📚 HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - October 08, 2025
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🔬 RESEARCH
"**Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Network**s, from Samsung Montréal by Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, shows how a **7M-parameter Tiny Recursive Model (TRM)** outperforms trillion-parameter LLMs on hard reasoning benchmarks. TRM learns by **recursively refining its own answers** using two in..."
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🎯 LLM Benchmark Criticism • Reasoning vs Non-Reasoning Models • Political Alignment/Censoring Issues
💬 "The problem with LLM benchmarks is that they can be twisted and cherry-picked"
• "The difference between reasoning vs non-reasoning is the world!"
💰 FUNDING
"Late interaction models perform shockingly well with small models. Use this method to build small domain-specific models for retrieval and more.
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🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Nevan Wichers, Aram Ebtekar, Ariana Azarbal et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 7.7
"Large language models are sometimes trained with imperfect oversight signals,
leading to undesired behaviors such as reward hacking and sycophancy. Improving
oversight quality can be expensive or infeasible, motivating methods that
improve learned behavior despite an imperfect training signal. We in..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Albert Catalan-Tatjer, Niccolò Ajroldi, Jonas Geiping
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 7.6
"While post-training quantization is widely adopted for efficient deployment
of large language models, the mechanisms underlying quantization robustness
remain unclear. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of quantization degradation
across open-source language model training trajectories up to 32B pa..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Dingyu Yao, Chenxu Yang, Zhengyang Tong et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 7.6
"The Key-Value (KV) cache introduces substantial memory overhead during large
language model (LLM) inference. Although existing vector quantization (VQ)
methods reduce KV cache usage and provide flexible representational capacity
across bit-widths, they suffer severe performance degradation at ultra-..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Mingkang Zhu, Xi Chen, Bei Yu et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 7.5
"Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate intermediate reasoning traces before
producing final answers, yielding strong gains on multi-step and mathematical
tasks. Yet aligning LRMs with human preferences, a crucial prerequisite for
model deployment, remains underexplored. The statistically correct obj..."
🛠️ TOOLS
"IBM recently released Granite Docling, a 258M parameter VLM engineered for efficient document conversion. So, I decided to build a demo which showcases the model running entirely in your browser with WebGPU acceleration. Since the model runs locally, no data is sent to a server (perfect for private ..."
🎯 WebGPU usage • PDF processing • Transformers.js
💬 "WebGPU seems to be underutilized in general"
• "granite-docling as my goto pdf processor"
🛠️ SHOW HN
🎯 Memory capabilities • IDE integration • Version history management
💬 "improve models memory capabilities"
• "Memory is hard!"
📊 DATA
"I'm a developer who got tired of synthetic benchmarks telling me which AI is "best" when my real-world experience didn't match the hype.
So I built
**CodeLens.AI** \- a community benchmark where developers submit actual code challenges, 6 models compete (GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1..."
🎯 Manipulative marketing • Transparency in advertising • Community discussion
💬 "Rallying a community and leading with transparency."
• "Trying to bootstrap the dataset - can't get more data without sharing what I have."
📈 BENCHMARKS
"Claude’s new Sonnet 4.5 model just topped the LMArena leaderboard (latest update), surpassing both Google and OpenAI models!
For those unfamiliar, LMArena is a crowdsourced platform where users compare AI models through blind tests. You chat with two anonymous models side-by-side, vote for the bett..."
🎯 AI model comparisons • AI model performance • Benchmark reliability
💬 "Gemini 2.5 Pro is one point behind, which is basically nothing."
• "It seriously feels to me, like they're running one models in benchmarks, and then try to optimize costs in publicly available versions."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Sara Kangaslahti, Nihal V. Nayak, Jonathan Geuter et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 7.0
"Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed under diverse memory and
compute constraints. Existing approaches build model families by training each
size independently, which is prohibitively expensive and provides only
coarse-grained size options. In this work, we identify a novel phenomenon..."
🔒 SECURITY
"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
🎯 Chinese government use of ChatGPT • Banning of Chinese AI models • China's oppressive regime
💬 "OpenAI is desperate to get Chinese LLMs banned because they want less competition."
• "People like pushing this narrative that China is some great place all of a sudden and not an oppressive regime that controls all aspects of your life."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.8
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is starting to transform the research process as
we know it by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the
typical AI-driven approach is (i) to generate a set of diverse solutions, and
then (ii) to verify these solutions and select one that solves the pr..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Gagan Bhatia, Somayajulu G Sripada, Kevin Allan et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.8
"Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination, the generation of
plausible yet factually incorrect statements. This work investigates the
intrinsic, architectural origins of this failure mode through three primary
contributions.First, to enable the reliable tracing of internal semantic
fai..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Runchu Tian, Junxia Cui, Xueqiang Xu et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.8
"Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising
alternative to autoregressive (AR) models, offering advantages such as
accelerated parallel decoding and bidirectional context modeling. However, the
vanilla decoding strategy in discrete dLLMs suffers from a critical limit..."
