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This tutorial walks through NVIDIA garak as an end-to-end framework for defensive LLM red-teaming. It covers setup, plugin discovery, dry runs, real-model scans on a Hugging Face generator, and multi-probe evaluations. The workflow then analyzes safety scores and attack success rates, inspects flagg...

Set up Qualcomm AI Hub Models to run MobileNet-V2 inference, YOLOv7 detection, and compile models on real devices. The post A Hands-On Coding Tutorial on Qualcomm AI Hub Models for Classification, Object Detection, and Hardware-Aware Deployment appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Compare Gemma 4 edge formats: BF16, Q4_0 QAT, and mobile QAT, on published memory numbers and design tradeoffs. The post Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory appeared first on MarkTechPost.

A hands-on guide to running Microsoft Fara in Colab, testing the browser agent loop with a mock endpoint. The post Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Vibe coding turns plain language into working software. Explore 15 tools shaping how developers build apps in 2026. The post 15 Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026 Compared: Pricing, Features, and Best Fit appeared first on MarkTechPost.

We build a document intelligence backend with iii by registering modular functions and reusing them across multiple triggers. The post How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Learn to fine-tune LFM2 with QLoRA, supervised fine-tuning, DPO, and adapter merging using TRL and PEFT on Colab. The post How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab appeared first on MarkTechPost.

We build NVIDIA Apex from source, detect fused kernels, and benchmark FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm, and torch.amp in Transformer training. The post How to Speed Up Transformer Training Using NVIDIA Apex (FusedAdam, FusedLayerNorm) and Native torch.amp appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Parallax replaces LLA's per-query solver with a learned projector, doubling arithmetic intensity and improving perplexity at 0.6B and 1.7B. The post Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Trajectory, working with UC Berkeley Sky Lab and Anyscale, built a concurrent multi-LoRA training stack for continual learning. It maps each RL experiment to a dedicated LoRA adapter on an always-hot engine, reporting a 2.81× end-to-end experiment-throughput gain over a single-tenant baseline with n...

Text-to-speech changed fast in 2026. This guide ranks the leading commercial and open-weight TTS models, comparing quality, latency, cost, language coverage, and licensing so engineers can match a model to the job. The post Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison appeare...

AgentTrove is the largest open-source collection of agentic interaction traces, with 1.7M rows in a ShareGPT-style layout. This hands-on Python tutorial shows how to stream the dataset without full downloads, normalize agent turns, extract commands, analyze trajectories, and export successful traces...

NVIDIA's X-Token fixes two structural failures in GOLD and improves GSM8k accuracy from 2.56 to 15.54 The post NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In this tutorial, we build a complete Ansible lab that runs end-to-end in Google Colab or any Linux environment. We start by installing ansible-core, setting up a local workspace, creating an Ansible configuration file, and defining both static and dynamic inventories. We then explore key Ansible co...

Perplexity AI open-sources a rewritten Unigram tokenizer that reduces reranker latency and cuts production CPU utilization by 5-6x. The post Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a powerful vector database for modern AI applications. We start by installing PostgreSQL, compiling the pgvector extension, connecting through Psycopg, and registering vector types fo...

In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We start by setting up the runtime, loading the reranker, and understanding how it scores query-document pairs. Then, we move from simple pairwise scoring to a practical two...

In this tutorial, we explore the TuringEnterprises/Open-MM-RL dataset as a practical foundation for multimodal reasoning and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. We load the dataset, inspect its schema, analyze domains, formats, question lengths, answer types, and image distributions, and...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced federated learning experiment with NVIDIA FLARE. We compare FedAvg and FedProx on a non-IID CIFAR-10 setup, where client data is split using a Dirichlet distribution to simulate realistic label imbalance across federated sites. We use the NVFlare Job API to def...

As MCP crosses 97 million monthly SDK downloads and AI agents move into production workflows, authentication has become the most critical infrastructure decision teams face. This guide ranks the eight leading platforms — WorkOS, Stytch, Auth0 by Okta, Composio, Nango, Arcade, TrueFoundry, and Cloudf...

AI agents start every session from zero — no memory of meetings, notes, or decisions. GBrain, the open-source memory layer Y Combinator's Garry Tan built to power his own OpenClaw and Hermes deployments, fixes that with a markdown-first knowledge graph that wires itself through regex inference, not ...

In this tutorial, we will generate knowledge graphs from plain text, conversations, and multiple source documents using kg-gen. We start by setting up the required dependencies and configuring an LLM through LiteLLM, then we extract entities, predicates, and relationships from simple text. As we mov...

Not all database platforms are built for the same job.Not all database platforms are built for the same job. Here is how Upstash, Supabase, and Neon actually differ — and which one fits your vibe coding workflow in 2026. The post Upstash for Redis vs Supabase vs Neon: Which One Fits Vibe Coding Work...

Enterprise agentic AI has moved from pilots to production in 2026. This guide ranks the top 10 platforms — Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, ServiceNow, LangGraph, and more — with verified pricing, real adoption data, and honest constraints to help enterprise teams make the right plat...