[P] Fast and Simple Solution to Kaggle’s `Jigsaw – Agile Community Rules Classification`
Fast and Simple: Ranker fine-tuning + Embeddings + Classifier Orders of Magnitud Faster and Less...
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[D] A contract-driven agent runtime: separating workflows, state, and LLM contract generation
I’ve been exploring architectures that make agent systems reproducible, debuggable, and deterministic. Most current agent...
[R] Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision
Happy to announce an exciting new project from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual...
[D] I built a synthetic “nervous system” (Dopamine + State) to stop my local LLM from hallucinating. V0.1 Results: The brakes work, but now they’re locked up.
TL;R: I’m experimenting with an orchestration layer that tracks a synthetic "somatic" state (dopamine and...
[D] Review of Imperial College London’s Professional Certificate in AIML (25 weeks) course
TL;R: A deep dive into foundational to advanced topics like Python, statistics, neural networks, and...
[R] Continuous Thought Machines: neural dynamics as representation.
Try our interactive maze-solving demo: https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/ Continuous Thought Machines arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05522 Interactive Website: https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/ Blog...
[D] Questions about advances in AI
Hello. I am essentially a complete layman in terms of machine learning. However, it is...
[D][R] Paper Completely Ripped Off
I made a post a week ago, requesting advice regarding my paper, which was allegedly...
[P] Zero Catastrophic Forgetting in MoE Continual Learning: 100% Retention Across 12 Multimodal Tasks (Results + Reproducibility Repo)
https://preview.redd.it/idwd99rlr85g1.png?width=2954&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae5db7ed100fab0485063598bc9ef92e0732f24e I’ve been running a set of continual learning experiments across 12 multimodal tasks (vision, speech, and...
[D] LLMs Need Better Executive Function
Note: this is adapted from a piece I first posted on my personal site; link...
[P] I trained Qwen2.5-Coder-7B for a niche diagramming language and reached 86% code accuracy
I trained a 7B to learn a niche language and reaching 86% code accuracy Hi...
[R] Infrastructure Feedback: Is ‘Stateful’ Agent Sandboxing a Must-Have or Nice-to-Have for Production ML Agents?
Hi everyone, I'm a senior CS undergrad researching the infrastructure required for the next generation...
[D] On low quality reviews at ML conferences
Lately I've been really worried about a trend in the ML community: the overwhelming dominance...
[D] Published paper uses hardcoded seed and collapsed model to report fraudulent results
Inspired by an earlier post that called out an Apple ICLR paper for having an...
[D] LLM Fine-Tuning: CPT on 71M Short Dialectal Tokens (256 Max Len) – How to Ensure Long-Form Generation Later?
Hello, I'm working on Continued Pre-Training (CPT) for a Gemma 4B/12B model on a social...
[Project] Erlang based framework to replace backprop using predictive coding
Hello, I am new to this community. I am an ML researcher and a computer...
[P] Outcome-based learning vs vector search: 100% vs 3.3% accuracy on adversarial queries (p=0.001) – looking for feedback on approach
I've been experimenting with outcome-based learning for AI agent memory and got some interesting results,...
[D] “Topological” Deep Learning – Promising or Hype?
Hi all, some of you might know that there is a relatively niche and emerging...
[D] Inverse hyperbolic sine as an activation function and its anti-derivative as a loss function
ln(x + sqrt(x2 +1)) strikes me as a pretty good non-linearity activation. Unbounded, odd-function, logarithmic...
[D] Question and Answer Position Detection
Hi everyone, I need advice on which direction to explore. I have a large table...
[D] Got burned by an Apple ICLR paper — it was withdrawn after my Public Comment.
So here’s what happened. Earlier this month, a colleague shared an Apple paper on arXiv...
[D] Possible solutions after the ICLR 2026 identity-leak incident
The OpenReview identity leak has created a difficult situation not only for authors, but also...
[R] What AI may learn from the brain in adapting to continuously changing environments
Unlike current AI systems, brains can quickly and flexibly adapt to changing environments. This is...
[D] [ICLR 2026] Clarification: Your responses will not go to waste!
You are receiving this email as an author of a submitted paper to ICLR 2026....
[D] How to market myself after a PhD
Hello all. I am doing a Ph in Computer Science at a mid tier university...
How to find a relevant PhD topic in computer vision? Industry problem vs trendy topics [D]
Hello, I'm considering doing a Ph in computer vision. I have a somewhat unconventional situation...
[R][D] Interpretability as a Side Effect? Are Activation Functions Biasing Your Models?
TL;R: Through an ablation study, it is demonstrated that current activation functions result in discrete representations,...
[D] thoughts about “prompt routing” – what do you think about it?
Hey everyone, Like many of you, I've been wrestling with the cost of using different...
[P] Pruning benchmarks for LMs (LLaMA) and Computer Vision (timm)
Hi everyone, I am here to find a new contributor for our team's project, pruning...
[P] Echoes of GaIA: modeling evolution in biomes with AI for ecological studies.
Hi there! I'd like to share a project I've been working on over the last...