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The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? An

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total black eye for Anthropic’s efforts at alignment.

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total black eye for Anthropic’s efforts at alignment. Anthropic admits Houthis used Claude AI instead of weapons engineers to make rockets and ballistic missiles that correct themselves after missing

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13 Oct 2026

Update: Converting dense models into Mixture-of-Experts

This is an update to my previous post which can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/n7sgRZZc4z Since my last post I have continued working on the conversion process and also convertin

Updated OBVPM Timeline Workflow v0.1.4-007

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New version of my MiniMax H3 timeline workflow released Some very important bug fixes included, and a lot of improvements. The YouTube video above includes a lot of tips for using the workflow in addi

Using Gemini 4 makes you realize how many other models must be distilling Claude/GPT (or using a similar training pipeline). It feels quite …

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On October 13 2026, researcher Ethan Mollick tweeted that observing Gemini 4’s behavior reveals how many other LLMs are likely distilled from Claude or GPT—and thus use a similar training pipeline—mak

We benchmarked Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, and Muse Spark comprehensively on hard document OCR tasks. They're all pretty good! - Muse Spark…

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We benchmarked Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder, and Muse Spark comprehensively on hard document OCR tasks. They're all pretty good! - Muse Spark and Gemini 4 Argon* are SOTA at their respective price poin

web-edit 0.1a1

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**web-edit 0.1a1** is a lightweight web application that enables users to view, edit, and manage files within a specified folder directly through a browser interface. The tool supports basic file oper

Weird blog post from OrcaRouter

I came across this blog post from OrcaRouter: https://www.orcarouter.ai/blog/qwen-3-8-next-vs-qwen-3-8 Not only is the blog post nonsensical in some parts, it's also completely without any value. It b

We’ve been exploring the potential of using Gemini 4 Argon to accelerate research @Google. One of our tests was using videos of humans perfo…

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We’ve been exploring the potential of using Gemini 4 Argon to accelerate research @Google. One of our tests was using videos of humans performing fun tasks (game of bags, anyone?) to autonomously spin

Where do LLMs actually earn their place in a recommender system? Kim Falk’s new book + 5 ebook giveaway [D]

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Hi r/MachineLearning, Stjepan from Manning here. The mods approved this post, and I appreciate being welcomed back to share another book with you. We’ve just launched AI Recommender Systems: Transform

10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”

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A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What began as a collection of our practices for managing large-scale infrastructure

A Baseline Assessment for the Agentic Web Technology Stack

arXiv:2610.13703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fast pace in which protocols, frameworks, and technologies are being proposed for LLM-based agents results in a complex scenario for anyone aiming t

A Categorical Atlas of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: Cones, Orbits, and Gauges

arXiv:2610.12728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning has hundreds of methods, usually compared by parameter count and benchmark score. We compare them as maps. A pretrained

A 'free' multi-modal 'embedding' model (already) included with your LLM: vLLM plugin + upstream PR

Disclaimer: I work for NuMind, the company behind this plugin. TLDR: Text/image (simili-)embeddings from the LLM you already have loaded :-) I've been working on making it easier to obtain embeddings

A Record of the Process of Increasing MFU from 21% to 50% While Pre-training 21B MoE Using a Single GH200 Chip (Includes Code and Logs)

I am an independent researcher. Due to budget constraints, I shifted my 21B MoE pre-training—which I had originally planned to run on 64 H100s—to a single NVIDIA GH200 ($2.29 per hour), and I have com

A Sampling Complexity-aware Framework for Discrete-time Fractional-Order Dynamical System Identification

arXiv:2501.17499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A variety of complex biological, natural and man-made systems exhibit non-Markovian dynamics that can be modeled through fractional order differential

A Scalable Learned Iterative Solver for Nonlinear MPC via Temporal Decomposition

arXiv:2610.13480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) can be applied to large nonlinear systems with complex objectives while enforcing constraints, but the cost

AdaC-GRPO: Towards Mastering Long-Horizon Visual Sudoku Puzzles via Adaptive Curriculum Learning

arXiv:2610.13184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) enhances reasoning in large language models, its efficacy in long-horizon multimodal tasks re

Adaptive DHiSparse: Speculative Decoding over a Load-Adaptive KV Hierarchy

arXiv:2610.13708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context serving runs out of KV memory before the hardware reaches its useful throughput. HiSparse stores history in host memory and fetches only th

AgentSWE: Can Coding Agents Build the Agent You Actually Want?

arXiv:2610.13361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the production of software passes into the hands of software itself, coding agents are increasingly commissioned to build agents fitted to their us

AgentTune: A Unified Training Lifecycle for Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.13335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents increasingly require a common substrate for building, training, evaluating, distilling, and maintaining agentic systems, yet existing

AI Image alignment solution for Qwen Image 2.1 Edits

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I designed a node to align any pair of images trying to correct the pixel drift on Qwen Image 2.1 https://github.com/zuanfilm/Qalign workflow This node don't need any model or text encoder Qalign is a

