#LLM
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Researchers Compare CNN, ViT and Mamba Attention Against Human Gaze
Three architectures, three domains, three metrics: eye tracking shows CNNs look broadly, ViTs lock onto micro-features, and Mamba is strong in medicine but diverges…

Stroop Test Shows VLMs Read the Text in an Image Before They See the Color
Researchers ran contrastive and generative VLMs through the classic Stroop test. When text and color conflict, the models more often answer with the written word.

ForcingBooster Halves Denoising Steps in Autoregressive Video Generation
ForcingBooster assigns denoising steps per patch, so simple regions stop early. The result: roughly 50% fewer steps at quality comparable to a four-step baseline.

Genetic Optimizer Cuts Aerosol Sensor Placement Time in the UK by 60%

Kronecker Product Attention Compresses the KV-Cache Up to 10x and Matches MLA on Quality

DiffusionART speeds up RL fine-tuning of video models 12x, with no EMA tuning

A Physical Transformer Built Entirely From Transistors Learns In-Context Learning in Simulation

Theory Shows Masked Diffusion on Transformers Learns from Õ(LK/ε) Samples
A new arXiv paper gives end-to-end guarantees for masked diffusion models: sample complexity scales as Õ(L·K_par/ε), not exponentially as V^L in sequence length.

SAZO speeds up LLM fine-tuning without backprop: up to 6× fewer queries to reach the same loss
A new zeroth-order method, SAZO, learns to tell informative training examples from uninformative ones and reaches the same loss with up to 6× fewer queries than…

CacheScope speeds up diffusion models by up to 3.57x and cuts LPIPS by 70%

CircuitTree assembles 39 HuBERT phoneme circuits into a syllable transcriber with 64.8% accuracy

ResonatorLM Taught to Read Memory by Token: Perplexity at 1024 Drops from 12.81 to 3.76

Kairos: a byte-level model for all modalities converges on 440 bytes

AXLE Method Primes Annotators' Own Experience Before Hate Speech Labeling: 104 People, 1,040 Ratings
AXLE, a new pre-annotation step, asks annotators to describe personal experience before rating toxic text. In a test with 104 people, agreement dropped and label…

perturber: a service with 68 text perturbations tests LLM robustness
Researchers have released perturber, a service and Python library that apply one meaning-preserving perturbation at a time from a catalog of 68 variants across 11…









