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Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note

A non-technical story about a 19th-century bank note associated with Satan.

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Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

Introduction of Inertia-1, a unified motion foundation model for physical movement and motion analysis.

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Codex is wearing out our devices

An exploration of how the use of Codex and similar AI tools may be accelerating the wear and tear on physical hardware devices.

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Avengers: Doomsday’s first trailer puts everyone on high alert

Marvel releases the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Diagnosing Overhead in Dispatch Operations: Cross-architecture Observatory

Research on diagnosing dispatch overhead in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) parallelism across different architectures including MHA, MLA, and Mamba-2.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

The Terminal Representation in Reinforcement Learning

Introduction of the Terminal Representation (TR) in reinforcement learning as a computationally efficient alternative to Successor and Default representations.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

memorywire: A Vendor-Neutral Wire Format for Agent Memory Operations

Introduction of memorywire, a vendor-neutral JSON-Schema wire format for agent memory operations to standardize how AI agents manage long-term storage.

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Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes

An article exploring the biological mechanisms of how the human body detects temperature changes.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

When Perplexity Lies: Generation-Focused Distillation of Hybrid Sequence Models

Introduces GenDistill, a pipeline for distilling Transformers into efficient Hybrid-KDA models, reducing KV cache memory by 75% and improving time-to-first-token.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Ruling Out to Rule In: Contrastive Hypothesis Retrieval for Medical Question Answering

Proposes Contrastive Hypothesis Retrieval (CHR), a framework for medical QA that reduces hard-negative contamination in RAG systems by modeling what to avoid.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Evaluating LLM-Based 0-to-1 Software Generation in End-to-End CLI Tool Scenarios

Presents CLI-Tool-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating the 0-to-1 generation of CLI tools by LLMs using black-box differential testing.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LVSum: A Benchmark for Timestamp-Aware Long Video Summarization

Introduces LVSum, a human-annotated benchmark for evaluating timestamp-aware long video summarization in multimodal LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Soft $Q(\lambda)$: A multi-step off-policy method for entropy regularised reinforcement learning using eligibility traces

Proposes Soft Q(lambda), an online, off-policy eligibility trace framework for efficient credit assignment in entropy-regularised reinforcement learning.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

What Is the Minimum Architecture for Prolepsis? Early Irrevocable Commitment Across Tasks in Small Transformers

Explores 'prolepsis' in small Transformers, identifying how they commit to decisions early and the specific attention heads that sustain this commitment.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Brain-CLIPLM: Semantic Compression for EEG-to-Text Decoding

Introduces Brain-CLIPLM, a framework for decoding EEG signals to text by recovering semantic anchors before reconstructing sentences.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RLearner-LLM: Balancing Logical Grounding and Fluency in Large Language Models via Hybrid Direct Preference Optimization

Presents RLearner-LLM and Hybrid-DPO, an automated preference pipeline that improves logical grounding in LLMs for knowledge-intensive tasks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Energy-based Transport for Amortized Bayesian Inference

Introduces a likelihood-free, energy-based transport method for amortized Bayesian inference in high- and infinite-dimensional nonlinear inverse problems.

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Airport Simulator

A discussion or showcase regarding an Airport Simulator.

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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

Concerns regarding the EU potentially sharing sensitive data with the US to facilitate visa-free travel.

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Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action

Hugging Face confirms a security breach affecting internal datasets and credentials, advising users to rotate tokens.