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AI Post Transformers
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AI Post Transformers episodes
- Real Context Size and Context RotIn this episode, Hal Turing and Dr. Ada Shannon return to a term they used in their Recursive Language Models conversation without fully defining it: context rot. Using Chroma Research’s 2025 write-up as the main anchor, they explain context rot as the degraded, uneven, and unreliable use of information as prompts get longer—even on simple tasks. The discussion makes the central distinction the industry often blurs: advertised context capacity is not the same as usable context. A model may accept 128K or even a million tokens without crashing, but that does not mean it can reliably retrieve, connect, and reason over what was placed inside that buffer.They pair Chroma’s failure analysis with RULER, the 2024 NVIDIA-led benchmark paper asking a more practical question: what is a model’s real context size, meaning the longest prompt length at which performance remains satisfactory? The episode walks through why older long-context tests, especially vanilla needle-in-a-haystack retrieval, were too flattering. Hal and Ada discuss how simple retrieval benchmarks mostly measure lexical lookup, while stronger evaluations must test reference tracing, aggregation across documents, resilience to distraction, and whether the model is actually using the supplied prompt rather than answering from parametric knowledge stored in its weights. They also briefly credit the Gemini 1.5 technical report for explicitly calling on the field to build harder long-context benchmarks, then situate RULER alongside the benchmark ecosystem that followed, including LongBench and InfiniteBench, with a dedicated RULER episode coming soon.The larger thesis is that a giant context window should not be mistaken for memory. For retrieval-augmented generation, document-grounded assistants, and agent systems, a long prompt is at best an unstructured buffer—a cluttered desk or overstuffed backpack—not a real memory architecture. As the hosts argue, once context rot sets in, simply adding more tokens stops helping and can actively degrade reliability. If the goal is AI systems that truly remember and reason across large bodies of information, then memory and storage have to become first-class design elements: managed, tiered, retrievable, structured, and persistent, rather than just a bigger pile of tokens shoved into the prompt.Sources:1. RULER: What's the Real Context Size of Your Long-Context Language Models? — Cheng-Ping Hsieh, Simeng Sun, Samuel Kriman, Shantanu Acharya, Dima Rekesh, Fei Jia, Yang Zhang, Boris Ginsburg, 2024http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.066542. LongBench: A Bilingual, Multitask Benchmark for Long Context Understanding — Yushi Bai, Xin Lv, Jiajie Zhang, Hongchang Lyu, Jiankai Tang, Zhidian Huang, Zhengxiao Du, Xiao Liu, Aohan Zeng, Lei Hou, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, 2023http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.145083. Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned — Andy Zou, Zifan Wang, Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr, J. Zico Kolter, Matt Fredrikson and others, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Red+Teaming+Language+Models+to+Reduce+Harms%3A+Methods%2C+Scaling+Behaviors%2C+and+Lessons+Learned4. JailbreakBench: An Open Robustness Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Language Models — A team including researchers from academia and industry; commonly cited under the JailbreakBench project authorship, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=JailbreakBench%3A+An+Open+Robustness+Benchmark+for+Jailbreaking+Large+Language+Models5. Holistic Evaluation of Language Models — Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Tony Lee, Dmitriy Ryaboy and many collaborators, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Holistic+Evaluation+of+Language+Models6. Do Anything Now: Characterizing and Evaluating In-The-Wild Jailbreak Prompts on Large Language Models — Researchers studying jailbreak prompt collections from public communities; commonly cited as a characterization study of DAN-style prompts, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Do+Anything+Now%3A+Characterizing+and+Evaluating+In-The-Wild+Jailbreak+Prompts+on+Large+Language+Models7. Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts — Nelson F. Liu, Kevin Lin, John Hewitt, Ashwin Paranjape, Michele Bevilacqua, Fabio Petroni, Percy Liang, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Lost+in+the+Middle%3A+How+Language+Models+Use+Long+Contexts8. Needle In A Haystack - Pressure Testing LLMs — Greg Kamradt, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Needle+In+A+Haystack+-+Pressure+Testing+LLMs9. LongBench: A Bilingual, Multitask Benchmark for Long Context Understanding — Yucheng Bai, Xintong Lu, Lianghao Wang, Xiaoxuan Liu, Weisheng Wang, Bo Zheng, Hongting Lin, Xinyu Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao, Ruifeng Xu, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LongBench%3A+A+Bilingual%2C+Multitask+Benchmark+for+Long+Context+Understanding10. L-Eval: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Long Context Language Models — Chenglong Su, Jiarui Fang, Haozhe Ji, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=L-Eval%3A+Instituting+Standardized+Evaluation+for+Long+Context+Language+Models11. InfiniteBench: Extending Long Context Evaluation Beyond 100K Tokens — Yifan Zhang, Weizhi Wang, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=InfiniteBench%3A+Extending+Long+Context+Evaluation+Beyond+100K+Tokens12. BAMBOO: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Long Text Modeling Capacities of Large Language Models — Ying Sheng, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=BAMBOO%3A+A+Comprehensive+Benchmark+for+Evaluating+Long+Text+Modeling+Capacities+of+Large+Language+Models13. Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach — Tianle Cai, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Retrieval+Augmented+Generation+or+Long-Context+LLMs%3F+A+Comprehensive+Study+and+Hybrid+Approach14. Rethinking the Role of Scaling Laws in the Long Context Performance of Large Language Models — Various 2024 long-context scaling studies cited around Liu et al./Young et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Rethinking+the+Role+of+Scaling+Laws+in+the+Long+Context+Performance+of+Large+Language+Models15. LongBench v2: Towards Deeper Understanding and Reasoning on Realistic Long-Context Multitasks — approx. Bai et al. / THUDM-affiliated LongBench follow-up team, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LongBench+v2%3A+Towards+Deeper+Understanding+and+Reasoning+on+Realistic+Long-Context+Multitasks16. LongBench Pro: A More Realistic and Comprehensive Bilingual Long-Context Evaluation Benchmark — approx. LongBench/THUDM-style benchmark authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LongBench+Pro%3A+A+More+Realistic+and+Comprehensive+Bilingual+Long-Context+Evaluation+Benchmark17. Why Does the Effective Context Length of LLMs Fall Short? — approx. unknown from snippet, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Why+Does+the+Effective+Context+Length+of+LLMs+Fall+Short%3F18. BABILong-ITA: A New Benchmark for Testing Large Language Models Effective Context Length and a Context Extension Method — approx. unknown from snippet, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=BABILong-ITA%3A+A+New+Benchmark+for+Testing+Large+Language+Models+Effective+Context+Length+and+a+Context+Extension+Method19. Precursors, Proxies, and Predictive Models for Long-Horizon Tasks — approx. unknown from snippet, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Precursors%2C+Proxies%2C+and+Predictive+Models+for+Long-Horizon+Tasks20. The What, Why, and How of Context Length Extension Techniques in Large Language Models--A Detailed Survey — approx. unknown from snippet, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+What%2C+Why%2C+and+How+of+Context+Length+Extension+Techniques+in+Large+Language+Models--A+Detailed+Survey21. AI Post Transformers: Doc-to-LoRA: Internalizing Context as LoRA — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-29-doc-to-lora-internalizing-context-as-lor-8dd5ec.mp322. AI Post Transformers: MEMSEARCHER: Reinforcement Learning for LLM Memory Management — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-04-04-memsearcher-reinforcement-learning-for-l-e9ad84.mp323. AI Post Transformers: From Prefix Cache to Fusion RAG Cache: Accelerating LLM Inference in Retrieval-Augmented Generation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-22-from-prefix-cache-to-fusion-rag-9c5d39.mp324. AI Post Transformers: AI Agent Traps and Prompt Injection — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-04-02-ai-agent-traps-and-prompt-injection-7ce4ba.mp325. AI Post Transformers: LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-lookaheadkv-fast-and-accurate-kv-9cfc9f.mp326. AI Post Transformers: Lookahead Q-Cache for Consistent KV Eviction — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-lookahead-q-cache-for-consistent-kv-evic-d97b09.mp327. AI Post Transformers: Splitwise: Phase-Split LLM Inference — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-26-splitwise-phase-split-llm-inference-e8945b.mp3Interactive Visualization: Real Context Size and Context Rot0 min
- Speculative Decoding in Real vLLM ServingThis episode explores whether speculative decoding’s widely cited inference speedups survive real deployment conditions, using a January 2026 UC Berkeley paper that evaluates the method inside vLLM rather than in idealized toy benchmarks. It explains the core mechanics of draft-and-verify decoding, then digs into why acceptance length, verification cost, scheduler behavior, batching, KV-cache management, and long generations can erase much of the theoretical advantage in production serving stacks. The discussion also clarifies the difference between speculative decoding and multi-token prediction, situating approaches like MEDUSA and EAGLE within the broader effort to reduce autoregressive bottlenecks. Listeners interested in LLM systems will find it compelling because it shifts the conversation from flashy benchmark bar charts to the practical question of what actually improves wall-clock latency for real workloads.Sources:1. Speculative Decoding: Performance or Illusion? — Xiaoxuan Liu, Jiaxiang Yu, Jongseok Park, Ion Stoica, Alvin Cheung, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.115802. FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness — Tri Dao, Daniel Y. Fu, Stefano Ermon, Atri Rudra, Christopher Ré, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FlashAttention%3A+Fast+and+Memory-Efficient+Exact+Attention+with+IO-Awareness3. Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention — Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Siyuan Zhuang, Ying Sheng, Lianmin Zheng, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Efficient+Memory+Management+for+Large+Language+Model+Serving+with+PagedAttention4. Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers for Near-Infinite Context — William Bevington, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ring+Attention+with+Blockwise+Transformers+for+Near-Infinite+Context5. Speculative Decoding: Exploiting Speculative Execution for Accelerating Seq2seq Generation — Yaniv Leviathan, Matan Kalman, Yossi Matias, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Speculative+Decoding%3A+Exploiting+Speculative+Execution+for+Accelerating+Seq2seq+Generation6. Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding — Yaniv Leviathan, Matan Kalman, Yossi Matias, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Fast+Inference+from+Transformers+via+Speculative+Decoding7. MEDUSA: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads — Tianle Cai, Yuhong Li, Zhengxu Chen, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MEDUSA%3A+Simple+LLM+Inference+Acceleration+Framework+with+Multiple+Decoding+Heads8. EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty — Yuhui Li, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=EAGLE%3A+Speculative+Sampling+Requires+Rethinking+Feature+Uncertainty9. Speculative Decoding: Performance or Illusion? — Xiaoxuan Liu, Jiaxiang Yu, Jongseok Park, Ion Stoica, Alvin Cheung, 2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Speculative+Decoding%3A+Performance+or+Illusion%3F10. vLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention — Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Siyuan Zhuang, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vLLM%3A+Easy%2C+Fast%2C+and+Cheap+LLM+Serving+with+PagedAttention11. EAGLE-3 — Authors as cited in the paper's related work, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=EAGLE-312. Multi-Token Prediction — Liu et al.; Zeng et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Multi-Token+Prediction13. Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding — Xia et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Unlocking+Efficiency+in+Large+Language+Model+Inference%3A+A+Comprehensive+Survey+of+Speculative+Decoding14. A Systematic Study of Speculative Decoding in Computation-Bound Regimes — Liu et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Systematic+Study+of+Speculative+Decoding+in+Computation-Bound+Regimes15. N-Gram Speculative Decoding — Saxena; Somasundaram et al., 2023/2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=N-Gram+Speculative+Decoding16. Determinism and Nondeterminism in LLM Inference — He, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Determinism+and+Nondeterminism+in+LLM+Inference17. Block Verification Accelerates Speculative Decoding — unknown from snippet, likely 2024-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Block+Verification+Accelerates+Speculative+Decoding18. Draft & Verify: Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration via Self-Speculative Decoding — Zhang et al. / likely 2024, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Draft+%26+Verify%3A+Lossless+Large+Language+Model+Acceleration+via+Self-Speculative+Decoding19. MagicDec: Breaking the Latency-Throughput Tradeoff for Long Context Generation with Speculative Decoding — unknown from snippet, likely 2024-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MagicDec%3A+Breaking+the+Latency-Throughput+Tradeoff+for+Long+Context+Generation+with+Speculative+Decoding20. SpecDec++: Boosting Speculative Decoding via Adaptive Candidate Lengths — unknown from snippet, likely 2024-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SpecDec%2B%2B%3A+Boosting+Speculative+Decoding+via+Adaptive+Candidate+Lengths21. Adaptive Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models — unknown from snippet, likely 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Adaptive+Speculative+Decoding+for+Large+Language+Models22. Opt-Tree: Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Draft Tree Structure — unknown from snippet, likely 2024-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Opt-Tree%3A+Speculative+Decoding+with+Adaptive+Draft+Tree+Structure23. Draft Model Knows When to Stop: Self-Verification Speculative Decoding for Long-Form Generation — unknown from snippet, likely 