TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries8 Oct 2026Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini EnterpriseIn recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and grow→8 Oct 2026Empowering SMBs to do more with GeminiToday, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici→
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries3 Oct 2026I tried building a small RAG search node for Qwen3.8 27B using a fake AliExpress Mini PC... and Intel sent me back to 2018.I love Qwen3.8 27B so much that I decided to show my gratitude to the Alibaba ecosystem by building a dedicated RAG/search node using a cheap Mini PC from AliExpress. Turns out, my ecosystem loyalty g→4 Oct 2026Wiki Lint Report — 2026-10-04Automated lint: 19 errors, 64915 warnings, 3 info→6 Oct 2026We analyzed a year of agent research across 4 tasks: deep research, RAG indexing, agentic search and coding. Found that first asking ‘Is thi…We analyzed a year of agent research across 4 tasks: deep research, RAG indexing, agentic search and coding. Found that first asking ‘Is this task verifiable?’ exposed inefficiencies in the agent arch→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→6 Oct 2026AlloyDB: A unified database engine for hybrid searchFor modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for semantic context, and full-text search (FTS) for keyword precis→7 Oct 2026Tool-calling retrieval versus vector RAG for a small Greek--English knowledge base: accuracy and robustness to how users type GreekarXiv:2610.08205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assistants grounded in a small, frequently edited knowledge base can retrieve through tool calls to a live data interface or through vector retrieval-→12 Oct 2026Introducing DigitalOcean Agent Data Services: The Data Foundation for AgentsAgents are only as capable as the context they can reach. An agent with reliable access to the right information makes decisions grounded in fact; one without it guesses. And the work agents produce i→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
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries12 Oct 2026JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied AgentsarXiv:2610.12957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents must translate multimodal observations and user requests into executable actions while adapting to product constraints, changing goals→12 Oct 2026JANUS: Enhancing Long-Horizon Autonomous Research with Co-Evolving World ModelsarXiv:2610.13194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon autonomous research has shown promise in accelerating scientific progress through sustained cycles of hypothesis generation, implementation→12 Oct 2026Introducing DigitalOcean Insights: Built-in Observability for Your Agents, Applications, and InfrastructureCoding agents have changed how fast teams ship, and more of the software they ship now includes agents. A production agent spans model calls, routing decisions, tools, and the infrastructure underneat→12 Oct 2026Introducing DigitalOcean Agent Data Services: The Data Foundation for AgentsAgents are only as capable as the context they can reach. An agent with reliable access to the right information makes decisions grounded in fact; one without it guesses. And the work agents produce i→12 Oct 2026How distributed inference keeps large AI models movingDistributed inference splits a large AI model into sub‑components that run concurrently on multiple compute nodes, allowing each node to process only part of the workload. This parallelism boosts thro→12 Oct 2026Dell’s AI partner ecosystem adapts to Silicon Valley’s build-it-yourself buyersSilicon Valley’s AI partner ecosystem is changing as enterprises push artificial intelligence projects out of pilots and into production. In the region where much of the AI stack is invented, infrastr→12 Oct 2026AI governance shifts to runtime as always-on agents spreadAs enterprises move from debating artificial intelligence adoption to deploying it, AI governance has become the harder question. Autonomous agents now run around the clock across a sprawl of platform→12 Oct 202610 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”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
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries9 Oct 2026From post-training to production: How TinyFish runs its web-native model on Databricks AI Runtime**Summary** TinyFish showcases a streamlined workflow for moving their web‑native machine‑learning model from post‑training into production using Databricks AI Runtime. The article details the deploym→9 Oct 2026Can a System-One LLM Perform Knowledge Tracing When Few or No Learners Are Logged?arXiv:2610.11135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge tracing (KT) models need many logged learners, so a new course or platform starts without a usable model. In LLM-based KT the LLM generates th→12 Oct 2026openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3Bgguf's: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf 'MiniCPM-V 4.7 is the latest model in the MiniCPM-V series, available in a 35B-A3B variant, with 35B-A3B being the first MoE model in →12 Oct 2026openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1BGguf's: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf 'MiniCPM-V 4.7 is the latest model in the MiniCPM-V series, available in