News / #hardware Tag Hardware 500 articles archived under #hardware · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 29d ago JumpStart Your Policy Learning with Lessons from 160,000 Training Runs arXiv:2609.13730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable progress in offline policy learning depends on careful reporting, well-tuned baselines, and evaluation across diverse conditions. Prior work has shown that results can be sensitive to reporting choices, hyperparameter… 10 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago RSI is not happening [R] A new paper (I'm not a coauthor BTW -- I just found it interesting) argues, basically, that RSI is not on the horizon, because current (at the time the study was done) agents cannot do open-ended ML research. Specifically, they took some accepted, but unpublished papers from… 17 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Refounding America: The Tax Code Needs to Change in the Age of AI Vinod Khosla is founder of Khosla Ventures and has spent the last 40 years in the business of innovation. He was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is an investor in OpenAI. Major technological revolutions should force a renegotiation of society’s basic economic… 8 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago [P] Wine synthesis using VAE [P] I have created a VAE model using PyTorch on White Wine dataset. Basically, the main goal is to discover a brand-new white wine recipe. It puts all the wines into a latent space, finds the best part where higher bands are located, and then it makes 100 steps with a step size of… 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Temporal Recurrence Favors Fewer Layers arXiv:2609.12531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In streaming tasks, recurrent models can carry latent computation across time, allowing each update to build on representations produced earlier. This raises a basic question: once temporal recurrence provides sequential… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Clustering-Based Balanced Sampling and Allocation with Data Parallelism for High-Performance Fine-Tuning arXiv:2609.12584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-tuning datasets for large language models (LLMs) are often large, redundant, and imbalanced, limiting efficient adaptation. Naive large-batch fine-tuning repeatedly includes overrepresented sample groups while weakly… 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago MCRL2: Multi-resource Cross-attention-based Representation Learning-augmented Reinforcement Learning for Cloud Microservice Scheduling arXiv:2609.13048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient microservice scheduling is crucial for maintaining load balance across nodes in data centers and ensuring high quality of service. However, achieving this in practice remains challenging due to dynamic resource imbalance… 4 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago From Bench-to-Bedside: A Review of Clinical Trials in Drug Discovery and Development arXiv:2412.09378v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical trials bridge basic research and clinical application, serving as essential steps in drug development. This review examines clinical trial phases (Phase I [safety assessment], Phase II [efficacy evaluation],… 38 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Grandma harness for GPU challenged? OK I have been trying to get most of my local Qwen 3.8 27b running on my "Grandma's GPU cluster" of 2xP40. I was able to make it produce reasonably usable speeds of like up to 45 tg/s and 450 prefill with fresh context, falling to 120-ish prefill on 150K+ ctx and 12-16 tg/s.… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Talk me out of buying a 3rd Spark Does anyone think the gurus on the DGX Spark forum are going to figure out how to magically fit DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on a 2x cluster, or is it only possible on 3 or 4 Sparks?   submitted by   /u/Porespellar [link]   [comments] 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Migration from Claude Code to a private local harness. Questions. I'll start by saying I'm not talking about the models themselves, I'm aware that I can't come close to something like Fable's intelligence locally. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Basically. Over the last year I've gotten quite comfortable with claude code, and it seems… 20 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Qwen 3.8 27B UD-IQ4_XS even faster on 16GB CUDA This is an evolution on top of Raymond's KV cache streaming fork - all credits to what enabled this goes to him. The basic idea behind what he enabled was a pool of memory in VRAM that is used differently depending on the phase (prompt processing or decoding) and when total used… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Why Amazon and Microsoft Are Taking Communities’ Side Against Utilities Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and other AI data center developers are sweetening financial offers to municipalities and regulators to gain approval for new facilities. They’re also getting smarter about standing up for consumers against utilities that have proposed to make the… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Benchmark your custom Pi tools A few people here mentioned interest in a way to test their custom Pi setups, so I figured I’d drop this here: RoastMyHarness The basic idea is a small engine that sets up an environment to run DeepSWE benchmark tasks using bare Pi as a control and a variant of your choice, your… 32 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution Article URL: https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-permit-rules-epa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662672 Points: 235 # Comments: 159 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Phase-Decoupled, Model-Calibrated Power Control for Disaggregated LLM Serving arXiv:2609.11133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Datacenter GPU power is the binding constraint on LLM serving capacity, and production