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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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How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL

How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL

Cursor's Federico Cassano and Fireworks' Dmytro Dzhulgakov detail their collaboration on Composer 2, a specialized foundation model for software engineering. They discuss their top-down training strategy, the infrastructure challenges of large-scale distributed Reinforcement Learning on sparse models, and how model specialization achieves frontier performance with superior efficiency.

End-to-End Foundation Models for the Energy Industry — with Jazmia Henry

End-to-End Foundation Models for the Energy Industry — with Jazmia Henry

Jazmia Henry details the end-to-end process of building specialized foundation models for the energy industry. She covers the four key stages from data curation of unstructured, handwritten documents to optimizing inference, and introduces her Grounded Continuous Evaluation (GCE) framework to combat reward hacking in reinforcement learning.

The Four Types of Memory Every AI Agent Needs

The Four Types of Memory Every AI Agent Needs

AI agents utilize four distinct types of memory, analogous to human cognition, to move beyond simple chatbot responses. This summary explores the CoALA framework, detailing working, semantic, procedural, and episodic memory and how they enable agents to learn, recall skills, and leverage past experiences.

Agentic Evaluations at Scale, For Everybody — Nicholas Kang & Michael Aaron, Google DeepMind

Agentic Evaluations at Scale, For Everybody — Nicholas Kang & Michael Aaron, Google DeepMind

Nicholas Kang and Michael Aaron from Google DeepMind's Kaggle team discuss the broken state of AI evaluations—scattered, non-transparent, and created by a homogenous group. They present their solutions: a community-driven benchmarks platform, a PvP Game Arena for non-saturating ELO ratings, standardized agent exams, and hackathons to crowdsource novel evals and address the limitations of current benchmarking practices.

Scaling Meta's Multi-Agent Systems to a Billion Videos

Scaling Meta's Multi-Agent Systems to a Billion Videos

Meta's approach to solving modality misalignment and content theft in short-form video using a multi-agent system of smaller, specialized models instead of a single large LLM. The talk covers the architecture (Perceiver, Retriever, Reasoner), evaluation stack, and key cost-saving optimizations.

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.

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