a 1B variant. It builds on the family's single-image, multi-image,→12 Oct 2026JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied AgentsarXiv:2610.12957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents must translate multimodal observations and user requests into executable actions while adapting to product constraints, changing goals→12 Oct 2026DeltaLLM: Delta-Key Sparse Attention for Edge LLMsarXiv:2507.19608v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-device LLM inference is increasingly important for edge platforms but remains challenging due to high computational and memory demands and tight →12 Oct 2026DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for RoboticsarXiv:2601.18923v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policies train→12 Oct 202610 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”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
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries9 Oct 2026Evi-VN: Hard Region Guided Virtual Node Evidence Injection for GNN-Based Fraud DetectionarXiv:2610.11665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online platforms contain growing numbers of bots, deceptive reviewers, and scam accounts that imitate legitimate users. Such camouflage blurs graph neig→9 Oct 2026Ai2 at COLM 2026: Open research, from models to agents for scienceAi2 joined COLM 2026 to share advances in open language models, training infrastructure, and AI for science, including Olmo Hybrid, Asta, and Bolmo, while connecting with the broader research communit→12 Oct 2026SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular DataarXiv:2610.13644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting a subset of features (columns) from a tabular dataset is a ubiquitous challenge in real-world applications. Industry experts seek to minimiz→12 Oct 2026Multimodal Image-based Robotic Assistance and Guidance Environment (MIRAGE): A Novel Unified Framework for Surgical Navigation and VisualizationarXiv:2610.12780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the computational architecture and quantitative preclinical evaluation of MIRAGE, a multimodal image-guided robotic surgery framewor→12 Oct 2026JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied AgentsarXiv:2610.12957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents must translate multimodal observations and user requests into executable actions while adapting to product constraints, changing goals→12 Oct 2026Introducing DigitalOcean Agent Data Services: The Data Foundation for AgentsAgents are only as capable as the context they can reach. An agent with reliable access to the right information makes decisions grounded in fact; one without it guesses. And the work agents produce i→12 Oct 2026Evidence-Guided Counterfactual Learning for Long-Tailed Robotic PoliciesarXiv:2610.12861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the practical deployment of vision--language--action policies, handling long-tailed task distributions is a common challenge due to the highly imbala→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
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries9 Oct 2026Mooncake: A KVCache-centric Disaggregated Architecture for LLM ServingarXiv:2407.00079v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mooncake is the serving platform for Kimi, a leading LLM service provided by Moonshot AI. It features a KVCache-centric disaggregated architec→9 Oct 2026It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only DentarXiv:2610.11320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches alm→9 Oct 2026Humanoid World Action Model With Joint State--Action GenerationarXiv:2610.12026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots are a promising platform for general-purpose manipulation. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies learn actions directly from mu→9 Oct 2026A Physics-Informed Collision Learning Framework for Collaborative Robot Motion GenerationarXiv:2610.12404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Close-proximity multi-arm manipulation requires collision models that are both geometrically accurate and differentiable enough for real-time optimizati→12 Oct 2026JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied AgentsarXiv:2610.12957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents must translate multimodal observations and user requests into executable actions while adapting to product constraints, changing goals→12 Oct 2026How Flo Health built safer, more useful open models with Databricks AI RuntimeFlo Health leveraged Databricks AI Runtime to create open‑source language models that prioritize both safety and practical utility. By integrating Databricks’ scalable training infrastructure with rob→12 Oct 2026Evidence-Guided Counterfactual Learning for Long-Tailed Robotic PoliciesarXiv:2610.12861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the practical deployment of vision--language--action policies, handling long-tailed task distributions is a common challenge due to the highly imbala→12 Oct 2026CeDR-Nav: Cross-Embodiment Mapless Navigation via Offline Demonstration RecastingarXiv:2610.13007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based methods have demonstrated strong performance in mapless robot navigation. However, a learned policy remains restricted to the embodiment