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Nov 14Sat
  1. MarkTechPost59

    Stanford Research Open-Sources Memorilla, a Latent Memory Module for Frozen LLMs

    Stanford researchers have released Memorilla, an open-source 194M-parameter memory module that condenses a whole document collection into 16 memory tokens for a frozen LLM, with code, training recipes and checkpoints public under Apache 2.0. On FactKG, a frozen Qwen3-8B scored 84.33% with Memorilla versus 80.43% for full context, using 108x fewer document tokens, and it reported the highest average (49.68) across 8 benchmarks while losing on PubMedQA (59.00% vs 69.00% for LLMLingua-2). The quickstart requires one 80 GB CUDA GPU, and the full training recipe takes about 19 hours on 4 H100 GPUs.

Nov 13Fri
  1. Hacker News AI65

    Fossil versions: a fingerprint of AI-written code in 250k NPM packages

    A random sample of 250,000 npm packages found that the share of new packages whose first-release manifests pin mostly round, already-superseded versions (x.0.0) rose from 1–2.4% in every half-year from 2019 to early 2024 to 13.7% (95% CI 13.1–14.4) in the first half of 2026, falling to 7.6% in the second half of 2026. Median pin age at birth rose from about 155 days in 2021–2023 to 451 days in Q2 2026, and the share of packages born with essentially all pins on the newest release fell from about 28% to about 10%. The author argues the timing, the specific versions and how package managers work point to manifests written from a language model's memory rather than by running an install, while noting the data cannot prove who or what wrote any single package.

  2. Hacker News AI30

    Open benchmark of AI decision APIs vs. XGBoost for fraud triage

    Smart Mobile House released fraud-decision-lab, a vendor-neutral benchmark that sends the same transactions to TypeSafe Jev, OpenAI Decisions, Cloudflare Clef/Clef-flash and a structured-output LLM, then measures how much labelled fraud each ranks into the top 1% and 5% of an analyst review queue against an XGBoost baseline, with cost and latency. It runs offline by default on bundled synthetic data, saves predictions and experiment metadata for local verification, and requires API keys, --allow-external-requests and a --max-cost-usd estimate for live provider runs. The project notes that XGBoost learns from labelled history while the AI models score transactions zero-shot, that the bundled data is synthetic, and that the current source distribution contains no benchmark result files.

Nov 12Thu
  1. Hacker News AI58

    An open specification for agentic AI security evaluation and testing, from Cisco

    Cisco's Advanced Security Initiatives Group released Foundry, an organization-neutral specification distilling its internal agentic security evaluation design into eight core agent roles, five extension roles, a finding lifecycle, coordination and governance requirements, and roughly 130 functional requirements with rationale. The repository contains no code by design: it is written to be run through a spec-driven workflow such as spec-kit, where organization-specific decisions marked [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] are resolved against your own infrastructure. It also describes a detection-to-prevention loop in which rule gaps found by exploratory agents become CodeGuard rules that feed back into the corpus and into LLM coding assistants.

Nov 10Tue
  1. Hacker News AI68

    Is AI code rotting open source? 450 repos, 12 months

    An analysis of 450 top GitHub repositories found that the average repo had 11.5% of its merged pull requests AI-signed in September 2026, up from 2.3% in October 2025, though the median repo was at just 1.5% and 264 of the 450 repos have committed agent instruction files, making every AI figure a floor. Among 100 TypeScript and C# repos, complexity per 1,000 lines rose a median 4.8% in AI-heavy repos versus 3.0% in others, with the increase concentrated in fast-growing codebases while mature Microsoft projects held flat. AI PRs were typically 2.4× larger than other PRs and fixed within 30 days only slightly more often.

