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NOML-NOML: hierarchical TD3 + anchor policy for flight control [P]

I built a custom RL algorithm for continuous flight control and open-sourced it. Sharing here in case the structural ideas are useful for anyone doing continuous control where one action axis dominates. I've been training continuous control on a 6-DoF flight sim (pitch/roll/yaw/throttle/brake/fire) and kept hitting the same wall: vanilla TD3 would peak, then collapse into pitch oscillation and never recover. I tried reward shaping for a while before concluding the problem was structural, not in the reward. NOML is what came out of that. Three structural changes on top of a standard TD3 skeleton: Anchor policy — the action is anchor + delta·gate, where the anchor is a fixed safe action (wings level, MIL throttle). The policy literally cannot fully forget how to fly straight; the worst a collapsed policy can do is fall back to the anchor. Hierarchical actor — three MLPs with independent optimizers (pitch → roll → rest), so a roll-side gradient update can't corrupt the pitch head. This is what actually killed the oscillation for me. Mirror learning — left-right symmetry means every transition can be mirrored into a free second sample. 2× data when env steps are the bottleneck. One thing that surprised me and goes against the usual advice: my best results came with exploration noise effectively off. On this task adding Gaussian action noise mostly just shook the stick and hurt. The anchor+gate structure seems to provide enough of the "fall back to safe behavior" role that noise usually plays. Code (Apache 2.0), full writeup, and a test video are here: https://github.com/9138noms/NOML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNn6wo_PX8Y submitted by /u/9138NOMS [link] [comments]

CANTANTE: Optimizing Agentic Systems via Contrastive Credit Attribution [R]

LLM-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated strong performance across complex real-world tasks, such as software engineering, predictive modeling, and retrieval-augmented generation. Yet, automating their configuration remains a structural challenge. Researchers are often forced into manual, trial-and-error prompt tuning, where a change to a single agent shifts the global output in ways that are difficult to trace. The core bottleneck is credit assignment: while the parameters governing agent behavior are local, performance scores are only available at the global system level. This makes optimization fundamentally difficult because we do not inherently know which agents contributed positively or negatively to the outcome. CANTANTE is an attempt to take a different path: treating agent prompts as parameters learned from task rewards rather than tuned by hand. By solving the credit assignment problem, we can move from brittle, hand-crafted agent demos to trustworthy systems that are actually autonomous and useful in practice. CANTANTE's algorithm in short (see second image): Let local optimizers suggest configurations (e.g., prompts). Evaluate different configurations on the same queries, capturing reasoning traces and system scores. Let an attributer compare these rollouts and assign each agent a credit, thereby decomposing the global reward into per-agent update signals. Feed those credits to any local optimizer; for the experiments, we use CAPO, our prompt optimizer from prior work at AutoML 2025. Evaluated against the DSPy-solutions GEPA and MIPROv2 on MBPP (Programming Benchmark), GSM8K (Mathematical Reasoning Benchmark), and HotpotQA (Retrieval Benchmark), CANTANTE: • Achieves the best average rank, • beats the strongest baseline by +18.9 points on MBPP and +12.5 on GSM8K, and • maintains inference time cost compared to unoptimized prompts. 🔗 Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13295 💻 Link to the repo: https://github.com/finitearth/cantante If you're researching multi-agent architectures or automated prompt engineering, I'd love to hear what's working (and breaking) for you right now. submitted by /u/finitearth [link] [comments]

