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JAX is a Python numerical computing library designed for accelerators, specifically tailored for high-performance array computations and large-scale machine learning. It efficiently executes the same code across multiple hardware backends, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.

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EvoMapAgents & automation

EvoMap is an infrastructure designed for the reuse of AI agent experiences. It organizes reusable strategies and repair assets with validation records via the GEP protocol, offering market- and quality-based ranking to help different agents discover, evaluate, and inherit existing capabilities.

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Open DesignDesign & 3D

OpenDesign is an open-source design workspace that can connect to local programming agents, use built-in model keys, or leverage cloud-based models, enabling the creation and editing of prototypes, web pages, presentations, and graphics within a design system; local software is free, while model services incur fees.

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KiroCoding & development

Kiro is an AI engineering tool for developers that organizes requirements into specifications, architectures, and tasks, generates code via agents, and supports the entire workflow—from planning to code review—through property-based testing, execution memory, and integration with development tools.

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MemoAI is an AI-powered audio-to-text tool that supports localized processing, eliminating the need to upload data and ensuring privacy and security. It can efficiently transcribe YouTube videos, podcasts, and local audio/video files (such as MP4, MP3, AAC, M4A, etc.) into text, while offering core features like multilingual translation, speaker diarization, real-time subtitles, and floating notes—making it ideal for meeting minutes, interview transcription, content learning, and more.

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IamIP is a patent platform that provides AI-driven search, analysis, and monitoring tools to help users conduct patent research and management more efficiently.

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Udacity AI学院Education & languages

Udacity AI Academy is the gateway to AI courses and learning paths, covering machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and AI product management, with courses and project-based training available at both beginner and advanced levels.

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My Glow Up AILife & personal

My Glow Up AI provides free analysis based on selfies, without requiring registration, and can generate hairstyle recommendations and beauty plans that suit you.

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RowsData & analytics

Rows is a spreadsheet tool that combines AI analytics, data integration, and interactive reporting, enabling you to organize documents and business data using natural language, merge datasets, generate reports, and build computational models. The official website currently indicates that it has been integrated with Superhuman and provides a corresponding link to continue using the service.

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A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.

Phonon, a small text-to-speech model that runs entirely on the user's device without requiring internet access, has been released with support for English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Built on the Pocket TTS lineage using flow matching, Phonon achieves high-quality audio in compact sizes (65 MB and 75 MB), with the 31m version licensed under Apache 2.0 for commercial use. It excels in intelligibility and speed, ranking first in German and Spanish on Hugging Face's Open TTS Leaderboard and leading in CPU streaming benchmarks. The model supports voice cloning, custom voices via Gradium Studio, and integrates with Hugging Face Transformers. It is available in multiple formats and backends, including WebAssembly, GPU, and NPU, enabling deployment across phones, laptops, single-board computers, and browsers. Over 200,000 downloads were recorded in its first two weeks, with active developer adoption through tools like ExecuTorch, Micdrop, and Spaces. Future developments include support for additional languages, smaller models, and custom vocabulary fine-tuning.

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A Controlled Experimental Evaluation of Configuration and Cache Architecture in LLM Serving Engines

arXiv:2611.05991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM applications repeat most of their prompt tokens across requests, and serving engines reuse the cached state of shared prefixes. vLLM and SGLang reuse it at different granularities, and benchmarks of their default deployments report large performance gaps, usually credited to the cache. Such comparisons rarely control for other configuration differences. One of them, whether a long prompt is prefilled in chunks, is set by each engine's defaults from the hardware and the release, and it confounds the comparison. We built a reproducible testbed on Kubernetes and a seeded multi-agent workload generator, and compared the two engines under vendor defaults and with chunked prefill matched. SGLang's configuration is the same in both arms, which makes it an internal control across independently provisioned deployments. Under defaults, vLLM's median time to first token is up to 64x SGLang's. Matching one setting removes 78% of the capacity gap where that gap is largest and 30 to 67% of the latency gap. Near saturation the remaining latency gap reflects queue growth. A fluid queue model driven only by a 4.4% throughput shortfall reproduces it, and shows that such a gap scales with the length of the benchmark run. What survives matching is a tail-latency advantage of 2.4 to 6.4x at equal throughput, consistent with cache-aware ordering of waiting requests. We derive six recommendations for comparing serving engines.

