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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.
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes ↗
Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have largely been driven by large language models, deep neural networks that operate over discrete units called tokens. To represent text, most large language models use words or word fragments as the tokens, known as subword tokenization 1 . Subword tokenization obscures fine-grained information, which is problematic, especially for scientific data—such as computer code or biological sequences—where meaning depends on the individual characters or bytes 2 . Models that instead operate directly on the byte encoding of text avoid these lim…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
CyberRoBERTa: A Lightweight Transformer-Based Language Model for IoT Intrusion Detection ↗
With the accelerated proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its widespread use in sensitive areas such as healthcare, homes, and factories, security has become an increasingly critical concern. IoT remains one of the most challenging domains to secure, lacking the manageable scale, well-maintained software, and homogeneous environments of easily secured systems. Large language models (LLMs) have recently been applied to improve IoT security; however, most applications treat LLMs as “off-the-shelf” tools, creating a domain mismatch because model representations, tokenizers, and data…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
ALoDLM: Adaptively Looped Diffusion Language Models ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance ↗
Open-source personal finance app with an AI financial advisor: track your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts on your own computer.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
The biggest advance in AI since the LLM ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
LLM That Beat Frontier Models at Chess ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hugging Face · Model / dataset date · First archived
2Btainment/ein-llm-hybrid-max — model update ↗
# EIN-LLM Hybrid-Max GGUF **EIN-LLM Hybrid-Max** is a small German/English instruction model for the EINswarm website chat. It is based on **Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct**, fine-tuned with a lightweight LoRA adapter and exported to **GGUF Q4_K_M** for CPU inference with `llama.cpp`. Live worker Space: [`2Btainment/ein-llm-worker`](https://huggingface.co/spaces/2Btainment/ein-llm-worker) ## Files | Path | Description | |---|---| | `gguf/ein-llm-hybrid-max-Q4_K_M.gguf` | Quantized GGUF for llama.cpp / CPU inference | | `lora/hybrid-max/adapter_model.safetensors` | Trained LoRA adapter | | `finetune/syste
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Sherpa: Teaching LLMs to Teach Adaptively ↗
Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable problem solvers, but being able to solve a problem is not the same as being able to teach it. Existing approaches to training LLMs as teachers rely on demonstrations, preference data, or predefined pedagogical criteria that specify what good teaching looks like. However, these signals are often not grounded in individual student learning outcomes, where effective teaching strategies can vary substantially across learners. To address this, we introduce Sherpa, a multi-turn reinforcement learning framework that instantiates multiple s…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
The Missing Minimal Pair: Stereotype Evaluation in LLMs ↗
A common approach to measuring bias in Large Language Models is to compare the log-likelihoods of two contrastive stereotype sentences. We argue that such single-pair comparisons are often unreliable: simply rewriting the same stereotype with an alternative attribute can yield logically inconsistent preferences. To address this, we propose a dual minimal pair setup that introduces two axes of comparison for robust stereotype evaluation. First, we present a data-augmentation framework that fills critical gaps in existing stereotype datasets by generating paraphrases and alternate attributes. We…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
A paper without an LLM disclosure is a cause for suspicion [pdf] ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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