TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries8 Oct 2026How to train your model organismarXiv:2610.10203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model organisms of alignment-relevant behaviors (e.g., backdoors, sycophancy, spurious correlations) have emerged as a key tool for evaluating whitebox →12 Oct 2026Recommended NVIDIA paper on memory-efficient post-training RL. A very interesting technique for scaling RL for LLMs. The main takeaway is th…Recommended NVIDIA paper on memory-efficient post-training RL. A very interesting technique for scaling RL for LLMs. The main takeaway is that you can update all of a model's weights with RL and still
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries5 Oct 2026Agentic retrieval with LangChain and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge BasesBuild a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with LangChain, and see how agentic retrieval handles the multi-part questions that single-shot retrie→6 Oct 2026Announcing MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: Agentic data access for the enterpriseCo-authors:Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, GoogleAnubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox v1.0, we're thrilled to announce that the MCP Tool→8 Oct 2026I built a local server that speaks the Ollama API - sessions survive crashes, and your chat doesn't wait behind your agentsDisclosure first: I'm one of the maintainers, this is my project. If you've pointed Open WebUI or a script at a local server, you know the failure modes: the server restarts and every conversation is →9 Oct 2026Forms of LLM-Integrated Applications from LLM-Chats to Autonomous AI Agent SystemarXiv:2610.11899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded as components in software systems, marketed under labels such as chatbot, copilot, retrieval-au→12 Oct 2026Must-read paper on the effectiveness of multi-agent systems and persistent memory. We have recently seen many viral examples of multi-agent …Must-read paper on the effectiveness of multi-agent systems and persistent memory. We have recently seen many viral examples of multi-agent systems scaled via persistent memory. This work takes a clos→12 Oct 2026LLC: lightweight Open WebUI alt now with Agents+MCP+RAG+Image EditingQuick context: LocalLightChat (LLC) is a chat frontend for local LLMs. Download it, run it, that's it. No installation (unless you want to), no dependencies, and it runs on pretty much anything, inclu→12 Oct 2026A 'free' multi-modal 'embedding' model (already) included with your LLM: vLLM plugin + upstream PRDisclaimer: 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 →15 Oct 2026EGCForest: Structured Agent Memory Organization for Enterprise Group ChatsarXiv:2610.19836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise group chats record project progress, decisions, task ownership, and other organizational information valuable to enterprise agents. Reliable
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries16 Oct 2026Brilliant paper on scaling research agents from UC Berkeley. (bookmark it) They propose an unexpected and interesting way to scale automated…Brilliant paper on scaling research agents from UC Berkeley. (bookmark it) They propose an unexpected and interesting way to scale automated research with agents. It's common to see research agents ke→16 Oct 2026Banger paper from Google DeepMind on long-horizon multi-agent coding. (bookmark it) They report that, to the best of their knowledge, this i…Banger paper from Google DeepMind on long-horizon multi-agent coding. (bookmark it) They report that, to the best of their knowledge, this is the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by→16 Oct 2026A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats MinecraftarXiv:2610.22319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world and gave them one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. Each agent controlled a pl→16 Oct 202610 Things you maybe didn't know you can do with Qwen 3.6 27B right now. (For Noobs)I know everyone's excited about 3.8, but honestly I'm still refining 3.6. And I hate the way 3.8 talks, so... I keep seeing all these posts about what's the use of open source, so I figured I'd submit→17 Oct 2026What do you guys use for chat interface?I use Pi/OpenCode for coding tasks which still seems to be the most popular, but I'm wondering what you guys use for normal chat interface. It's been a few months since I've seen discussions about har→17 Oct 2026Qwen3.8-27B-Defiance-Uncensored-MTP-GGUFDefiance puts DavidAU's Turbo-Brilliance 'AI Construct' modes on HauhauCS's uncensored Qwen3.8-27B. You pick a mode (Joker, Dr. House, a 20-agent Einstein panel, a Socratic tutor) per request, and the→17 Oct 2026Great paper from NVIDIA sharing an open midtraining recipe for agentic coding. NVIDIA kept SFT identical and added one midtraining stage. SW…Great paper from NVIDIA sharing an open midtraining recipe for agentic coding. NVIDIA kept SFT identical and added one midtraining stage. SWE-bench Multilingual went from 55.8 to 62.8 on Nemotron 3.5 →17 Oct 2026Banger paper from Tencent on recursive self-improvement for terminal agents. (bookmark it) This is a great read if you are tracking research…Banger paper from Tencent on recursive self-improvement for terminal agents. (bookmark it) This is a great read if you are tracking research on training terminal or coding agents with RL Starting from