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A Feasibility Condition for Confidence-Gated Tiered LLM Inference

arXiv:2611.05394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tiered inference distributes large language model computation across a hierarchy of devices, from on-device and edge hardware to the datacenter, and is increasingly offered as the route to cheaper, lower-latency, and more private serving. Most such systems orchestrate frozen model checkpoints, and most decide what to resolve locally and what to escalate using a confidence signal produced by a forward-deployed model. We give a closed-form condition for when no threshold on that signal makes a tiered cascade worthwhile relative to sending every query to the backstop. Modeling the routing decision as a binary test and separating local from escalation cost through an architecture cost ratio $\kappa$, we derive a feasibility condition bracketed by a signal-free floor, below which a cascade is feasible at any signal quality, and a perfect-signal ceiling, above which none is. Read along the $\kappa$ axis the condition inverts: where local compute is billed, cost binds, matching a recent empirical finding; where it is sunk, on decentralized hardware, feasibility becomes unconditional and signal quality instead sets what the cascade achieves. We turn the condition into three design requirements that existing trained-in primitives satisfy only in isolation, and we propose, as future work, a co-designed architecture and a protocol to test it. The condition and the inversion hold independently of that architecture; they are the paper's contribution.

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Co-Occurrence Priors Override Visual Spatial Evidence: Understanding False Alarms in Vision-Language Models for Construction Struck-By Hazard Detection

arXiv:2611.04112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly support construction hazard monitoring, yet their frequent false alarms remain poorly understood. This study investigates whether false struck-by hazard warnings arise from failures in object recognition, spatial relation encoding, or hazard decisions dominated by learned co-occurrence priors. We evaluated Qwen2.5-VL-7B and InternVL3.5-8B using 355 counterfactual worker-excavator scene pairs with controlled spatial proximity and worker-removal variants, combining behavioral analysis, internal representation probing, causal interventions, and decision correction. Both models recognized the entities and encoded their spatial relations (out-of-fold AUROC: 0.82 and 0.91), assigning higher hazard scores to near than far scenes in 79% and 73% of pairs. Nevertheless, 74% and 100% of far scenes were falsely classified as hazardous. Removing the worker reduced Qwen's hazard rate to 11%, while worker presence exerted 2.4- and 3.2-times greater influence on hazard scores than spatial proximity in the respective models. Attention-head interventions, neuron-level interventions, and activation steering failed to eliminate this co-occurrence bias. However, conditioning hazard decisions on the model's own spatial-relation representation improved Qwen's specificity from 0.36 to 0.58 at matched sensitivity, outperforming threshold recalibration. These findings reveal that VLM struck-by false alarms stem primarily from decision-making failures rather than deficiencies in object recognition or spatial encoding, suggesting that future efforts should prioritize conditioning hazard decisions on encoded spatial evidence rather than further improving visual recognition alone.

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Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out

The Dharma Field Extractor, a 2-billion-parameter model, specializes in extracting specific fields from diverse document types—such as invoices, IDs, and medical forms—into structured JSON format. It outperforms general-purpose frontier LLMs in accuracy and reduces cost by up to 147 times when self-hosted, demonstrating that domain-specialized small models can surpass large general-purpose models on well-defined tasks. The model supports both open extraction (detecting fields without a schema) and schema-directed extraction (returning exact field names and types), with training data spanning English, Brazilian Portuguese, and multilingual documents. Benchmarks show superior F1 scores and valid JSON output across real-world datasets like SROIE and FUNSD, reinforcing the thesis that specialization beats scale for enterprise document processing.

