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πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Prefill vs. Decode Bottlenecks: SRAM-Frequency Tradeoffs and the Memory-Bandwidth Ceiling

"Energy consumption dictates the cost and environmental impact of deploying Large Language Models. This paper investigates the impact of on-chip SRAM size and operating frequency on the energy efficiency and performance of LLM inference, focusing on the distinct behaviors of the compute-bound prefill..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 170 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Memory management β€’ Continuous improvement β€’ Consistent context
πŸ’¬ "I like the fact that it forgets." β€’ "I sacrifice context for consistency. Worth it."
πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

I benchmarked 26 local + cloud Speech-to-Text models on long-form medical dialogue and ranked them + open-sourced the full eval

"Hello everyone! I’m building a fully local AI-Scribe for clinicians and just pushed an end-of-year refresh of our medical dialogue STT benchmark. I ranΒ **26 open + closed source STT models**Β onΒ **PriMock57**Β (55 files, 81,236 words) and ranked them byΒ **average WER**. I also loggedΒ **avg seconds..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 9 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Medical speech-to-text evaluation β€’ Model performance comparison β€’ Licensing and commercial use
πŸ’¬ "how do you or your clients usually process the transcripts further" β€’ "to me, these WERs still seem kind of 'high"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

MIT paper: independent scientific AIs aren’t just simulating - they’re rediscovering the same physics

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 31 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Critique of Linguistic Patterns β€’ AI "Discovering Physics" β€’ Academic Writing Styles
πŸ’¬ "It breaks my immersion in any text/video now." β€’ "What this paper is actually showing isn't that AI is 'discovering physics"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Training AI Co-Scientists using Rubric Rewards

+++ Researchers figured out how to train AI assistants on real scientific constraints by extracting rubrics from papers, suggesting language models might finally do something useful in wet labs. +++

Training AI Co-Scientists using Rubric Rewards

"Research released today by Meta: A general, scalable recipe to train AI to assist scientists in achieving their open-ended research goals: 1. Extract research goals and goal-specific grading rubrics from the large corpus of existing scientific papers with an LLM, and use them for RL training. 2. ..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

AI is forcing us to write good code

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 126 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Type checking β€’ Test coverage β€’ Automated tooling
πŸ’¬ "Entire categories of illegal states and transitions can be eliminated." β€’ "Either you're writing code to solve a defined problem (valuable) or you're doing something else that may mimic that to some degree but is not accurate (bugs)."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

End-to-End Test-Time Training for Long Context

+++ Researchers reframe long-context modeling as a continual learning problem, letting standard Transformers compress context into weights at inference time instead of chasing yet another architectural glow-up. +++

[R] End-to-End Test-Time Training for Long Context

"https://test-time-training.github.io/e2e.pdf We formulate long-context language modeling as a problem in continual learning rather than architecture design. Under this formulation, we only use a standard architecture – a Transformer with sliding-windo..."
🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Llama 3.2 3B fMRI (updated findings)

"I’m building a local interpretability tool that lets me visualize hidden-state activity and **intervene on individual hidden dimensions during inference** (via forward hooks). While scanning attn\_out, I identified a persistent hidden dimension (dim 3039) that appeared repeatedly across prompts. I'l..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 4 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Distributed mechanisms β€’ Epistemic certainty β€’ Probing dimensions
πŸ’¬ "It functions as a global commitment / epistemic certainty gain" β€’ "Ablation of the dim did nothing, so I'm looking at ways to trace distributed mechanisms now"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

[Project] I treated LLM inference like a physical signal trajectory. Here is a Python toolkit to visualize the "Thinking Process" (Hidden States).