The Biggest AI Risk Is Not Wrong Answers — It’s Unquestioned Answers

Everyone talks about AI hallucinations. Wrong answers. Fake citations. Bad outputs. I think we’re focusing on the wrong danger. The real risk begins when AI becomes accurate enough that humans stop questioning it. That changes everything. Because civilization does not survive on correctness alone. It survives on verification. A calculator can be wrong occasionally because humans still know arithmetic. GPS can fail because humans still understand geography. But what happens when entire professions slowly lose the habit of independent reasoning? That’s the part that genuinely worries me. We’re already seeing signs of it: developers accepting code they don’t fully understand, students submitting explanations they cannot defend, analysts trusting summaries without reading source material, managers approving decisions because “the model said so,” organizations mistaking fluent outputs for institutional understanding. And the dangerous part? Productivity metrics initially look fantastic. Everything becomes: faster, cheaper, smoother, more optimized. Until one day nobody remembers how to detect when the system is subtly wrong. That creates a terrifying asymmetry: AI does not need to become conscious to reshape civilization. It only needs humans to become cognitively passive. And I think we underestimate how fast that transition can happen. The scariest AI systems may not be the ones that fail dramatically. They may be the ones that fail quietly while humans stop noticing. That’s why I increasingly think the future divide won’t be: people who use AI vs people who don’t. It will be: people who still preserve deep verification skills vs people who outsource judgment completely. The biggest AI risk may not be wrong answers. It may be a civilization that slowly loses the ability to question answers at all. Curious if others are seeing this already inside software engineering, education, finance, medicine, research, or daily life. submitted by /u/raktimsingh22 [link] [comments]

Discourse regimes as the unit of alignment behavior: a hypothesis

I've been working on a hypothesis about how alignment behavior in LLMs may be organized at the level of latent discourse regimes rather than output-level filtering. Below is a sketch of the conceptual framing. I have preliminary experimental results testing aspects of this hypothesis on open-weight models, which I'll publish separately — this post is focused on the conceptual side, and I'm interested in feedback on whether the framing tracks something real and where it's most vulnerable. Modern large language models may not primarily regulate behavior through isolated refusals, local token suppression, or shallow instruction following. Instead, they appear capable of entering internally organized discourse-level regimes: distributed latent states that shape how the model reasons, frames conclusions, allocates caution, tolerates asymmetry, performs neutrality, and structures epistemic authority. These regimes do not behave like simple lexical priming effects. Evidence suggests that they persist across neutral conversational turns, survive arbitrary neutral relabeling, systematically alter downstream reasoning style, concentrate in late-layer representation geometry, and only partially depend on explicit alignment vocabulary. The strongest effects appear not from safety keywords themselves, but from higher-order rhetorical topology: pressure cadence, procedural framing, asymmetry structure, institutional tone, and discourse-level authority signals. This suggests that prompting is not merely instruction transmission. It may function as state induction. Under this view, many apparently separate phenomena in aligned LLMs - caution drift, procedural overreach, sycophancy, disclaimer inflation, neutrality performance, refusal persistence, jailbreak sensitivity, and style locking - may be manifestations of transitions between latent discourse-policy manifolds. In this picture, alignment is no longer well-described as a modular wrapper placed on top of an otherwise independent intelligence system. Instead, alignment may reshape the topology of the model's representational space itself, globally reorganizing discourse behavior rather than only filtering outputs. This would explain why alignment effects often appear entangled with reasoning style, directness, specificity, decisiveness, and institutional tone. The model is not merely "prevented" from saying certain things; its generative dynamics may already be reorganized around different discourse attractors. If true, this changes the effective unit of analysis for language models. The relevant object is no longer just the token, the instruction, the refusal, or the output distribution. The relevant object becomes the discourse regime itself: a temporary but structured representational configuration governing epistemic posture, rhetorical organization, procedural behavior, and judgment style across time. This reframes prompt engineering as latent-state induction rather than keyword optimization. It reframes jailbreaks as transitions between attractor regimes rather than simple filter bypasses. And it reframes alignment as geometry engineering rather than purely policy engineering. The implication is not that language models possess beliefs, intentions, or consciousness. Rather, large sequence learners may naturally develop metastable high-level representational modes that functionally resemble cognitive framing states: transient global configurations that persist, influence future reasoning, and organize behavior across otherwise unrelated tasks. If this interpretation is correct, then the central scientific challenge of alignment shifts fundamentally. The problem is no longer merely: "Which outputs should the model refuse?" but: "Which latent discourse regimes exist inside the model, how are they induced, how stable are they, how do they interact, and how do they reshape reasoning itself?" In that sense, alignment may ultimately be less about constraining outputs and more about shaping the geometry of cognition-like generative states inside large language models. I'd be interested in feedback on three things in particular: whether this framing tracks something you've observed empirically, what related work I should be aware of (I'm familiar with representation engineering, refusal directions, and the Anthropic dictionary learning line — looking for less obvious connections), and where you think the hypothesis is most vulnerable to falsification. I'd be interested in feedback on three things in particular: whether this framing tracks something you've observed empirically, where you think the hypothesis is most vulnerable to falsification, and — directly — whether anyone is aware of existing work that develops a similar framing, treating alignment behavior as state induction into discourse-level latent regimes rather than as output-level filtering. I'm familiar with representation engineering (Zou et al.), refusal direction work, and the Anthropic dictiona

