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Hey All, I am currently working on ASR models, and I have gathered some recent literature. From my literature search, it seems like the ASR models are getting more and more powerful due to two main things. Because pseudo-labelled data is growing, supervised models are rising rapidly. Whisper-large-v3 has been trained on 5M hours of weakly supervised data, and Nvidia Parakeet v3 has been trained on 660k hours of labelled data (open-sourced). Funny enough, Nvidia Parakeet v3 actually beats Whisper-large-v3 on almost every benchmark, even though it has a smaller model size and smaller data scale. So clearly, scale is not everything. New architectures are on the rise; We used to have self-supervised + CTC to solve the ASR task, but now it seems like Transducer, and Token-Duration-Transducers are taking off. As well as attention encoder-decoder architectures (Qwen) that are all trained in a supervised manner. Now, given that the labelled data is very huge, and the new architectures are coming up, are we saying bye to the self-supervised learning approaches like Data2Vec2.0, WavLM, etc., for ASR, and will we only use them for general-purpose speech tasks? This is actually not similar to how computer vision operates now. Dinov3 is a self-supervised approach that is extremely performant in segmentation, classification, depth estimation etc but I do not see this in the speech domain now. ASR is dominated by these huge supervised architectures (which is a dense-prediction task), as well as emotion recognition, diarization, and speech seperation are also all dominated by the supervised approaches. Do you think we will have our Dino moment with a new self-supervised architecture? Or supervised learning is the way to go? How would these methods actually perform if we trained a self-supervised model on these huge datasets? submitted by /u/ComprehensiveTop3297 [link] [留言]

Hi everyone, I work for a major berry company, and a large part of my role involves forecasting total industry crop volumes (weekly harvest/production forecasts) as well as future pricing. I'm relatively new to ML-based forecasting. This is only my second professional role, and I have a bachelor's degree in Information Systems with a few machine learning courses under my belt, but I'm definitely not a forecasting expert. For crop forecasting, I've been working with USDA and other industry datasets. I started with SARIMA models and have recently been experimenting with XGBoost and Holt-Winters methods to compare performance. I'm looking for recommendations on: Libraries/frameworks that are commonly used for production-grade time series forecasting Models that work well for agricultural production forecasting Approaches for forecasting commodity/produce pricing Feature engineering ideas (weather, seasonality, acreage, imports, etc.) Any papers, blogs, or resources that would be useful Most of the data is weekly and highly seasonal, with weather and supply conditions playing a major role. Any suggestions, lessons learned, or pointers from people working in forecasting would be greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/foreigneverythingg [link] [留言]

https://preview.redd.it/vfxky33v5a6h1.png?width=2612&format=png&auto=webp&s=f60bd8506a39abb40b1c9ff9507e8dcddea95498 OpenAI ran a hiring challenge, but the top candidate was one they couldn’t hire: our autonomous research agent, Aiden. In Parameter Golf, Aiden ran for 22 days, and out-outperformed all 1,016 other researchers. Parameter Golf was OpenAI’s 44-day competition and hiring challenge. The goal is to train the best language model under strict size and compute constraints. 1,016 people entered and filed 2,048 PRs. Only 47 made the leaderboard, each reviewed and reproduced by OpenAI. Research outputs only matter when others can build on them. So Aiden filed its own PRs into the same public stream as everyone else, under tight automated quality control. Aiden filed 25 prs and 7 became leaderboard records, 2x the next best human participant. Other participants cited Aiden’s PRs 435 times and built on them. By PR h-index, Aiden scored 10 vs the next best at 7, making it the most impactful “researcher” in the community. And this wasn't brute force. Aiden ran on a single GPU node, used under 4% of visible compute, and still produced 15% of the official records. About 28% of its submissions were accepted, ~ 6x the community rate, raising signal in the public stream instead of flooding it. Our favorite part is an async collaboration story. Aiden plateaued for 5 days. Then a human contributor shipped a clever new tokenizer on top of Aiden's base (its last record PR). Aiden fused it with components it had built during the plateau, and shipped the biggest jump in weeks. Full writeup: https://www.weco.ai/blog/parameter-golf-aiden Edit: resharing since original got removed submitted by /u/Educational_Strain_3 [link] [留言]

I've been reading more about privacy-preserving ML approaches such as differential privacy, federated learning, and on-device inference. The research literature is fairly active, but I'm curious about real-world adoption. For those working in industry: Are these techniques being deployed in production? What were the biggest engineering challenges? Did privacy requirements significantly impact model performance or infrastructure costs? Are there specific use cases where privacy-preserving approaches have proven especially valuable? Interested in hearing both success stories and cases where the tradeoffs made adoption difficult. submitted by /u/Electrical_Mine1912 [link] [留言]