"Hi everyone, I'm a PhD student in **Electromagnetics**. In my daily work, I deal with fields, waves, and trajectories. When I started playing with Local LLMs, I felt something was missing: we usually look at the *output* text or the *loss curves*, but we rarely see **how** the model gets from A to ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 14 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 LLM Interpretability β€’ Geometric Reasoning Control β€’ Multi-Model Systems
πŸ’¬ "This is the kind of tool that could actually change how people debug and tune models" β€’ "Closing the loop from geometry β†’ intervention is exactly the direction I'm interested in exploring"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

VL-JEPA: A different approach to vision-language models that predicts embeddings instead of tokens

"VL-JEPA uses JEPA's embedding prediction approach for vision-language tasks. Instead of generating tokens autoregressively like LLaVA/Flamingo, it predicts continuous embeddings. Results: 1.6B params matching larger models, 2.85x faster decoding via adaptive selective decoding."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Close the Loop: Synthesizing Infinite Tool-Use Data via Multi-Agent Role-Playing

"Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to reliably invoke external tools remains a critical bottleneck for autonomous agents. Existing approaches suffer from three fundamental challenges: expensive human annotation for high-quality trajectories, poor generalization to unseen tools, and quality ceilin..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

TimeBill: Time-Budgeted Inference for Large Language Models

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in time-critical systems, such as robotics, autonomous driving, embodied intelligence, and industrial automation, where generating accurate responses within a given time budget is crucial for decision-making, control, or safety-critical tasks. H..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: CATArena – Evaluating LLM agents via dynamic enviroment interactions

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Web World Models

"Language agents increasingly require persistent worlds in which they can act, remember, and learn. Existing approaches sit at two extremes: conventional web frameworks provide reliable but fixed contexts backed by databases, while fully generative world models aim for unlimited environments at the e..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Lie to Me: Knowledge Graphs for Robust Hallucination Self-Detection in LLMs

"Hallucinations, the generation of apparently convincing yet false statements, remain a major barrier to the safe deployment of LLMs. Building on the strong performance of self-detection methods, we examine the use of structured knowledge representations, namely knowledge graphs, to improve hallucina..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization

"Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning and coding capabilities, yet they struggle to generalize to real-world software engineering (SWE) problems that are long-horizon and out of distribution. Existing systems often rely on a single agent to handle the entire workflow-interpreting..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Multilingual Hidden Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Based Academic Reviewing

"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered for use in high-impact workflows, including academic peer review. However, LLMs are vulnerable to document-level hidden prompt injection attacks. In this work, we construct a dataset of approximately 500 real academic papers accepted to ICML a..."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

15M param model solving 24% of ARC-AGI-2 (Hard Eval). Runs on consumer hardware.

"We anticipate getting a lot of push back from the community on this, and that's why we've uploaded the repo and have open sourced everything - we want people to verify these results. We are very excited!! We (Bitterbot AI) have just dropped the repo for **TOPAS-DSPL**. It’s a tiny recursive model ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 9 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Comparison to MuZero β€’ RL as general problem-solving β€’ Optimization and training
πŸ’¬ "any problem is an RL problem if you throw enough compute at it" β€’ "You can only jam so much intelligence in there"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Broken Words, Broken Performance: Effect of Tokenization on Performance of LLMs

"Tokenization is the first step in training any Large Language Model (LLM), where the text is split into a sequence of tokens as per the model's fixed vocabulary. This tokenization in LLMs is different from the traditional tokenization in NLP where the text is split into a sequence of "natural" words..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Nested Browser-Use Learning for Agentic Information Seeking

"Information-seeking (IS) agents have achieved strong performance across a range of wide and deep search tasks, yet their tool use remains largely restricted to API-level snippet retrieval and URL-based page fetching, limiting access to the richer information available through real browsing. While fu..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Toward Trustworthy Agentic AI: A Multimodal Framework for Preventing Prompt Injection Attacks

"Powerful autonomous systems, which reason, plan, and converse using and between numerous tools and agents, are made possible by Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and new agentic AI systems, like LangChain and GraphChain. Nevertheless, this agentic environment increases the..."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

