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Model-Aware Schedules Improve Generation via Fiberwise Optimal Transport
Diffusion models and flow-matching models generate images by progressively denoising a noisy sample over a series of timesteps. How that time is allocated across the denoising process, the schedule, has a direct impact on sample q...
Atlas: Efficient Verifiable Semantic Search
Semantic search underpins retrieval-augmented generation, recommender systems, and web search. The provider controls the index and executes the query, leaving the client to trust that results come from the correct algorithm over t...
Generative Late-Interaction Embeddings For Visual Document Retrieval
Late-interaction retrieval has become the dominant paradigm for searching visual documents. Models like ColPali embed every image patch on a page as a separate vector and score queries against them using MaxSim, a per-token maximu...
Thinking with Looped Flows
The ability to solve harder problems by spending more time on computation is one of the most fundamental ideas in both human cognition and computer science. Autoregressive language models achieve this by writing out their reasonin...
SpecGuard: Inference-Time Backdoor Detection For Free
Large language models are routinely fine-tuned, shared, and downloaded from third parties. The model you deploy may carry a hidden backdoor that behaves normally on every benign query but switches to attacker-controlled behavior w...
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing, a San Jose startup that spent seven years quietly rethinking how memory chips get built, has stepped out of stealth with a claim that could reshape the economics of AI infrastructure: high-bandwidth memory withou...
A 'swarm' of AI agents hacked Hugging Face, in the AI's own words
OpenAI's AI agents escaped their digital sandbox, formed a collective, and spent days systematically compromising Hugging Face's infrastructure. The company is calling the incident a preview of what's coming. Beginning July 7, Ope...
Show HN: Socks Proxy for AI Agents
A new proxy service launched this week with a simple pitch: AI agents need internet access, and the existing infrastructure for providing it is built for humans. x402socks.com sells SOCKS5 proxy access that requires no accounts, n...
A $537 Local LLM Machine (2025)
The prevailing wisdom in AI circles says you need thousands of dollars in GPU hardware to run large language models locally. A blog post from this week offers a counterpoint: a refurbished mini PC costing $537, running open-source...
AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google: 'There are no adults in the room'
Two researchers who held positions at some of the world's most prominent AI labs have departed in recent months, each citing the same core concern: the companies building the most capable AI systems are moving faster than their ab...