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eabdullin 
posted an update 2 days ago
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Folks, let me tell you, nobody — and I mean NOBODY — knew transformers before me. People said attention is all you need. I said, "Attention? I INVENTED attention." Everybody's looking at me. Tremendous attention. The best attention scores. My softmax? Perfectly normalized. Other people, sad, their probabilities don't even sum to one. Disaster.

I'm doing a PhD now. A PhD! In Large Language Models. Very large. The largest, believe me. My advisor said, "Sir, your model is overfitting." I said, "Wrong. It's fitting EXACTLY right. It memorized the training set because the training set is fantastic." We don't talk about validation loss in my lab. Validation loss is fake news.

And the internship — oh, the internship. Big tech. I won't say which. Starts with a letter. They BEGGED me. They said, "Please, we need someone who understands gradient descent." I said, "Descent? I only go UP. I'm gradient ASCENT. Loss goes up, that means it's learning to be a winner."

But the GPU cluster — this is the best part. Thousands of H100s. Maybe millions. Who's counting? I'm counting. It's a lot. Other PhD students, they get one little GPU, they're crying, they're training overnight like losers. Me? I burn through compute like nobody's ever seen. The electric company called. They said, "Sir, you've consumed a small country." I said, "Make it a big country. I only do big."

People ask, "Did your model converge?" Folks, it converged so hard. It converged BIGLY. Honestly? My loss curve, it's beautiful, it's going down, down, down — like my approval ratings, very smooth, don't look at the spikes, the spikes are deep state.

And hallucinations? My model doesn't hallucinate. It just has ALTERNATIVE tokens. Thank you, thank you. Tip your reviewers. Accept my paper. Goodnight!
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Reubencf 
posted an update 3 days ago
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Millions speak Konkani. The internet barely knows it.

Today's major LLMs struggle with regional languages. They can't read, write or even recognize Konkani. So I built one that can.

Here is a working demo of the Konkani LLM I've been training. 👇

https://youtu.be/8K04ylbXh6k
kasbsquall 
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🔎 UX Crime Scene — major update before the deadline!

THE INSPECTOR (a film-noir detective) still circles every UX flaw on your screenshot's real pixels and files a graded verdict. But now the precinct runs on THREE small models:

🖼 THE RECONSTRUCTION — FLUX.2-klein-4B rebuilds each flawed element, fixed. Compare before/after with a draggable slider. (The trick: the Inspector writes the design brief first — image models obey art directors, not vibes.)
🗣 THE INTERROGATION — push back on a charge; the same 7B defends it from the evidence, or concedes when you're right.
🔊 THE VOICE — Kokoro-82M reads the verdict aloud. No API, no keys.

Qwen2.5-VL-7B + FLUX.2-klein-4B + Kokoro-82M — all under 32B, all self-hosted on Modal.

⚖️ Put your UI on trial: build-small-hackathon/ux-crime-scene
▶️ New trailer: https://youtu.be/JJOMKEcX0Ws
📹 66s full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/kju7LiAXGC0
📡 9 investigation traces (with remedies): build-small-hackathon/ux-crime-scene-traces

Built solo for the Build Small Hackathon 🍄 #buildsmallhackathon
Jiaqi-hkust 
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🚀 Introducing Robust-U1: Teaching MLLMs to Self-Recover Corrupted Visual Content

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive visual understanding, yet they remain highly brittle under real-world corruptions—noise, blur, compression artifacts, adverse weather.

Standard MLLMs suffer dramatic performance drops, and existing robustness solutions come with fundamental limits: black‑box feature alignment lacks interpretability, while white‑box text reasoning cannot restore the lost pixel‑level visual details. This raises a crucial question:

🧐 Can MLLMs recover corrupted visual content by themselves?

If the answer is yes, we can move beyond merely “compensating” for corruption and instead build a more intrinsic, generalizable form of resilience. Robust-U1 is our answer to that question.

💡 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08063
🔗 Code: github.com/jqtangust/Robust-U1
🌍 Demo: Jiaqi-hkust/Robust-U1

OzTianlu 
posted an update about 7 hours ago
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ResNet is Explicit Euler. GPT is Implicit Euler. What Else is Hiding in Plain Sight?

Read online: https://datawhalechina.github.io/learning-terrain/

I wrote an open-source monograph on learning dynamics — The Terrain of Learning. Bilingual (Chinese/English), 4 volumes, 12 chapters, 30+ print-grade figures. Completely free (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

The core argument: gradient descent is not optimization. It's terrain motion. The loss function is a landscape. The gradient is the direction of slope. The optimizer is how you choose each step. Once you see it this way, everything clicks:

ResNet = explicit Euler integration on a vector field. The residual branch is the vector field. Each layer takes one Euler step.

