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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 ↗445 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.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Guess the LLM – read an answer and guess which model wrote it ↗
Hi HN, I made a game to test if people can really tell AI models apart. Models from all the frontier labs answer the same question. You read one answer and guess who wrote it. You can also pick just the models you want to compare. I made it and still only get 5/10 lol. Curious how you all do.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/woman for each country ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Same LLM, same input tokens, different answers on a MacBook and a Jetson ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
SoftCache: Adaptive Step Size Caching for Diffusion Transformers ↗
Diffusion and flow models generate a sample over iterative steps, each a full pass through a large network, and that pass dominates generation cost. Training-free caching accelerates them by reusing activations from recent evaluations instead of recomputing them. Dynamic caching methods decide when to refresh by accumulating a cheap probe of the network input into a staleness signal and spending a fresh evaluation once it crosses a threshold. They perform hard caching: the signal is a binary switch between refresh and reuse, and every step, fresh or cached, advances by the prescribed step size…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models ↗
Significant efforts are currently being directed toward the implementation of large-scale quantum information processors, but realizing useful quantum advantage also requires the development of efficient quantum algorithms. While for many practical problems the dominant resource costs are associated with a small set of computational primitives, optimizing them in the quantum setting presents unique challenges, including a reversibility constraint absent from ordinary classical computation. Here we introduce an evolutionary framework in which large language models (LLMs) propose circuit designs…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
DK-VLM: Geometry as Position for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models ↗
Vision-language models still struggle to understand 3D spatial relations across views and update spatial judgments as the observer moves. A common approach fuses 3D reconstruction features into visual tokens, but aligning these features with pretrained semantic representations remains challenging under limited spatial supervision. We propose DK-VLM with Dual-Kernel Attention, which computes attention from both a visual token's input position and its geometric position in the scene. A semantic kernel retains the pretrained model's native attention and positional encoding, while a separate geome…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Evaluation Awareness Beyond English: Do LLMs Act Differently When Tested in Indic Languages? ↗
Large language models (LLMs) can often tell when they are being tested. This ability, known as evaluation awareness, can lead models to act more cautiously during safety evaluations than in real use. Existing work has studied evaluation awareness almost entirely in English, although models serve users in many languages. Indic languages are spoken by over a billion people, yet evaluation awareness remains almost entirely unstudied in them. We test four instruction-tuned models from three families in five Indic languages alongside English. A set of cues varies whether the model is told that it i…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Designing Transformers for Continuous Diffusion Language Models ↗
Continuous diffusion language models (CDLMs) offer an alternative approach to parallel language generation; however, most existing studies directly use transformer architectures from either causal large language models (LLMs) or Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for image generation, which were not optimized for CDLMs. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study on Transformer architectures for CDLMs and introduce Language Diffusion Transformer (LangDiT), combining feature and query-key normalization, wider noise conditioning, likelihood-shortcut gradient routing and calibration, and confidence-g…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support ↗
With people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for mental health support, the need to evaluate these tools is becoming more pressing. Recent benchmarks attempt to mimic a realistic setting by simulating multi-turn interactions with synthetic patients and evaluating them with an LLM-as-a-judge. However, the usefulness of these methods is limited because simulated patients can be overly forthcoming and self-reflective, and judgments typically involve opaque Likert scales with unclear practical utility. To bridge these gaps, we introduce MindEval2, an evaluation framework that consists of two co…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change? ↗
Spatial instructions describe how to move objects, transform regions, or modify their surroundings. When several operations are applied in sequence, each acts on a configuration shaped by earlier changes. How accurately can large language models (LLMs) predict the resulting spatial state? We introduce Grid-Bench, an executable benchmark in which eight families of operations transform discrete worlds represented as two-, three-, and four-dimensional grids. Given an initial grid, explicit rules, and an event history expressed as text, a model predicts the complete final grid. Reference execution…
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