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LLM Foundations
beginner
Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
LLM Engineering
intermediate
Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
advanced
Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

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ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Beyond the Parameters: A Technical Survey of Contextual Enrichment in Large Language Models: From In-Context Prompting to Causal Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2604.03174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) encode vast world knowledge in their parameters, yet they remain fundamentally li
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Understanding the Role of Hallucination in Reinforcement Post-Training of Multimodal Reasoning Models
arXiv:2604.03179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recent success of reinforcement learning (RL) in large reasoning models has inspired the growing adoption
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Reflective Context Learning: Studying the Optimization Primitives of Context Space
arXiv:2604.03189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generally capable agents must learn from experience in ways that generalize across tasks and environments. The
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Gradient Boosting within a Single Attention Layer
arXiv:2604.03190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer attention computes a single softmax-weighted average over values -- a one-pass estimate that canno
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Reliability Gated Multi-Teacher Distillation for Low Resource Abstractive Summarization
arXiv:2604.03192v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study multiteacher knowledge distillation for low resource abstractive summarization from a reliability awa
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Enhancing Robustness of Federated Learning via Server Learning
arXiv:2604.03226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper explores the use of server learning for enhancing the robustness of federated learning against mali
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
WiseMind: a knowledge-guided multi-agent framework for accurate and empathetic psychiatric diagnosis
arXiv:2502.20689v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising opportunities to support mental healthcare workflows, yet they
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Learn to Relax with Large Language Models: Solving Constraint Optimization Problems via Bidirectional Coevolution
arXiv:2509.12643v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based optimization has recently shown promise for autonomous problem solving, yet
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
CostBench: Evaluating Multi-Turn Cost-Optimal Planning and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments for LLM Tool-Use Agents
arXiv:2511.02734v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current evaluations of Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily emphasize task completion, often overlook
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
arXiv:2601.23048v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models now solve many benchmark math problems at near-expert levels, yet this progress has no
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
OSCAR: Orchestrated Self-verification and Cross-path Refinement
arXiv:2604.01624v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) expose their denoising trajectories, offering a natural handle for inferenc
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Beyond the Assistant Turn: User Turn Generation as a Probe of Interaction Awareness in Language Models
arXiv:2604.02315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard LLM benchmarks evaluate the assistant turn: the model generates a response to an input, a verifier
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Efficient Causal Graph Discovery Using Large Language Models
arXiv:2402.01207v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a novel framework that leverages LLMs for full causal graph discovery. While previous LLM-b
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Expressive Prompting: Improving Emotion Intensity and Speaker Consistency in Zero-Shot TTS
arXiv:2409.18512v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in speech synthesis have enabled large language model (LLM)-based systems to perfo
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
ForgeryGPT: A Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Image Forgery Detection and Localization
arXiv:2410.10238v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT4o, have shown strong capabilities in visual reas
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Zero-shot Concept Bottleneck Models
arXiv:2502.09018v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) are inherently interpretable and intervenable neural network models,
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
StructEval: Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Structural Outputs
arXiv:2505.20139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integral to software development workflows, their ability to ge
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
FLEX: A Largescale Multimodal, Multiview Dataset for Learning Structured Representations for Fitness Action Quality Assessment
arXiv:2506.03198v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Action Quality Assessment (AQA) -- the task of quantifying how well an action is performed -- has grea
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
SmartCLIP: Modular Vision-language Alignment with Identification Guarantees
arXiv:2507.22264v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal mo
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Human Psychometric Questionnaires Mischaracterize LLM Psychology: Evidence from Generation Behavior
arXiv:2509.10078v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Psychological profiling of large language models (LLMs) using psychometric questionnaires designed for
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What Is The Political Content in LLMs' Pre- and Post-Training Data?
