long-horizon, complex tasks. We introduce Behavior Best-of-N (bBoN), a method that scales over agents by generating multiple rollouts and selecting amo..."
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Simple LLM VRAM calculator for model inference

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

[R] New paper shows that draws in LLM battles aren't what you think

"Arena evals (e.g., Chatbot Arena) let users pick which model's response is better, or call it a draw. Most leaderboards then shove this into Elo, same as chess. The assumption: a draw = two models are equally strong. The paper ["Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Aren..."
đŸ’Ŧ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐝 BUZZING
đŸŽ¯ Evaluator's decision â€ĸ Modeling preferences â€ĸ Comparing LLM capabilities
đŸ’Ŧ "a draw = two models are equally strong" â€ĸ "difficult examples and 'tail events' are underrepresented"
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Tree-based Dialogue Reinforced Policy Optimization for Red-Teaming Attacks

"Despite recent rapid progress in AI safety, current large language models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks in multi-turn interaction settings, where attackers strategically adapt their prompts across conversation turns and pose a more critical yet realistic challenge. Existing approaches tha..."
🚀 STARTUP

AI inference chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to establish 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far

🚀 STARTUP

Sources: former Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional

đŸ› ī¸ TOOLS

Llmswap: Avoid LLM vendor lock-in – 10 providers with top LMArena models

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Paper Page – Regression Language Models for Code

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

The Reasoning Boundary Paradox: How Reinforcement Learning Constrains Language Models

"Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a key method for improving Large Language Models' reasoning capabilities, yet recent evidence suggests it may paradoxically shrink the reasoning boundary rather than expand it. This paper investigates the shrinkage issue of RLVR by..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL

"With the rapid advancement of AI-generated videos, there is an urgent need for effective detection tools to mitigate societal risks such as misinformation and reputational harm. In addition to accurate classification, it is essential that detection models provide interpretable explanations to ensure..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

KaVa: Latent Reasoning via Compressed KV-Cache Distillation

"Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at multi-step reasoning problems with explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), but verbose traces incur significant computational costs and memory overhead, and often carry redundant, stylistic artifacts. Latent reasoning has emerged as an efficient alternative that intern..."
🤖 AI MODELS

Google's Jules enters as AI coding agent competition heats up

📈 BENCHMARKS

Evaluating Coding Agents with Terminal-Bench 2.0

đŸĨ HEALTHCARE

New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work

đŸ’Ŧ HackerNews Buzz: 28 comments 🐝 BUZZING
đŸŽ¯ Drug discovery using AI â€ĸ Validation of AI predictions â€ĸ Limitations of AI models
đŸ’Ŧ "AI can also provide mechanistic explanations, which are critical for moving a molecule through the development pipeline." â€ĸ "Currently, we can't just assume that these AI models are totally right, but the notion that it could be right took the guesswork out of our next steps."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems

"Reasoning requires going beyond pattern matching or memorization of solutions to identify and implement "algorithmic procedures" that can be used to deduce answers to hard problems. Doing so requires realizing the most relevant primitives, intermediate results, or shared procedures, and building upo..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Explore Briefly, Then Decide: Mitigating LLM Overthinking via Cumulative Entropy Regulation

"Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities on complex problems using long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, they often suffer from overthinking, meaning generating unnecessarily lengthy reasoning steps for simpler problems. This issue may degrade the effic..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

From Behavioral Performance to Internal Competence: Interpreting Vision-Language Models with VLM-Lens

"We introduce VLM-Lens, a toolkit designed to enable systematic benchmarking, analysis, and interpretation of vision-language models (VLMs) by supporting the extraction of intermediate outputs from any layer during the forward pass of open-source VLMs. VLM-Lens provides a unified, YAML-configurable i..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

AccurateRAG: A Framework for Building Accurate Retrieval-Augmented Question-Answering Applications

"We introduce AccurateRAG -- a novel framework for constructing high-performance question-answering applications based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Our framework offers a pipeline for development efficiency with tools for raw dataset processing, fine-tuning data generation, text embedding..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Test-Time Anchoring for Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling

"We study the problem of posterior sampling using pretrained discrete diffusion foundation models, aiming to recover images from noisy measurements without retraining task-specific models. While diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, most advances rely on continuous..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Parallel Scaling Law: Unveiling Reasoning Generalization through A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

"Recent advancements in Reinforcement Post-Training (RPT) have significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), sparking increased interest in the generalization of RL-based reasoning. While existing work has primarily focused on investigating its generalization across tasks..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Experience

"Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training discards rollout experiences after a single update, leading to computational inefficiency and instability. While prior work..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Arena-Style LLM Evaluation

"In arena-style evaluation of large language models (LLMs), two LLMs respond to a user query, and the user chooses the winning response or deems the "battle" a draw, resulting in an adjustment to the ratings of both models. The prevailing approach for modeling these rating dynamics is to view battles..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Addressing Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods for Natural Language Generation

"Hallucinations are a common issue that undermine the reliability of large language models (LLMs). Recent studies have identified a specific subset of hallucinations, known as confabulations, which arise due to predictive uncertainty of LLMs. To detect confabulations, various methods for estimating p..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models

"We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are available. This problem is motivated by growing concerns about model..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Continual Personalization for Diffusion Models

"Updating diffusion models in an incremental setting would be practical in real-world applications yet computationally challenging. We present a novel learning strategy of Concept Neuron Selection (CNS), a simple yet effective approach to perform personalization in a continual learning scheme. CNS un..."
🔒 SECURITY

Unsexy AI Failures: The PDF That Broke ChatGPT

💰 FUNDING

OpenAI now worth $500B, most valuable startup in history

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Equilibrium Matching: Generative Modeling with Implicit Energy-Based Models

"We introduce Equilibrium Matching (EqM), a generative modeling framework built from an equilibrium dynamics perspective. EqM discards the non-equilibrium, time-conditional dynamics in traditional diffusion and flow-based generative models and instead learns the equilibrium gradient of an implicit en..."
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