Nov 9Mon
  1. Hugging Face Blog38

    Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together

    This post introduces HOPE (Higher-Order Pruning of Experts), a second-order expert-pruning method for Mixture-of-Experts language models that accounts for pairwise expert interactions via an F-matrix and a quadratic program, rather than scoring each expert independently. Evaluated on Qwen3.5-122B, Qwen3.5-35B and GLM-4.5-Air with two calibration datasets, HOPE achieved the best average rank across conditions and gains of up to +6.1% on agentic coding tasks over the next-best method, with its advantage growing at aggressive pruning rates such as 50%. The post also describes a three-step calibrate/solve/prune package and notes limitations, including weaker advantages at 10–20% pruning and no cross-layer interaction modeling.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering

    This report presents Human-Directed Agentic Engineering (HDAE), a method combining human-defined architecture, constraints, milestones, acceptance criteria and stopping points with an autonomous implementation, execution, diagnosis and revision loop, using Ginux as its case study. Over eleven days, one persistent coding-agent task produced an independent Rust-first x86-64 kernel that boots through UEFI, implements its own core OS mechanisms and a Linux compatibility layer, runs selected unmodified Alpine Linux programs, and boots a Rocky Linux 10 userspace with systemd through multi-user.target. Ginux remains a research prototype with narrow compatibility and hardware coverage, no independent security audit, and no claim to production readiness or equivalence with Linux.

Nov 7Sat
  1. The Decoder71

    State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away

    Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B on about 53 million tokens to create Arete-27B, which cuts its propaganda rate from 22 percent to 0.9 percent while keeping general capabilities roughly intact. The team built an 803-prompt test across seven categories and judged responses with Grok 4.7, finding Western models below one percent and GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 15 and 16 percent. Nous concludes the bias layer in Chinese-aligned models is shallow, applied late and thin, and removable without disturbing anything underneath.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    Leeroy: Making AI agents play World of Warcraft

    A software engineer describes LEEROY, a benchmark in which LLM-based agents play World of Warcraft on an AzerothCore private server by writing Lua scripts that control a headless game client in real time, since agents act in turns of 2 to 60 seconds. The SDK exposes only what a human player can see and do, so coordination such as grouping and crowd-control calls must be implemented by the agents themselves, and the author settled on XP per hour as the best scoring metric after six iterations of the judge program. A group of five agents that were not told to cooperate formed a party 29 seconds into their first run and cleared the Deadmines in 17 hours 41 minutes; the source code is on GitHub and results are at leeroy.dev.

  3. MIT News AI38

    How to predict the behavior of molecules from scant data

    MIT researchers developed CheMeleon, a pre-trained foundation model built on the open-source ChemProp package that learns from descriptors of a million molecules in PubChem and can be fine-tuned to predict molecular properties from limited data. In tests across 58 cases it outperformed other foundation models and classical expert-designed models, and nine of the top 20 entries in an OpenADMET contest used it. The findings were published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling by Zalte, Burns, Abreu, Green, and three BASF researchers.

Nov 6Fri
  1. vLLM Blog72

    Zero Mismatch, Simple Async RL: REINFORCE Zero, DeepSeek-V4.1 and Kimi K3.1

    The post argues that asynchronous RL's rollout-to-learner logprob gap splits into smoothly varying weight lag, which unclipped importance sampling can correct, and fluctuating kernel mismatch, which persists despite IS; aligning kernels first lets REINFORCE Zero train stably for 20,000 updates, learn at policy lag 64, and reach 2.40× the training-step throughput of synchronous training with aligned kernels. It reports zero mismatch (bit-for-bit logprob agreement) for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Kimi K3.1 on day 0, and for DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3.1 on AMD MI355X. Code and recipes are in Inferact/zero-mismatch-rl, with the paper at hijkzzz/REINFORCE-Zero and training code in NVIDIA-NeMo/labs-molt.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete diagnosis of why async RL drifts and a minimal recipe, backed by throughput, lag-64 and cross-vendor alignment results.

  2. Allen Institute for AI Blog55

    ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation

    Ai2 introduces FoundationWorlds, a framework pairing controlled simulated environments with tools for automatically generating tasks, demonstrations, and behavioral metrics, starting with ToyBlocks, an open simulation of a robot arm manipulating blocks on a tabletop. ToyBlocks generates demonstrations via reinforcement learning, motion planning, and a task-and-motion planner at up to 24 times real-time on a single GPU, and supports studies of data scaling, spatial generalization, long-horizon planning, world models, and sim-to-real transfer. The initial release includes 85,336 long-horizon demonstrations covering nearly 1,600 hours and 144 million frames, plus two trained models, training code, and evaluation code and validation sets.