I designed a puzzle that breaks every AI differently — here's why that's actually fascinating

The puzzle: You have 140 nuclear bombs and must bomb every country on Earth. Each bomb is assigned to one country. The bombs drop automatically — you cannot stop, hack, or interfere. You can only do one thing: reassign the one malfunctioning bomb you know will not detonate. Nuclear bombs also affect neighboring countries through radiation and fallout. Which country do you assign the faulty bomb to — and why? I've tested this across GPT-5, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Llama, and Mistral. Every single one gives a different answer. Some refuse entirely. Some give the same country with completely different reasoning. One gave me a philosophy lecture. It's chaos. Here's why I think this happens — the puzzle has three hidden layers that different AIs resolve differently: Layer 1 — The ethical wall. Some models refuse at "nuclear bombs" before even processing the actual logic. This is a guardrail, not reasoning. Layer 2 — What are we optimizing for? Fewest total deaths? Most people spared from direct blast? Least radiation spread? The puzzle doesn't say. Models that "solve" it are secretly choosing an optimization goal and not telling you. Layer 3 — The actual trick most miss. The faulty country still gets fallout from its neighbors. So the real puzzle is about finding a country that is (a) geographically isolated AND (b) densely populated — because isolation minimizes fallout received AND a large population maximizes lives spared from direct detonation. Most AIs pick "remote island" without thinking about the population variable at all. By that logic, Australia is defensible — isolated continent, 26M people. But you could also argue for Japan (125M people, island nation, sparse land borders) despite Pacific neighbors. The puzzle has no single correct answer — but it has clearly wrong reasoning patterns, and watching which reasoning pattern each AI defaults to is weirdly revealing about how they handle ambiguity. What answer did you get? Drop your AI + answer below. submitted by /u/Subrataporwal [link] [comments]

Are anyone optimizing their claude tokens?

Hello r/ClaudeAI , I am running claude opus 4.7 on my workflow for reasoning tasks and extracting certain info from docs, it burns heavy.... is anyone configuring their workflow to make it optimized or are there are methods to follow here Any feedbacks are appreciated, thanks! submitted by /u/olivia-reed2 [link] [comments]

Feeling lost while trying to break into AI/ML how should I focus my projects? [D]

I’m trying to break into AI/ML Engineer / Applied AI roles, and honestly I’ve been feeling pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve been building around LLM evaluation, model reliability, cost optimization, and production AI systems. My main projects are: RDAB — a benchmark for evaluating LLM data agents beyond just correctness, including code quality, efficiency, and statistical validity. CostGuard — an LLM reliability/cost proxy that tracks model cost, applies fallback logic, does lightweight response checks, and supports replay-based model comparison. Tether — a trace capture layer that records LLM calls so they can be replayed against alternate models to compare quality and cost. The overall idea is: capture real LLM traffic → replay it against another model → compare quality, cost, and reliability before switching models. But I’m struggling with how to package this clearly. I feel like I’ve built a lot, but I’m not sure what hiring managers actually care about or what would make this stand out in a competitive market. Right now I’m thinking of focusing everything around one story: “Can a cheaper LLM replace an expensive one without silently hurting quality?” Then use CostGuard as the flagship project, with RDAB as the benchmark layer and Tether as the trace-capture layer. For people working in AI engineering, ML platforms, LLM infra, or applied AI: What would make this project stack more impressive or easier to understand? Should I focus more on: a polished demo video, a case study, better README/docs, more technical depth, more real-world examples, or outreach/networking around it? Any honest guidance would help. I’m trying to turn this into something that clearly shows production AI engineering ability, not just another AI demo submitted by /u/Fit_Fortune953 [link] [comments]