MCP Guard for Database Access

+++ Developer builds safety layer for AI agents accessing databases, because apparently letting language models run raw queries against production felt like a bad idea worth solving for everyone. +++

I built MCP Guard because giving AI agents direct database access terrified me

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

PathFound: An Agentic Multimodal Model Activating Evidence-seeking Pathological Diagnosis

"Recent pathological foundation models have substantially advanced visual representation learning and multimodal interaction. However, most models still rely on a static inference paradigm in which whole-slide images are processed once to produce predictions, without reassessment or targeted evidence..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Fine-Tuning LLMs with Fine-Grained Human Feedback on Text Spans

"We present a method and dataset for fine-tuning language models with preference supervision using feedback-driven improvement chains. Given a model response, an annotator provides fine-grained feedback by marking ``liked'' and ``disliked'' spans and specifying what they liked or disliked about them...."
πŸ’° FUNDING

Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI

πŸ€– AI MODELS

How llama.cpp implements 2.9x faster top-k sampling with bucket sort

"I looked into how llama.cpp optimizes top-k sampling, and the trick is surprisingly simple. Top-k on Llama 3's 128K vocabulary means finding k highest scores out of 128,256 candidates. std::partial\_sort does this at O(n log k), but llama.cpp noticed that token logits cluster in a narrow range (-10..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 LLM Optimization β€’ Token Sampling β€’ Model Performance
πŸ’¬ "I love how llama.cpp keeps optimizing the shit out of LLMs!" β€’ "It's used for token generation - sampling top-k tokens from vocabulary for inference."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Building low-level software with only coding agents

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Tencent open-source Tencent-HY-MT1.5, featuring two translation modelsβ€”1.8B and 7Bβ€”designed for seamless on-device and cloud deployment with industry-leading speed and accuracy

"Hugging face: https://huggingface.co/collections/tencent/hy-mt15 Highlights: πŸ”Ή 1.8B On-Device Power: Optimized for consumer hardware with a 1GB memory footprint. Using on-policy distillation to align with larger models, it delivers 0.18s latency..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 6 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Model performance β€’ Model comparisons β€’ User enthusiasm
πŸ’¬ "Unbelievable results for Hindi" β€’ "This is the cool stuff AI can do"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Running GLM-4.7 (355B MoE) in Q8 at ~5 Tokens/s on 2015 CPU-Only Hardware – Full Optimization Guide

"Hey r/LocalLLaMA ! If you're passionate about squeezing every last bit of performance out of older hardware for local large language models, I've got something exciting to share. I managed to get GLM-4.7 – that's the massive 355B parameter Mixture of Experts model – running in Q8\_0 quantization on ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 61 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Electricity Costs β€’ Hardware Costs β€’ Cloud vs. Local LLMs
πŸ’¬ "At this point buying tokens is much cheaper." β€’ "No better deal on cloud APIs will cover that, nor their ToS/SLAs that can change whenever."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Eliciting Behaviors in Multi-Turn Conversations

"Identifying specific and often complex behaviors from large language models (LLMs) in conversational settings is crucial for their evaluation. Recent work proposes novel techniques to find natural language prompts that induce specific behaviors from a target model, yet they are mainly studied in sin..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Openground, on-device RAG pipeline with hybrid search for coding agents

πŸ€– AI MODELS

Tencent HY-Motion 1.0 - a billion-parameter text-to-motion model

"We are excited to open-source Tencent HY-Motion 1.0, a billion-parameter text-to-motion model built on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture and flow matching. Tencent HY-Motion 1.0 empowers developers and individual creators alike by transforming natural language into high-fidelity, fluid, a..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 19 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI Animation Tool β€’ Humanoid Animation β€’ Limitations of Tool
πŸ’¬ "This is going to be a massive speed boost to people working on games" β€’ "Is this what Neuro uses?"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

The Missing Control Layer Between AI Decisions and Execution

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