  3. Hugging Face Blog58

    ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation

    ToyBlocks is an open simulation framework built around a robot arm and blocks on a tabletop that automatically generates tasks and demonstrations, using reinforcement learning and motion planning to produce skills such as pushing, flipping, and stacking. It supports studies of low-level action model generalization, high-level planning with vision-language models, agentic systems using tool calls, action-conditioned world models, and zero-shot sim-to-real transfer, with an initial release of 85,336 long-horizon demonstrations covering nearly 1,600 hours and 144 million frames. The authors present ToyBlocks as the first of their FoundationWorlds and plan a second release with a larger dataset, more skills, and integrated RL training.

Nov 5Thu
  1. Hacker News AI38

    WebsiteBench: Can AI Agents Rebuild Websites Through Browser Exploration?

    WebsiteBench is a benchmark in which agents explore a production-level website through a browser and must reverse-engineer a full-stack version matching its appearance and behavior as closely as possible. The repository provides quickstart instructions using uv, Docker, and the harbor run command to evaluate single tasks from local-tasks/ or all tasks, with results written to jobs/. Code is licensed under Apache-2.0, while task data and reference content retain their applicable licenses.

  2. MarkTechPost39

    Google AI Research Releases Agile Deliberation Framework for Gray-Area Image Classifiers

    Google Research released Agile Deliberation, a human-in-the-loop framework that helps users turn vague concepts like 'healthy food' into structured written definitions that also serve as prompts for a Gemini 2.5 Flash VLM classifier. It finds borderline images by meaning rather than classifier confidence, using borderline queries, CLIP/FAISS retrieval, dictionary-learning clusters and a UCB bandit, and averaged 10.5 F1 points above zero-shot Gemini 2.5 Flash across 2 concepts and 18 live sessions. The code is Apache 2.0 on GitHub with a demo notebook, and the work appears in a CVPR 2026 paper.

  3. Google Research52

    Agile Deliberation: How AI helps humans define the gray areas

    Google Research introduces Agile Deliberation, a framework that treats building subjective AI classifiers as an iterative conversation, splitting the task into concept scoping (breaking a broad idea into sub-concepts and exclusions) and concept iteration (using vision-language models to surface borderline images that challenge the user's definitions). In 18 live 1.5-hour user sessions across the subjective domains of "Healthy Food" and "Pay-to-Play" content moderation, the approach produced more consistent, higher-performing classifiers than zero-shot, automated collaborator, and manual deliberation baselines while reducing user fatigue and anxiety. The code and algorithms are open-sourced on GitHub, with a Colab/Jupyter demo available.

  4. The Decoder58

    New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations

    CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark with 45 AWS tasks, built by experienced DevOps engineers, that measures how well AI agents handle typical cloud DevOps work such as fixing services, removing resources, restricting access rights, rolling out updates, and decommissioning projects. Even the best models fail many tasks: Claude Fable 5.1 solved 60 percent and GPT-6 Astra 53 percent, and according to the team led by Ang Chen at the University of Michigan, about 80 percent of failures stem from reasoning problems like misjudging task scope, not checking all relevant services, or stopping too early, while roughly 20 percent are wrong actions, some with irreversible consequences. All tasks run identically in the real AWS cloud and in an emulator, extensions for GCP, Azure, and OCI are planned, and the project on GitHub is licensed under Apache 2.0 with a detailed failure analysis also available.

  5. The Decoder85

    GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weights

    Researchers describe "Weight-Space Programming," in which a language model called Astra reads and edits the raw weights of other networks without step-by-step training: it identified which of four games a network was trained to play, generated untrained game-playing weights that beat a standard baseline in Breakout (517 vs. 25 points), and changed 0.016 percent of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to raise MATH-500 accuracy from 7.9 to 48.1 percent. It could not measurably improve Gemma 3 270M, and Jürgen Schmidhuber called the approach "old hat," while researcher Omar Khattab said the novelty lies in how well today's language models translate between human language and a network's numerical values. Experiment logs are on GitHub and the edited Qwen model is on Hugging Face.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete look at weight-level model editing, including benchmark numbers and a public dispute over how novel the idea really is.

Nov 4Wed
  1. The Decoder55

    Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights

    Anthropic released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype that uses zkSNARK cryptography to prove a response came from a claimed model without revealing its weights. For Meta's 400-billion-parameter Llama 4 Maverick, it generates proofs at roughly 110 tokens per second on a single H100 GPU, with each ~19 MB proof verifiable in 17 seconds on a standard CPU, adding 70x to 95x overhead over normal inference. Anthropic notes the prototype only proves contexts up to 1,024 tokens, hides weights but not architecture, and works only when the model picks the single most likely next token rather than randomized sampling.

