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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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460 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.

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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.

  1. arXiv · Published · First archived

    Minimally Invasive Steering of Language Models ↗

    Pre-logit steering adapts a frozen language model to a test-time reward by adding vectors to its final hidden states. Unregularized reward optimization can substantially alter the output distribution and degrade generation quality. We propose Minimally Invasive Steering Vector Optimization (MISVO), which penalizes interventions using the local KL geometry of the induced token distribution. The resulting Fisher quadratic measures distributional sensitivity and admits an analytic gradient computed through matrix--vector products with the frozen language-model head. We derive an exact decompositi…

  2. arXiv · Published · First archived

    The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models ↗

    Layer-wise visual-text similarity in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is widely interpreted as evidence that the language model progressively integrates visual content into a shared representation space. This reading rests on the assumption that scalar alignment scores reflect content-level cross-modal interaction. To test this assumption, we apply controlled interventions to the visual stream. Across 13 MLLMs from five families spanning 0.5B to 72B parameters, replacing projector-output visual tokens with Gaussian noise sharply reduces task accuracy, yet four standard scalar measures…

  3. arXiv · Published · First archived

    NEUROTESTGEN: Neuro-Symbolic Guided Test Generation with Large Language Models ↗

    Ensuring high structural coverage remains a fundamental challenge in automated test generation, particularly for complex software systems where reaching specific lines or branches requires satisfying intricate control- and data-flow constraints. Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in producing human-like test cases; however, they often struggle to generate inputs that satisfy precise path conditions. Conversely, symbolic execution can systematically derive such constraints, but it often fails to construct realistic, executable test cases and is constrain…

  4. arXiv · Published · First archived

    GridSFM: A Foundation Model for Solving AC Optimal Power Flow ↗

    We introduce GridSFM, a framework that combines a pretrained foundation model across grid topologies with physics-informed fine-tuning for solving AC Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) at scale. It is a $15$ million parameter physics-inspired graph neural network pretrained across $54$ topologies of $500$ to $4{,}000$ buses. Our model attains a $2.45\%$ zero-shot generation-cost error on a $10{,}000$ bus case held-out operating conditions with no degradation as system size grows. Building on this, we pair the pretrained backbone with a physics-informed fine-tuning design based on Newton's method for…

  5. Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived

    Lifelogging with Large Language Models ↗

    Hacker News discussion.

  6. arXiv · Published · First archived

    Do Audio Language Models Hear and Read Distinctive Features Alike? ↗

    Audio language models pass speech and text through a single decoder. We ask whether that decoder represents a distinctive feature in the same direction when a phoneme is heard and when it is read. For minimal pairs of phonemes differing in one feature, we take the offset between the two members' mean representations. Averaging those offsets gives a direction for each stream, and we measure the cosine between the two. Because the two streams already agree about arbitrary phoneme pairs, we compare every measure against a reference built from random pairings rather than against zero. We apply thi…

  7. GitHub · Repository created · First archived

    sgfsd/game-russificator ↗

    Автоматический русификатор PC-игр на Unity, Ren'Py и RPG Maker: машинный перевод, нейросеть на ПК или облачная по API-ключу. Автор и заказ перевода: Telegram @TRAPYCHINO (t.me/TRAPYCHINO)

  8. Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived

    The Gnome LLM Policy That I Want ↗

    Hacker News discussion.

  9. Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived

    Cheaper LLM Labelling ↗

    Hacker News discussion.

  10. arXiv · Published · First archived

    PrivDrift: Auditing User-Secret Leakage Under Topic Drift in Active LLM Conversations ↗

    Large language models increasingly operate as persistent assistants in user-facing, shared-session, and tool-augmented settings. When users disclose sensitive information during an active conversation, that information may remain behaviorally recoverable through later prompts even after the dialogue shifts to unrelated topics. We introduce \textbf{PrivDrift}, a benchmark for auditing whether user-disclosed secrets remain recoverable after conversational topic drift and persuasion-based probing. PrivDrift contains 1{,}000 controlled multi-turn dialogues with seeded secrets, content-dense drift…

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