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84 posts tagged inference.

  • The CMP 170HX A100 unlock is real, useful, and not a shopping list Nov 12, 2026
  • Apple’s rumored local AI app is really a packaging test Nov 11, 2026
  • B3 speeds up diffusion language models by overlapping the slow part Nov 11, 2026
  • FP4 KV Cache Done Right: What BitDecoding-FP4 Changes for Long-Context Serving Nov 9, 2026
  • Tencent’s Qwen DSpine hint is about inference cost, not model size Nov 8, 2026
  • The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB local AI signal Nov 8, 2026
  • Used A100s may be the first real crack in the GPU squeeze Nov 7, 2026
  • StepBack targets the first bad reasoning step instead of rerunning the whole chain Nov 6, 2026
  • LoopVQ and the Hidden Memory Cost of Looped Transformers Nov 4, 2026
  • Zyphra's tree-structured attention aims at million-token-plus context Nov 2, 2026
  • Neural Thickets May Be an Inference Trick, Not a Weight-Space Discovery Oct 30, 2026
  • SpecSlot splits image tokens by what needs global attention Oct 30, 2026
  • TextSeal2 keeps watermarks alive under speculative decoding Oct 30, 2026
  • Hugging Face points open AI back at the iPhone Oct 29, 2026
  • Hexels push 3D reconstruction toward fewer primitives Oct 28, 2026
  • dSpark and the Order Problem in Diffusion Language Models Oct 27, 2026
  • AdaBPE makes tokenization care about LaTeX Oct 26, 2026
  • Cerebras Says It's Running Trillion-Parameter Models: What That Actually Means for Builders Oct 25, 2026
  • What Samsung's On-TV TensorFlow Lite Tracker Tells You About Edge AI Oct 25, 2026
  • Pruning reasoning candidates by optimizing pass@k directly Oct 23, 2026
  • Adaptive Depth in Recommenders: What LoopRec Changes Oct 22, 2026
  • Adaptive MTP makes speculative decoding less wasteful Oct 21, 2026
  • LatComm makes long context reusable across models Oct 20, 2026
  • MiniMax M3.1 Flash puts Space Bunny back under test Oct 19, 2026
  • TorchNeuron points at the real Trainium bottleneck: developer friction Oct 19, 2026
  • 552B parameters on one RTX 4090 is an inference trick, not a free lunch Oct 18, 2026
  • Local LLMs do not always need a four-GPU box Oct 18, 2026
  • What DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Dwarfstar tells us about SSD-streaming local models Oct 18, 2026
  • What OpenAI's 'ultrafast' service tier for Agents actually signals Oct 18, 2026
  • ORL Makes Diffusion LLMs Look Practical for Low-Latency Inference Oct 17, 2026
  • PathFM Treats Forecasts as Paths, Not Quantile Spreads Oct 17, 2026
  • Reading OpenAI's SDK Changelog: Caching, Voice Cloning, and the Mystery of 'Decisions' Oct 17, 2026
  • DoubtLess uses a small model to make a big one stop overthinking Oct 14, 2026
  • Latent Thinking, Text Acting: What HybridAgent Changes About Agent Cost Oct 14, 2026
  • Temperature Should Read the Room Oct 14, 2026
  • On-device agents are a systems bet, not just a model release Oct 13, 2026
  • 100B-parameter phone models are a battery and memory bet Oct 11, 2026
  • Tokenizer compression is not the same as multilingual quality Oct 10, 2026
  • Asana’s browser-agent test points to the real AI cost story Oct 9, 2026
  • GPU scheduling is where AI infrastructure gets real Oct 9, 2026
  • Running Anomaly Detection on the Satellite Instead of the Ground Oct 5, 2026
  • GALA makes Gaussian avatars lighter by distilling animation into shared blendshapes Oct 2, 2026
  • SILSA compresses 3D generation by slicing the shape, not voxelizing everything Oct 2, 2026
  • Looped Mixture of Experts: Two Efficiency Tricks That Finally Stack Oct 1, 2026
  • LeapQuant targets the hidden inference cost in linear attention Sep 30, 2026
  • Not All Quantization Errors Are Equal: STEPQuant and the Memory Cost of Linear Attention Sep 30, 2026
  • Foil's Recipe for Looped MoE: Flatten the Experts, Untie the Attention Sep 29, 2026
  • OpenAI's DevDay agents move the product boundary from chat to operating system Sep 29, 2026
  • Self-Improving Agents Without RL: What Retrospection, Creativity, and Token Forecasting Actually Show Sep 29, 2026
  • Telescopic Language Models: one training run that serves every compute budget Sep 29, 2026
  • Teaching a Reasoning Model to Know When It's Sure Cuts Its Token Bill Sep 28, 2026
  • Free local AI models are not charity Sep 27, 2026
  • Prompt lookup drafting gets faster in llama.cpp, but the win is workload-specific Sep 27, 2026
  • Qwen architecture rumors do not make a 3090 fast by default Sep 27, 2026
  • Ling 3.0 Tiny makes old CPUs interesting again Sep 26, 2026
  • Swift Qwen’s speed claim is a local AI reminder, measure the whole loop Sep 26, 2026
  • MISVO steers frozen language models at inference time Sep 25, 2026
  • A Small Model That Steers a Bigger One's Reasoning Sep 23, 2026
  • CliffCompaction makes long coding runs cheaper by refusing to summarize Sep 23, 2026
  • Softmax attention needs an off switch Sep 21, 2026
  • CXMT’s reported memory ramp matters more for inference than model hype Sep 20, 2026
  • LACE compresses speech tokens one codec layer at a time Sep 16, 2026
  • The Skill Router You Already Have: Gavel Reads Routing From a Frozen LLM Sep 15, 2026
  • Local LLMs are getting useful because constraints are back Sep 13, 2026
  • ConvMem Turns Long-Context Reasoning Into a Tree Instead of a Chain Sep 10, 2026
  • Declarative attention lets models skip the context they do not need Sep 3, 2026
  • Reasoning Without Tokens: What Soft Latent Thinking Actually Changes Sep 1, 2026
  • Synthetic data needs a weight limit Aug 31, 2026
  • llama.cpp’s CPU backlog is a map of local AI’s next gains Aug 30, 2026
  • Qwen 3.8 27B and the local OCR cost test Aug 23, 2026
  • Your Local LLM Isn't Dumb, Your Defaults Are Aug 23, 2026
  • A Strong Model Can Scaffold a Weak One Without Any Retraining Aug 13, 2026
  • BDH-CQ Makes ARC Reasoning Cheaper by Thinking in Latent Space Aug 11, 2026
  • A 16-node DGX Spark cluster at home: what running trillion-parameter models locally actually takes Aug 2, 2026
  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash on a 3090 shifts the bottleneck to DDR5 Aug 2, 2026
  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash on a Mac is an I/O story, not a parameter-count story Aug 2, 2026
  • Kimi K3 on 8 GB RAM is a systems lesson, not a serving plan Aug 2, 2026
  • llama.cpp support is becoming the real local AI distribution layer Aug 2, 2026
  • The Qwen3.8 rumor is really a VRAM planning signal Jul 19, 2026
  • Mesh LLM makes distributed inference a networking problem Jul 12, 2026
  • vLLM 0.25 Deletes PagedAttention, and the Transformers Backend Catches Up Jul 12, 2026
  • Long-context KV caches are getting selective Jul 8, 2026
  • Local LLMs are becoming a workflow choice, not a hobby project Jul 4, 2026
  • OrbitQuant makes diffusion quantization less tied to calibration sets Jul 3, 2026

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