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Top pickResearcharXiv cs.CR

Traffic-Aware Randomized Smoothing (TA-RS) enhances LLM-based intrusion detection

  • 14-33% accuracy
  • 57% certified accuracy
  • 68-100% recovery

TA-RS injects Gaussian noise into controllable features during fine-tuning and certification, improving certified accuracy. Standard randomized smoothing yields weak certified accuracy without noise-augmented fine-tuning.

arxiv.org
Top pickResearcharXiv cs.LG

TRACE assigns rewards in multi-turn agents via credit estimation

  • dense credit-assignment
  • long-horizon agents

TRACE represents rollouts as state transitions and obtains log-probabilities from a frozen reference model. This approach addresses the challenge of credit assignment in multi-turn agents.

arxiv.org
Top pickResearcharXiv cs.SI

DVM-HALL model reevaluates customer loyalty in autonomous commerce

  • human-machine teaming
  • algorithmic trust dynamics

The DVM-HALL model synthesizes literature on human-machine teaming, consumer decision-making, and algorithmic trust dynamics to address the limitations of traditional loyalty models.

arxiv.org
Top pickReleaseHacker News121 pts

Inkling is a 975B parameter LLM

  • 975B parameters
  • open-weights

Inkling is a large language model with open weights, allowing for further research and development.

Top pickResearcharXiv cs.DC

Mysticeti DAG-based BFT protocol has transaction-ordering bias

  • Mysticeti
  • BFT

The bias can be exploited to profit at other users' expense, highlighting a problem with maximal extractable value (MEV).

arxiv.org
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Top pickResearcharXiv cs.CR

Traffic-Aware Randomized Smoothing (TA-RS) enhances LLM-based intrusion detection

  • 14-33% accuracy
  • 57% certified accuracy
  • 68-100% recovery

TA-RS injects Gaussian noise into controllable features during fine-tuning and certification, improving certified accuracy. Standard randomized smoothing yields weak certified accuracy without noise-augmented fine-tuning.

arxiv.org
Top pickResearcharXiv cs.LG

TRACE assigns rewards in multi-turn agents via credit estimation

  • dense credit-assignment
  • long-horizon agents

TRACE represents rollouts as state transitions and obtains log-probabilities from a frozen reference model. This approach addresses the challenge of credit assignment in multi-turn agents.

arxiv.org
Top pickResearcharXiv cs.SI

DVM-HALL model reevaluates customer loyalty in autonomous commerce

  • human-machine teaming
  • algorithmic trust dynamics

The DVM-HALL model synthesizes literature on human-machine teaming, consumer decision-making, and algorithmic trust dynamics to address the limitations of traditional loyalty models.

arxiv.org
Top pickReleaseHacker News121 pts

Inkling is a 975B parameter LLM

  • 975B parameters
  • open-weights

Inkling is a large language model with open weights, allowing for further research and development.

Researchmeta ai blog

Meta explores Hierarchical Interest Representation for ads

  • hierarchical representation
  • ads optimization

Hierarchical Interest Representation aims to learn unified embeddings that connect users' interests with advertisers' offerings, enhancing ads optimization.

Researchopenai blog

GPT-Red improves AI safety via self-play

  • self-play
  • AI safety

GPT-Red is an automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

NewsAnthropic

Government of Alberta uses Claude for cybersecurity

  • cybersecurity
  • government systems

The Government of Alberta utilized Claude to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across their systems.

NewsAnthropic

Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust

  • Ben Bernanke
  • Long-Term Benefit Trust

Ben Bernanke's appointment to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust reflects the company's commitment to long-term decision-making and benefit.

NewsAnthropic

Anthropic introduces reflection feature for Claude

  • reflection feature
  • Claude

The new feature allows users to reflect on their usage of Claude, promoting more effective and responsible interaction with the AI system.

