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Sparse attention block selection reduced to O(N log N)
A paper published on September 28, 2026 presents hierarchical block selection with LogSumExp, reducing the cost of this step from O(N²) to O(N log N) for long-context models.
- 18 days ago alphaxiv.org
Self-play for pretraining models without natural data
A paper published on September 26, 2026 examines pretraining with program-generated byte sequences and reports transfer to unseen modalities and tasks.
- 18 days ago david.alvarezrosa.com
Spinlocks: reducing context switches without ignoring contention
A September 11, 2026 article on spinlock optimization: keeping threads busy on the CPU can avoid system calls and context switches, but performance trade-offs need evaluation.
- 18 days ago leimao.github.io
Swizzling to reduce conflicts in CUDA shared memory
A technical article dated August 13, 2026 discusses using swizzling to address bank conflicts in CUDA shared memory, which can affect kernel performance.
- 18 days ago deadlockempire.github.io
The Deadlock Empire turns concurrency into a game
Published on September 12, 2026, the text describes a game where participants act as a scheduler and explore flawed programs to learn about concurrency.
- 18 days ago tradecraftgarden.org
Tradecraft Garden presents a tool for testing evasion and detection
On June 30, 2026, Tradecraft Garden published a post about Crystal Palace, a linker that transforms and randomizes code, generates YARA rules, and supports reusable tradecraft modules.
Recurrent training improves reasoning benchmark results
A post published on September 16, 2026, reports that local denoising objectives improved recurrent models on six benchmarks, including 58.8% accuracy on ARC-AGI-1.
TWT reduces compute for Vision Transformers
Published on September 26, 2026, the post describes Transformer-Within-Transformer, which replaces groups of similar layers. For DINOv2, it reports about half the compute with a small drop in accuracy.
- 18 days ago brendangregg.com
CPU utilization alone can mislead
Brendan Gregg’s article, published on June 27, 2026, discusses the limits of CPU utilization as a metric for evaluating system performance.
- 18 days ago alphaxiv.org
Verification for long-running agents
A post published on August 8, 2026 says the Argus runtime conditions pivots on verification and reports 78% on SWE-Bench Pro, compared with 59% for Direct Copilot.
- 18 days ago vulhunt.re
VulHunt: detecting vulnerabilities in binaries
In posts published on June 29, 2026, Binarly’s research team presents the VulHunt framework and an example detecting remote code execution in rsync.
- 18 days ago
hgpu.orgXtrace proposes detailed tracing of GPU kernels
A description published on September 27, 2026 presents Xtrace, an intra-kernel tracing approach that inserts probes through binary-level instruction splicing.
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