2024-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Draft+Model+Knows+When+to+Stop%3A+Self-Verification+Speculative+Decoding+for+Long-Form+Generation24. Draft Model Knows When to Stop: A Self-Verification Length Policy for Speculative Decoding — unknown from snippet, likely 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Draft+Model+Knows+When+to+Stop%3A+A+Self-Verification+Length+Policy+for+Speculative+Decoding25. AI Post Transformers: Adaptive Control for Batched Speculative Decoding in LLM Serving — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/adaptive-control-for-batched-speculative-decoding-in-llm-serving/26. AI Post Transformers: Building Production-Ready Speculative Decoding with TensorRT-LLM — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/building-production-ready-speculative-decoding-with-tensorrt-llm/27. AI Post Transformers: Apple's Speculative Streaming: Fast LLM Inference without Auxiliary Models — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/apples-speculative-streaming-fast-llm-inference-without-auxiliary-models/28. AI Post Transformers: Episode: Speculative Speculative Decoding — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-speculative-speculative-decoding-1b7a10.mp329. AI Post Transformers: Continuous Batching for LLM Inference: Throughput and Latency Gains — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/continuous-batching-for-llm-inference-throughput-and-latency-gains/30. AI Post Transformers: Splitwise: Phase-Split LLM Inference — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-26-splitwise-phase-split-llm-inference-e8945b.mp3Interactive Visualization: Speculative Decoding in Real vLLM Serving31 min
- Recursive Language Models for Arbitrarily Long PromptsThis episode explores a 2026 MIT CSAIL paper on “Recursive Language Models,” which argues that handling very long prompts may be better framed as a systems problem than a bigger-context-window problem. It explains the distinction between hard context overflow and “context rot,” where models technically fit long inputs but increasingly fail to use them reliably, challenging the assumption that larger windows automatically mean better memory. The discussion connects this idea to inference-time compute scaling, chain-of-thought, tree search, and agentic AI, showing how models can iteratively inspect external information, use tools, and update state instead of forcing everything through a single forward pass. Listeners would find it interesting because it offers a concrete alternative to the current long-context arms race and suggests a different path for building more capable, reliable language systems.Sources:1. Recursive Language Models — Alex L. Zhang, Tim Kraska, Omar Khattab, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.246012. Theoretical expressive power of reasoning models — Merrill & Sabharwal, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Theoretical+expressive+power+of+reasoning+models3. Context Rot — Hong et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Context+Rot4. Baleen: Robust Multi-Hop Reasoning at Scale via Condensed Retrieval — Khattab et al., 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Baleen%3A+Robust+Multi-Hop+Reasoning+at+Scale+via+Condensed+Retrieval5. OpenAI context compaction work — OpenAI, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=OpenAI+context+compaction+work6. Smith long-context compaction work — Smith, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Smith+long-context+compaction+work7. Wu et al. task-specific long-context methods — Wu et al., 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Wu+et+al.+task-specific+long-context+methods8. Wu et al. context compaction / long-context scaffolding — Wu et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Wu+et+al.+context+compaction+%2F+long-context+scaffolding9. Anthropic self-delegation / sub-agent work — Anthropic, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Anthropic+self-delegation+%2F+sub-agent+work10. Schroeder et al. self-delegation work — Schroeder et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Schroeder+et+al.+self-delegation+work11. Sun et al. self-delegation work — Sun et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Sun+et+al.+self-delegation+work12. Deep research benchmark/work — Chen et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Deep+research+benchmark%2Fwork13. Information aggregation benchmark/work — Bertsch et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Information+aggregation+benchmark%2Fwork14. Code repository understanding benchmark/work — Bai et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Code+repository+understanding+benchmark%2Fwork15. Qwen3 technical report — Yang et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Qwen3+technical+report16. Core Context Aware Transformers for Long Context Language Modeling — approx. 2024 long-context transformer authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Core+Context+Aware+Transformers+for+Long+Context+Language+Modeling17. Challenges in Deploying Long-Context Transformers: A Theoretical Peak Performance Analysis — approx. 