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries12 Oct 2026QLoRA on ExLlamaV3 Quants - Train @ 2-8bpwEXL3-QLoRA I've built this over the last few months and I think it's stable enough to share now. A fork of ExLlamaV3, this is a native ExLlamaV3 training implementation with plain PyTorch, without tra→13 Oct 2026I built a @Grok @Bot that watches $SPCX on its own — fully automated, no manual work. I’ve been running it for over a month and fine-tuned i…I built a @Grok @Bot that watches SPCX on its own — fully automated, no manual work. I’ve been running it for over a month and fine-tuned it several times. This version is very good. Every weekday bef→14 Oct 2026Using Absorbing Markov Chains + EmbeddingGemma 2 as a Decision Engine: ~2ms inference with 100% GTO Parity on Vegas Blackjack[UPDATE / RETRACTION: The '100% GTO' claim had a prompt-leakage bug] We patched the repo to pass strictly neutral states, here are the real, honest numbers: • Latency: Still ~2ms (ONNX + Absorbing Mar→14 Oct 2026Galaxy S21 + Gemma 4 E2B Q3_K_M + Qwen3.5-0.8B Q4_K_M: same Amazon task, two different valid carts via structured browser perceptionThis continues the small-model browser experiments from the previous posts. Two standard, off-the-shelf models ran locally on the same Samsung Galaxy S21: Gemma 4 E2B, Q3_K_M as the reasoner Qwen3.5-0→14 Oct 2026Agaram 2.5B: The First Tamil-First Language Model Trained from Scratch with Tool Calling. A Playbook for Under-Represented LanguagesarXiv:2610.18420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We trained Agaram 2.5B, a 2.5-billion-parameter Tamil-English language model, from scratch on about 50 billion tokens (58% Tamil, the rest English, ma→15 Oct 2026v0.7.0Overview llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds the LiliCorr speculative decoding technique and MTP for GLM5-Next, a new GPU cache for MoE experts kept in host memory (--moe-cache-mib, up to ~2.2x decode speedup when →17 Oct 2026Reasoning From Scratch round 8, the finale! This last lecture in the series covers distillation as an efficient alternative to the previous …Reasoning From Scratch round 8, the finale! This last lecture in the series covers distillation as an efficient alternative to the previous reinforcement learning training runs. (Planning to take a br→17 Oct 2026Banger paper from Tencent on recursive self-improvement for terminal agents. (bookmark it) This is a great read if you are tracking research…Banger paper from Tencent on recursive self-improvement for terminal agents. (bookmark it) This is a great read if you are tracking research on training terminal or coding agents with RL Starting from
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries12 Oct 2026Explore DNA with DeepMind’s AlphaGenome and in-browser MedGemma 1.5 4B via WebGPUHey everyone, Sharing an educational tool called AskCyph Health Explorer to explore how single-letter DNA mutations lead to disease, how they alter 3D anatomy, inheritance probabilities, and available→12 Oct 2026A 'free' multi-modal 'embedding' model (already) included with your LLM: vLLM plugin + upstream PRDisclaimer: 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 →13 Oct 2026Running decision models: Picking quant, VRAM usageHi, I see that vllm released d3 (a family of decision models) and llama.cpp already has support for them. I want to try them out. Are decision models sensitive to quantization? I know that for autocom→14 Oct 2026Unravel: Recovering an Interactive 3D Scene from a Single ImagearXiv:2610.16146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Unravel, a training-free framework that turns a single image into an interactive 3D scene, where every object is an independent and movable a→14 Oct 2026Refuses in Chat, Complies with Arms: LLM Refusal Does Not Survive Robot ControlarXiv:2610.14043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier language models reliably refuse to explain how to cause physical harm. We ask whether this refusal survives when the same models control a ro→15 Oct 2026v0.7.0Overview llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds the LiliCorr speculative decoding technique and MTP for GLM5-Next, a new GPU cache for MoE experts kept in host memory (--moe-cache-mib, up to ~2.2x decode speedup when →15 Oct 2026nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB · Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-LiLiCorr-GGUF NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB is a vi→15 Oct 2026GeoCloak: An Agentic Framework for Semantics-Preserving Geolocation Privacy via Peripheral Clue ManipulationarXiv:2610.20055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of large vision language models (LVLMs) has made geolocation inference from images highly accurate and accessible. This poses seri
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries12 Oct 2026Agreement Without Alignment: Label-Free Rubric Clarification Increases LLM-Judge Consensus but Not Agreement with HumansarXiv:2610.13303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM judges are increasingly deployed as panels, and disagreement among panel members is often read as a symptom of an unclear rubric. We test a label-→13 Oct 2026My local Qwen3.8FN agent is significantly cheaper than cloudtl;dr: running Qwen3.8FN Q4 locally is cheaper for me than every cloud model except Luna and the newer Haiku at mid-peak and peak electricity pricing where I live, and becomes the absolute cheapest mo→13 Oct 2026I built a @Grok @Bot that watches $SPCX on its own — fully automated, no manual work. I’ve been running it for over a month and fine-tuned i…I built a @Grok @Bot that watches SPCX on its own — fully automated, no manual work. I’ve been running it for over a month and fine-tuned it several times. This version is very good. Every weekday bef→13 Oct 2026Character.AI files for bankruptcyCharacter.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for user→14 Oct 2026Refuses in Chat, Complies with Arms: LLM Refusal Does Not Survive Robot ControlarXiv:2610.14043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier language models reliably refuse to explain how to cause physical harm. We ask whether this refusal survives when the same models control a ro→14 Oct 2026Recursive self-improvement is one of the most discussed ideas in AI right now. RSI-Anything measures it in code repair, GUI agents, lab plan…Recursive self-improvement is one of the most discussed ideas in AI right now. RSI-Anything measures it in code repair, GUI agents, lab planning, and chemistry. They find that the lab-planning score m→14 Oct 2026// Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE agents // It's standard practice to train SWE agents on binary test rewards. This paper shows the probl…// Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE agents // It's standard practice to train SWE agents on binary test rewards. This paper shows the problem with that. When every trajectory in a group passes, or ev→15 Oct 2026What the Gemini agent means for startupsSmall teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups. When you are building a company from the gro