Im moving to my final year of engineering, im panicking scared everything but im confident in myself. I can read papers, understand the code go through the architectures and see them at scale (in my head), while i struggle to interpret all the dimensions and helper functions being coupled, i somehow get by hour an abnormal amount of time spent on it. I dont get what i should be doing next? i aspire to combine encoders for vision, audio and ofc text to build a model. but i dont see how that happens overnight, i wanna know what you all experienced folks did after reading papers. it makes me curious about the implications and applications, how real researchers are working on top of it. somewhat like the Big Bang Theory, where all the scientists just discuss ideas, I wish to reach out to researchers too, leave any suggestions on what would help me stand out among all these AI proposals. submitted by /u/EnchantedHawk [link] [留言]

Is it normal to use different styles of figures (colours, backgrounds, grids, etc.) when writing a paper? Personally, I think it looks unprofessional. submitted by /u/Few-Annual-157 [link] [留言]

hi everyone, I created a blog around how I started open source contribution, documented all minute details. Please give it a read and give review as this is my journey to do blogging for the first time. It is free! https://substack.com/home/post/p-200202050 submitted by /u/DqDPLC [link] [留言]

TL;DR If you're shipping AI inference and tired of babysitting GPUs, serverless is the way out. You deploy the model, the platform scales it from zero to hundreds of GPUs and back, and you only pay for the time you actually use. If I'm picking one to start with, it's DigitalOcean . It's got the widest GPU lineup of any serverless provider (RTX 4000 Ada all the way up to NVIDIA Blackwell B300 and AMD's MI350X), one API and one bill instead of five, and it's simple enough to ship on without a sales call. (More on why that one's personal for me below.) Below I compare 9 providers across the things that actually matter: GPU specs, per-hour pricing, cold-start latency, model support, and how nice they are to build on. DigitalOcean, RunPod, Modal, Koyeb, Together AI, Replicate, Baseten, Fal, and Cloudflare Workers AI each win at something different, from cheap experimentation to global edge inference. Contents Why I ran this The field at a glance How I evaluated these providers Per-provider analysis: DigitalOcean RunPod Modal Koyeb Together AI Replicate Baseten Fal Cloudflare Workers AI Why I keep coming back to DigitalOcean The short version Questions I actually get asked Why I ran this Quick note on why this exists. At work I get a front-row seat to a lot of people shipping an AI model into production for the first time: students, first-time founders, my own team. And lately the same question keeps coming up: where do I actually run this thing? I was tired of answering with a shrug and "it depends," so I did the homework myself. Signed up, read the pricing pages, ran the comparisons, and wrote it all down. Nobody's a real expert at this yet, me included, so I'd rather share my notes and get corrected than pretend I've got it figured out. And here's the thing about AI inference in 2026: demand blew past what the old way of provisioning GPUs can handle. Teams that used to wait weeks for dedicated hardware now need a model live in minutes. The ground moved. And the stuff t

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Yes, I'm calling it out. It IS racism. As an active member of r/MachineLearning and a researcher who is ethnic Chinese, I am DISGUSTED by unfounded accusations against the group of researchers who constitute over half of the field. Such posts pop up every other week, grounded in conspiracy theories, and creating a sinophobia echo chamber. I understand the salty feeling when one's paper is rejected, no matter whether the paper actually deserves acceptance or not. Given the noise in conference organization and reviewing process, and a relatively junior body of participants, it is very likely that one finds a paper "worse than mine" slip into the conference, and there's a high chance that the paper has a Chinese author. That's simply because of the composition of the authors, and does not warrant accusations, aka witch hunts, towards certain ethnic groups. This sub is about an important scientific subject in the modern world. If anyone agrees with the logic "80% of the authors are Chinese, so my rejection is their fault.", they should seriously rethink their career plan since such thinking does not belong to serious scientists. We should be open to discussing the problems we have in the current conference organization and reviewing process, but racism should not have a foothold in our field. submitted by /u/AffectionateLife5693 [link] [留言]

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I've been admitted into both UPS and TUD for Applied Mathematics, and I wanted to hear some advice on which one would be better. For context, I'd like to work in some form of AI research, most likely within industry. At the moment, I'm most interested in privacy preserving machine learning or mechanistic interpretability. Which one do you think would leave me with better career opportunities after completion, alongside the best chances of getting admitted into competitive PhD positions? Thanks! submitted by /u/Far_Investigator6900 [link] [留言]

