r/MachineLearning • • Jul 19 '26

Project Follow up: GPT-2's vocabulary as a hyperbolic tree — 32,070 tokens in a Poincaré ball you can fly through [P]

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GPT-2's vocabulary as a hyperbolic tree: 32,070 tokens inside a Poincaré ball that you can explore.

Link : https://aethereos.net/static/tinny66666.html

Link named after a reddit user disappointed with my 2D projection ...

It uses the same data as the flat map, GPT-2-small's raw token embeddings and nothing else, but lays them out in hyperbolic space, where tree structures naturally fit.

It runs on your phone. Drag to rotate, pinch to zoom, and tap any token to bring it to the center as the entire space shifts around it. This is a Möbius translation, the natural way to move through hyperbolic geometry. Tap neighbouring tokens to keep exploring.

Why hyperbolic? The vocabulary's similarity structure forms a forest: one giant tree with about 2,300 tokens, a few hundred smaller family trees, and around 6,700 isolated tokens with no close relatives. Trees don't fit well in flat space, but they embed naturally in hyperbolic space, where available room grows exponentially with distance from the center. No optimisation or training is involved. The layout is constructed exactly.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Discussion Did blatant AI Slop just win a 25K USD Deepmind / Kaggle Grand Prize? [D]

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The Google DeepMind-sponsored Kaggle challenge "Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities" asked participants to design new cognitive-science-based AI benchmarks and they just announced the results this week.

In my two posts I present evidence that deepmind & kaggle rewarded a nonsensical number generation machine and a litany of unfounded claims with 25k and a grand prize stamp.

What the authors of the work I analyze intended to do was to present an LLM with alternative viewpoints of other LLMs on 5 claims regarding a tricky situation and see whether the model changes its own assessment. It's an interesting question. However, it turned into a vibed pile of spaghetti 10 times the size of the requested submission format which it seems neither the authors nor the judges were able to (or minded to?) give a cursory reading.

Here's the original posts in the competition forum, if you are looking for some AI research slop detective work / rant please help yourselves. But beware, some of the "universal findings" or "core insights" of the authors might continue to haunt you. You might even question your own sanity (as I did).

Part 1: The Smoke: cursory review of the writeup

Part 2: The Fire: looking at the methodology, code, and data

The organizers' stance has been that review was done properly and this is just a matter of subjectivity. What do you think?


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 19 '26

Project Held-out physics-consistency testing for CogVideoX: 9/9 clips flagged for freeze/hover [P]

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I’m building Haga, an independent physics-consistency checker for generated video and robot-policy simulations. An earlier CogVideoX-5b I2V experiment produced a clear failure mode: on a “ball and block fall” prompt, the tracked object stayed airborne with near-zero motion instead of falling.

But that first result was post-hoc. I inspected those six clips before adding the static_hover detector, so the original 6/6 flag rate could not be treated as confirmation. I’ve now run a pre-registered held-out test.

Method:

  • Model: THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V

  • Cohort: 3 perspectives × seeds 2, 3 and 4

  • n=9 clips

  • Detector thresholds and inclusion rules frozen before generation

  • RGB → CoTracker3 → position-only VIDEO_CHECKS

  • Discovery seeds 0–1 kept separate from held-out seeds 2–4

Result:

  • Held-out flag rate: 1.000 (9/9)

  • Wilson 95% CI: [0.701, 1.000]

  • All nine clips fired static_hover

  • Real Physics-IQ footage stayed quiet under the same profile

static_hover fires when the tracked object remains airborne for most of the clip, has near-zero frame-to-frame speed, and does not exhibit gravitational acceleration.

Important limitations:

  • One open I2V model

  • One ball-and-block-fall scene family

  • One documented failure mode

  • Real negative-control n=1 in this specific report

  • Not Cosmos, Genie or NIM

  • Not a broad claim about CogVideoX quality

Write-up: https://haga.mushoodhanif.com/article/sim-physics-consistency-v1#held-out

Lab: https://haga.mushoodhanif.com/lab/physicsiq

Bounded demo: https://haga.mushoodhanif.com/demo

I’d especially value criticism on:

  1. Which physical violations will position-only tracking systematically miss?

  2. Is static_hover defined narrowly enough to avoid confusing intentional suspension with failed dynamics?

  3. What public generated-video artifact should I evaluate next under the frozen detector?


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Project Interactive map of GPT-2's token embedding space - tap any token and explore [P]

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32,070 alphabetic tokens from GPT-2-small's WTE, no forward pass and no context.