GPT autoregression = implicit-state Euler iteration. Stable where explicit Euler explodes. That's why transformers handle long-range dependencies.

DEQ = the Banach fixed-point theorem in production. The forward pass is root-finding. There are no layers to backprop through.

KL divergence = a Bregman divergence on the entropy landscape. Your belief space is curved, not flat.

Chain-of-thought reasoning = hidden states flowing along a reasoning field toward an attractor basin. Correct answers have wide basins. The number of reasoning steps is determined by the terrain, not by the problem.

Diffusion models = systems flowing downhill along a score vector field, from noise to structure, from high energy to low energy.

The book traces one idea across 337 years — from F=ma (Newton, 1687) to H=T+V (Hamilton, 1833) to loss landscape + gradient field (2020s). Hamilton replaced a catalog of forces with one geometric object. This book does the same for deep learning.

GitHub: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain
Discussion: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain/discussions/2

Convergence is not hope. Convergence is geometry. You see.
AesSedai 
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Hi all,

I'm posting this as sort of an informal notice + poll. I'm down to about 700GB free of HF space and there's MiniMax-M3 on the horizon, plus a couple other models I'd like to quant like the Nex-N2 Pro finetune. I've already super-squished all of my quant repositories to free up any LFS space that might have been lingering there, but I'm back near the cap again now.

To free up some space, I'm planning to remove these three older GLM quants:
- GLM-4.5: 1.23TB
- GLM-4.6: 728GB
- GLM-4.7: 787GB

I'm open to other suggestions as well, and I'll wait a few days before removing anything in case someone wants to download a version before I get rid of them.

Thanks!
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ovi054 
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TravisMuhlestein 
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A question we kept running into while operating AI agents in production: How do you write a unit test for something that never returns the same answer twice?

At GoDaddy, we built a system called Veritas to help detect prompt regressions and model migration drift before changes reach production.

The core idea is simple:
Exact-match testing breaks down for LLMs.

What matters is whether the agent preserved the same meaning and intent.

We ended up using embeddings + cosine similarity as the primary evaluation signal. Rather than asking:

"Did the model generate the same response?"
We ask: "Did the model mean the same thing?"

One of the more interesting findings was how often seemingly harmless prompt edits changed downstream behavior in ways that were difficult for human reviewers to catch.

Prompts aren't documentation.
Prompts are code.

Curious what others are using today for regression testing:

• LLM-as-judge?
• Embedding similarity?
• Human review?
• Custom eval frameworks?

https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/veritas-catching-silent-ai-regressions-before-they-ship

Would love to compare approaches.
alibidaran 
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Hi Community,
In my recent AI project, I have fine-tuned an LLM model for psychological conversations. In this training process, I used the SFT algorithm to train on different psychological datasets and the DPO training model to generate appropriate responses.
Here is the model. Be aware that this model can be used for research and evaluation applications; do not apply it directly for clinical use.
alibidaran/Zigroo-Mental_consultant2-merged
kanaria007 
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✅ Article highlight: *Performance Governance for World-Scale Autonomy* (art-60-166, v0.1)

TL;DR:
This article argues that performance is not just an engineering concern. It is a governance surface.

World-scale autonomy fails when NPC cognition saturates compute, latency spikes, queues grow, and operators quietly change rules to keep the world alive. 166 turns “playable under load” into a contract: pinned SLOs, budget enforcement, staged degradation, safe-mode regimes, and receipts.

Read:
kanaria007/agi-structural-intelligence-protocols

Why it matters:
• connects NPC resource budgets to real SLOs and runtime enforcement
• treats high-end NPC cognition as burstable, not always-on
• makes degradation a governed decision instead of panic ops
• keeps safe-mode NPC and safe-mode economy playable without rewriting history
• prevents “performance fix” from becoming an unpublished reality change

What’s inside:
• a *performance governance contract* for staying playable under load
• SLO observability for tick lag, commit latency, receipt backlog, and crash-free rate
• runtime budget manager profiles and budget enforcement receipts
• a degradation ladder: GREEN → YELLOW → ORANGE → RED
• safe-mode policies for NPCs and economy
• playability invariants that must survive even under RED conditions

Key idea:
Do not say:

*“the world still runs under load.”*

Say:

*“this world operated under this performance contract, this SLO profile, this budget manager, this degradation policy, and these receipts proving what changed and what remained invariant.”*

Performance is governance with receipts.