Algebraic Integer Quantization for Machine Learning Applications

arXiv:2610.12494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this article, we propose algebraic integer number formats (AINF) as a framework for highly configurable and accurate compressed computation. A key pr

AlphaNIST: Emergent Assembly Skills from Binary Task Rewards

arXiv:2610.13354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The NIST Assembly Task Board #1 remains a challenging benchmark for learning-based methods in robotic manipulation. Over short horizons, it demands prec

AMLworld-Compact: Importance-Weighted Downsampling for Cost-Effective LLM Evaluation and Error Diagnosis

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arXiv:2610.13627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on AMLworld's smallest test splits is costly because each of over a million targets requires a separate graph pr

Amortized Counterfactual Prediction with Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2610.13724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Counterfactual inference asks how an observed outcome might have differed under different circumstances, such as whether a patient would have recovere

An all-transistor physical-learning transformer can be trained to perform in-context learning

arXiv:2610.12571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most systems trained by equilibrium propagation or coupled learning are in the same class as multi-layer perceptrons: while they may be universal functi

An Input-Dependent Readout Phase for Resonant Sequence Models

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arXiv:2610.12496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequence models with a fixed-size state avoid the quadratic cost of attention, but face a design choice. An input-dependent state transition gives con

Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% — In recent months, we've made su

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APEX-Harm: Evaluating Agent Safety in Shared Professional Workspaces

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arXiv:2610.13623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Professional agents increasingly work through command-line interfaces and multiple tools over shared workspaces containing files, messages, and busine

At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic's @cjav_dev & @HarrisonStall from @ClaudeDevs drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents c…

At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic's @cjav_dev & @HarrisonStall from @ClaudeDevs drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents can tackle bigger projects without overwhelming developers. h

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Attention Sees, MLP Refuses: Tracing the Attention-to-MLP Safety Pathway in LLMs

arXiv:2610.13078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreaks and can over-refuse benign requests. Understanding these failures requires d

AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs

arXiv:2610.13600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) achieve strong performance on speech-text tasks, but standard audio encoders produce hundreds of tokens for even s

AutoBio+: Benchmarking Dexterous Manipulation with Dynamic Experimental Phenomena in Realistic Laboratories

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arXiv:2610.13643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating biological laboratories requires robots to perform dexterous tool interactions under realistic visual conditions while handling dynamic exper

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hexagon: add IM2COL_3D (#30305) hexagon: add IM2COL_3D support Assisted-by: OpenCode hexagon: add DMA paths for IM2COL_3D Assisted-by: OpenCode hexagon: avoid scalar fp16 conversions in IM2COL Assiste

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vulkan: fix buffer logging on 32-bit platforms after source split (#30326) Move the vk::Buffer stream operator to the shared header so it is visible to ggml-vulkan-debug.cpp. Website: https://llama.ap

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ggml: Change default visibility of symbols to hidden (#30014) See discussion in #29997. This prevents a handful of internal symbols leaking via GGML_API. Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https

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vulkan: use ternary expressions to avoid switch lowering for CM2 quant block size (#30164) vulkan: specialize quant block size for CM2 matmul vulkan: use ternary expressions to avoid switch lowering f

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sycl: guard DMMV reads at row tails (#29338) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/54988744 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Sil

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llama : report compute graph reallocations during inference (#30329) Add an optional ggml_backend_sched_realloc_callback that user code registers with ggml_backend_sched_set_realloc_callback to be not

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metal : fix mul_mat_id with duplicate ids (#30373) metal : fix mul_mat_id limits and kernel name metal : fix mul_mat_id with duplicate ids kernel_mul_mm_id_map0 assumed at most one match per token and

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tests : link each test against only the libraries it uses (#30299) Give llama_build() and llama_build_and_test() a LINK keyword (default: llama-common) so call sites can declare what a test actually n

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model: support vllm decision 2 model (#30378) models: support pplx-decider vllm d2 update clarify naming rule stricter validation fix ci rm redundant filter_tensors Website: https://llama.app Attestat

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model: support vllm d3 models (#30383) models: support pplx-decider vllm d2 update clarify naming rule stricter validation d3 Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama

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vulkan: pack FMA for f16 accumulation, no dot product op (#29877) vulkan: pack FMA for f16 accumulation, no dot product op vulkan: dot_product packs two rows per f16 FMA vulkan: rename dot_product to

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metal: fix metal tensor kernel_mul_mm error for large tensor (#28748) metal: fix metal tensor kernel_mul_mm error for large tensor Assisted-by: Codex Update ggml/src/ggml-metal/kernels/mul_mm.metal Co

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model: fix vllm d3 multi seq case (#30408) model: fix vllm d3 multi seq case add TODO Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/55219202 macOS/iOS: ma

Bayesian dynamic scheduling of multipurpose batch processes under incomplete look-ahead information

arXiv:2512.01093v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multipurpose batch processes become increasingly popular in manufacturing industries since they adapt to low-volume, high-value products and shiftin