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Alaa Abdelmoaty Named Vice President of ISODS Egypt
We are excited to share that Alaa Abdelmoaty Elbiomy Eldreny is taking on the role of Vice President for ISODS Egypt! Many of you already know Alaa from her work as a Tech Society representative with us. Over the past few years, she has been a steady presence in our community, bringing together her background in academic research and her passion for teaching.
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HyScale: Scaling Long-Context Training for Learned Sparse Attention
arXiv:2610.32057v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HyScale, a long-context training system for learned sparse attention. Learned sparse attention is a promising architecture for million-token contexts, widely adopted in production since DeepSeek-V3.2. Selection, however, grows into the training bottleneck. For each query, it scores every previous token whereas sparse attention reads only $k$; worse, current systems materialize a full score table and repeat selection during…
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Evidence-Grounded SLM Behavioral Prediction Architecture for Future Assistance Use
arXiv:2610.32193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often exhibit changes in interaction behavior before explicitly seeking assistance, enabling systems to anticipate future assistance use. This is especially important in high-stakes environments, where delayed assistance can have operational, financial, or safety consequences. However, conventional Large Language Models (LLMs) are often unsuitable for continuous on-device behavioral prediction because of their computational and memory…
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Not All Information Is Worth Asking For: Decision-Informed Information Seeking with LLMs
arXiv:2610.32181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support decisions under incomplete information, where deciding what to look up and when to stop matters as much as the final answer. However, LLMs fall into an information trap: They pay for checks, i.e., costly pieces of evidence, that cannot change their decision or are not worth their cost, and they keep asking when the evidence is already sufficient. To this end, we propose…
arXiv cs.AI
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$\Psi$-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language World Model
arXiv:2610.32177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans reason about the physical world by flexibly combining different forms of inference as a problem unfolds. Achieving this flexibility is a major open challenge in AI: capabilities often remain separated across specialized models, limiting how they can be composed and jointly adapted to a task. We introduce $\Psi$-0.6, a unified vision-language world model that adaptively composes perception, language, geometry, and simulation within a shared…
arXiv cs.AI
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MPQ: A Message-Passing View of Post-Training Quantization
arXiv:2610.32127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a key technique for efficiently deploying large language models, as it compresses weights into low-bit representations without retraining. Existing PTQ solvers, including GPTQ, LDLQ, and block coordinate descent, commit each weight block to a single codeword before its neighbors are considered, leaving near-optimal alternatives unexplored. In this work, we cast row-wise PTQ as posterior inference over discrete…
arXiv cs.AI
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Who Verifies the Tools? How Warped Formatters Mislead Agents and Their Verifiers
arXiv:2610.32110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents and verifiers often rely on the text a tool prints, and that text can misrepresent what the tool actually did, even when the tool's computation is correct. We saw this happen in a production RAG research system used by the Pilsudski Institute in New York, where tool output formatters misled an agent into giving wrong or incomplete information to users. Each tool did its job correctly, but its output omitted search limits, result caps, or…
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