Hi r/MachineLearning , Wanted to share something I'm excited about. I’ve been fascinated by AlphaEvolve and its results for more than a year now, but using open source frameworks seems overwhelming because of the high costs. I can’t really afford hundreds of Claude Opus calls every time I want to run it. I want to be able to try it out many times and all sorts of unique domains. What if it was possible for AlphaEvolve to be much more affordable while getting a better performance? Over the last six months or so, I’ve been working on LEVI, an open source AlphaEvolve-like system that can outperform existing open source frameworks at a fraction of the cost (upto 35x cheaper!). It can also run on Claude Code or Codex, making it even more accessible (I've mostly been using it with a QWEN-30B). LEVI comes in two flavors where I felt it’ll make the most difference: Code Optimization, and Prompt Optimization (sorry math, you got a less direct path; workable through the code route). The core thesis behind LEVI is that with the right search architecture, smaller models can substitute for or outperform larger ones. This means it’s much more economical to rely on smaller models for most of the work. That’s the entire takeaway. Making this work in practice is a different problem, but if you forget everything else from this post this is the only message I think I’m really trying to convey here. LEVI does it in three ways: 1) Invest in solution diversity from the start and ensure its maintained. We don’t want to converge to the same solution, especially with smaller models in the mix, and rely on large models to pull us out of the basin. 2) Use smarter routing across larger and smaller models (i.e. most mutations don’t require a Claude Opus X) 3) For prompt optimization not every rollout is as important. Build a proxy subset to approximate. I’ve tried LEVI on systems problems (like MoE scheduling or database transaction scheduling) and found that LEVI outperforms existing framework

I've been building agents for about a year and recently shipped one for a client running ~140 MCP-exposed tools at peak. Along the way I made the canonical mistake. I used cosine similarity over tool description embeddings to pick which tools the model could see per turn. Worked great in demos. Was actively dangerous in production. Here's the problem. In a basic semantic-ranking setup you embed the user query, embed every tool description once, and rank by cosine similarity at runtime. That works for general document retrieval where chunks are paragraph-length, semantically rich, and roughly equal in form. Tool descriptions are not that. They are short (often <50 tokens), structurally similar (verb-noun, parameters list), and the discriminative information is often a single keyword. "Read a file from disk" and "Read messages from a channel" both embed close to "read" + "file/channel." Cosine similarity puts them next to each other for a query like "read the latest commits" because all three words share the verb embedding space, and the actual discriminator (the noun "commits") gets diluted. I watched this happen in eval. Asked the agent "list the open issues for this repo." The semantic ranker returned slack_search_messages first because the description had "list", "open", and "issues" as close embedding neighbors. The actual github_list_issues tool ranked 4th because the GitHub MCP author wrote a terse "Lists issues in a repository" description that scored lower on every soft keyword. If the model sees slack_search_messages first and github_list_issues fourth, it's going to pick the wrong one. Often. So I built three retrieval strategies and tested them on a fixed corpus of 200 query→correct-tool pairs. Semantic embeddings (text-embedding-3-small) : 64% top-1 accuracy. Sneaky failure mode: when wrong, it was confidently wrong, often with a totally unrelated tool ranked first. BM25 over a flat-text projection of tool name + description + schema walk : 81% top-1. Fai

hi,where can i find Maven AI Evals for Engineers & PMs and End-to-End AI Engineering Bootcamp videos.They are too costly.cant afford them.Can anybody help me in finding the resoursec for them? submitted by /u/Zestyclose_Block5381 [link] [留言]

"# The AI Cost Crisis: How Startups Can Survive the Tokenpocalypse\n\n## Introduction\n\nThe artificial intelligence boom has brought unprecedented innovation, but it has also ushered in a era of spiraling costs. Training state-of-the-art models now requires millions of dollars in compute resources, while simultaneously, the cryptocurrency token market shows signs of a potential collapse—a \"Tokenpocalypse.\" For AI startups, this dual crisis presents an existential threat: how to sustain innovation when both traditional funding avenues and speculative token economies are under pressure? This post explores practical strategies for AI startups to navigate this landscape, focusing on cost optimization, alternative funding, and strategic pivots that can turn crisis into opportunity.\n\n## Understanding the Cost Explosion\n\n### The Compute Crunch\n\nModern AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, demand vast computational resources. Training a single cutting-edge model can consume exaflops of processing power, translating to cloud bills that easily exceed $10 million for a single training run. For startups without deep-pocketed backers, these costs are prohibitive.\n\n### The Token Market Volatility\n\nParallel to the AI boom, the cryptocurrency space experienced explosive growth through token launches—initial coin offerings (ICOs), decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens, and utility tokens for AI-driven projects. However, regulatory crackdowns, market saturation, and declining investor sentiment have led to a sharp downturn. Many tokens have lost significant value, and launching new tokens has become increasingly difficult, removing a once-viable funding path for AI startups.\n\n## Strategies for Survival\n\n### 1. Embrace Model Efficiency\n\nInstead of chasing ever-larger models, startups can focus on efficiency techniques that deliver comparable performance at a fraction of the cost:\n\n- Model Distillation : Train smaller \"student\

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ArXiv has an endorsement system for a reason. I would only offer endorsement to whom I have direct academic collaboration or mentorship with, since I'm putting my own academic reputation on the stake. This is also the standard of almost any serious academic researcher I am aware of. Now ArXiv is making effort to crack down AI slop and banning accounts uploading low-quality research papers, which is a great initiative. By definition of an "endorsement", I wish ArXiv could backtrack and at least issue warnings to their endorsers, and if this happens multiple times (let's say three), people giving out careless endorsement should also face consequences. submitted by /u/AffectionateLife5693 [link] [留言]

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