· devops
[Paper] LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right
Raft is a leading consensus algorithm for replicating writes in distributed databases. However, distributed databases also require consistent reads. To guarante...
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- · ai
[Paper] PPSEBM: An Energy-Based Model with Progressive Parameter Selection for Continual Learning
Continual learning remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning, requiring models to learn from a stream of tasks without forgetting previously acquired ...
- · ai
[Paper] Characterizing Mamba's Selective Memory using Auto-Encoders
State space models (SSMs) are a promising alternative to transformers for language modeling because they use fixed memory during inference. However, this fixed ...
- · ai
[Paper] VTCBench: Can Vision-Language Models Understand Long Context with Vision-Text Compression?
The computational and memory overheads associated with expanding the context window of LLMs severely limit their scalability. A noteworthy solution is vision-te...
- · ai
[Paper] How Much is Too Much? Exploring LoRA Rank Trade-offs for Retaining Knowledge and Domain Robustness
Large language models are increasingly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning. Full supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (P...
- · ai
[Paper] Evaluating Metrics for Safety with LLM-as-Judges
LLMs (Large Language Models) are increasingly used in text processing pipelines to intelligently respond to a variety of inputs and generation tasks. This raise...
- · ai
[Paper] Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
Working memory enables the brain to integrate transient information for rapid decision-making. Artificial networks typically replicate this via recurrent or par...
- · ai
[Paper] You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations
Psychological defenses are strategies, often automatic, that people use to manage distress. Rigid or overuse of defenses is negatively linked to mental health a...
- · devops
[Paper] Optimizing Bloom Filters for Modern GPU Architectures
Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Seve...
- · ai
[Paper] Bolmo: Byteifying the Next Generation of Language Models
We introduce Bolmo, the first family of competitive fully open byte-level language models (LMs) at the 1B and 7B parameter scales. In contrast to prior research...
- · software
[Paper] WuppieFuzz: Coverage-Guided, Stateful REST API Fuzzing
Many business processes currently depend on web services, often using REST APIs for communication. REST APIs expose web service functionality through endpoints,...
- · ai
[Paper] How Do Semantically Equivalent Code Transformations Impact Membership Inference on LLMs for Code?
The success of large language models for code relies on vast amounts of code data, including public open-source repositories, such as GitHub, and private, confi...