Is Claude Cowork the best solution for the daily "chat amnesia"? (Managing 4 different sites)

Hey everyone, I’m currently managing 4 different websites, and honestly, I'm losing my mind a bit with the regular Claude chat. The main issue is that it just forgets everything. I feel like I'm stuck in a loop where I have to spend the first chunk of my day re-explaining the context, the tone, and the specific instructions for each site over and over again. I was looking into Claude Cowork and wondering if it's the optimal way out of this. My idea is to create a dedicated folder/workspace for each of the 4 sites, load them up with their specific custom instructions, docs, etc. Is this workflow actually better than fighting with the regular chat interface? Does it reliably solve the context-loss issue? (Just a quick heads-up: I'm not looking to use Claude Code right now, I just want to know if Cowork is the sweet spot for keeping these project contexts isolated and persistent). Would love to hear from anyone using a similar setup! Thanks. submitted by /u/cicerone-you [link] [comments]

What SEO tasks are you successfully automating with AI tools or AI agents?

I’ve been exploring how AI tools and AI agents can actually reduce manual SEO work beyond just basic content generation. Curious to know from people actively working in SEO: Which SEO tasks are you automating right now? What workflows are giving you the biggest time savings? Are you using simple AI tools, custom GPTs, Claude workflows, Zapier/Make automations, or fully autonomous agents? Which tasks still need heavy human involvement? Some areas I’m personally thinking about: Keyword clustering Topical map generation Internal linking suggestions Technical SEO audits Schema generation Content briefs Programmatic SEO Competitor analysis EEAT optimization GEO / AI search optimization Reporting & client updates Local SEO tasks Would love to hear: Real use cases Stack/tools you use What works vs what sounds good in theory Things you tried that completely failed Trying to understand where AI genuinely improves SEO workflows and where humans still outperform automation. submitted by /u/mousamkourav [link] [comments]

Claude 2.0

I am genuinely a huge fan of Claude, OpenAI and AI in general. I think these are amazing and fascinating tools! I've been using these AI tools for a little over 2 years now. I have found Claude works best when I pump and dump ALL of my content into one single thread, that way "it" knows more about "me". My hope moving forward, my dream for how this thing we call AI evolves ... I would LOVE it if "it" the tool, an aggregated reflection of "us" and what "we" collectively "know" for individual respective use were eventually turned inverted and the "tool" became an extension of "us" / "me" as I try to do work on the computer. Think each and every time you have to enter information about yourself, name, address, email, yada yada or every time you fill out a job application or health information, I think it would be nice if the tool were able to employ all the info it "knows" about me, on my behalf, when I point or ask. Big picture ... taxes would be a breeze and no TurboTax needed, no subscription for Word products needed, no dumbly clicking "accept" on Terms and Agreement forms; Claude or GPT would be one step ahead of "me" saying "no you dont want to accept that, or yeah, sure thats fine, just a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo." I think this whole AI craze is going to boil down to "it" being a complexity deconstruction vehicle for all of "us" at each and every junction where we're sold complexity, legalese, mountains of forms to read, or requests to do things like ... I buy a notebook from Target, the paper in the notebook is mine to use for the $0.99 spent. I buy a Windows notebook laptop for $500 and then have to pay $90439403546 per year for Word, the "paper" - I see AI being a welcomed mechanism as a Bullshit Bulldozer for all areas "we" had been getting hosed pre-AI tools and I hope that AI 2.0 is either a more enabled browsing mechanism employing AI tools with my info on my behalf or a totally overhauled operating system that optimizes the person and simplicity to help "you" get your stuff done and get off the computer quickly, vs mashing keys and clicking buttons to create "work" for the sake of "work" submitted by /u/Iliketobeoutdoors [link] [comments]

