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[AI Pipeline] Microsoft AI Proposes BitNet Distillation (BitDistill): A Lightweight Pipeline that Delivers up to 10x Memory Savings and about 2.65x CPU Speedup. BitNet Distillation is a pipeline that converts existing full precision LLMs into 1.58 bit BitNet students for specific tasks, while keeping accuracy close to the FP16 teacher and improving CPU efficiency. The method combines SubLN based architectural refinement, continued pre training, and dual signal distillation from logits and multi head attention relations. Reported results show up to 10× memory savings and about 2.65× faster CPU inference, with task metrics comparable to FP16 across multiple sizes.....
[Local AI] The Local AI Revolution: Expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC. The landscape of AI is expanding. Today, many of the most powerful LLMs (large language models) reside primarily in the cloud, offering incredible capabilities but also concerns about privacy and limitations around how many files you can upload or how long they stay loaded. Now, a powerful new paradigm is emerging. This switch to local PCs is catalyzed by the release of powerful open models like OpenAI’s new gpt-oss, and supercharged by accelerations provided by NVIDIA RTX AI PCs on LLM frameworks used to run these models locally. A new era of private, instantaneous, and hyper-personalized AI is here.
[Agentic System Efficiency] Weak-for-Strong (W4S): A Novel Reinforcement Learning Algorithm that Trains a weak Meta Agent to Design Agentic Workflows with Stronger LLMs. W4S is a framework that trains a weak meta agent to write and refine Python workflows that call a stronger language model, it treats workflow design as a multi turn decision process and optimizes the planner with an offline RL method called RLAO using reward weighted regression. The meta agent generates a workflow, executes it on validation data with the strong executor, collects feedback, then iterates. Reported results show Pass@1 of 95.4 on HumanEval with GPT 4o mini, average gains of 2.9% to 24.6% across 11 benchmarks, and about 1 GPU hour to train a 7B planner.
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[New OCR-VLM Model] DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion. DeepSeek-OCR-3B has two components, a vision encoder named DeepEncoder and a Mixture of Experts decoder named DeepSeek3B-MoE-A570M. The encoder is designed for high resolution inputs with low activation cost and with few output tokens. It uses a window attention stage based on SAM for local perception, a 2 layer convolutional compressor for 16× token downsampling, and a dense global attention stage based on CLIP for visual knowledge aggregation. This design keeps activation memory controlled at high resolution, and keeps the vision token count low. The decoder is a 3B parameter MoE model (named as DeepSeek3B-MoE-A570M) with about 570M active parameters per token…..
Project Notebooks/Tutorials
▶ A Coding Implementation of Secure AI Agent with Self-Auditing Guardrails, PII Redaction, and Safe Tool Access in Python Codes Tutorial
▶ Meet LangChain’s DeepAgents Library and a Practical Example to See How DeepAgents Actually Work in Action Codes Tutorial
▶ An Intelligent Conversational Machine Learning Pipeline Integrating LangChain Agents and XGBoost for Automated Data Science Workflows Codes Tutorial
▶ A Coding Guide to Build an AI-Powered Cryptographic Agent System with Hybrid Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Adaptive Security Intelligence Codes Tutorial
▶ How to Build an Advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System with Dynamic Strategy and Smart Retrieval? Codes Tutorial
▶ A Coding Guide to Build a Hierarchical Supervisor Agent Framework with CrewAI and Google Gemini for Coordinated Multi-Agent Workflows Codes Tutorial