News / #acquisition Tag Acquisition 229 articles archived under #acquisition · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 3d ago Certified Predictive Value-of-Advice Gating for Cost-Aware Language-Model Guidance in Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.29548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model advice can accelerate reinforcement learning, but calls are costly and returned actions may be stale or wrong. We formulate advice acquisition as a response-contingent metareasoning problem: before querying, the… 4 The Information — AI news-outlet 3d ago Databricks Acquires Microsoft Excel Competitor Row Zero Databricks is acquiring Row Zero, a five-year-old Microsoft Excel competitor that sells spreadsheet software that’s designed for analyzing massive amounts of data. The deal could help Databricks attract more non-technical users to Genie, a chatbot it launched last summer that… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Signal2Symbol: Neuro-Symbolic Temporal Reasoning for Explainable Physiological Time-Series Anomaly Detection arXiv:2609.26820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physiological time series such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) exhibit complex temporal structure, substantial acquisition variability, and a strong need for transparent decision-making. Although deep… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago The Dynamics of Quasiregular Neural Learning arXiv:2609.26018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many learning problems combine a dominant regularity with systematic exceptions. Motivated by U-shaped learning in language acquisition, we study this interaction in controlled quasiregular regression problems where regular and… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Domain-Adaptive Pretraining Enhances Water Treatment Semantic Representation for Large-Scale Structured Literature Mining arXiv:2609.26034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Water treatment research is expanding rapidly, but much of the knowledge acquired from this research remains scattered across unstructured literature. The field still lacks a dedicated language model that can efficiently capture… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Do Language Models Know Their Own Constraints? arXiv:2609.22151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask whether behavioral constraints acquired through post training remain explicitly reportable. Using constrained recipe generation as a testbed, five banned ingredients enforced via LoRA fine tuning of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct we… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 10d ago Conservation Buys Stability and Factoring Buys Counterfactuals in Physical World Models arXiv:2609.19674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A learned simulator can reproduce its training conditions accurately yet fail in two distinct ways once those conditions change. Over long rollouts, small errors accumulate until the trajectory drifts away from physically plausible… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 11d ago Modeling the Developmental Shift in Telicity Acquisition arXiv:2609.17996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acquiring telicity, which is the distinction between bounded (e.g., ate an apple) and unbounded (e.g., ate apples) events, requires first language (L1) learners to map surface-level and semantic cues to abstract event structures,… 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago What's the current best LLM uncensoring method? With the recent Nvidia Huggingface acquisition and frontier AI labs screaming about safety and putting guardrails everywhere, I think it's important that we have local models that aren't affected by arbitrary guardrails set during training. To be clear, this post NOT about… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 12d ago A Data-free Universal Prior over Syntactic Structures arXiv:2609.16854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probability is fundamental to theories of language comprehension, production, acquisition, and evolution, as well as to large language models. Existing theories estimate the probability of syntactic structures from… 13 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 12d ago Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago PPDL: A Real-world Industrial User Retention Ratio Forecasting Framework Integrating Physical Priors with Deep Learning arXiv:2609.13789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-channel paid user acquisition, early and accurate prediction of user retention at the channel level is crucial for optimizing budget allocation. User retention curves display a pronounced temporal pattern: an initial… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago Bayesian optimization with kernel ensembles and disagreement-based acquisition for source localization and acoustic inversion arXiv:2609.14262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint source localization and geoacoustic inversion requires optimizing an objective built from an expensive normal mode propagation model. Bayesian optimization (BO) with a Gaussian process (GP) surrogate can obtain accurate… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago Learning Source Acquisition Policies by Offline Planning arXiv:2609.14299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting under an acquisition budget requires choosing feature groups whose value can depend on later queries. O-MPAC transfers finite-horizon risk-cost targets from complete training records into a shared source-action scorer.… 14 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 13d ago OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode. 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 13d ago Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago Fixed State, Long Reach: What a Constant-Size Cache Buys Block Diffusion at Scale arXiv:2609.11998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models decode tokens in parallel, but their bidirectional denoiser rules out the naive key--value (KV) cache behind fast autoregressive inference. Block diffusion restores caching by decoding block-by-block, and… 21 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago Explanations-Driven Active Feature Acquisition for Algorithmic Recourse arXiv:2609.12179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic recourse methods typically assume that a predictive model has access to all features of an individual. In practice, decisions are often made with partial information, because features are costly to acquire. Active… 31 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago Where Decoder Cosine Similarity Fails for SAE Feature Flow Discovery arXiv:2609.12591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly adapted through fine-tuning, model editing, and alignment procedures while retaining previously acquired capabilities. Understanding the internal computations that support these adaptations is… 25 arXiv — Machine Learning research 17d ago Counterfactual Marginalisation: Framework for Evaluating Robustness to Nuisance Variables arXiv:2609.10778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models can achieve strong test performance while relying on demographic or acquisition-related shortcuts. We propose counterfactual (CF) marginalisation as a test-time evaluation procedure for assessing robustness… 25 The Information — AI news-outlet 17d ago Bending Spoons Buys Miro For $1.355 Billion Italian digital conglomerate Bending Spoons is buying whiteboarding software firm Miro at a valuation of $1.355 billion, the latest in a series of purchases the Italian firm has done at knock-down prices. The price for Miro is a huge discount to its peak valuation of $17.5… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 18d ago HB-PVI: A Hierarchical Bayesian Personalization and Value-of-Information Framework for Complex Activity Recognition arXiv:2609.05582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization can improve activity-recognition performance, but participant-specific gains are heterogeneous, and every additional calibration label has an acquisition cost. This study presents HB-PVI, a hierarchical Bayesian… 