serving has shifted to prefill/decode (PD) disaggregation. Deploying NVIDIA's Max-Q inference profile on a disaggregated B200 system, we found… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Hierarchical Clustering Can Jointly Satisfy Richness, Consistency, and Scale Invariance arXiv:2609.11173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite its ubiquity, clustering lacks a universally accepted definition of what is a cluster. Kleinberg's Impossibility Theorem formalizes this difficulty by showing that no flat clustering method can simultaneously satisfy three… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Plant Growth Estimation via Vision Transformers and Fuzzy Clustering arXiv:2609.10749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate plant growth estimation is essential for greenhouse monitoring, yet obtaining labeled data remains costly and time-consuming. To address this, we propose a few-shot regression framework that combines Vision Transformer… 16 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Rethinking Verbalized Confidence for LLM-as-a-Judge: A Compatibility Shift on Post-2025 Proprietary Models arXiv:2609.10996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verbalized confidence, long dismissed as overconfident, coarse, and prone to round-number clustering, is now the more robust soft-scoring mechanism for LLM-as-a-Judge on top-tier proprietary models. Across SummEval, AggreFact, and… 30 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Microsoft, Hurt By Server Shortage, Aims to Triple Cloud Capacity by 2032 Microsoft is planning to more than triple the size of its Azure cloud unit’s data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from 12 gigawatts today, Bloomberg reported Thursday. A gigawatt of capacity would be able to power a city the size of San Francisco. The planned… 16 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Oracle Reports 30% Topline Growth for August Quarter Oracle reported 30% growth in revenue of $19.3 billion for the quarter ending Aug. 31, a slightly better growth rate than the company projected in June, even as it burned $5 billion to expand the data centers that are driving its accelerating topline growth. The software and… 20 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago SpaceX Overhauls Data Center Build-Out, Potentially Slowing Expansion Elon Musk is famous for his “move fast” management philosophy, which he demonstrated most starkly when he built new data centers for his AI startup in record time two years ago. But a new team of rocket engineers Musk recently installed to run his data centers is taking a very… 21 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Nvidia Deepens Partnership With AI Chip Startup D-Matrix Chip startup d-Matrix said Thursday it plans to use Nvidia’s networking hardware to connect its chips for running AI models to each other and to Nvidia’s Vera central processing units, which are used in data centers. The startup will use Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion products,… 18 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 1mo ago AgentGrad: Intervention-guided Prompt Optimization for Multi Agent Systems Abstract AgentGrad improves multi-agent prompt optimization by identifying target agents through sequential intervention and clustering gradients semantically to avoid mixing unrelated errors. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Large language model (LLM)-based… 28 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Powering AI is an architecture problem On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester… 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Granular-Ball Quantum Clustering for Resource-Efficient and Robust Learning arXiv:2609.06016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum clustering aims to exploit quantum feature representations to uncover complex data structures beyond conventional Euclidean geometry. Yet this sample-level kernel construction requires O(n^2) quantum circuit executions for… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Sparse Incident-Cluster Learning for 12-hour Port Flood Pre-warning in Digital-Twin Analytics arXiv:2609.06109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Port flood digital twins require analytics that warn operators before disruption, but official warning incidents are often few and adjacent observations are temporally dependent. Row-level classification can therefore overstate… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Parameterized and Streaming Algorithms for Euclidean Fair $k$-Center Clustering arXiv:2609.06384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by the growing importance of fairness in machine learning, fair $k$-center clustering has attracted considerable research attention as a fundamental problem. In this problem, a dataset is partitioned into $m$ disjoint… 8 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Sector-Mean: Deterministic Initialization of K-Means Centroids via Angular Sector Partitioning arXiv:2609.06468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: K-Means is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms, but its susceptibility to initial centroid selection remains a primary bottleneck for its convergence speed and clustering accuracy. This paper proposes Sector-Mean… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Can Foundation Models Moderate Online Content? Evaluating Instruction- vs. Example-Driven Policy Operationalization arXiv:2609.10410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing complexity of content moderation policies presents a critical challenge for their consistent operationalization. While foundation models possess the basic capabilities needed to confront this challenge, whether they can… 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development. 