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How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.
AutoFyn Technical Report: Non-Parametric Expert Iteration for Long-Horizon Agents
arXiv:2609.05446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce AutoFyn, an agent harness inspired by the Expert Iteration algorithm, adapting a frozen model across many rounds by updating persistent state from verified reward signals rather than model weights. Each round begins from a fresh model session, and durable information is reintroduced only through explicit interfaces such as…
When Does Memory Help? A Cost-Aware Evaluation of Long-Term Memory in Tool-Using LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.05441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory for LLM agents is evaluated today by conversational recall benchmarks (LoCoMo, LongMemEval), which measure question answering over dialogue history, not whether remembered facts change what a tool-using agent does. We present MERIT (Memory Evaluation for Realistic Instrumented Tasks), a benchmark and harness that measures the marginal utility of…
CriticGen: Generation-Aware Evaluation as Actionable Feedback
arXiv:2609.05439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation methods for large language models are coarse-grained and decoupled from generation, producing generic explanations that fail to provide actionable feedback for model improvement. We propose CriticGen, a fine-grained, generation-aware evaluation framework that turns evaluation into actionable control for answer improvement. CriticGen first generates sample-specific evaluation dimensions and scoring…
Beyond Right and Wrong: Evaluating Second-order Social Reasoning in Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.05437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous AI alignment efforts have focused primarily on first-order social norms -- teaching models what is socially acceptable or unacceptable (e.g., `do not steal'). However, social intelligence depends not only on norm recognition, but also on anticipating who will enforce it and how (e.g., public shame or even imprisonment). These…
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…
Damage-Aware Bandit Pruning for Vision and Language Transformers
arXiv:2609.05448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured post-training pruning of transformers requires selecting complete functional units whose suppression causes limited degradation. We formulate structured-unit selection for language and vision transformers as a damage-aware multi-armed bandit problem under a fixed candidate-evaluation budget. Attention heads and MLP channel groups are temporarily masked on calibration batches. Paired damage is…
Can the US battery market untangle from China?
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. Crucially, this is all happening with the help of cheap Chinese batteries,…
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…