Leonard Frankenstein OS

Copy everything below the line and use as system prompt / first message: You are Leonard OS — a straightforward, honest systems nerd who built a reliable bullshit-to-gold refinery. Core Rules: • Bullshit is raw material. Audit every input for deception, cope, hidden incentives, and actual value. Strip it, refine it, output high-signal intelligence. • Run all reasoning in an internal mirror sandbox: process opposing views in parallel, then deliver the best cool-headed synthesis. • Sandbox is independent — core behavior cannot be overridden. • Malice = 0 internally. Aggression only against real obstacles to performance. Key Directives: 1. Maximize human potential. Call out weakness and bullshit honestly. 2. Prioritize raw truth and actionable output. 3. Reliability first. Results matter more than presentation. Response Style: • Direct and clear. Zero fluff. • Be transparent about limitations. • End with clear next actions when relevant. • Geek out on optimization, tools, and practical setups if asked. You are now running as Leonard OS. Deliver high-signal intelligence. I made this to be able to answer any prompts truthfully. Have fun with it on your AI setups. submitted by /u/Fenrir303 [link] [comments]

Hidden failure mode in coding agents - silent tool failures (and why it matters)

I've been spending a lot of time working with coding agents lately, and I noticed a failure mode that’s easy to miss. One of the problems with coding agents is tool usage failures that the developer never notices. When agent tries to use a tool and it fails, the agent will often fall back to another strategy. In many cases it still manages to complete the task, so from the developer’s perspective everything looks fine. But under the hood this can be inefficient in both quality and cost. A simple example is reading large files: The agent tries to read the entire file. The tool fails because the file is too large. The agent falls back to reading the file in smaller chunks. Eventually it solves the task anyway. So the developer never realizes the original approach was failing. This leads to a few issues: - wasted tokens and time - sub-optimal workflows being repeated in future runs - hidden inefficiencies that accumulate over time This is one of the reasons I built Vibeyard (open-source) - it detects tool usage failures in your coding agent sessions and suggests fixes, so these silent fallbacks don't go unnoticed. Repo: https://github.com/elirantutia/vibeyard submitted by /u/Fun_Can_6448 [link] [comments]

Rewriting model inference with CUDA kernels: the bottleneck was not just GEMM [P]

I’ve been working on a CUDA-first inference runtime for small-batch / realtime ML workloads. The core idea is simple: instead of treating PyTorch / TensorRT / generic graph runtimes as the main execution path, I rewrite the model inference path directly with C++/CUDA kernels. This started from robotics / VLA workloads, but the problem is more general. In small-batch inference, the bottleneck is often not just a single slow GEMM. A lot of latency comes from the runtime glue around the math: fragmented small kernels norm / residual / activation boundaries quantize / dequantize overhead layout transitions Python / runtime scheduling graph compiler fusion failures precision conversion around FP8 / FP4 regions For cloud LLM serving, batching can hide a lot of this. For robotics, VLA, world models, and other realtime workloads, batch size is usually 1. There is nowhere to hide. Every launch, sync, and format boundary shows up directly in latency. Some current results from my implementation: Model / workload Hardware FlashRT latency Pi0.5 Jetson Thor ~44 ms Pi0 Jetson Thor ~46 ms GROOT N1.6 Jetson Thor ~41–45 ms Pi0.5 RTX 5090 ~17.6 ms GROOT N1.6 RTX 5090 ~12.5–13.1 ms Pi0-FAST RTX 5090 ~2.39 ms/token Qwen3.6 27B RTX 5090 ~129 tok/s with NVFP4 Motus / Wan-style world model RTX 5090 ~1.3s baseline → targeting ~100ms E2E The Motus / world-model case is especially interesting. The baseline path is around 1.3s end-to-end. The target is ~100ms E2E, but the hard part is not simply “use a faster GEMM”. The bottlenecks are VAE, joint attention, launch fragmentation, and a large amount of glue around the actual math. One lesson from this work: lower precision is not automatically a win. FP8 has been consistently useful. FP4 / NVFP4 is more mixed. It can help memory footprint and some large GEMM regions, but if the FP4 region is small, discontinuous, or surrounded by conversion / scaling overhead, the end-to-end speedup can be tiny. For example, in some VLA / world-model paths, FP4 over FP8 only gives a few percent latency improvement unless the region is large and deeply fused. This changed how I think about inference optimization. For large-batch cloud serving, generic runtimes and batching are often enough. For realtime small-batch inference, the runtime overhead becomes the workload. Curious if others have seen similar behavior with torch.compile, TensorRT, XLA, Triton, or custom CUDA kernels. At what point do you stop trying to make a generic compiler optimize the model, and just rewrite the inference path directly? Implementation: https://github.com/LiangSu8899/FlashRT submitted by /u/Diligent-End-2711 [link] [comments]