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 18d ago Budgeted Task-Aware Acquisition of Dynamic Networks arXiv:2609.05862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning on dynamic graphs is difficult when changes in the underlying network are only partially observed. Acquiring current graph information incurs observation and computational costs, making complete updates impractical under… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 18d ago Which Medical Questions Deserve Rationales? Perturbation-Sensitive Selection for Robust QA arXiv:2609.09684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical question-answering datasets often contain answer labels, whereas high-quality rationales remain scarce, noisy, or costly to validate. This changes the acquisition question: rather than asking which questions should be… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 18d ago RAP: Research Attention Prediction Reveals Target-Conditioned Evidence Acquisition Biases arXiv:2609.10092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as research agents, yet their ability to track shifts in research attention is difficult to evaluate because reviews and research ideas lack uniquely verifiable outcomes. We introduce… 25 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago Don't let FOMO win if you're interested in local llm from a hobby/learning aspect Just a reminder for those out there itching to get into local llms - don't let FOMO or "gear acquisition syndrom" take over. No matter the hobby, it's so easy to get stuck in a trap where we buy more trying to do more only to realize we've lost the fun in it all or even the… 21 r/LocalLLaMA community 23d ago Georgi Gerganov on the Nvidia acquisition Link: https://x.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881   submitted by   /u/CombinationKitchen76 [link]   [comments] 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 24d ago NVIDIA's $12,930,300,000.00 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg. The first 6 numbers of the acquisition price represent the decimal conversion of Unicode character U+1F917. The 🤗 emoji. From: Polymarket on 𝕏: https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2095646821485842805 Julien Chaumond on 𝕏: https://x.com/julien_c/status/2095822387895824836   submitted by   /u/Nunki08 [link]   [comments] 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 24d ago RobustSeiz: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking the Robustness of EEG Seizure Detection Models arXiv:2609.04007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite strong performance on held-out electroencephalography (EEG) data, seizure detectors may fail under real-world acquisition variability, artifacts, and adversarial inputs. We introduce RobustSeiz, an open-source,… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 24d ago Knowledge Acquisition During Pre-training? Large Language Models Learn Better With Auxiliary Views arXiv:2609.04180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaps remain in our understanding of how large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge during pre-training. We posit that auxiliary views, reformulations of knowledge, are causally helpful for learning. We design controlled… 30 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 24d ago Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub. 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 25d ago Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe. 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 25d ago Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023 8 The Information — AI news-outlet 26d ago Wafer, An Inference Provider That Uses Non-Nvidia Chips, Lands Acquisition Offers and $200 Million-Plus Valuation Developers and chip designers are increasingly upbeat about the benefits of using AI to supercharge the process of designing and optimizing AI chips, as my colleague Phoebe wrote about last week. Now, a year-old inference provider, Wafer , is trying a similar approach: using AI… 25 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI Pulls Its AI Models From SpaceX-Owned Cursor OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models to coding assistant Cursor following Cursor’s $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The move escalates the high-profile feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk: OpenAI’s post… 34 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172 Points: 247 # Comments: 89 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away. 22 OpenAI official-blog 1mo ago Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Syntax vs. Semantics: How Transformers Learn Deep Dependencies arXiv:2608.26139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable syntactic fluency, yet the optimization dynamics governing their acquisition of deep semantic dependencies remain poorly understood. We propose a mechanistic framework that models this… 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago I am Concerned if Nvidia Acquires Llama.CPP, Dev Team and HF, Anybody else? I dont know about others, but Nvidia is aiming (potentially) to close the lid on older GPUs since they want to push their new technology. Llama and team has been the to go places for older GPUs like V100s. Knowing how Nvidia have tried killing these GPUs of relevancy concerns me… 25 ThursdAI news-outlet 1mo ago NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4 Preview, Gemini Omni 1.1, and the Datacenter Debate w/ Andy Masley From CoreWeave - join Alex and ThursdAI co-host, covering the last week of the summer in AI, with 4 Flash models, Datacenter debate & more AI news 11 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business. 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Learning New Facts with QLoRA: An Acquisition-Retention Frontier arXiv:2608.25677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning is often assumed to preserve pretrained capabilities because it updates only a small number of parameters. We show that this assumption depends strongly on adapter capacity. We study factual… 23 Latent.Space news-outlet 1mo ago [AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro Open Source wins! 10 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Stripe acquires Clerky https://twitter.com/darbyw/status/2092718828405096955 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455956 Points: 201 # Comments: 42 26 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Datadog Shares Jump 5% on Report of Palo Alto Networks Explored Acquisition Shares of Datadog rose as much as 5% Wednesday morning after The Information reported that Palo Alto Networks explored an acquisition of the data software company last year. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora met with Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and pitched him on a hypothetical… 5 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Inside Nikesh Arora’s Deals Hunt for Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has never shied away from deals, acquiring more than 40 companies in the eight years since he took the helm of the world’s biggest standalone cybersecurity firm. But over the past 18 months, Arora’s appetite for acquisitions has reached a new… 11 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago AWS Acquires DuckDB Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448321 Points: 273 # Comments: 61 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago GAP-Prompt: Gated Adaptive Prompting for Efficient Continual Learning arXiv:2608.23782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning faces the persistent challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where sequential task updates degrade previously acquired knowledge. While prompt-based methods integrated with pre-trained models offer a compelling… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago AQLoRA: A Zero-Search Recipe for Fast Quantized LoRA Fine-Tuning arXiv:2608.23816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized fine-tuning (QLoRA) saves memory but not time. It dequantizes every 4-bit weight on the fly, so it trains more slowly than fp16 LoRA. We present AQLoRA (Adaptive-Quantization LoRA), a recipe that buys part of that time… 10 Page 1 of 5 · 229 articles Older →