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Adding emotion control tags to Qwen3-TTS I fine-tuned Qwen3-TTS with inline transcript control tags rather in lieu of a separate instruction parameter and thought the community here might be interested in the result. https://huggingface.co/SpragAI/qwen3-tts-emotion-tags The basic premise was to use Qwen's CustomVoice… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI Works With Samsung on Next-Generation Chips OpenAI said it is working with Samsung Electronics to develop next-generation chips, deepening a collaboration with the South Korean technology giant that already spans data centers and enterprise sales, Reuters reported. “One of the areas where we have made the most progress… 6 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI Works With Samsung on Next-Generation Chips OpenAI said it is working with Samsung Electronics to develop next-generation chips, deepening a collaboration with the South Korean technology giant that already spans data centers and enterprise sales, Reuters reported. “One of the areas where we have made the most progress… 28 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Is anyone working on wave-superposition-based pattern recognition instead of neural-network weights? [R] I’ve been thinking about an alternative way of doing low-level AI perception, and I’m curious whether anyone here is already working on something similar. The basic idea is to use waves and physical superposition/interference as the computational substrate , instead of doing… 5 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years Article URL: https://www.tinybird.co/blog/what-i-learned-operating-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601138 Points: 214 # Comments: 78 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Desperation to Get Data Centers Online Is Reshaping Companies' Bargaining Power No two contracts for AI data center buildouts look quite the same. It’s a matchmaking process on every level involving a range of companies: those that secure land and power, those that build and operate data centers, the financiers that lend money for the projects, and the… 26 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems? 38 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems? 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Compute-in-Memory Attention: A Time-Domain Analog Softmax Circuit with RC-Tunable Temperature arXiv:2609.04266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Softmax is a key operation in Transformer attention, but its exponentiation and normalization add significant overhead in compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators, especially when analog attention scores must first be converted to… 32 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Tuning Collective Patterns to Alleviate Congestion in Shared AI Clusters arXiv:2609.04417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed AI training involves recurring rounds of data exchange between multiple pairs of GPU nodes. Slowdown in even one flow due to congestion can cause the entire communication round to slowdown. Current approaches for… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago 48 tg/s 440 prefill on my grandma's cluster (2xP40) (sort of) TL;DR: switching KV cache to f16 may give a boost in speed if using MTP and ngrams. I have a self-built "AI mega-cluster" with 2x P40s on a cheap Chinese motherboard and a Xeon CPU (around $1,100 to build, including water cooling for the GPUs). I was normally getting up to 15… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago My local LLM demoscene generator can now watch its own output and rewrite it! I've updated my auto_demo_scener project with Ninfer support and a “rewrite based on video” feature that I thought you might find interesting. The project is basically an endless demoscene machine. A local LLM writes Three.js effects (from a library of editable prompts), you… 23 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station AMD Threadripper Halo Station CPU Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX (Zen 5, "Shimada Peak") 96 cores / 192 threads Up to 5.4 GHz boost 384 MB L3 cache 350 W TDP 8-channel DDR5 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes System Memory 2 TB DDR5 (as shown at IFA) Accelerators 2 x Liquid Cooled AMD Instinct… 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago NVIDIA PAIR — Your Personal AI Cluster That is interesting, I got bunch of old hardware I could connect, wonder what the speed would looks like.   submitted by   /u/SpendLucky1273 [link]   [comments] 22 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago DeepSeek Plans Major Huawei Chip Order in New AI Data Center DeepSeek plans to install at least 160,000 Huawei AI chips at a data center in Inner Mongolia, Northern China, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the situation. The project would support China’s push to replace Nvidia silicon in light of U.S. chip restrictions.… 11 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Selective Hypergraph Refinement for Frozen Graph Clustering arXiv:2609.03265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing graph-clustering methods typically improve clustering performance by optimizing model parameters and node representations. Effective means of further improving the clustering results of an already trained and frozen model,… 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Geometry-Aware Graph Construction via Adaptive Spectral Bandwidth Control arXiv:2609.03306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kernelized graph methods - spectral clustering, diffusion maps, and sparse kernel -regression graphs - that use Gaussian kernels depend on the choice of Gaussian bandwidth sigma, which governs the spectral character of the local… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Fixed Suffix Dependency Ratio: Quantifying the Dual-Track Mechanism of Gender Assignment in Latvian Loanwords arXiv:2609.03930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing research has repeatedly observed the tendency for English loanwords to cluster in the masculine gender across different recipient languages, yet the origin of this pattern remains difficult to determine, as fixed… 14 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street. 32 Page 4 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