Newsopenai blog

US advances AI safety through state and federal action

  • AI safety
  • federal action

OpenAI outlines a 'reverse federalism' approach to AI governance, where state laws contribute to a national framework for safe and democratic AI.

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NewsHacker News110 pts

RISC-V is considered inevitable

  • RISC-V
  • inevitable

The State of the Union Keynote argues that RISC-V is an inevitable development in the tech industry.

Newslwn

Vulnerable shim versions bypass Secure Boot

  • vulnerable shim
  • Secure Boot

The CMU CERT Coordination Center advisory highlights that many exploitable shim versions were not added to the revocation list, allowing attackers to bypass Secure Boot protections.

lwn.net
Releaselwn

Security updates issued by AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE

  • cifs-utils
  • corosync
  • cups

The updates address various vulnerabilities in multiple packages, including kernel, openssl, and python3.

lwn.net
Releaselwn

io_uring uses lockless MPSC FIFO queues in 7.2 kernel

  • 7.2 kernel
  • MPSC

The new queue improves performance and is relatively approachable, showing how lockless algorithms can work.

lwn.net
lwn

Local DoS attack vectors found in seunshare 3.10

  • seunshare 3.10
  • DoS

The vulnerabilities can be exploited to achieve privilege escalation on SELinux-enabled systems.

lwn.net
Newslwn

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 16, 2026

  • July 16, 2026

The edition covers various topics, including scraper bots, io_uring queues, and Debian bookworm.

lwn.net
6 stories
Top pickResearcharXiv cs.DC

Mysticeti DAG-based BFT protocol has transaction-ordering bias

  • Mysticeti
  • BFT

The bias can be exploited to profit at other users' expense, highlighting a problem with maximal extractable value (MEV).

arxiv.org
ResearcharXiv cs.DC

Distributed framework for compiling d-DNNF

  • d-DNNF
  • distributed

The framework, called dkc, effectively partitions the search space into independent sub-problems.

arxiv.org
ResearcharXiv cs.SD

Terabyte-scale AIS-aligned passive acoustic labelling

  • AIS
  • passive acoustic

The approach uses a database-native workflow to align hydrophone recordings with AIS position reports.

arxiv.org
ResearcharXiv cs.DB

Compilation-based execution of semantic operators

  • semantic operators
  • compilation

The approach translates semantic operator specifications into deterministic executable code.

arxiv.org
ResearcharXiv cs.PL

Backpropagation for effectful languages

  • backpropagation
  • effectful languages

The construction is formulated in the framework of Combinatory Homomorphic Automatic Differentiation (CHAD).

arxiv.org
ResearcharXiv cs.DB

Lexicographic direct access with functional dependencies

  • lexicographic direct access
  • functional dependencies

The approach gives fine-grained lower and upper bounds on the preprocessing time required.

arxiv.org
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RepoGitHub trending · c++4,170 ★

Velox: a composable C++ execution engine library

  • Velox
  • C++

The library is designed for data management systems and is fully extensible.

RepoGitHub trending · c++23,656 ★

Fmt: a modern C++ formatting library

  • Fmt
  • C++

The library provides a simple and efficient way to format strings.

RepoGitHub trending · c++89,939 ★

OpenCV is an open-source computer vision library.

It provides a wide range of functions for image and video processing, feature detection, and object recognition. OpenCV is widely used in various fields, including robotics, surveillance, and medical imaging.

RepoGitHub trending · c++196,376 ★

TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework.

It supports a wide range of algorithms and is used in various applications, including natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition. TensorFlow is widely adopted in the industry and academia.

RepoGitHub trending · c++10,423 ★

FTXUI is a C++ functional terminal user interface library.

It provides a simple and easy-to-use API for building terminal-based user interfaces. FTXUI is suitable for building command-line tools and applications.

RepoGitHub trending · rust8,552 ★

BAML is a programming language for agents.

It is designed to support the development of autonomous agents and provides features such as concurrency and communication primitives. BAML is implemented in Rust.

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