🔬 RESEARCH
🎯 Wall clock training time • Production inference integration • Model improvements
💬 "Did the difference in wall clock training time take the reduction in cold start time into account?"
• "integration to production inference, so i can switch between training and inference for continuous learning"
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Jiaru Zou, Soumya Roy, Vinay Kumar Verma et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.6
"Process Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework
for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large reasoning models (LRMs),
particularly in the context of test-time scaling (TTS). However, their
potential for supervising LRMs on tabular reasoning domains remains
underexplor..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Junlin Wang, Jue Wang, Zhen et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.6
"Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) opened up new directions for
leveraging the collective expertise of multiple LLMs. These methods, such as
Mixture-of-Agents, typically employ additional inference steps to generate
intermediate outputs, which are then used to produce the final response..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Chenxiao Yang, Cai Zhou, David Wipf et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.5
"This paper formally studies generation processes, including auto-regressive
next-token prediction and masked diffusion, that abstract beyond architectural
specifics. At this level of abstraction, we quantify their benefits and
limitations through measurable criteria such as computational hardness an..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Kuofeng Gao, Yiming Li, Chao Du et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.5
"Jailbreaking attacks on the vision modality typically rely on imperceptible
adversarial perturbations, whereas attacks on the textual modality are
generally assumed to require visible modifications (e.g., non-semantic
suffixes). In this paper, we introduce imperceptible jailbreaks that exploit a
cla..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Siheng Zhao, Yanjie Ze, Yue Wang et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.5
"Humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation promises transformative capabilities
for daily service and warehouse tasks. While recent advances in general motion
tracking (GMT) have enabled humanoids to reproduce diverse human motions, these
policies lack the precision and object awareness required for
loco..."
🔒 SECURITY
"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
🎯 ChatGPT Capabilities • Community Discussions • Technical Limitations
💬 "It sounds like you're carrying a lot right now."
• "I love you, ChatGPT."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Weiliang Zhao, Jinjun Peng, Daniel Ben-Levi et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.4
"The proliferation of powerful large language models (LLMs) has necessitated
robust safety alignment, yet these models remain vulnerable to evolving
adversarial attacks, including multi-turn jailbreaks that iteratively search
for successful queries. Current defenses, primarily reactive and static, of..."
🛠️ TOOLS
"**TL;DR:** I've been experimenting with prompt frameworks to make models self-audit and reason more freely - here is the result:
github.com/Xayan/Rules.txt
Hello,
I have released a project I've been successfully using for past few months to get LLMs to discuss..."
🎯 Western moral values • Classical liberalism • Anti-censorship
💬 "Ah yes, Western moral values."
• "I see what you are trying to do but you just censor the ai so it fits your opinion more."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Jan Cegin, Branislav Pecher, Ivan Srba et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.3
"LLMs are powerful generators of synthetic data, which are used for training
smaller, specific models. This is especially valuable for low-resource
languages, where human-labelled data is scarce but LLMs can still produce
high-quality text. However, LLMs differ in how useful their outputs are for
tra..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Mingkang Zhu, Xi Chen, Bei Yu et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.3
"Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools such as
search engines to solve complex, multi-step problems, and reinforcement
learning (RL) has become a key paradigm for training them. However, the
trajectories of search agents are structurally heterogeneous, where variations..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Kangyu Wang, Zhiyun Jiang, Haibo Feng et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.3
"Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text through iterative
denoising steps, achieving parallel decoding by denoising only high-confidence
positions at each step. However, existing approaches often repetitively remask
tokens due to initially low confidence scores, leading to redundant it..."
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Jihoon Lee, Hoyeon Moon, Kevin Zhai et al.
📅 2025-10-06
⚡ Score: 6.3
"Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) are trained flexibly to model
extreme dependence in the data distribution; however, how to best utilize this
information at inference time remains an open problem. In this work, we uncover
an interesting property of these models: dLLMs trained on textual..."
🌐 POLICY
🎯 Liability for AI agent mistakes • Contract structures for AI • AI accountability
💬 "The answer to 'who approved that?' cannot be 'the AI decided"
• "Why would you use a SaaS contract for an agent in the first place?"
🔬 RESEARCH
"When running SmolAgents CodeAct for tool calling, we often observe that smaller open-source models struggle with complex tool-use tasks — and sometimes even fail at simple ones. While careful prompt engineering can mitigate this problem, it’s not a sustainable solution, especially in dynamic agentic..."
🎯 Agentic AI frameworks • Efficient model fine-tuning • Synthetic data distillation
💬 "ToolBrain framework enables this process seamlessly"
• "Qwen finetunes lately and ToolBrain looks surprisingly efficient"
🔬 RESEARCH
via Arxiv
👤 Yen-Ju Lu, Yashesh Gaur, Wei Zhou et al.
📅 2025-10-07
⚡ Score: 6.1
"Auto-regressive speech-text models are typically pre-trained on a large
number of interleaved sequences of text tokens and raw speech encoded as speech
tokens using vector quantization. These models have demonstrated
state-of-the-art performance in speech-to-speech understanding and generation
bench..."