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Researchers propose EGRL, a graph neural network framework for RNA-protein interaction prediction that uses implicit meta-path learning, multi-relation-aware attention, and a graph generator to handle cold-start scenario…
Researchers propose Step-Level Self-Distilled Policy Optimization (SSPO), a method that improves deep search agents by using step-level evidence anchors and teacher-student disagreement to assign advantage weights within…
Researchers introduced CardioState-JEPA, a cardiac foundation model that learns a shared representation across ECG, PPG, and PCG signals using a joint-embedding predictive architecture with a learned delay aligner. Evalu…
Researchers introduced Action-Conditioned Predictive Consistency (ACPC), a diagnostic for Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) that measures divergence between clean and visually perturbed histories under the…
A commentary on McCoy & Griffiths (2025) argues that their method for distilling Bayesian priors into artificial neural networks via Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) does not actually instill a prior, but merely initi…
Medical AI is moving beyond static datasets by training on simulated patients, which forces models to navigate uncertainty and iterative reasoning rather than pattern matching. The workflow involves creating digital pers…
MarkTechPost published a tutorial on building a compact reasoning-focused language model by streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, applying quality filters, and fine-tuning SmolLM2-135M-Instruct with…
RAGFlow, an open-source RAG engine launched in April 2024 by InfiniFlow, has reached 88,000 GitHub stars and continues trending in August 2026, despite repeated declarations that RAG is dead. The project's success stems …
A developer benchmarked Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI models for structured document extraction using LangSmith and LangGraph, finding that Gemini and Claude tied on field accuracy but Gemini achieved more perfect records. …
JD Logistics, the supply chain arm of JD.com, has evolved from an e-commerce delivery network into a technology-driven platform integrating AI, robotics, and automated warehouses. The company uses AI for demand forecasti…
PyTorch's torch._assert_async API enables asynchronous assertion on GPU device streams, avoiding graph breaks in torch.compile. The API accepts a boolean tensor and reports failures only when the GPU stream synchronizes …
X has open sourced a larger version of its For You feed ranking algorithm on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0, including configuration parameters, weights, visibility-filtering code, and label systems, and is piloting…
Applied Intuition, Inc., a $15 billion Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, is hiring a Data Engineer for its Axion product in Sunnyvale, California, with a salary range of $200k–275k/yr. The role involves building op…
A developer has detailed a method for fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper-v3 model to detect sleep apnea and hypopnea events from audio recordings. The approach repurposes Whisper's speech-to-text architecture to classify acous…
Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) achieves rapid performance gains despite being information-theoretically inefficient compared to pretraining, according to a speculative analysis. The author n…
Henry Pan released Harness Training, a PyTorch-style trainer that keeps the LLM frozen and trains the surrounding harness—prompts, context management, tools, and repair loop—by proposing diffs to a single editable file a…
A developer known as litlig released a notebook demonstrating pixel art generation using discrete diffusion, a method that treats pixel art as categorical data and progressively de-masks pixels to generate 16x16 front-fa…
Gartner is hiring a Data Scientist for its Insights & Product Analytics team in Gurgaon, India, to work on high-impact data science initiatives involving NLP, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. The role …
A hand-written heuristic of a few hundred lines of Python if-statements beat a trained reinforcement-learning agent in 100% of 50 games per pairing in the card game Jaipur, scoring a rating of 1081 versus the network's 5…
Airbnb is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Traffic Intelligence team, offering $212k–265k/yr, to build end-to-end traffic classification ML systems that distinguish legitimate automation from abusive acto…