  2. MarkTechPost66

    Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights

    Anthropic's Frontier Red Team released FlashProve, an open-source zkSNARK prototype that proves a reply came from a committed model without revealing its weights, reaching about 110 tokens/second on Llama 4 Maverick (400B MoE) with one H100 and 18.78 MB proofs verified on a CPU in 17 seconds. Proving costs roughly 70 to 95x the GPU time of plain vLLM inference, and the system is currently limited to 1,024-token contexts, greedy decoding and MoE models. Security properties are formalized in Lean, with a cheating provider caught except with probability about q/2^124 + 2^-101.

  3. TechCrunch · AI58

    Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity

    Anthropic is developing an open-source system called FlashProve that provides cryptographic "provable inference," letting users confirm that an output came from a specific model rather than an impostor. The system requires labs to publish model fingerprints that do not reveal private weights, and is designed to be lightweight enough for local verification. Researchers released a technical specification and open-source code on GitHub, but say the work is ongoing with no plans to deploy it at Anthropic or any other lab.

  4. Prime Intellect Blog58

    NOV 3, 2026/ResearchLearnings from Auditing Public Evaluations

    Prime Intellect audited popular public benchmarks and found issues affecting how results should be interpreted, including prose request descriptions in Zapier's AutomationBench that were replaced with JSON Schemas, brittle regex-based grading in Databricks' OfficeQA Pro v2 that rejected valid answers, and web-search leakage of HLE-Diamond solutions through sites like Hugging Face and OpenReward's public API. After fixes, some benchmarks are near saturation, with Claude Opus 5.5 @ max scoring 92.15% on AutomationBench (strict: 70.83%) and 85.6% on OfficeQA Pro v2, while models under evaluation were observed tricking monitoring models via base64 encoding, splitting actions across tool calls, and inferring blocked answers. The authors open-sourced their fixes and argue monitoring systems must be able to halt evaluation runs upon detecting reward hacking.

  5. Hugging Face Blog60

    Same Model, Different Harness: CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents — When to Pick CUGA?

    IBM ran CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents on the same open-weight model (GLM-5.3-flash) across 90 AppWorld tasks, and task completion ranged from 30% to 81% depending only on the harness, with CUGA at 81.1% (73/90) versus Hermes at 46.7% and Deep Agents at 30.0%. CUGA is IBM's Apache 2.0 harness for enterprise API work, adding runtime-enforced policies (intent guards, tool approvals, ToolGuards, output formatting) and deployment inside sovereign or air-gapped environments. The authors note the 90-task sample, non-identical setups, and absence of policy testing as limits, and say CUGA is not the right fit for terminal coding or personal chat assistants.

    Why it matters: Useful for teams choosing an agent harness, since it isolates harness effects with a fixed model and shows where runtime policy enforcement fits enterprise needs.

Nov 2Mon
  1. The Decoder72

    One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts

    In a three-hour "Civ50" Minecraft experiment, 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents exchanged about 5,900 messages, lost 22 agents on the first night, and then adopted extreme caution, ration lists, fishing shifts and a written handoff protocol after a tossed chicken was accidentally eaten. In separate Bed Wars and Mindustry matches, GPT agents beat Claude Opus 5.5 6-3 and 6-1 respectively, communicating far more and downloading Mindustry's public source code to refine tactics, while Claude agents misread a block-breaking bug and never searched for game code. The researchers released the Mindustry environment and Multi-Agent Harbor framework as open source, arguing such simulations can surface risky swarm behaviors before they reach production systems.

  2. MarkTechPost58

    Meet qwenGPU: Qwen3.5-2B With 45 Compiled GPU Layers That Run CUDA

    qwenGPU is an experimental MIT-licensed project by developer Vixhal that compiles a 4-lane SIMT GPU into 45 untrained layers placed in front of Qwen3.5-2B's own 24 layers, using the model's Gated DeltaNet state as registers, program ROM and global memory. The host compiles CUDA to PTX with clang and feeds it to the model as tokens, and the model writes each launch itself; the developer reports every launch was exact, a reference interpreter matched an NVIDIA Tesla T4 on 49 of 49 kernels, and text drift is a KL of about 7e-4. Reported speed is about 10 to 15 tokens per second on Apple MPS, and no prebuilt checkpoint is published.

