A (lukewarm) defense of Minsky and Papert [D]
TLDR: Perceptrons didn't have a big impact on the community and didn't cause an AI winter. It was, however, seen retrospectively…
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Leaving a job to pursue a PhD [D]
I have been working as a ML Engineer at a startup for 4 years and while the environment is very good and the pay is higher than…
Discovery of Diverse and Realistic Financial Tail-Risk Using Generative Flow Networks
Accurate modeling of rare, high-impact financial events is essential for robust risk management. Sampling-based techniques such…
What to randomize matters: a controlled study of volume, axis and representation in low-data molecular generation
Chemical language models can struggle to generate new molecules when trained on small datasets, where a model may reproduce…
Discovering Jailbreaks via Curriculum of Models
Automated jailbreak discovery aims to find prompts that elicit prohibited behaviors from safety-trained language models, helping…
Evaluating Visual Realism of AI-Generated Videos with Eye Tracking
Human evaluation of AI-generated videos has so far relied on explicit human feedback, such as judgments or ratings. While these…
UnEZ: A Fully Unsupervised Self-Templating Neural Network for Redshift and Line Strength Estimation
As spectroscopic surveys grow, estimating galaxy properties such as metallicity, star formation rate, and redshift becomes…
Causal Attention on CPU: A Cache-Aware and Load-Balanced Scheduling Kernel for Prefill
Agentic AI drives significant productivity gains across diverse domains, but concurrent long-context prefills from multiple…
Leaving, Staying, or Living There? Duration Commonsense Reasoning with Human-LLM Co-annotations
Gardening in the backyard implies living there, while checking into an Airbnb more likely means staying for a few days. Such…
From Grind to Grasp
Discussions of complexity, knowledge and intelligence often overlook the work involved. For example, outputs generated by short…
Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS
AI summary AWS publishes a Ray Train Deep Learning Container on Amazon ECR Public that bundles Ray 2.58.0, PyTorch 2.13.0, CUDA 13.0.2, NCCL 2.29.7 and the EFA networking libraries, tested together and kept patched by AWS. A sample uses the unmodified image with KubeRay on Amazon EKS to fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B via FSDP on eight NVIDIA L4 GPUs spread over two g6.12xlarge instances. Settings such as GPU counts, network transport and extra Python packages are applied from outside the image, so no custom build is needed. AWS puts the cost at about $9.50 per hour while the GPU nodes run.
Systems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI
Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then…
Cocktail-party audio as a reverse Turing test: humans beat speech models, but not by enough [P]
Hello - I wanted to share a small project I worked on test whether picking one voice out of background chatter could separate…
Meta Partners With Five US Universities to Accelerate Medical and Scientific Breakthroughs
AI summary Meta is giving $2 million to five American universities, among them Caltech, Indiana University and UTHealth Houston, to fund research built on its AI models in fields from medicine to mathematics. At Louisiana State University, Dr. Michael Dunham's Eyes-On project is building a camera-based system, exploring Meta's SAM models, to spot dislodged tracheostomy tubes in infants. Dr. David Crandall at Indiana is studying how conversational agents could adapt to people with dementia. An Ohio State team led by Dr. Yuan Xue aims to predict a common form of heart failure from routine abdominal CT scans and medical records.
AMA this Wednesday: Stephen “Cas” Casper, Harvard Kennedy School, on AI safeguards, incidents and governance (28 Oct, 3 to 4pm ET) [D]
r/ArtificialInteligence We have an AMA today Wednesday 28 October from 3 to 4pm ET (19:00 UTC, 20:00 CET) with Stephen “Cas”…
If You're In the UK or EU, Here's How to Object to Meta's AI Training
In light of Meta's new terms that will allow it to scrape users' data for AI, people in the EU and UK have the option to "object"…
[R] Taking EmbeddingGemma-2 (577M) from Rank #26 to #1 on the MAEB audio benchmark by filling its 256d null space with PCA-reduced intermediate Conformer layers (zero training) [R]
Model & weights: BrunoHays/embeddinggemma-2-nullspace-audio I wanted to share an experiment on google/embeddinggemma-2 (577M) for…
7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open
In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on…
Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither
Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them A summer…
Could today’s frontier AI independently solve the protein folding problem?
With the back drop of AI in one month having solved one millennium problem and provided partial solutions to two more. As the…
A Tutorial on Generative Models for Music Audio
Music audio generation spans instrumental clips, full songs with vocals, edits of existing recordings, and systems that play…
Verification-Guided Retrosynthesis: Reaction Feedback and Evidence Timing
Retrosynthesis planning seeks synthesis routes from purchasable starting materials to a target molecule. Search over predicted…
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