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23 Sep 2026 edition

973 articles · 6 sources · 965 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · Information Retrieval

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I Trained a Tiny Network to Compress Data. It Drew a Pentagon.

Reproducing Anthropic's "Toy Models of Superposition" from scratch in NumPy, with hand-derived gradients and no borrowed numbers. The post I Trained a Tiny Network to Compress Data. It Drew a Pentagon. appeared first on…

Source: Towards Data Science Utkarsh Mangal
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From Words to Vectors: What Happens in Between?

A Journey through TF-IDF, vector space, and text classification The post From Words to Vectors: What Happens in Between? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Source: Towards Data Science Nikhil Dasari
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How GRPO Trains Small Language Models with Verifiable Rewards

The mechanics behind local reasoning experiments with Unsloth and why the reward function matters as much as the model. The post How GRPO Trains Small Language Models with Verifiable Rewards appeared first on Towards…

Source: Towards Data Science Benjamin Nweke
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How to Make Your First World Model from Scratch

A beginner-friendly guide to building a world model in Python, letting it daydream its way through CartPole, and accurately measuring when the illusion collapses. The post How to Make Your First World Model from Scratch…

Source: Towards Data Science Anubhab Banerjee
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A Mathematical Framework and a Suite of Learning Techniques for Neural-Symbolic Systems

arXiv:2407.09693v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of Neural-Symbolic (NeSy) systems is growing rapidly. Proposed approaches show great promise in achieving symbiotic unions of neural and symbolic…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Charles Dickens, Connor Pryor, Changyu Gao, Alon Albalak, Eriq Augustine, William Wang, Stephen Wright, Lise Getoor
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Characterizing Model-Native Skills

arXiv:2604.17614v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skills are a natural unit for describing what a language model can do and how its behavior can be changed. However, existing characterizations rely on human-written…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Feiyang Kang, Mahavir Dabas, Myeongseob Ko, Ruoxi Jia
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Lifted Bellman Linear Programming for Offline Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.24489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) typically trains a critic by minimizing a regression loss against bootstrapped value targets stabilized by target networks with…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Hyukjun Yang, Jongchan Park, Narim Jeong, Donghwan Lee
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iSDFT: Information-Proximal Self-Distillation for Continual Learning in LLMs

arXiv:2609.24646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT) learns new skills from demonstrations while reducing forgetting, but it always distils toward the full…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Ahmed Khaled Khamis, Xiaotong Ji, Hassan Jaber, Rasul Tutunov, Matthieu Zimmer, Jun Wang, Haitham Bou-Ammar
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Length Penalties Make Chain-of-Thought Less Monitorable

arXiv:2607.09786v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work trains reasoning models with length penalties to curb overthinking and cut inference cost. We show that these penalties make the chain of thought less…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Bryce Little

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