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Is Intrinsic Motivation a Viable PhD Topic in 2026? [D]
I started a PhD in CS about a year an a half ago. Generally speaking my topic is on intrinsic motivation (more commonly people refer to it as unsupervised RL). Intrinsic motivation (IM) is a niche field within AI. It seeks to develop reward signals which are not specific to any…
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Is machine learning research worth it for now? [D]
I am a scientist who just applied machine learning to my research (JEPA/Representation/Geometric branch) and it did wonder! Allowed me to see so many papers that I am still struggling to write up. From what I see, there are clearly a million possibilities not done yet, e.g.,…
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ECCV travel support program [D]
Has anyone gotten a response from the eccv travel support program listed on their website? https://eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/2026/DEI Edit: also have anyone applied for this program as an accepted author? I have an independent research paper accepted and am currently looking for…
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I built a open source neural network shape validator [P]
Built a visual editor that validates tensor shapes, counts params, estimates FLOPs/VRAM while you design. Catches incompatible residuals, mismatched Linear layers, all that before you waste GPU time. 63 ops. Proper shape inference. Exports PyTorch code that actually runs. URL-…
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If your GPU can run inference, it should be able to fine-tune too. [P]
I spent the last few months building a new sparse fine-tuning method for MoE models called **USAF**. The goal was simple: if your GPU can run inference on an MoE model, it should also be able to fine-tune it. On my AMD RX 6750 XT (12 GB), I can fine-tune Qwen3-30B-A3B by…
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I built my 'first' flow matching image generator, here's what I learned [P]
Today I put out my first flow matching image generation model! This is a toy example trained on a 2024 MPS Macbook Pro using a small sample of images—specifically, the Apple emoji library and their text labels. Because of this, it’s not a massive model (clocking in at ~4.7…
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Tom Yeh's AI by hand? is it worth it? [D]
Thinking about getting two months at his website and getting a stronger understanding of machine learning since I am building tools with ai models from hugging face. Have anyone tried it?   submitted by   /u/TheSmashingChamp [link]   [comments]
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Small Language Model SLM [D]
Hi, I am supposed to prepare for SLM and its software part for an on campus internship, i've worked with local models like ollama generally,in my projects and also with open claw so can anyone guide me the last 2-3 days tips on what should i go through for this internship prep??…
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What does "Safe AI" look like? [D]
​ For open-weight LLMs, how practical is it to study defenses against post-release fine-tuning that weakens refusal or safety behavior? I've been seeing “uncensored” or “heretic” variants of new models appear very quickly after release, which raises a question I’m curious…
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Looking for feedback on a small test SLM I built completely from scratch [P]
Architecture: - Parameter count: 216.5M - Layers: 10 - Attention / no attention:** Attention — 12-head multi-head self-attention, RoPE positional encoding, SDPA. Decoder-only, pre-norm, RMSNorm + SwiGLU, tied input/output embeddings. (hidden 1032, head_dim 86, FFN 4416) -…
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Has anyone tried this approach with Fast Byte Latent Transformers ? [R]
Paper Referred:- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.09871v1 Has anyone switched the transformer in the entropy model here to a Mamba model ? What could be the possible changes ? Just a ML fresher asking a genuine, since Mamba is more popular and saves computer (O(n)). Thanking you in…
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Books/Resources to improve mathematical foundations for ML research [D]
I am a mid to late stage PhD student in ML. I've known this before, but only recently I started feeling this urgently: my mathematical foundations are shaky, because I kept "learning-things-as-I-go" when working on various problems. I likely have only a year or two left until I…
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IN 2026 ML BOOK OUTDATED? [D]
Hello everyone. I wanted to ask if the below book is a good source of machine learning in 2026 or if it is now outdated and if there are better options. Hands-on Machine Learning with. Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow : The Third Edition (1200 pages).   submitted by  …
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What do you think about paper fishing? [D]
I am working in a research group in Germany, not that well known but in general good output. I have one colleague who does nothing in his PhD. He does not want to work, or he is not able to do any good research, his level is super bad. Plus He doesn’t even care about that. To…
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SentryCode: Real-time Auditor + Honeytokens for AI Coding Agents [P]
In light of recent privacy concerns arising from local AI coding agents performing telemetry, environmental scanning, and hidden cue fingerprinting, I've open-sourced SentryCode—a kernel-level behavior auditing tool. It logs file/network/cue activity, uses honeypot tokens for…
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[D] Self-Promotion Thread
Please post your personal projects, startups, product placements, collaboration needs, blogs etc. Please mention the payment and pricing requirements for products and services. Please do not post link shorteners, link aggregator websites , or auto-subscribe links. -- Any abuse…
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Making Optimization Work When Labels Are Scarce [R]
https://www.gnosyslabs.com/case-studies/safety-classifier-sparse-labels Gnosys is an autonomous model engineer: it improves prompts and classifiers when ground truth is too sparse for conventional optimization. On ToxicChat, a public safety benchmark, under realistic label…
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New PyMuPDF release, supports Markdown [N]
https://pymupdf.io/blog/markdown-in-pymupdf-1-28 PyMuPDF 1.28 release, introduces Markdown as a first class document in PyMuPDF. Seems useful for a variety of workflows. You can create PDFs from Markdown text with control over appearance using CSS   submitted by  …
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ACL ARR May 2026[D]
Hi everyone. Do the ACL arr may 2026 reviews come out of July 2nd or do they come out on July 7 th?? How much does one need to get into Main or Findings? I am a bit new to this. Thanks a lot folks.   submitted by   /u/Anshuman3480 [link]   [comments]
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How to "actually" network for jobs at ML conferences? [D]
Attending ICML for the first time (virtually) next week as a 3rd year PhD student in the US. I want to get into industry after finishing and have heard a lot about the benefits of networking at conferences to build industry connections. How do you actually go about doing this?…
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[D] Simple Questions Thread
Please post your questions here instead of creating a new thread. Encourage others who create new posts for questions to post here instead! Thread will stay alive until next one so keep posting after the date in the title. Thanks to everyone for answering questions in the…
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[D] Monthly Who's Hiring and Who wants to be Hired?
For Job Postings please use this template Hiring: [Location], Salary:[], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time] and [Brief overview, what you're looking for] For Those looking for jobs please use this template Want to be Hired: [Location], Salary…
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REAP: Automatic Curation of Coding Agent Benchmarks from Interactive Production Usage [R]
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Are all LLM research papers nowadays 100+ pages beasts?[D]
Was reading some research papers put out by Anthropic (and some other organizations/researchers) and one thing I've noticed is that these research papers consistently all share the same quality: Oftentimes over 100 pages of pure words, interspersed with screenshots of very…
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