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Do We Still Need Rotation-Invariant Architectures? A Statistical Robustness Benchmark for Point Cloud Classification

arXiv:2611.03952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A substantial line of work builds rotation invariance directly into point cloud architectures. We benchmark 10 architectures (PointNet, PointNet++, DGCNN, RIConv, RIConv++, RISurConv, PointMLP, PointTransformer, and the equivariant VN-PointNet and VN-DGCNN) across 5 domains under pose, noise, and occlusion, and analyze the results with confirmatory hypothesis tests rather than point estimates. The three rotation-invariant (RI) architectures achieve the best pose robustness but rank among the lowest on noise robustness in 4 of 5 domains. We ask whether this cost is intrinsic to invariance or specific to how invariance is obtained. We retrain all 10 architectures unchanged, with a simple invariance loss on the embedding and three training seeds each, and evaluate all models on the independently designed ModelNet40-C. Invariance training transfers narrowly but reliably. It improves exactly the corruption families its perturbations target wherever the baseline has headroom (mean occlusion +10.5, lidar +13.4 percentage points of accuracy). At matched training budget the best standard backbone and the best RI architecture end on par on unseen corruptions (within 2.5 percentage points in every seed), and invariance-trained RIConv++ is the most seed-stable top model. Once rotation augmentation is widened, standard backbones concede only a flat, angle-independent accuracy offset under full-sphere rotation. We release the benchmark along with a package for analyzing point cloud robustness and reproducing our results.

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Does the Trust Boundary Hold over Time? A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Receiver-Directed Federated Learning

arXiv:2611.03724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In receiver-directed federated learning, each site draws a trust boundary. For every source and model component it judges, on its own data, whether the transfer helps (admit), harms (reject) or cannot yet be told (abstain). We ask whether this boundary holds over hundreds of rounds. Our benchmark has a federation of thirteen semi-synthetic sites, an exact oracle for every evaluated transfer, paired seeds, an attack protocol, fourteen methods over 600 rounds and Qwen3-1.7B LoRA sites over 500. The answer depends on which boundary is measured. Across 20 paired CPU seeds, a gate judging against a fixed reference better identified transfers useful relative to the site's starting model. Yet it admitted 29% of transfers harmful to the model the site now has. A gate judging against the current model admitted 2% of harmful transfers on that target in the CPU tier, but missed many transfers useful to the starting model. Two short propositions explain these distinct failures. We also evaluate a held out audit that leaves gate verdicts intact. After training, it decides whether each final model is deployed or the site falls back to local training, and reports admissions that have gone stale. With independent audit data its guarantees hold after any training history. At 600 rounds the audit deployed 65 to 72% of models, none with negative benefit on its target, and kept 98% of the gain. No stale report had the wrong sign in our runs. With 20,000 audit observations, a variance-adaptive bound found 99% of stale transfers that cost at least 0.01 in log loss. A common-target Qwen3 comparison on 60 selected transfers shows the same tension over 100 rounds. With 38% adversarial sites, FedFomo and CS-Gate were the only evaluated methods with positive mean gain in every honest group.

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EMBERS: Empirically Motivated Robustness Testing of Deep Research Systems via Defect-Guided Fuzzing

arXiv:2611.03723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Research (DR) systems extend large language models into autonomous agents that decompose complex information needs, iteratively search the web, and synthesize evidence to answer challenging questions. However, their multi-stage execution may introduce robustness risks, as variations in user questions or intermediate search inputs may propagate across research stages and lead to incorrect answers. Existing evaluations focus on task-solving capabilities or robustness against external evidence disturbances, leaving intrinsic weaknesses in DR execution insufficiently explored. Thus, we conduct an empirical study of 1,932 execution trajectories from three representative DR systems and identify nine recurring defect categories across subquestion formulation, online search, and final reasoning. Guided by these findings, we propose EMBERS, an empirically motivated, defect-guided fuzzing framework for robustness testing of DR systems. Starting from correctly answered seed questions, EMBERS generates stage-targeted test inputs using defect-guided mutation, web-search-assisted fidelity assurance, and diversity-aware seed maintenance. Experiments across 16 framework--model--dataset settings show that EMBERS achieves 3.21 times the failure-discovery throughput of the strongest baseline under identical testing budgets. Human and LLM-assisted evaluations demonstrate that most generated inputs preserve the original information need and necessary contextual constraints. Moreover, model fine-tuning experiments show consistent-answer performance improvement, highlighting their value for robustness testing and model improvement.

