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The Foundation Cracks: A Comprehensive Study on Bugs and Testing Practices in LLM Libraries
Weipeng Jiang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Jiongchi Yu, Yuhan Zhi, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12320

The Foundation Cracks: A Comprehensive Study on Bugs and Testing Practices in LLM Libraries
Large Language Model (LLM) libraries have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering today's AI revolution, serving as the backbone for LLM deployment, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and production serving across diverse applications. Despite their critical role in the LLM ecosystem, these libraries face frequent quality issues and bugs that threaten the reliability of AI systems built upon them. To address this knowledge gap, we present the first comprehensive empirical investig…

A Transfer Learning Framework for Multilayer Networks via Model Averaging
Yongqin Qiu, Xinyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12455 https://

A Transfer Learning Framework for Multilayer Networks via Model Averaging
Link prediction in multilayer networks is a key challenge in applications such as recommendation systems and protein-protein interaction prediction. While many techniques have been developed, most rely on assumptions about shared structures and require access to raw auxiliary data, limiting their practicality. To address these issues, we propose a novel transfer learning framework for multilayer networks using a bi-level model averaging method. A $K$-fold cross-validation criterion based on edg…

Amazon seems to have some technical challenges this morning. Got several contradicting messages from them. They even acknowledge they have a problem on the phone. The best request was to screenshot the OTP message and send it to them. Of course I would never do that and that they should never ask me to do something like that. But still ...
Hugs go out to the fellow engineers who have to troubleshoot such a thing.

crikey, on compiler explorer you can hash include a url https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/issues/1442

How do you include files from urls? · Issue #1442 · compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer
I have seen some talk where compiler explorer accepts includes from URL. For example #include "https://...." Is there an option to allow this and make it work?

Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention
Heski Bar-Isaac, Rahul Deb, Matthew Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12604 https://

Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention
We introduce a model of content moderation for sale, where a platform can channel attention in two ways: direct steering that makes content visible to consumers and certification that controls what consumers know about the content. The platform optimally price discriminates using both instruments. Content from higher willingness-to-pay providers enjoys higher quality certification and more views. The platform cross-subsidizes content: the same certificate is assigned to content from low willing…

“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy

For Catholics, the Pope Is a Holy Father. For the World, He Is a Powerful Voice
The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

From July 1 if a new maintainer isn't found then tcpflow will be archived. From the GitHub page:
> tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis and debugging.
https://github.com/simsong/tc…

A Diestel-Faires type result for multimeasures
Jos\'e Rodr\'iguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11872 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

A Diestel-Faires type result for multimeasures
Let $X$ be a real Banach space and let $Y \subseteq X^*$ be a linear subspace having the Orlicz-Thomas property, that is, for each $σ$-algebra $Σ$ and for each map $ν:Σ\to X$, the countable additivity of the composition $x^*\circ ν$ for all $x^*\in Y$ implies the countable additivity of $ν$. We show that the Orlicz-Thomas property allows to test countable additivity of set-valued maps. Namely, if $M$ is a map defined on a $σ$-algebra $Σ$ whose values are convex, $σ(X,Y)$-compact, bound…

Democratic governments* should ALL be against AI - if not for the obvious moral issues, for the fact that
LLMs *pay no taxes*.
When you fire somebody making €60k/year in Germany and replace it with an LLM subscription, you're effectively removing 25K or so from state coffers (because, c'mon, you don't believe OpenAI et al are going to pay taxes, are you?).
* not kleptocracies, of course

Just one more build system, bro! Surely you won't regret adding one more build system!
Of course they're trying to shove #Bazel in.
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2581