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Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation…

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Excited to share our work on production-ready W4A8 inference, now integrated in vLLM! By combining 4-bit weights (low memory) with 8-bit act…

Excited to share our work on production-ready W4A8 inference, now integrated in vLLM! By combining 4-bit weights (low memory) with 8-bit activations (high compute), we hit the sweet spot for both deco

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Exploring Language-Agnosticity in Function Vectors: A Case Study in Machine Translation

arXiv:2604.19678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function vectors (FVs) are vector representations of tasks extracted from model activations during in-context learning. While prior work has shown that

FG^2-GDN: Enhancing Long-Context Gated Delta Networks with Doubly Fine-Grained Control

arXiv:2604.19021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear attention mechanisms have emerged as promising alternatives to softmax attention, offering linear-time complexity during inference. Recent advanc

Formally Verified Patent Analysis via Dependent Type Theory: Machine-Checkable Certificates from a Hybrid AI + Lean 4 Pipeline

arXiv:2604.18882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a formally verified framework for patent analysis as a hybrid AI + Lean 4 pipeline. The DAG-coverage core (Algorithm 1b) is fully machine-ver

From Top-1 to Top-K: A Reproducibility Study and Benchmarking of Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems

arXiv:2604.19663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CEs) provide an intuitive way to understand recommender systems by identifying minimal modifications to user-item interac

GPT-ImageGen-2 did this in one shot, with just the prompt 'turn all of Tennyson's Ulysses into a comic, across as many pages as needed. make…

GPT-ImageGen-2 did this in one shot, with just the prompt 'turn all of Tennyson's Ulysses into a comic, across as many pages as needed. make it great, include the full text' 10 pages, though it did us

Graph Data Augmentation with Contrastive Learning on Covariate Distribution Shift

arXiv:2512.00716v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Covariate distribution shift occurs when certain structural features present in the test set are absent from the training set. It is a common

Handling and Interpreting Missing Modalities in Patient Clinical Trajectories via Autoregressive Sequence Modeling

arXiv:2604.18753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An active challenge in developing multimodal machine learning (ML) models for healthcare is handling missing modalities during training and deployment

How Sabre turned x86 efficiency into AI investment

As AI inference demand surges and enterprise compute budgets buckle under expanding workloads, x86 efficiency has emerged as one of the most powerful — and underutilized — levers in cloud financial ma

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Human-Machine Co-Boosted Bug Report Identification with Mutualistic Neural Active Learning

arXiv:2604.18862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bug reports, encompassing a wide range of bug types, are crucial for maintaining software quality. However, the increasing complexity and volume of bu

IMPACT: Importance-Aware Activation Space Reconstruction

arXiv:2507.03828v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse domains but remain difficult to deploy in resource-constrained environments d

Implicit Neural Field-Based Process Planning for Multi-Axis Manufacturing: Direct Control over Collision Avoidance and Toolpath Geometry

arXiv:2511.17578v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing curved-layer-based process planning methods for multi-axis manufacturing address collisions only indirectly and generate toolpaths in a pos

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InHabit: Leveraging Image Foundation Models for Scalable 3D Human Placement

arXiv:2604.19673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training embodied agents to understand 3D scenes as humans do requires large-scale data of people meaningfully interacting with diverse environments, ye

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IoT in Manufacturing: Strategy, Components, Use Cases, and Challenges

This article explores the implementation of Internet of Things technology in manufacturing environments, covering strategic approaches, key hardware and software components, practical applications acr

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Joint Magnetometer-IMU Calibration via Maximum A Posteriori Estimation

arXiv:2505.16662v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a new method for jointly calibrating a magnetometer and inertial measurement unit (IMU), focusing on balancing calibration accur

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Learning Posterior Predictive Distributions for Node Classification from Synthetic Graph Priors

arXiv:2604.19028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One of the most challenging problems in graph machine learning is generalizing across graphs with diverse properties. Graph neural networks (GNNs) face

Local Updates in Distributed Optimization: Provable Acceleration and Topology Effects

arXiv:2601.03442v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inspired by the success of performing multiple local optimization steps between communication rounds in federated learning, incorporating such

Multi-view Crowd Tracking Transformer with View-Ground Interactions Under Large Real-World Scenes

arXiv:2604.19318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view crowd tracking estimates each person's tracking trajectories on the ground of the scene. Recent research works mainly rely on CNNs-based mult

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Multimodal Data Integration: Production Architectures for Healthcare AI

This Databricks resource discusses production-ready architectural approaches for integrating multimodal data (structured, unstructured, images, text, etc.) in healthcare AI systems. It likely covers b

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Nearly perfect (if unnerving). This is first shot, and the only real issue is the double hour hand.

