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π¬ RESEARCH
β¬οΈ 2 ups
β‘ Score: 8.6
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01797
Abstract: "Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinations -- plausible but factually incorrect outputs -- undermining their reliability. While prior work has examined hallucinations from macroscopic perspectives such as training data and objectives,..."
π― Dealing with Irritation β’ Christian Perspective β’ Contradictory Findings
π¬ "love, peace, patience, forgiveness"
β’ "You'll be able to do the same if you follow Jesus Christ"
π€ AI MODELS
πΊ 542 pts
β‘ Score: 8.2
π― Capabilities and limitations of LLMs β’ Impact of LLM commoditization β’ Workflow automation with LLMs
π¬ "LLMs are still not Senior engineers. They do plainly stupid things."
β’ "2026 is going to be a wake-up call."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Sourena Khanzadeh
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.9
"As Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly tasked with high-stakes autonomous decision-making, the transparency of their reasoning processes has become a critical safety concern. While \textit{Chain-of-Thought} (CoT) prompting allows agents to generate human-readable reasoning traces, it..."
π¬ RESEARCH
β¬οΈ 149 ups
β‘ Score: 7.5
"arXiv:2501.12948 \[cs.CL\]:Β
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948..."
π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 31 ups
β‘ Score: 7.4
π― Audio transcription models β’ Model capabilities β’ Model releases
π¬ "I was really hoping for a multi-speaker transcription model"
β’ "Thanks for looking out for those of us with less computational capacities"
π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 74 ups
β‘ Score: 7.4
"This is the inference strategy:
1. Embed your query using a dense embedding model into a 'standard' fp32 embedding
2. Quantize the fp32 embedding to binary: 32x smaller
3. Use an approximate (or exact) binary index to retrieve e.g. 40 documents (\~20x faster than a fp32 index)
4. Load int8 embeddin..."
π― Quantum mechanics retrieval β’ Binary embeddings limitations β’ Efficient indexing for large datasets
π¬ "My initial feeling and concern is that this method is very strong for semantically dissimilar databases"
β’ "If you're dealing with a niche domain, then the binary embeddings might all be very similar"
π‘οΈ SAFETY
β¬οΈ 1 ups
β‘ Score: 7.3
"Serious question for people working with ML systems that act autonomously.
We often optimize for correctness, confidence, or expected reward.
Yet many real incidents come from systems behaving exactly as designed,
while still causing irreversible damage (deletions, lockouts, enforcement, shutdown..."
π‘οΈ SAFETY
πΊ 1 pts
β‘ Score: 7.2
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π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 115 ups
β‘ Score: 7.2
"Hey Everyone,
I've been working on something for Mac users in the ML space.
Unsloth-MLX - an MLX-powered library that brings the Unsloth fine-tuning experience to Apple Silicon.
The idea is simple:
β Prototype your LLM fine-tuning locally on Mac
β Same code works on cloud GPUs w..."
π― Naming Conventions β’ Relation to Unsloth β’ Technical Comparison
π¬ "Downvoted for shamelessly stealing unsloth's branding"
β’ "You should definitely choose another name that makes it clear that it isn't."
π§ NEURAL NETWORKS
β¬οΈ 14 ups
β‘ Score: 7.2
"
R-GQA diagram using pytorch operations
So, a while ago I thought to myself: "Those query heads in grouped-query attention... what are the chances that at any given tim..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Caiqi Zhang, Ruihan Yang, Xiaochen Zhu et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"While confidence estimation is a promising direction for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), current research dominantly focuses on single-turn settings. The dynamics of model confidence in multi-turn conversations, where context accumulates and ambiguity is progressively reso..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Huichao Zhang, Liao Qu, Yiheng Liu et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"We present NextFlow, a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer trained on 6 trillion interleaved text-image discrete tokens. By leveraging a unified vision representation within a unified autoregressive architecture, NextFlow natively activates multimodal understanding and generation capabil..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Boxuan Lyu, Soichiro Murakami, Hidetaka Kamigaito et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale large language models efficiently by employing a parametric "router" to dispatch tokens to a sparse subset of experts. Typically, this router is trained once and then frozen, rendering routing decisions brittle under distribution shifts. We address this l..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Chuanrui Hu, Xingze Gao, Zuyi Zhou et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extended interactions. Existing memory systems often store isolated records and retrieve fragments, limiting their ability to..."
