TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries12 Oct 2026Evaluating LLM Creativity through Long-Tail PerformancearXiv:2610.12998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creativity benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) vary widely in task and metric design. This raises the question of whether they capture a common →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
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries12 Oct 2026SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales AgentsarXiv:2610.12975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SmartSalesBench, the first multi-turn conversational benchmark explicitly designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) sales agents agains→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 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→13 Oct 2026Where do LLMs actually earn their place in a recommender system? Kim Falk’s new book + 5 ebook giveaway [D]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→13 Oct 2026wait so this feels a bit different too in a good waywait so this feels a bit different too in a good way You already gave the LLM the answer. So why is it writing it out from scratch? Introducing a new AI model architecture: Constrained Decoding Models→13 Oct 2026Machine Learning Tutorial/Workshop [D]This post is to let people know about a workshop/tutorial on Machine Learning that will run on the (blue) math discord server: discord.gg/maths. The place is nice, people are cool and helpful, and as →13 Oct 2026Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standardsThe reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple c→14 Oct 2026Approximation in Contrastive Representation LearningarXiv:2610.15388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive representation learning (CRL) is a fundamental paradigm for learning transferable representations. Recent work identifies its population tar
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries14 Oct 2026How Tamnoon built AI-powered cloud security remediation with Amazon BedrockLearn how Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic cloud remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that autonomously investigates and safely remediates cloud security findings from CNAPP and cloud-native sourc→14 Oct 2026Groundcover lets Claude and Codex hand production investigations to its own agentApplication observability startup groundcover Inc. today gave outside artificial intelligence coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude and OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex a way to hand production investi→14 Oct 2026Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Gemini Notebook can help CISOs and policymakers prepare for PQCWelcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executive→14 Oct 2026Chainguard puts Claude Mythos on flaw hunting, secures coding agents and widens LibrariesSecure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today unveiled a vulnerability-hunting service that uses frontier artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Mythos 5.→14 Oct 2026BrowseSafe++: Benchmarking Prompt Injection Detection Across Web Contexts, Languages, and Browser ViewsarXiv:2610.17457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Browser agents need to make decisions and execute actions on behalf of users while consuming untrusted webpages, creating opportunities for malicious →14 Oct 2026As I’ve been saying, LangChain is going to be the leader in composable AI because their tech is perfect for stitching together all of these …As I’ve been saying, LangChain is going to be the leader in composable AI because their tech is perfect for stitching together all of these smaller specialized models. And now we have another category→14 Oct 2026AI labs need 100 agents constantly running product walkthroughs on their own products and funneling findings and workflows into a repo. 24/7…AI labs need 100 agents constantly running product walkthroughs on their own products and funneling findings and workflows into a repo. 24/7 product testing on a loop. When I ask a question about how →14 Oct 2026A Production-Grade, High-Efficiency Agentic RL Framework for Frontier LLMs with Validated RecipesarXiv:2610.16352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical phase in the post-training pipeline of large language models (LLMs). As the frontier of LLM capabi
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries12 Oct 2026Auditing Prompt Injection Defenses Before They Reach Users: What Strong Adversaries RevealarXiv:2505.15738v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in user-facing products that handle sensitive personal data while interacting with untrusted e→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 →13 Oct 2026From 1,000s of raw images to a training-ready dataset — pixel-curator (similarity training curation tool)pixel-curator — curation tooling for similarity training (identity, subject, and style models) Repo: https://github.com/snoozey-mf-bnui/pixel-curator What it is pixel-curator is a local-first CLI that→13 Oct 2026EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: a practical engineering guideLearn how agent traces, human oversight, production evaluations, and log retention support EU AI Act compliance with a practical credit-assistant example. The post EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: →14 Oct 2026ZOIF: Zeroth-Order Influence Function Estimation for LLM Data Selection