This post discusses an AI-generated image that is remarkably realistic with only minor flaws, specifically noting that the most noticeable error is a doubled hour hand on a clock face. Ethan Mollick u

New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies

A federal judge in Massachusetts struck down several Trump administration actions slowing down clean energy development, including a requirement that all solar and wind projects on federal lands and w

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New Technical Report from @EkagraRanjan: Contrary to what you might expect, MoE-based LLMs make speculative decoding even more effective. Re…

New Technical Report from @EkagraRanjan: Contrary to what you might expect, MoE-based LLMs make speculative decoding even more effective. Read more on our blog: Ever wondered how Speculative Decoding

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On Temperature-Constrained Non-Deterministic Machine Translation: Potential and Evaluation

arXiv:2601.13729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, the non-deterministic properties of language models have garnered considerable attention and have shown a significant influence on

ParamBoost: Gradient Boosted Piecewise Cubic Polynomials

arXiv:2604.18864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) can be used to create non-linear glass-box (i.e. explicitly interpretable) models, where the predictive function is f

Position: LLM Watermarking Should Align Stakeholders' Incentives for Practical Adoption

arXiv:2510.18333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite progress in watermarking algorithms for large language models (LLMs), real-world deployment remains limited. We argue that this gap st

Position: No Retroactive Cure for Infringement during Training

arXiv:2604.18649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI faces intensifying legal challenges, the machine learning community has increasingly relied on post-hoc mitigation -- especially mach

PREF-XAI: Preference-Based Personalized Rule Explanations of Black-Box Machine Learning Models

arXiv:2604.19684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has predominantly focused on generating model-centric explanations that approximate the behavior of black-box

Prompt to Pwn: Automated Exploit Generation for Smart Contracts

arXiv:2508.01371v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Smart contracts are important for digital finance, yet they are hard to patch once deployed. Prior work has mainly explored LLMs for smart con

Quantum Non-Linear Bandit Optimization

arXiv:2503.03023v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study non-linear bandit optimization where the learner maximizes a black-box function with zeroth order function oracle, which has been successfu

Reduced-Order Surrogates for Forced Flexible Mesh Coastal-Ocean Models

arXiv:2602.05416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)-based surrogates are widely explored for hydrodynamic applications, the use of Koopman autoencoder

RoLegalGEC: Legal Domain Grammatical Error Detection and Correction Dataset for Romanian

arXiv:2604.19593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The importance of clear and correct text in legal documents cannot be understated, and, consequently, a grammatical error correction tool meant to ass

S2MAM: Semi-supervised Meta Additive Model for Robust Estimation and Variable Selection

arXiv:2604.19072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised learning with manifold regularization is a classical framework for jointly learning from both labeled and unlabeled data, where the ke

Sadly, this post will result in future AI models being “squashmaxxed” - good at producing butternut squash images, bad at everything else.

This post discusses concerns about AI model degradation through the inclusion of low-quality or irrelevant training data, using butternut squash image generation as a humorous example of how excessive

SAW-INT4: System-Aware 4-Bit KV-Cache Quantization for Real-World LLM Serving

arXiv:2604.19157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV-cache memory is a major bottleneck in real-world LLM serving, where systems must simultaneously support latency-sensitive small-batch requests and hi

Seeing Candidates at Scale: Multimodal LLMs for Visual Political Communication on Instagram

arXiv:2604.19489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a computational case study that evaluates the capabilities of specialized machine learning models and emerging multimodal large lang

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

SK Hynix says it plans to invest ~$12.85B in a new fab in South Korea for advanced packaging to meet AI demand for HBM, with construction starting this month (Reuters)

Reuters: SK Hynix says it plans to invest ~12.85B in a new fab in South Korea for advanced packaging to meet AI demand for HBM, with construction starting this month — SK Hynix (000660.KS) said on Wed

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Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to 1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with 500M in equity (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to 1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with 500M in equity — Start-up backing new com

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Sovereign architectures emerge as the new mandate for enterprises racing to modernize

As regulatory pressure intensifies and geopolitical uncertainty reshapes technology procurement, enterprises are rethinking control over their entire stack, with sovereign architectures emerging as th

applicationssiliconangle

Sparse Network Inference under Imperfect Detection and its Application to Ecological Networks

arXiv:2604.18820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recovering latent structure from count data has received considerable attention in network inference, particularly when one seeks both cross-group int

Temporal Leakage in Search-Engine Date-Filtered Web Retrieval: A Retrospective Forecasting Case Study

arXiv:2602.00758v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Search-engine date filters are widely used to enforce pre-cutoff retrieval in retrospective evaluations of search-augmented forecasters. We show thi

This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin’s tracker and my substack essays about it.

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This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin’s tracker and my substack essays about it. And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal j

Towards Energy Impact on AI-Powered 6G IoT Networks: Centralized vs. Decentralized

arXiv:2604.19377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of sixth-generation (6G) technologies has introduced new challenges and opportunities for machine learning (ML) applications in Internet o

UAF: A Unified Audio Front-end LLM for Full-Duplex Speech Interaction

arXiv:2604.19221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex speech interaction, as the most natural and intuitive mode of human communication, is driving artificial intelligence toward more human-like

Why virtualization modernization remains enterprise IT’s hardest leap

Enterprises are locked in a long-term standoff with legacy infrastructure, with growing demand for virtualization modernization that doesn’t require a full rebuild. SUSE S.A. has positioned itself to

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Workspace agents are now available in research preview for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans. https://openai.com/busines…

OpenAI has released workspace agents in research preview for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers subscription plans. Workspace agents are AI assistants designed to work within organization

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Wrote about this two years ago (and expanded on this in my book): https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/setting-time-on-fire-and-the-temptation

Ethan Mollick discusses the concept of 'setting time on fire'—wasting time on unproductive activities—and explores the temptation to do so, drawing on arguments he originally published two years prior

Yes, the em-dashes were my very human choice. You can pry them from my five-fingered hands.

Ethan Mollick defends his personal stylistic choice to use em-dashes in his writing, humorously asserting ownership of this distinctly human writing preference. The post appears to be a response to su