π¬ RESEARCH
πΊ 1 pts
β‘ Score: 7.0
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Siddharth Joshi, Haoli Yin, Rishabh Adiga et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"Empirical evaluation serves as the primary compass guiding research progress in foundation models. Despite a large body of work focused on training frontier vision-language models (VLMs), approaches to their evaluation remain nascent. To guide their maturation, we propose three desiderata that evalu..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Yihao Liang, Ze Wang, Hao Chen et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 7.0
"Autoregressive large language models achieve strong results on many benchmarks, but decoding remains fundamentally latency-limited by sequential dependence on previously generated tokens. Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise parallel generation but suffer from a fundamental static-to-dynamic mis..."
π¬ RESEARCH
πΊ 30 pts
β‘ Score: 7.0
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 68 pts
β‘ Score: 7.0
π― Typescript autodiff β’ Performance benchmarking β’ Web GPU support
π¬ "the only decent autodiff implementation in typescript was tensorflowjs, which has been completely abandonned by Google"
β’ "Would `using`[0] help here?"
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Deep Pankajbhai Mehta
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 6.9
"Training large language models requires distributing computation across many accelerators, yet practitioners select parallelism strategies (data, tensor, pipeline, ZeRO) through trial and error because no unified systematic framework predicts their behavior. We introduce placement semantics: each st..."
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 2 pts
β‘ Score: 6.9
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Chenglin Yu, Yuchen Wang, Songmiao Wang et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.9
"LLM agents can reason and use tools, but they often break down on long-horizon tasks due to unbounded context growth and accumulated errors. Common remedies such as context compression or retrieval-augmented prompting introduce trade-offs between information fidelity and reasoning stability. We pres..."
β‘ BREAKTHROUGH
β¬οΈ 459 ups
β‘ Score: 6.9
"Hey r/LocalLLaMA,
Weβre back with another **ShapeLearn** GGUF release (
Blog,
Models), this time for a model that *should not* feel this usable on small hardware⦠and yet ..."
π― AI Model Performance β’ Raspberry Pi Deployment β’ Quantization Techniques
π¬ "8.03 TPS at 2.70 BPW, while retaining 94.18% of BF16 quality"
β’ "the MOE can be spread across pis"
π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 88 ups
β‘ Score: 6.8
"It's more intelligent about how context is filled while maintaining the same quality. This reduces total tokens by 46.9% when using multiple MCP servers.
Learn about how we use the filesystem to improve context efficiency for tools, MCP servers, skills, terminals, chat history, and more.
[
https://..."
π― Context optimization β’ Agent quality improvement β’ Product enhancement
π¬ "Cursor is probably one of the best AI companies at understanding agents and context windows"
β’ "It can also improve the agent's response quality by reducing the amount of potentially confusing or contradictory information in the context window"
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Shengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.8
"The hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to master new skills through Constructive Episodic Simulation-retrieving past experiences to synthesize solutions for novel tasks. While Large Language Models possess strong reasoning capabilities, they struggle to emulate this self-evolution: fine-t..."
π§ NEURAL NETWORKS
β¬οΈ 8 ups
β‘ Score: 6.8
"More or less recent developments (stable & large MoE models, 2 and 3-bit UD\_I and exl3 quants, REAPing) allow to run huge models on little VRAM without completely killing model performance. For example, UD-IQ2\_XXS (74.1 GB) of MiniMax M2.1, or a REAP-50.Q5\_K\_M (82 GB), or potentially even a ..."
π― AI model performance β’ AI model comparison β’ AI model customization
π¬ "GPT-OSS-120B is a very strong model"
β’ "The jump from 32B to these bigger models even heavily quantized feels more impactful"
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Dongming Jiang, Yi Li, Guanpeng Li et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.8
"Memory-Augmented Generation (MAG) extends Large Language Models with external memory to support long-context reasoning, but existing approaches largely rely on semantic similarity over monolithic memory stores, entangling temporal, causal, and entity information. This design limits interpretability..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Haolang Lu, Minghui Pan, Ripeng Li et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 6.8
"Long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves the performance of large language models, yet hallucinations in such settings often emerge subtly and propagate across reasoning steps. We suggest that hallucination in long CoT reasoning is better understood as an evolving latent state rather than a on..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Naixin Zhai, Pengyang Shao, Binbin Zheng et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.7
"Machine unlearning aims to forget sensitive knowledge from Large Language Models (LLMs) while maintaining general utility. However, existing approaches typically treat all tokens in a response indiscriminately and enforce uncertainty over the entire vocabulary. This global treatment results in unnec..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Mykola Vysotskyi, Zahar Kohut, Mariia Shpir et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.7
"Machine unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models aims to remove targeted concepts while preserving overall utility. Prior diffusion unlearning methods typically rely on supervised weight edits or global penalties; reinforcement-learning (RL) approaches, while flexible, often optimize sparse end-..."