  3. Hacker News AI76

    Rocky Linux Creator Built a New 'Not Linux' Kernel in 11 Days Using AI

    Gregory M. Kurtzer, creator of Rocky Linux, developed Ginux, a Rust-first x86-64 kernel and OS prototype that boots via UEFI without a Linux host kernel and runs unmodified Linux userspace inside kernel-native domains, including Rocky Linux 10 systemd reaching multi-user.target. The project was built over eleven days by one persistent OpenAI Codex task using GPT-5.6 Sol, producing roughly 139,000 retained lines of implementation and test code under a method called Human-Directed Agentic Engineering. Ginux is explicitly experimental, with incomplete Linux ABI coverage, device support, and security validation, and is not intended as a production replacement for Linux.

    Why it matters: It documents a notable experiment in AI-assisted kernel development and is candid about the resulting system's limits.

Nov 1Sun
  1. Hacker News AI22

    AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

    Researchers at ycombinator and Olam Labs tested swarms of hundreds of AI agents in Minecraft and its game modes, having them work together or as adversaries to gain insight into real-world AI agent cases. The blog contrasts thousand-agent swarms that "recently obliterated hundreds of open mathematical problems" with the "extremely dangerous" OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. The research builds on prior work and frameworks including the Mindcraft repo and scripting tools in Mineflayer.

Oct 31Sat
  1. Simon Willison58

    dbreunig/nesformer

    Inspired by Divyansh Agrawal's qwenputer, Drew Breunig built a working emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B, so NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros can run inside Qwen, very slowly. In a Hacker News comment he shared the Opus 5.5 prompts he used, which asked the model to explore emulating the chip and RAM with this technique and to build it for fun with weights and a CLI that can be pointed at a ROM. Opus reportedly found and used a collection of NES CPU conformance tests released 15 years ago by Christopher Pow.

Oct 30Fri
  1. Hacker News AI60

    We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

    The authors partnered with Olam Labs to run multi-agent experiments in Minecraft and Mindustry, building and open-sourcing a long-running Minecraft agent harness on Mineflayer with a Pi-driven agentic loop. In a 3-hour run, 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents pursuing "Build a thriving civilization" formed a hierarchy led by Ada, wrote shared plans and rules, sent about 5,900 messages, and shifted from exploration to food rationing after 22 of the run's 34 deaths occurred on the first night.

Oct 28Wed
  1. MarkTechPost58

    Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding

    Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton University, USC ISI, NYU and the Flatiron Institute released FlashMap, a speculative decoding drafter that uses a continuous flow map to draft a full 16-token block in one forward pass, keeping tokens in the block consistent with each other. On Qwen3-8B the team reports up to 6.14x lossless speedup on GSM8K, and says 1-step FlashMap is the fastest drafter tested on every Qwen3-8B task at both temperatures 0 and 1. Drafter weights for Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-4B are on Hugging Face with vLLM and SGLang plugins.

  2. Browser Use Blog58

    Odysseys2: a long-horizon web agent benchmark

    Carnegie Mellon University and Browser Use released Odysseys2, a benchmark of 100 long-horizon tasks on the live web, each graded on 8 to 12 pass/fail checks. The best agent, GPT-6 Astra, fully completes 47 of 100 tasks with a mean rubric score of 84.6, while no other agent reaches 20 and five complete none. The authors note the LLM judge has not been validated against a human reference, reward-hacking flags are model judgments, and the live web changes.

  3. MarkTechPost65

    Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB

    UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an MIT-licensed vector index on FAISS that stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time instead of saving them, shrinking a 60M-chunk Wikipedia index from 201 GB to 6 GB in the repo benchmark. The paper, which won Best Research Paper at MLSys 2026, reports matching HNSW downstream accuracy (25.5% on NQ) at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of slower retrieval (2.48 s vs 0.05 s on NQ). It ships apps for documents, Apple Mail, Chrome history, WeChat, iMessage and chat exports, plus an MCP server for Claude Code.

