✔️ A frontier model that puts our own speculative decoding research to work
✔️ An RL recipe for fixing retrieval without touching the retriever
✔️ Evidence that vision-language models stop looking when you ask the wrong question
Check out the papers we're reading!
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Tinted Frames: Question Framing Blinds Vision-Language Models. Ask open-ended questions when you can, because the model literally looks harder: https://t.co/avS6upRRlX
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Nebius Science Paper Club is a webinar series led by Nebius researchers, bringing together paper authors and practitioners to discuss new ideas and discoveries in AI.
The paper that we're diving into on August 25: https://t.co/AEa5cSyib5
Join @federicobianchy, Staff Scientist at @togethercompute, for our next Paper Club session, focused on Learning to Discover at Test Time (TTT-Discover).
📆 August 25, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM CEST
📹 Online
Register now: https://t.co/Qlzjc4grMm
Stable Asynchrony: Variance-Controlled Off-Policy RL for LLMs. When rollouts are stale, a few unrepresentative samples can dominate each update. The authors show you can see the blow-up coming by tracking the effective sample size: https://t.co/D5zERdpP5M
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1/ Paper Picks #2 is out 🧵
Three papers that caught our R&D teams' attention this week: production-grade speculative decoding, proposal trees from factorized priors, and attention without sinks.
7/ Sigmoid attention instead of softmax + RoPE with balanced ALiBi = information compressed and retained within a plain sliding window. Matches or beats SOTA linear recurrent architectures on 8 benchmarks.