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Machine Learning

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Uncertainty-Guided Data Augmentation for Engineers | Deep Dive - Yongmin Kwon

Uncertainty-Guided Data Augmentation for Engineers | Deep Dive - Yongmin Kwon

This session details a data-efficient method for training engineering surrogate models by using uncertainty quantification (UQ) to guide geometric data augmentation. Instead of random deformations, the approach lets the deep ensemble model identify its own knowledge gaps (epistemic uncertainty), then uses Free-Form Deformation (FFD) to generate new shapes specifically in those uncertain regions. This ensures every expensive simulation run yields maximally informative data, significantly improving model accuracy for a fixed computational budget across domains like structural mechanics and aerodynamics.

Q-learning with Flow-Matching Policies

Q-learning with Flow-Matching Policies

This talk explores methods for optimizing expressive, multi-modal policies, such as those based on flow-matching, with off-policy reinforcement learning. The speaker presents two novel algorithms, FQ-RL and CAM, designed to overcome the instability of backpropagation through multi-step generative models, enabling effective online self-improvement and adaptation for robotic manipulation tasks.

Graph Neural Networks Explained: A Clear Guide to GNN Basics & Models

Graph Neural Networks Explained: A Clear Guide to GNN Basics & Models

An introduction to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), covering fundamental concepts like nodes, edges, and embeddings. This post delves into the core message-passing mechanism and provides a detailed overview of key architectures including GCN, GraphSAGE, GAT, GIN, and Graph Transformers, explaining their unique approaches and mathematical formulations.

Artificial Intelligence

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⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system  — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai

⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai

Ronuk Malde, CEO of Trajectory.ai, discusses his journey from building AI coding agents at Windsurf to his current focus on continual learning for enterprise AI. He shares insights on leveraging real-world user data, the unique challenges of model acquisition, and how Trajectory.ai's platform, powered by innovations like scaled SDPO and a novel training stack, enables dynamic, always-learning AI models for diverse industries from legal to finance.

6 Things to Know about AIE World's Fair 2026

6 Things to Know about AIE World's Fair 2026

Discover the AI Engineering World's Fair 2026, the largest iteration yet, offering an unparalleled deep dive into AI engineering with expanded tracks on auto research, GPU specialization, and new verticals like finance and healthcare. Highlights include an innovative expo experience, exclusive leadership initiatives like the "Token Billionaires Program," and unique side events fostering community, including "Posters on AI" where attendees can defend their tweets. This event is designed to be a curated hub for practical, cutting-edge insights and networking in the AI/ML professional landscape.

The data black hole at the center of AI

The data black hole at the center of AI

AI progress is fundamentally driven by vast amounts of data and compute, rather than improvements in sample efficiency, creating a stark contrast with human learning. This essay explores the "black hole of data" powering AIs, quantifies the massive sample-efficiency gap between humans and machines, counters common objections, and discusses the implications for white-collar automation and future AI research.

Technology

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3‑2‑1 Backup Rule Explained: Protect Your Data from Disaster

3‑2‑1 Backup Rule Explained: Protect Your Data from Disaster

Jeff Crume outlines essential data resiliency strategies, starting with the 3-2-1 backup rule—three copies, two media types, one offsite—and expanding to include immutable or air-gapped backups, rigorous testing, and encryption. He emphasizes these principles for robust disaster recovery, ransomware protection, and minimizing costly downtime, highlighting the trade-offs in achieving high availability.

The Media Game Has Changed

The Media Game Has Changed

The conversation explores the shift from legacy media to creator-led platforms, why authenticity has become a competitive advantage, and how founders can build audiences by communicating directly with customers, employees, and the public. They discuss podcasts, social media, storytelling, corporate communications, and the changing relationship between companies, journalists, and audiences. Along the way, they examine how founders can develop a public voice, why some leaders become influential communicators, and what it means to build a brand in a world where distribution is increasingly decentralized.

The C4 Model: Visualizing Software Architecture • Simon Brown & Susanne Kaiser • GOTO 2026

The C4 Model: Visualizing Software Architecture • Simon Brown & Susanne Kaiser • GOTO 2026

Simon Brown, creator of the C4 Model, discusses its origin as a practical solution to clarify messy software diagrams. He explains the four hierarchical levels (context, container, component, code), emphasizing that most teams only need the top two for significant value. The discussion highlights the importance of including technology in diagrams, C4's collaborative nature, and practical advice on modeling microservices and bounded contexts, all while advocating for a lightweight, accessible approach to architectural visualization.


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Hierarchical Memory: Context Management in Agents — Sally-Ann Delucia

Hierarchical Memory: Context Management in Agents — Sally-Ann Delucia

The Arize team shares lessons from building their AI agent, Alyx, which analyzes its own trace data. They detail their journey from failed attempts like naive truncation and summarization to a successful strategy combining head/tail preservation with a retrievable memory store and using sub-agents to manage context complexity.

You can't just one shot it — Mehedi Hassan, Granola

You can't just one shot it — Mehedi Hassan, Granola

A product engineer from Granola shares a candid account of the challenges in moving AI features from the playground to production. This talk covers the pitfalls of "one-shot" solutions like web search and generic prompts, and details Granola's strategy of building custom internal tracing and development tooling to create a tight, effective feedback loop for iteration.

Agentic Consent Explained: How AI Agents Act Safely and Responsibly

Agentic Consent Explained: How AI Agents Act Safely and Responsibly

Grant Miller from IBM explains Agentic Consent, a dynamic framework for governing AI agents. The model moves beyond static permissions, using identity, context, and just-in-time user prompts to ensure AI agents act with, not instead of, their human counterparts, enabling trust and safety as autonomy scales.

Why TTS Models Now Look Like LLMs — Samuel Humeau, Mistral

Why TTS Models Now Look Like LLMs — Samuel Humeau, Mistral

Samuel Humeau from Mistral explains the dominant architecture for modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems, which mirrors large language models. He details how neural audio codecs solve the information density problem, the autoregressive transformer backbone for generation, and the streaming techniques used to achieve low perceived latency in voice agents. The talk uses Mistral's open-weight TTS model as a practical example.

Voice AI: when is the "Her" moment? — Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI

Voice AI: when is the "Her" moment? — Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI

Neil Zeghidour, CEO of Gradium AI, deconstructs the gap between current voice AI and the "Her" ideal. He argues that while cascaded systems are practical, they are architecturally flawed for natural conversation. The future lies in full-duplex, speech-to-speech models that not only solve latency but also integrate deep paralinguistic understanding and overcome significant cost barriers.

From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents

From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents

Co-founders of Trigger.dev discuss their journey through three product versions to find product-market fit, how their async infrastructure positioned them perfectly for the AI agent era, and their vision for the future of computing: programmatic checkpoint and restore.

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