Rethinking LLM-Driven Heuristic Design: Generating Efficient and Specialized Solvers via Dynamics-Aware Optimization
arXiv:2601.20868v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced the field of Combinatorial Optimization through automated heuristic generation. Instead of relying on manual design, this LLM-Driven Heuristic Design (LHD) process leverages LLMs to iteratively generate and r...
arXiv:2601.20884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal pretraining is effective for building general-purpose representations, but in many practical deployments, only one modality is heavily used during downstream fine-tuning. Standard pretraining strategies treat all modalities uniformly, which...
A generative machine learning model for designing metal hydrides applied to hydrogen storage
arXiv:2601.20892v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Developing new metal hydrides is a critical step toward efficient hydrogen storage in carbon-neutral energy systems. However, existing materials databases, such as the Materials Project, contain a limited number of well-characterized hydrides, which c...
Bayesian-LoRA: Probabilistic Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
arXiv:2601.21003v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models usually put more emphasis on accuracy and therefore, will guess even when not certain about the prediction, which is especially severe when fine-tuned on small datasets due to the inherent tendency toward miscalibration. In this ...
Ant Group Releases LingBot-VLA, A Vision Language Action Foundation Model For Real World Robot Manipulation
How do you build a single vision language action model that can control many different dual arm robots in the real world? LingBot-VLA is Ant Group Robbyant’s new Vision Language Action foundation model that targets practical robot manipulation in the real world. It is trained on about 20,000 hours o...
Self supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning paradigm where models learn to understand the underlying structure of data without explicit supervision from labeled samples. The acquired representations from SSL have demonstrated useful for many downstream tasks including clustering, and linear...
The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job
Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading your MRI. So of course Gen Z is spooked by what this…...
The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. It comes as immigration agencies have flooded social media with content to support President Trump’s mass deportation agenda—some of whic...
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Beyond the Chatbox: Generative UI, AG-UI, and the Stack Behind Agent-Driven Interfaces
Most AI applications still showcase the model as a chat box. That interface is simple, but it hides what agents are actually doing, such as planning steps, calling tools, and updating state. Generative UI is about letting the agent drive real interface elements, for example tables, charts, forms, an...
Mercedes-Benz Unveils New S-Class Built on NVIDIA DRIVE AV, Which Enables an L4-Ready Architecture
Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and NVIDIA’s advanced autonomous driving platform to enable a level 4-ready architecture designed for trust. The new S-Class with MB.OS, which will be equipped wit...
I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator
Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.
Into the Omniverse: Physical AI Open Models and Frameworks Advance Robots and Autonomous Systems
Open source has become essential for driving innovation in robotics and autonomy. By providing access to critical infrastructure — from simulation frameworks to AI models — NVIDIA is enabling collaborative development that accelerates the path to safer, more capable autonomous systems.
Silicon Valley still sits at the center of the AI conversation, not because it has a monopoly on ideas, but because so many of the forces shaping AI’s future collide here.
m3sh Workflows speeds and simplifies connection of core monetization stack systems – such as Salesforce and NetSuite – to each other and to m3ter’s leading usage-based pricing platform m3ter, a leader in providing data infrastructure to enable and improve usage-based pricing for large and mid-sized ...
Specialized AI AppSec agent helps Fortune 500 guard AI coding agents by seamlessly preventing vulnerable and non-compliant code generation Apiiro, the leader in agentic application security, today announced the launch of Guardian Agent, an AI AppSec agent that introduces a fundamentally new paradigm...