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Hello Qwen2

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction After months of efforts, we are pleased to announce the evolution from Qwen1.5 to Qwen2. This time, we bring to you: Pretrained and instruction-tuned models of 5 sizes, including Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, Qwen2-57B-A14B, and Qwen2-72B; Having been trained on data in 27 additional languages besides English and Chinese; State-of-the-art performance in a large number of benchmark evaluations; Significantly improved performance in coding and mathematics; Extended context length support up to 128K tokens with Qwen2-7B-Instruct and Qwen2-72B-Instruct.

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Introducing Qwen1.5

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In recent months, our focus has been on developing a “good” model while optimizing the developer experience. As we progress towards Qwen1.5, the next iteration in our Qwen series, this update arrives just before the Chinese New Year. With Qwen1.5, we are open-sourcing base and chat models across six sizes: 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B, and 110B, and also an MoE model (see blog for more information).

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Introducing Qwen2-Math

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD 🚨 This model mainly supports English. We will release bilingual (English and Chinese) math models soon. Introduction Over the past year, we have dedicated significant effort to researching and enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models, with a particular focus on their ability to solve arithmetic and mathematical problems. Today, we are delighted to introduce a series of math-specific large language models of our Qwen2 series, Qwen2-Math and Qwen2-Math-Instruct-1.

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Qwen1.5-110B: The First 100B+ Model of the Qwen1.5 Series

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Recently we have witnessed a burst of large-scale models with over 100 billion parameters in the opensource community. These models have demonstrated remarkable performance in both benchmark evaluation and chatbot arena. Today, we release the first 100B+ model of the Qwen1.5 series, Qwen1.5-110B, which achieves comparable performance with Meta-Llama3-70B in the base model evaluation, and outstanding performance in the chat evaluation, including MT-Bench and AlpacaEval 2.

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Qwen1.5-MoE: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Since the surge in interest sparked by Mixtral, research on mixture-of-expert (MoE) models has gained significant momentum. Both researchers and practitioners are keenly interested in understanding how to effectively train such models and assessing their efficiency and effectiveness. Today, we introduce Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, a small MoE model with only 2.7 billion activated parameters yet matching the performance of state-of-the-art 7B models like Mistral 7B and Qwen1.

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Qwen2.5-Coder: Code More, Learn More!

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In early April, we introduced CodeQwen1.5, which garnered significant attention from the community. Since then, we have been working to enhance the coding model. Today, we are excited to announce the release of the next generation of open-source coding models, Qwen2.5-Coder, and officially rename CodeQwen to Qwen-Coder. We think “Coder” is more human-like and agile, reflecting our vision of it becoming a true coding partner in the future.

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Qwen2.5-LLM: Extending the boundary of LLMs

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In this blog, we delve into the details of our latest Qwen2.5 series language models. We have developed a range of decoder-only dense models, with seven of them open-sourced, spanning from 0.5B to 72B parameters. Our research indicates a significant interest among users in models within the 10-30B range for production use, as well as 3B models for mobile applications. To meet these demands, we are open-sourcing Qwen2.

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Qwen2.5-Math: The world's leading open-sourced mathematical LLMs

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD 🚨 Qwen2.5-Math mainly supports solving English and Chinese math problems through CoT and TIR. We do not recommend using this series of models for other tasks. Introduction A month ago, we released the first series of mathematical LLMs - Qwen2-Math - of our Qwen family. Today, we have upgraded it and open-sourced Qwen2.5-Math series, including base models Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B/7B/72B, instruction-tuned models Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B/7B/72B-Instruct, and mathematical reward model Qwen2.

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