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, Adam Tornhill et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 6.7
"We are entering a hybrid era in which human developers and AI coding agents work in the same codebases. While industry practice has long optimized code for human comprehension, it is increasingly important to ensure that LLMs with different capabilities can edit code reliably. In this study, we inve..."
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 2 pts
β‘ Score: 6.7
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Falcon LLM Team, Iheb Chaabane, Puneesh Khanna et al.
π
2026-01-05
β‘ Score: 6.7
"This work introduces Falcon-H1R, a 7B-parameter reasoning-optimized model that establishes the feasibility of achieving competitive reasoning performance with small language models (SLMs). Falcon-H1R stands out for its parameter efficiency, consistently matching or outperforming SOTA reasoning model..."
π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 26 ups
β‘ Score: 6.7
"Depth Anything v3 is a mono-depth model, which can analyze depth from a single image and camera. Also, it has a model which can create a 3D Graphic Library file (glb) with which you can visualize an object in 3D.
Code: [
https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Depth-Anything-3](
https://github.com/ByteDanc..."
π― Depth estimation accuracy β’ Relative error metrics β’ Variability across datasets
π¬ "10% relative error"
β’ "a few above 95%, one at 83%"
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Sofie Goethals, Foster Provost, JoΓ£o Sedoc
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.6
"As generative AI systems become integrated into real-world applications, organizations increasingly need to be able to understand and interpret their behavior. In particular, decision-makers need to understand what causes generative AI systems to exhibit specific output characteristics. Within this..."
π οΈ TOOLS
πΊ 6 pts
β‘ Score: 6.5
ποΈ COMPUTER VISION
πΊ 120 pts
β‘ Score: 6.4
π― Geolocation technology β’ Facial recognition ethics β’ Potential for misuse
π¬ "Next to impossible to geolocate that picture accurately"
β’ "Easy for two non-technical rich dudes to build Clearview AI"
π SECURITY
β¬οΈ 1 ups
β‘ Score: 6.3
"I've made a website (
https://www.alignmentarena.com/) which allows you to automatically test jailbreak prompts against open-source LLMs. It tests nine times for each submission (3x LLMs, 3x prompt types).
There's also leaderboards for
users and ..."
π οΈ TOOLS
β¬οΈ 20 ups
β‘ Score: 6.3
"A few days ago I got tired of watching Claude burn tokens reading 5-10 web pages just to answer a simple question about a library. So I built this skill that lets Google do the heavy lifting instead. Furthermore, I find the web research skills of all agents to be only βaverageβ... to put it nicely.
..."
π’ BUSINESS
πΊ 135 pts
β‘ Score: 6.2
π― AI Marketing Buzzword β’ Consumer Understanding of AI β’ Hardware vs Software AI
π¬ "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
β’ "People don't care if a computer has a NPU for AI any more than they care if a microwave has a low-loss waveguide."
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 3 pts
β‘ Score: 6.2
β‘ BREAKTHROUGH
β¬οΈ 12 ups
β‘ Score: 6.2
"Hi everyone,
Iβve recently finished re-engineering the Fuzzy-Pattern Tsetlin Machine (FPTM) from the ground up. My goal was to leverage low-level optimizations to see just how much throughput I could squeeze out of the architecture.
The results are pretty wild. By focusing on cache locality and SI..."
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 1 pts
β‘ Score: 6.2
π SECURITY
πΊ 2 pts
β‘ Score: 6.2
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 1 pts
β‘ Score: 6.1
π¬ RESEARCH
πΊ 1 pts
β‘ Score: 6.1
π¬ RESEARCH
via Arxiv
π€ Yile Liu, Yixian Liu, Zongwei Li et al.
π
2026-01-06
β‘ Score: 6.1
"While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in natural language processing , complex general-purpose reasoning requiring multi-step logic, planning, and verification remains a critical bottleneck. Although Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has succe..."
π οΈ SHOW HN
πΊ 2 pts
β‘ Score: 6.1