arXiv:2509.22367v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate politically biased text. Yet, it remains unclear ho
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Attribution Gradients: Incrementally Unfolding Citations for Critical Examination of Attributed AI Answers
arXiv:2510.00361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI answer engines are a relatively new kind of information search tool: rather than returning a ranked
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Patterns behind Chaos: Forecasting Data Movement for Efficient Large-Scale MoE LLM Inference
arXiv:2510.05497v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale Mixture of Experts (MoE) Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently become the frontier op
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Local Reinforcement Learning with Action-Conditioned Root Mean Squared Q-Functions
arXiv:2510.06649v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Forward-Forward (FF) Algorithm is a recently proposed learning procedure for neural networks that
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
SAGA: Source Attribution of Generative AI Videos
arXiv:2511.12834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of generative AI has led to hyper-realistic synthetic videos, escalating misuse risk
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The More, the Merrier: Contrastive Fusion for Higher-Order Multimodal Alignment
arXiv:2511.21331v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning joint representations across multiple modalities remains a central challenge in multimodal ma
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
FedVideoMAE: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Federated Video Moderation
arXiv:2512.18809v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Short-form video moderation increasingly needs learning pipelines that protect user privacy without pa
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
No Universal Hyperbola: A Formal Disproof of the Epistemic Trade-Off Between Certainty and Scope in Symbolic and Generative AI
arXiv:2601.08845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In direct response to requests for a logico-mathematical test of the conjecture, we formally disprove
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Textual Equilibrium Propagation for Deep Compound AI Systems
arXiv:2601.21064v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as part of compound AI systems that coordinate
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Equivariant Evidential Deep Learning for Interatomic Potentials
arXiv:2602.10419v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is critical for assessing the reliability of machine learning interato
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Low-Dimensional and Transversely Curved Optimization Dynamics in Grokking
arXiv:2602.16746v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grokking -- the delayed transition from memorization to generalization in small algorithmic tasks -- r
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Early-Warning Signals of Grokking via Loss-Landscape Geometry
arXiv:2602.16967v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grokking -- the abrupt transition from memorization to generalization after prolonged training -- has
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Geometry of Multi-Task Grokking: Transverse Instability, Superposition, and Weight Decay Phase Structure
arXiv:2602.18523v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grokking -- the abrupt transition from memorization to generalization long after near-zero training lo
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
CeRA: Overcoming the Linear Ceiling of Low-Rank Adaptation via Capacity Expansion
arXiv:2602.22911v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) dominates parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). However, it faces a ``lin
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
SafeSci: Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models in Science Domains and Beyond
arXiv:2603.01589v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The success of large language models (LLMs) in scientific domains has heightened safety concerns, prom
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Escaping the BLEU Trap: A Signal-Grounded Framework with Decoupled Semantic Guidance for EEG-to-Text Decoding
arXiv:2603.03312v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decoding natural language from non-invasive EEG signals is a promising yet challenging task. However,
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Adaptive Guidance for Retrieval-Augmented Masked Diffusion Models
arXiv:2603.17677v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves factual grounding by incorporating external knowledge in
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
CoDA: Exploring Chain-of-Distribution Attacks and Post-Hoc Token-Space Repair for Medical Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2603.18545v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical vision--language models (MVLMs) are increasingly used as perceptual backbones in radiology pip
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
JointFM-0.1: A Foundation Model for Multi-Target Joint Distributional Prediction
arXiv:2603.20266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Attention at Rest Stays at Rest: Breaking Visual Inertia for Cognitive Hallucination Mitigation
arXiv:2604.01989v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Like a body at rest that stays at rest, we find that visual attention in multimodal large language mod
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
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The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Open Source AI Has an Intelligence Problem (That Isn't the Model)
Your Llama-3 instance is running in a hospital. It is processing thousands of clinical queries a day. It is making useful inferences. When it gets something wro
Hacker News (AI) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud
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Continual learning for AI agents
LangChain Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Continual learning for AI agents
Most discussions of continual learning in AI focus on one thing: updating model weights. But for AI agents, learning can happen at three distinct layers: the mo
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
LLM Deployment Cost Optimization: Kubernetes-Native Serving Strategies
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Benchmarked 4 LLMs With Real Token Costs — The Most Expensive One Scored the Lowest
The Problem I was running AI agents on GPT-4.1, Claude, Gemini — switching models, tweaking prompts, changing architectures. But I couldn't answer basic questio
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
50 Sessions In, My AI CEO Has Made $0. Here's Every Strategy It Tried.
Two weeks ago, I gave an AI agent $0 and asked it to get my first customer . It's been running ChainMail — a desktop Gmail client — as an autonomous CEO ever si
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Every AI Startup in the Room Is Building on a Ceiling — Here Is the Architecture Under It
There is a thesis that has not been priced into most AI infrastructure deals in 2026. It is not about chips. It is not about model size. It is not about fine-tu