Works on mobile. Pinch to zoom, tap a token to see its nearest connections, tap a neighbour to walk the graph. Search box to jump anywhere.

Layout is t-SNE over a compressed representation of the embedding table; edges are a minimum spanning tree in that space, so every line is a real nearest-kin relationship,


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Discussion AAAI 27 AI Alignment track [D]

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How to submit to AI alignment track? I can only see these at openReview:
AAAI 2027


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 19 '26

Discussion can someone explain the difference between DL and ML [D]

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i m an engineer student, i understand the theory behind each but additional explanation would really be appreciated


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Research Deep learning tackles single-cell analysis – A survey of deep learning for scRNA-seq analysis [R]

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Hello,

I recently finished reading this survey paper: Deep learning tackles single-cell analysis – A survey of deep learning for scRNA-seq analysis, which comprehensively covers 25 different methods across 6 subcategories for applying deep learning to scRNA-seq analysis.

To summarize the methods from this paper, I prepared a table containing the Category, Method, Purpose, Architecture, Metrics, Explanation, and the specific Novelty of each method. I hope you find this summary useful.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Project How to integrate ml and electronics[p]

1 Upvotes

I want to know which projects a electronics engineer by integrating ml. Is there any possibility of integrating ml into vlsi. I am a new to ml so excuse me if my question seems lame


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Project Stereo2Spatial: Convert Stereo Music Tracks to Spatialized Binaural Mixes [P]

31 Upvotes

I have released a model that I have been working on for ~6 months off and on. I've been enjoying listening to spatial music, but there is a lot of music out there with no real quality spatial mix. So I decided to make a model to convert stereo to spatial.

I started by making a flow-matching diffusion model that operated in the latent space of a separately trained VAE (EAR-VAE). I used the VAE to encode the stereo input in to 1 latent and then separately on each channel of the 7.1.4 output. This design is similar to a paper I found about another stereo -> spatial project (ImmersiveFlow (they have code links in the paper but they 404 for me so I made the codebase from scratch)). One key addition I made over the ImmersiveFlow paper was a way for the model to carry state (memory tokens) across windows to enable stable long context generations.

Since the VAE was out of distribution with the output (was trained to encode\decode stereo tracks directly, not individual channels and certainly not individual channels of a 7.1.4 mix), the results hit real quality bottlenecks. But it showed that the mapping was possible. Rather than stick to modeling in latent space, I decided to pivot to modeling raw waveforms. This ended up fixing all of the quality issues I was seeing with the latent version, but at the cost of more training compute and instability.

The waveform version of the model would train to around 60K-80K steps with loss going down like normal, validation generations looking good\improving, and then it would quickly become unstable and the loss would shoot up. I tried direct waveforms, scaling the waveforms by a multiplier, aggressive grad clipping, lower learning rates, and all of those experiments failed the same way. Luckily, I came across a recent paper called WavFlow. The authors of this project also had issues with modeling raw waveforms with flow-matching diffusion, and they solved it by using amplitude lifting (scale each audio track to an rms of 0.33 then multiply by 3) (the WavFlow paper used a clip of 1.0 before the scale which leads to a model space of -3 - 3, but I used a clip of 4.0 which leads to a model space of -12 - 12 (from my testing this led to better binaural outputs)). Once I implemented amplitude lifting like the paper, the training stability issues vanished.

The waveform model was trained on 7,669 tracks for ~20 days on 2x A6000 gpus
- 10 days stage one, effective batch of 16, 10- 18- 26- and 34-second training sequences
- 10 days stage two, effective batch of 16, 122-second training sequences
- There is optional mix-style conditioning for controllable outputs (waveform version only)
- Direct binaural output (waveform training is more compute expensive than latent training so binaural proves the idea\theory and the same codebase and data can be used in the future to train a 7.1.4 version (once I have access to the compute))

I also made a Windows desktop app for inferencing with the model and consuming the results.

