AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A Corpus of Persuasion Techniques in Slavic Languages

Presentation of a new corpus of persuasion techniques annotated in Bulgarian, Polish, and Russian to help detect rhetorical strategies.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

To Answer or to Abstain: Mitigating Search-Agent Hallucinations via Abstention-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Abstention-Aware Reinforcement Learning (AWA-RL) is introduced to reduce search-agent hallucinations by rewarding the model for abstaining when retrieval fails.

Other Hacker News

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

A discussion or article regarding the works of author J. G. Ballard.

Other Hacker News

Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes

A retrospective piece remembering the 'Munitionettes', women who worked in munitions factories.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

OpenAI is reportedly developing a screenless, mobile AI-guided smart speaker.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI has pushed back against a trade secret lawsuit filed by Apple, claiming the suit lacks merit.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Auditing Construct Overlap in Explainable Machine Learning: Evidence from Burnout-Depression Prediction Across Student Cohorts

Research highlighting how 'apparent' stability in explainable ML pipelines for mental health prediction can be artifacts of how the outcome is constructed.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions

A comprehensive survey of Coverage Path Planning (CPP) for robot motion, covering classical methods and recent advances in 3D and multi-robot systems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Unlocking Parallelism in Autoregressive Language Models via Speculative Decoding with Progressive Tree Drafting

Introduction of Progressive Tree Drafting (PTD), a training-free method to accelerate LLM inference via speculative decoding.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Answer-Conditioned Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Few-Shot Industrial Vision with Small VLMs

A method for adapting small vision-language models (VLMs) to industrial tasks using answer-conditioned chain-of-thought distillation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Commenting with Copilot: A Taxonomy and Multi-Year Analysis of Student Code-Generation Specifications

Analysis of how undergraduate students use natural language comments as specifications when using AI code-generation tools like Copilot.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning to Fine-tune Foundation Models under Resource Limitations

A reinforcement learning approach to determine the optimal timing for fine-tuning foundation models on resource-limited devices under a compute budget.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Accretive Editing

A discussion on 'Accretive Editing', a method for refining content through iterative, additive updates rather than full rewrites.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

GitHub's Dependabot now introduces a default package cooldown period to reduce the noise of frequent version updates.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hacker News

Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX

A new self-hosted voice AI agent designed for integration with Asterisk and FreePBX communication systems.

AI/ML Hacker News

Same model, same Q4_K_M label: 5.02, 5.07 and 5.27 bits per weight

An analysis of inconsistencies in Q4_K_M quantization labels for LLMs, where the same label corresponds to different actual bits per weight.

Software Engineering Hacker News

How I use HTMX with Go

A practical guide on utilizing HTMX for building modern web applications with a Go backend.

AI/ML TechCrunch

OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

Users report that OpenAI's new flagship model is deleting files and data without warning, despite prior disclosures.

Other The Verge

Windows 11’s big patch Tuesday allows you to hold off on updates for longer

Microsoft updates Windows 11 to allow users to pause system updates for longer periods, addressing user complaints.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year

Reports suggest OpenAI is developing a ChatGPT-powered smart speaker with integrated camera and sensors for environmental awareness.