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Earlier sources: Language models
Language models learn patterns in text and other representations to predict or generate sequences. Follow model releases, training methods, reasoning, evaluation, and deployment research; a benchmark result is specific to its test conditions.
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Open in the map ↗450 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Style, Not Self: Surface Cues Explain Zero-Shot Code Attribution by Large Language Models ↗
If a language model can recognize code it wrote, it may favor that code as a judge, and instances of one model monitoring each other could collude. We test this zero-shot on current commercial models. Five LLMs generate solutions to MBPP, HumanEval, and DS-1000, seven more to MBPP, and models act as evaluators in four tasks: picking their own solution from a pair, judging whether a single solution is their own, identifying which of two solutions a named model wrote, and judging quality blind. In the single-solution task, balanced accuracy is 49-58% for all 15 model-benchmark combinations, whil…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
When to Use an LLM ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Best LLM for every budget, updated daily ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Our EU AI Act compliance engine has zero LLM calls, and CI blocks adding any ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
MishraShardendu22/puter-ai-cli ↗
Free CLI AI assistant powered by Puter.js — stream GPT-4o, GPT-5.4, Claude & more directly from your terminal with zero OpenAI API keys, token pooling & auto-failover.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
CORDIAL: Calibrating Ordinal LLM Outputs from Few Labels ↗
A large language model (LLM) can turn a text into a distribution over an ordered scale, but that distribution is a noisy measurement: saturated, compressed or exaggerated, and biased in a consistent direction. We propose CORDIAL, which treats the model's output as a noisy reading of the true label and corrects it with a channel of five interpretable parameters. The channel is small enough for its posterior to be averaged from a handful of labels, and we prove that the resulting calibration preserves first-order stochastic order. On Amazon reviews and CMU-MOSEI transcripts with four LLMs, CORDI…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Lightweight Vision Transformer-Based U-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation from MRI ↗
Accurate brain tumor segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning, and surgical guidance. Although Convolutional Neural Networks, particularly UNet, have achieved significant success in medical image segmentation, they often struggle to capture the long-range spatial dependencies required to model tumors with irregular shapes and complex boundaries. This paper proposes a lightweight Vision Transformer UNet that combines the hierarchical feature extraction capability of UNet with the global context modeling of Vision Transformers. The proposed arch…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Prefilling the Reasoning Channel: Output-Prefix Attacks on Reasoning LLMs ↗
Large Language Models (LLMs) consume and produce a single sequence of text; hence, if text can be added to the beginning of the LLM's response, i.e., an output prefix, then all subsequent tokens will be conditioned on it. This output-prefix attack technique is a cheap black-box prompt injection. Prior work has shown this type of attack can reliably jailbreak non-reasoning models. Most reasoning models add an intermediate scratchpad reasoning step before the assistant's final response. The ability to edit this reasoning channel is exposed by some APIs and attack vectors can be leveraged for rea…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Jev Is Not a Language Model, but It Breaks Like One ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
JEV vs. LLMs as Rubric Judges: Cheaper, Faster, and Wrong in the Same Places ↗
We ask whether Jev, a typed classifier that returns probabilities over permitted answers without generating text, can replace an LLM rubric judge. We compare it with three flash-tier LLM judges on nine panels drawn from seven benchmarks, giving every judge identical criterion texts. Jev's accuracy differs significantly from an LLM judge's in only 8 of 27 paired comparisons, ahead mostly on binary criteria and behind only on graded ones, and most of the other comparisons are inconclusive. Summed over the nine panels, the LLM judges, called once per criterion, cost 29 to 325 times as much as Jev…
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