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AI model compression/efficiency at scale

+++ Researchers demonstrate you can squeeze GPT-4 performance into a model 120x smaller, which is either revolutionary or exactly what compression techniques have been doing all along depending on your funding cycle. +++

Quantum-floor compression: Achieving GPT-4 capability at 1/120th the model size [pdf]

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Reliable and Resilient Collective Communication Library for LLM Training and Serving

"Modern ML training and inference now span tens to tens of thousands of GPUs, where network faults can waste 10--15\% of GPU hours due to slow recovery. Common network errors and link fluctuations trigger timeouts that often terminate entire jobs, forcing expensive checkpoint rollback during training..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Scaling Open-Ended Reasoning to Predict the Future

"High-stakes decision making involves reasoning under uncertainty about the future. In this work, we train language models to make predictions on open-ended forecasting questions. To scale up training data, we synthesize novel forecasting questions from global events reported in daily news, using a f..."
🔒 SECURITY

From Embodied AI Jailbreak to Remote Takeover of Humanoid Robots [video]

đŸ› ī¸ SHOW HN

Show HN: A local-first financial auditor using IBM Granite, MCP, and SQLite

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Building Domain-Specific Small Language Models via Guided Data Generation

đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ› ī¸ TOOLS

Why autonomous AI agents fail in production

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

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

"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-window attention. However, our model continues learning at test time via next-token prediction on..."
đŸ› ī¸ TOOLS

MCP servers preserving Claude context between sessions

+++ Turns out AI coding assistants losing context mid-project is annoying enough to spawn open source solutions, because apparently context windows aren't a feature request but a lifestyle choice for builders. +++

Got tired of Claude Code forgetting everything after compaction, so I built something

"Claude Code's context compaction was killing my productivity, losing track of patterns and decisions mid-project. Built an MCP server + CLI + archiver that hooks into Claude and preserves context between sessions. Open sourced it yesterday. Open to contributors and any feedback! ..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Vulcan: Instance-Optimal Systems Heuristics Through LLM-Driven Search

"Resource-management tasks in modern operating and distributed systems continue to rely primarily on hand-designed heuristics for tasks such as scheduling, caching, or active queue management. Designing performant heuristics is an expensive, time-consuming process that we are forced to continuously g..."
đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Modeling Language as a Sequence of Thoughts

"Transformer language models can generate strikingly natural text by modeling language as a sequence of tokens. Yet, by relying primarily on surface-level co-occurrence statistics, they fail to form globally consistent latent representations of entities and events, lack of which contributes to brittl..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
🤖 AI MODELS

DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden

đŸ”Ŧ RESEARCH

Training AI Co-Scientists Using Rubric Rewards

"AI co-scientists are emerging as a tool to assist human researchers in achieving their research goals. A crucial feature of these AI co-scientists is the ability to generate a research plan given a set of aims and constraints. The plan may be used by researchers for brainstorming, or may even be imp..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
🤖 AI MODELS

Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed

đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
đŸ”Ŧ 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...."
đŸ› ī¸ TOOLS

Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows

đŸ’Ŧ HackerNews Buzz: 6 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
đŸŽ¯ LLM vs. Deterministic Workflows â€ĸ Judgment Calls vs. Determinism â€ĸ AI-Generated Workflow Code
đŸ’Ŧ "Using an LLM adds a judgment call, and (at least for now) those judgment calls are not reliable." â€ĸ "If the process is fixed and requires determinism why not just write scripts (code-gen'ed, of course)."
đŸ› ī¸ TOOLS

Introducing Pommel - an open source tool to help Claude Code find code without burning your context window

"I kept hitting the same problem: I'd ask Claude Code to help with something, and it would read 30+ files trying to understand where the relevant code was. By the time it found what it needed, half my context window was gone. So I built **Pommel** \- a local semantic code search tool. Instead of Cla..."
đŸ’Ŧ Reddit Discussion: 54 comments 🐝 BUZZING
đŸŽ¯ Semantic vs. Structural Code Search â€ĸ Comparing Pommel and ck â€ĸ Limitations of Semantic Indexing
đŸ’Ŧ "Pommel = semantic/conceptual search" â€ĸ "LSP is great once you're oriented. Pommel helps you get oriented"
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

7900 XTX + ROCm: A Year Later. Llama.cpp vs vLLM Benchmarks (TB3 eGPU)

"I've had the 7900 XTX for over a year now. While the situation with ROCm has definitely gotten better, it is still a frustrating experience compared to just plugging in an NVIDIA card. I was curious to see if we could at least run newer models reliably now, so I decided to compare the maturity of *..."
đŸ’Ŧ Reddit Discussion: 22 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
đŸŽ¯ GPU Drivers and Performance â€ĸ Model Configurations and Comparisons â€ĸ Hardware Setups and Memory
đŸ’Ŧ "the tools remain incomparable, vllm focuses on high-throughput serving" â€ĸ "I get over 120t/s on an RX 6800 XT so the op's result is severely underperforming"
đŸ› ī¸ SHOW HN

Show HN: A Prompt-Injection Firewall for AI Agents and RAG Pipelines

đŸ’Ŧ HackerNews Buzz: 1 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY
đŸŽ¯ AI security â€ĸ Prompt injection â€ĸ Web content sanitization
đŸ’Ŧ "The web is not safe for AI" â€ĸ "Prompt injection ends up being less about clever attacks and more about unclear boundaries"
đŸ”Ŧ 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..."
🤖 AI MODELS

Claude Code hacked into Ring doorbell and built a native Mac OS app

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