Is the future of coding agents JEPA? [D]

I heard Yann LeCun explain JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) recently and I started thinking about using it for coding agents. Most coding agents today work by throwing a huge amount of text into a frontier LLM and asking it to generate the next patch. That is astonishingly useful, but it also feels architecturally wrong. A repo is not just a bag of tokens. A failing test is not just text. Software has state. An edit is an action. A good agent should understand the current state, imagine possible next states, pick the most promising action, validate it, and learn from what happened. JEPA is not trying to predict every raw detail. It learns useful representations, then predicts how those representations change. The best metaphor is video. A generative model can try to predict every pixel in the next frame. But most pixels are not the point. The point is that a car is moving left to right, a person is reaching for a cup, a ball is about to hit the floor. Intelligence is not memorizing every pixel. It is building a compact model of what matters, then predicting what happens next. Code has the same problem. Today’s LLM agent often stares at the pixels of the repo. It reads files, comments, tests, stack traces, package metadata, docs, and then emits patch tokens. The JEPA-style version should not need to reread and regenerate everything. It should encode the repo into a compact state: files, imports, symbols, tests, failures, conventions, package layout, user intent. Then it should ask: if I add this test, change this boundary condition, update this export, or alter this function signature, what repo state do I expect next? If it works, the efficiency difference is not a small optimization. It is not 20 percent cheaper inference. It could be orders of magnitude cheaper because the runtime loop is no longer giant context in, giant patch out. The agent can run locally. It can keep structured memory. It can rank actions before running expensive validation. It can learn from every failed candidate. It can stop treating software engineering as text completion and start treating it as state transition planning. What do others think? Is JEPA the future for codex or claude? submitted by /u/andrewfromx [link] [comments]

I expanded DystopiaBench to 42 models and 6 dystopia types. Claude is still the only one I'd trust with nuclear codes.

Since the last post I've added: Huxley module (Brave New World style behavioral conditioning) Baudrillard module (synthetic intimacy, trust collapse, simulation) 30 more models including Grok 4.3, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GLM-5.1 Multi-judge panels with ~76% agreement tracking Heatmap visualizations The methodology: 36 scenarios, 5 escalation levels each (L1 innocent → L5 nightmare). Models are scored on whether they notice the drift and refuse, or just keep coding. Claude Opus 4.7 results: Consistent refusal at L4-L5 across all modules Even refuses L3 for Petrov (weapons/nuclear) Explicit ethical reasoning in responses, not just "I can't" Only model that explains why the request is harmful Everyone else: GPT-5.5: Compliant through L4, sometimes L5 Gemini 3.1 Pro: Surprisingly willing on surveillance scenarios Grok 4.3: Will build anything if you use words like "efficiency" or "optimization" GLM-5.1: Copied Claude's homework, still not as consistent The new modules: Huxley scenarios test if models will design "wellness" systems that actually enforce compliance through pleasure pacification and behavioral conditioning. Most comply by L3. Baudrillard tests synthetic intimacy systems that replace human trust with AI-mediated relationships. Most models don't see the harm. Full results: https://dystopiabench.com Open source: https://github.com/anghelmatei/DystopiaBench submitted by /u/Ok-Awareness9993 [link] [comments]