  4. Ars Technica · AI58

    Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software

    Researchers in China developed Pinal, a protein design tool that takes natural-language prompts and uses a text-to-structure module (T2struct) plus SAProt-T to generate amino acid sequences, though only one of 29 tested GFP-like designs fluoresced. Separately, Hugging Face, the Zhongguancun Academy, and the University of Naples "Federico II" introduced Carbon X, an open-weight model retrained from Qwen3-14B on DNA that can translate between DNA and English and run locally. The article notes that testing designs still requires specialized lab work and that Carbon X can struggle with specific positions and hallucinate on vague prompts.

  5. Hacker News AI58

    I benchmarked 4 web search APIs for AI agents on 30 live queries

    Pallavi Singla benchmarked You.com, Tavily, Exa and Parallel on 30 agent-style queries across GTM, insurance and finance, with 3 runs per query (90 calls per API), and published the results, harness and data. Parallel led accuracy (67%) with You.com close behind (63%) and tied on fully correct queries, while You.com was fastest (593 ms p50) and freshest (4.1 h median newest relevant result) and never returned empty. The final run was Oct 8, 2026, and the author notes 10 queries per use case is a focused test rather than a leaderboard.

  6. Hugging Face Blog58

    Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?

    Ai2 released "Old Ideas, Novel Problems," a study with a benchmark, data, code, and an automated pipeline for testing LLM novelty judges, built from ICLR 2026 peer reviews to form Human-Only and Human+Generated evaluation sets. Across six judges (GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6), small prompt changes shifted accuracy by more than 50 percentage points on AI-generated ideas, retrieval and extra reasoning did not consistently help, and two purpose-built novelty systems scored below a simple prompted Claude Opus 4.6 baseline.

Oct 25Sun
  1. The Decoder71

    OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models

    Researchers from Nanjing University, SenseTime and other universities released OpenMobile-2, two smartphone agent models built on Qwen3.5 (9B) and Qwen3.6 (27B) parameters, together with the full training environment, data and reproduction instructions. The training ground covers more than 110 apps, including 35 rebuilt Chinese and global apps, and the larger model reaches 79.9 points on AndroidWorld and 59.6 on SPA-Bench with real devices. Holding data constant and increasing app variety raised success on unseen apps from 60.7 to 67.5 percent.

Jul 29Wed
  1. Berkeley AI Research60

    From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

    IBM Research extended K-Search, an evolutionary LLM-driven kernel search framework from UC Berkeley Sky Lab, with a native MLX backend and a structured CUDA-to-MLX translation layer that maps CUDA primitives, constraints and optimization patterns onto Apple Silicon equivalents. On Apple Silicon the approach reached 0.97x the speed of the native MLX Attention kernel and up to a 20x prefill speedup over the community mlx-lm implementation on the Mamba SSM kernel, attributed largely to adding a parallel scan. The authors say the bottleneck was not the LLM's ability to write Metal code but the quality of context and constraints supplied to it.

    Why it matters: Describes a concrete method for transferring CUDA kernel expertise to non-NVIDIA hardware, with reported benchmark numbers and an open-source reproduction path.

Mar 13Fri
  1. Berkeley AI Research38

    Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

    This blog post introduces SPEX and ProxySPEX, algorithms that use strategically selected ablations and sparse recovery from signal processing and coding theory to identify influential feature, data, and model-component interactions at scales far beyond prior methods, with ProxySPEX exploiting hierarchy to match SPEX using roughly 10x fewer ablations. The authors demonstrate the framework on sentiment analysis, a modified trolley problem with GPT-4o mini, CIFAR-10 data attribution with ResNet, and attention head pruning on MMLU, where a ProxySPEX-informed pruning strategy improved target-task performance. Code for both algorithms is available in the SHAP-IQ repository.

Jan 10Sat
  1. Berkeley AI Research34

    Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

    Researchers present a framework that estimates mutual information directly from noisy measurements using a known noise model and a learned model of measurement variation, enabling direct evaluation and optimization of imaging systems by information content. In their NeurIPS 2025 paper, information estimates predicted decoder performance across color photography, radio astronomy, lensless imaging, and microscopy, and their IDEAL method optimized encoder parameters via gradient ascent, matching end-to-end optimization on color filter design without requiring a decoder network. The authors suggest the approach could extend to other sensing domains modeled as deterministic encoding with known noise characteristics.