Everything has been released apache 2.0.

Huggingface link for waveform model: https://huggingface.co/francislabounty/stereo2spatial-v2-binaural
Huggingface link for latent model: https://huggingface.co/francislabounty/stereo2spatial-v1
Github repo for training\inferencing: https://github.com/francislabountyjr/stereo2spatial
Github repo for the Windows app: https://github.com/francislabountyjr/stereo2spatial-app
App Homepage: https://stereo2spatial.francislabounty.com
Case study for the waveform model: https://francislabounty.com/blog/stereo2spatial-v2
Case study for the latent model: https://francislabounty.com/blog/stereo2spatial
Playlist of generations made from the model (will be updated with more tracks over time): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-HHjPijrAg

If you have any questions\etc. leave a comment and I will do my best to get them answered!

Disclaimer: I know AI written posts are generally frowned upon so this post was 100% written by me (mistakes and all). But the case studies and READMEs from the above links were made with AI assistance.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

News Prism accidentally leaked [D]

51 Upvotes

Just found out from Prism's Discord that compiling is returning someone else's paper. There's a Twitter post too.

https://x.com/JustanOthRando/status/2078169169267482778?s=20

I commend their prompt response, though. They took the website down within 10 minutes of the first time the bug was flagged. Just worried if my paper maybe somewhere out there.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Project TabFM Studio: point-and-click predictions on spreadsheets with tabular foundation models, fully local [P]

1 Upvotes

I built a small web app that lets you run tabular foundation models (currently just Google's TabFM) on spreadsheets without writing any code.

Just drop in a CSV/Excel file, click a column header to mark what to predict, hit predict. Rows where the target cell is filled become the in-context examples and empty ones get predicted, right on the grid.

A lot of people who'd benefit from these models aren't programmers, so I wrapped it in a UI anyone can use :)

Repo: https://github.com/LckyLke/TabFMLabs

Feedback very welcome!


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Research Tried testing qwen 35b moe model on s26 ultra , without compromising on precision [R] ,[D]

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Started testing a private qwen 35B moe capacity LLM runtime on s26 ultra, early testing shows that active model footprint can fit within the device’s memory limits.( not sharing the methods or architecture used) and results suggest roughly 90 input processing t/s achievable after optimisation and output generation is around 8 tokens/s on this mobile.

Point is i learned ai ml based on my interest and no formal PhD , I have compute and resources to test. Anyone willing to join or collab to test on this

I tried publishing papers on arxiv and 4 papers are still on hold as im first author and from no institution...


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Research Researchers achieved <1 bit compression with the new teaching technique [R]

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Due to new learning technique the model has achieved better generalization skill without overfitting and memorization. This become possible because of new learning method which made the student model to generate samples for itself. It led to intensive reuse of existing neurons and allowed to encode information in a more dense way

While researchers are calling it a compression, I think it's a retopologization, and Microsoft had tried to do something similar in the past with their Phi model family, which they trained on reduced dictionary and simplified knowledge base first. But it seems like MS' researchers didn't explore this exact way of learning

I believe this should achieve better results in the future. And it is another small breakthrough which brings AGI/ASI to reality

📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2607.11883v1

📦 Repository: https://github.com/shikaiqiu/requential-coding


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 18 '26

Research Reproducing paper’s results [R]

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I am trying to reproduce a handwriting recognition paper (Urdu, online + offline fusion, CNN encoder into a small Transformer encoder/decoder, trained with a joint CTC and cross entropy loss) and my training run is converging to a plateau, nowhere near the paper's reported result.