Using Only Forward PassesarXiv:2610.15336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Influence functions enable principled data selection for large language models (e.g., identifying influential training samples for model editing, debugg→14 Oct 2026MARTS: A Modular Agricultural Robot for Targeted Spraying of Diseased Tomato Plants in GreenhousesarXiv:2610.18123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Broadcast spraying remains the dominant method of disease control in greenhouse tomato production, yet it treats healthy and diseased tissue alike, expo→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 2026Building age estimation based on widely available multi-source1 geospatial dataarXiv:2610.16320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building age is fundamental for urban infrastructure safety, operation, and planning, as it directly affects structural safety, and sustainable developm
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries12 Oct 2026Auditing Prompt Injection Defenses Before They Reach Users: What Strong Adversaries RevealarXiv:2505.15738v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in user-facing products that handle sensitive personal data while interacting with untrusted e→12 Oct 2026Acoustic Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Detection from Spontaneous SpeecharXiv:2610.12500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major public health challenge, and early identification is crucial for timely intervention and care planning. Recen→13 Oct 2026Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standardsThe reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple c→13 Oct 20261M-token, multimodal decision models are here! But there is more to this one. You can classify, extract, and summarize with 1M tokens of tex…1M-token, multimodal decision models are here! But there is more to this one. You can classify, extract, and summarize with 1M tokens of text and image input. ScaleDown's Constrained Decoding Models r→14 Oct 2026Web Scale on a Budget: Tail-Aware Retrieval EvaluationarXiv:2610.17986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common practice in instance retrieval is to grow the gallery size to improve a benchmark's discrimination capability. One prominent example is ILIAS, →14 Oct 2026MARTS: A Modular Agricultural Robot for Targeted Spraying of Diseased Tomato Plants in GreenhousesarXiv:2610.18123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Broadcast spraying remains the dominant method of disease control in greenhouse tomato production, yet it treats healthy and diseased tissue alike, expo→14 Oct 2026From a Large-Scale Teacher to Efficient Multimodal Students for Search Relevance PredictionarXiv:2610.16569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relevance prediction between user queries and items is a fundamental component of e-commerce search systems. Traditionally, high-quality relevance lab→14 Oct 2026FASHION-RQ: Mining Hierarchical Semantic Structure for Automated Evaluation of Fashion RetrievalarXiv:2610.17841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating fashion retrieval systems remains challenging due to the limited availability of benchmarks that capture the fine-grained, open-ended queri
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries13 Oct 2026Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standardsThe reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple c→14 Oct 2026Predictable AI spend in BigQuery: Introducing cost management for generative AI functionsThe generative AI functions in BigQuery (AI.GENERATE, AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SCORE, and more) bring large language models (LLMs) directly into your SQL, so a single query can classify millions of supp→14 Oct 2026Notes on Uniform Policy Score Bounds and Lipschitz Continuity for Truncated Gaussian, Product Cauchy, Boltzmann, and Softmax PoliciesarXiv:2610.15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We establish uniform score bounds and Lipschitz continuity for truncated Gaussian, Cauchy, Boltzmann, and softmax policies under explicitly stated par→14 Oct 2026Learning When to Transfer: Reinforcement Learning for Carbon-Footprint Modeling in New Manufacturing DomainsarXiv:2610.18730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manufacturers often need to characterize a new material, process, or product before enough operating data are available to train reliable predictive mod→14 Oct 2026KedgeFlow: A Programmable Control Plane for Enterprise AI AgentsarXiv:2610.14810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise AI agents can execute altered versions of approved actions, concurrently reuse the same permission, or retry operations whose responses wer→14 Oct 2026Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Gemini Notebook can help CISOs and policymakers prepare for PQCWelcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executive→14 Oct 2026Building age estimation based on widely available multi-source1 geospatial dataarXiv:2610.16320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building age is fundamental for urban infrastructure safety, operation, and planning, as it directly affects structural safety, and sustainable developm→14 Oct 2026A Production-Grade, High-Efficiency Agentic RL Framework for Frontier LLMs with Validated RecipesarXiv:2610.16352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical phase in the post-training pipeline of large language models (LLMs). As the frontier of LLM capabi