AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning When to Trust in Contextual Social Bandits

The ESA algorithm is introduced to combat 'Contextual Sycophancy' in social bandits by learning per-evaluator trust boundaries through a sparse stream of ground-truth audits.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

NeSy-Route: A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark for Constrained Route Planning in Remote Sensing

NeSy-Route is a large-scale neuro-symbolic benchmark for constrained route planning in remote sensing, featuring an automated data-generation framework.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ReLope: KL-Regularized LoRA Probes for Multimodal LLM Routing

ReLope introduces KL-regularized LoRA probes to improve the routing of multimodal LLMs by enhancing the separability of correctness signals in hidden states.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Quantification of Credal Uncertainty: A Distance-Based Approach

A new distance-based approach using Integral Probability Metrics is proposed to quantify total, aleatoric, and epistemic uncertainty in credal sets for multiclass classification.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learning

Memorized mistake-gated learning is proposed as a biologically inspired plasticity rule that reduces synaptic updates by 50-80% to improve energy and memory efficiency in continual learning.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Action-Aware Generative Sequence Modeling for Short Video Recommendation

The A2Gen modeling paradigm improves short video recommendations by analyzing the temporal dimension of user actions to better capture nuanced preferences.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

I Left Google DeepMind

A discussion on Hacker News regarding an individual leaving Google DeepMind.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in Age of Empires II that could have allowed remote code execution via game invites.

Other Ars Technica

FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs

The FCC is moving to repeal the TV ownership cap, potentially benefiting specific news organizations.

Other Ars Technica

In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films

A retrospective on the films of actor Sam Neill following his passing.

Tech Business/VC Ars Technica

Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

Google Play is introducing third-party app stores following the withdrawal of a settlement with Epic Games.

Hardware/Chips Ars Technica

OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

OpenAI introduces the Codex Micro, a light-up keyboard designed for monitoring agentic threads.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Rethinking Reward Models for Multi-Domain Test-Time Scaling

Research exploring reward models for test-time scaling in LLMs, finding that generative outcome reward models (gORM) are the most robust across domains.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

CrochetBench: Can Vision-Language Models Move from Describing to Doing in Crochet Domain?

Introduction of CrochetBench, a benchmark for evaluating the ability of vision-language models to generate executable crochet procedures.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

JADE: Expert-Grounded Dynamic Evaluation for Open-Ended Professional Tasks

JADE is proposed as a two-layer evaluation framework for agentic AI on open-ended professional tasks to improve stability and align with expert rubrics.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Calculating Mutual Information between a Reward Maximizer and its Environment

A theoretical study quantifying the mutual information between an optimal policy and its environment in controlled Markov processes.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Codex Micro

A discussion regarding Codex Micro, likely focused on its technical specifications or hardware capabilities.

AI/ML Hacker News

Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM

Thinking Machines has released a massive 975B parameter open-weights LLM, pushing the boundaries of available open-weights models.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B

Stripe and Advent are reportedly making a bid to acquire PayPal for over $53 billion.

AI/ML Hacker News

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Introduction of Inkling, a new open-weights model for developers.