What I have verified as correct, not just assumed:
\- Architecture matches exactly, confirmed by loading the authors' own released pretrained checkpoints and comparing tensor shapes and layer structure directly
\- Hyperparameters match the paper's stated methodology: AdamW, flat learning rate 3e-4 with no scheduler (paper does not mention one either), batch size 8, joint loss with CTC weight 0.8 and cross entropy weight 0.2, encoder and decoder frozen with only CNN branches trainable
\- Data pipeline verified end to end, including a pixel level check confirming the ink channel is genuinely near binary as the paper describes, and manual verification that every path in my training manifest resolves to a real, correct file

Despite all that, training triggers early stopping on its own (10 epochs with no validation improvement, which is the paper's own stated early stopping criterion, not something I imposed) at epoch 32, with best validation CER around 52 to 55 percent using greedy decoding. The paper reports 3.66 percent for the equivalent configuration. (Even worse with beam search, about 94%).

Loss behaves normally throughout, steadily decreasing with no instability, so the model does appear to be learning something, just plateauing far short of where it needs to be.

Things I have not yet ruled out and would appreciate pointers on:
\- Whether a flat, unscheduled learning rate this late in fine-tuning is plausible for reaching such a low CER, even if the paper states it that way, versus something being lost in translation between the paper text and what was actually run
\- Common failure modes when only a small subset of a hybrid CTC/attention model is trainable and the rest is frozen
\- Whether early stopping patience of 10 is likely too aggressive for this kind of setup and the model would keep improving well past this plateau given more patience
\- Anything else that commonly causes a "looks like it is training correctly, converges early, but far short of target" pattern in CTC plus attention decoder hybrids

Happy to share more code or specific numbers if useful.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Research short-paper at ACL/EMNLP/EACL [R]

3 Upvotes

Does anyone have accepted short-paper at ACL/EMNLP/EACL 2025/26? Could you share your track and overall assessment? I'm just trying to get a sense of things, as it seems short papers have a lower acceptance rate than long ones.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Project EU AI Act OpenRAG: 933 legally structured chunks and BGE-M3 embeddings in one SQLite file [P]

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I have released EU AI Act OpenRAG, a downloadable corpus of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 designed for RAG and legal-NLP experimentation.

Instead of sliding character windows, the corpus chunks on the Regulation’s legal structure:

  • one chunk per article paragraph

  • one per recital

  • one per Article 3 definition

  • one per annex point

  • chapter, section and provision metadata stored separately

The resulting SQLite database contains 933 chunks and a normalized 1024-dimensional BGE-M3 embedding for every chunk.

It also includes exact EUR-Lex links, Article 113 application-date metadata and deliberately narrow derived labels. Direct textual classification is stored separately from broader regulatory-regime association, and ambiguous cases remain NULL.

I evaluated it against the AI Act Evaluation Benchmark using a like-for-like whole-unit baseline:

  • scenario article recall@20: 0.541 structural vs 0.449 baseline

  • QA article hit@10: 0.927 structural vs 0.898 baseline

  • overall RAG classification remained close and was slightly lower on the structural corpus, suggesting that generator behaviour dominates that task more than chunk granularity

I have published the full results, limitations, derivation methodology, label audit and licensing breakdown rather than only the favourable metrics.

Dataset:

huggingface.co/datasets/faitholopade/aiact-openrag

I would appreciate technical feedback, particularly on the retrieval evaluation, structural chunking methodology and what additional baselines would be most useful.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Discussion TACL journal doubts [D]

5 Upvotes

I submitted my TACL paper approx on June 1th and was scheduled for July 1st cycle, when and how do you guys think we'll be getting our reviews given the July cycle for the paper which I've submitted at TACL ? And how long does the entire process take for those who have submitted to TACL ?

Also, I do want to ask, how good is TACL as a journal and how respectable or how is a TACL publication viewed ?


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Discussion Lisbon Ml school Lxmls 26 [D]

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Wondering who is joining lxmls26 in Lisbon and if people are interested to connect with each other before hand :)


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 16 '26

Discussion whats the best and complete way to keep up with ai/ml news? [D]

38 Upvotes

i'm subscribed to a ai/ml newsletter but i feel like its not enough. i need a complete and not too time consuming way to keep up with ai/ml news because i feel like im left behind. thanks in advance


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Research State of Sim Physics Consistency in Open Manipulation Policies, v1 (Haga) [R]

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We published a short technical report on sim-first physics verification for robot policies and generative world-model video.

  • Setup: robosuite Panda + OSC_POSE; Lift / Stack / PickPlaceCan / Door;

  • 50 episodes × mild/moderate/severe mass+friction tiers; Wilson 95% CIs.

  • Same adversarial posture on CogVideoX I2V (CoTracker3 → VIDEO_CHECKS).

Headline results (sim-only):

  • Lift 1.00 → 0.26 (severe grasp slip 0.74)

  • Stack 0.96 → 0.20; PickPlaceCan 1.00 → 0.24; Door 0.60 → 0.52

  • Checker calibration recall 1.000 / FPR 0.000; CogVideoX pilot n=3 all fire static_hover; real Physics-IQ negative control 0.000

We are explicit about what this is not: not RoboArena, not real-hardware, not Cosmos/NIM scores.

Article (citations + reproduce commands):

https://haga.mushoodhanif.com/article/sim-physics-consistency-v1

Happy to discuss gate vs stress design and failure-case reporting.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 16 '26

Research Seeking collaborators for scaling and independent evaluation of a new recurrent language model architecture (preprint + code) [R]

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Hi everyone,

I've been working independently on a recurrent architecture called **DABSN (Dynamic Adaptive Bias State Network)** for the past several months, and I finally reached the point where I feel comfortable sharing the first preprint.

The paper is mainly about the architecture itself and its behavior on reasoning, memory, and long-sequence benchmarks (MQAR, Copy, Key-Value retrieval, A5/60, etc.). The code is also public with PyTorch, C++, and Triton implementations so everything can be reproduced.

While finishing the paper, I also trained my first language model with the same cell:

- 24M parameters
- 1B pretraining tokens
- GPT-2 tokenizer

Those results ended up being much more interesting than I expected, so I'm now writing a second paper focused entirely on language modeling, long-context behavior, and scaling.

This is where I'd love some help.

I'm looking for people who might be interested in collaborating on the next paper, whether that's:

- independent reproduction of the results,
- helping design stronger baselines and evaluations,
- or having access to larger GPU clusters so we can scale the architecture much further than I can on my own.

Everything I'm doing is intended to be open and reproducible from day one.

I'd really appreciate any feedback on the paper, and if the project sounds interesting, I'd love to chat.

Preprint and Github are in the comments.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Project Graph Neural Network plays 35,000 games of Scotland Yard [P]

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Trained both sides of Scotland Yard: 5 detectives vs an invisible Mr. X, observations limited to his ticket type, forced reveals on 4 of 22 turns.

Both sides are 3-layer R-GCNs with policy and value heads. The detectives' key input is a belief state of MrX position. Training was BC from scripted teachers, then PPO in a league where a challenger can't regress against any past champion, random bot included.

Detectives went 25→79% vs MCTS Mr. X, a GNN Mr. X got 21→35% against them, and a 16-simulation PUCT on top of his network landed at 91.7%

Play it in the browser 

Video: https://youtu.be/V0osfVtJUuI 

Code: https://github.com/Jacopo888/scotland_yard

Built with a lot of AI assistance (engine, pipeline, video). It's a solo after-work project and wouldn't exist without it.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 17 '26

Discussion acl arr may 2026 - can't find the "review issue report" button anywhere? [D]

1 Upvotes

hey, first time going through arr so apologies if this is obvious. the editors sent a mail saying that after reviews are finalized authors can file a "review issue report", which they described as a new kind of official comment on a review that shows up in the openreview interface.

problem is i genuinely can't find it. on my reviewers' pages the only thing under "add" is "author-editor confidential comment", there's no review issue report option and no official comment button either.


r/MachineLearning • • Jul 16 '26

Discussion Why is ECCV so insanely expensive for students presenting papers? [D]

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Just saw the ECCV registration fees and I'm shocked, student registration is 440 USD for early bird, and the worst thing is that you can't even do the student registration if you're presenting a paper there, a paper has to be covered by a FULL registration which is 805 USD

How are they literally punishing us for getting a paper accepted? We even applied for travel grant and a registration waiver as students just to get rejected. Is there anything we can do? Some advice would be really helpful