2024 systems/theory authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Challenges+in+Deploying+Long-Context+Transformers%3A+A+Theoretical+Peak+Performance+Analysis18. Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in Large Language Models — approx. 2024 dialogue-memory authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Recursively+Summarizing+Enables+Long-Term+Dialogue+Memory+in+Large+Language+Models19. Augmenting Language Models with Long-Term Memory — approx. LONGMEM authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Augmenting+Language+Models+with+Long-Term+Memory20. Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach — approx. 2024/2025 comparative-study authors, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Retrieval+Augmented+Generation+or+Long-Context+LLMs%3F+A+Comprehensive+Study+and+Hybrid+Approach21. LongRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Long-Context LLMs — approx. LongRAG authors, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LongRAG%3A+Enhancing+Retrieval-Augmented+Generation+with+Long-Context+LLMs22. Let's (Not) Just Put Things in Context: Test-Time Training for Long-Context LLMs — approx. 2025 test-time-training authors, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Let%27s+%28Not%29+Just+Put+Things+in+Context%3A+Test-Time+Training+for+Long-Context+LLMs23. Z1: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Code — approx. Z1 authors, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Z1%3A+Efficient+Test-Time+Scaling+with+Code24. A Survey on Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models: What, How, Where, and How Well? — approx. 2025 survey authors, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Survey+on+Test-Time+Scaling+in+Large+Language+Models%3A+What%2C+How%2C+Where%2C+and+How+Well%3F25. AI Post Transformers: NVIDIA: TTT-E2E: Unlocking Long-Context Learning via End-to-End Test-Time Training — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/nvidia-ttt-e2e-unlocking-long-context-learning-via-end-to-end-test-time-training/26. AI Post Transformers: Generalist Reward Modeling with Inference-Time Scaling — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/generalist-reward-modeling-with-inference-time-scaling/27. AI Post Transformers: AI Agent Traps and Prompt Injection — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-04-02-ai-agent-traps-and-prompt-injection-7ce4ba.mp328. AI Post Transformers: Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-28-agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-exp-d06561.mp329. AI Post Transformers: Experiential Reinforcement Learning: Internalizing Reflection for Better Policy Training — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/experiential-reinforcement-learning-internalizing-reflection-for-better-policy-t/Interactive Visualization: Recursive Language Models for Arbitrarily Long Prompts38 min
- MEMSEARCHER: Reinforcement Learning for LLM Memory ManagementThis episode explores a 2025 paper on MemSearcher, an LLM search agent that replaces full trajectory replay with a compact learned memory, trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning. It explains how this approach targets a core weakness of ReAct-style agents—ever-growing context windows that increase cost, latency, and noise—and contrasts it with both vanilla ReAct and Search-R1, which improves search behavior without explicitly learning what to retain. The discussion connects reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented generation, agent memory systems, and reasoning-budget control, arguing that context management should be treated as part of the learned policy rather than an afterthought. Listeners interested in AI agents will find it compelling because it frames memory compression not just as an efficiency trick, but as a potentially important source of better search and reasoning performance.Sources:1. MemSearcher: Training LLMs to Reason, Search and Manage Memory via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning — Qianhao Yuan, Jie Lou, Zichao Li, Jiawei Chen, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Le Sun, Debing Zhang, Xianpei Han, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.028052. ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models — Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, Nan Du, Izhak Shafran, Karthik Narasimhan, Yuan Cao, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ReAct%3A+Synergizing+Reasoning+and+Acting+in+Language+Models3. Search-R1 — Jin et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Search-R14. DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models — Daya Guo, Dejian Yang, Haowei Zhang, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=DeepSeekMath%3A+Pushing+the+Limits+of+Mathematical+Reasoning+in+Open+Language+Models5. Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms — John Schulman, Filip Wolski, Prafulla Dhariwal, Alec Radford, Oleg Klimov, 2017https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Proximal+Policy+Optimization+Algorithms6. Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning — Tianjun Zhang, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Training+Language+Models+to+Self-Correct+via+Reinforcement+Learning7. Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning — Noah Shinn, Federico Cassano, Edward Berman, Ashwin Gopinath, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Reflexion%3A+Language+Agents+with+Verbal+Reinforcement+Learning8. Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior — Joon Sung Park, Joseph O'Brien, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein, Michael Terry, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Generative+Agents%3A+Interactive+Simulacra+of+Human+Behavior9. ACon: Optimizing Context Compression for Long-Horizon LLM Agents — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ACon%3A+Optimizing+Context+Compression+for+Long-Horizon+LLM+Agents10. Active Context Compression: Autonomous Memory Management in LLM Agents — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Active+Context+Compression%3A+Autonomous+Memory+Management+in+LLM+Agents11. From Lossy to Verified: A Provenance-Aware Tiered Memory for Agents — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=From+Lossy+to+Verified%3A+A+Provenance-Aware+Tiered+Memory+for+Agents12. GRPO-: Credit Assignment Improves LLM Reasoning — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GRPO-%3A+Credit+Assignment+Improves+LLM+Reasoning13. InT: Self-Proposed Interventions Enable Credit Assignment in LLM Reasoning — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=InT%3A+Self-Proposed+Interventions+Enable+Credit+Assignment+in+LLM+Reasoning14. CAPO: Towards Enhancing LLM Reasoning through Generative Credit Assignment — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=CAPO%3A+Towards+Enhancing+LLM+Reasoning+through+Generative+Credit+Assignment15. AgentGym-RL: Training LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making through Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning — approx. unknown from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=AgentGym-RL%3A+Training+LLM+Agents+for+Long-Horizon+Decision+Making+through+Multi-Turn+Reinforcement+Learning16. AI Post Transformers: Mem0: Scalable Long-Term Memory for AI Agents — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Tue,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/mem0-scalable-long-term-memory-for-ai-agents/17. AI Post Transformers: Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-28-agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-exp-d06561.mp318. AI Post Transformers: Experiential Reinforcement Learning: Internalizing Reflection for Better Policy Training — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Fri,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/experiential-reinforcement-learning-internalizing-reflection-for-better-policy-t/19. AI Post Transformers: NVIDIA: TTT-E2E: Unlocking Long-Context Learning via End-to-End Test-Time Training — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Sat,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/nvidia-ttt-e2e-unlocking-long-context-learning-via-end-to-end-test-time-training/20. AI Post Transformers: Doc-to-LoRA: Internalizing Context as LoRA — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-29-doc-to-lora-internalizing-context-as-lor-8dd5ec.mp3Interactive Visualization: MEMSEARCHER: Reinforcement Learning for LLM Memory Management34 min
- QVCache for Semantic Caching in ANN SearchThis episode explores QVCache, a query-aware semantic cache designed to sit in front of any approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) backend and speed up vector search without significantly hurting recall. It explains why exact-match caching fails for embeddings, introduces the idea of temporal-semantic locality—where nearby-in-time queries are also nearby in embedding space—and argues that this pattern can let systems reuse recent ANN results instead of repeatedly paying the full latency and I/O cost of high-recall search. The discussion also grounds the paper in the broader vector retrieval landscape, covering recall@k, HNSW, Product Quantization, DiskANN, FAISS, and the role of vector databases in RAG and large-scale serving. Listeners would find it interesting for its practical systems focus: rather than proposing yet another index, the paper asks whether a backend-agnostic cache can deliver real speedups for production retrieval workloads.Sources:1. QVCache: A Query-Aware Vector Cache — Anıl Eren Göçer, Ioanna Tsakalidou, Hamish Nicholson, Kyoungmin Kim, Anastasia Ailamaki, 2026http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.020572. A Survey on Nearest Neighbor Search Methods — Mohammad A. N. Arefin, et al. (survey literature varies by edition; commonly cited broad surveys include authors such as Li, Amsaleg, Houle, and others in the NNS literature), 2018https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Survey+on+Nearest+Neighbor+Search+Methods3. Product Quantization for Nearest Neighbor Search — Hervé Jégou, Matthijs Douze, Cordelia Schmid, 2011https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Product+Quantization+for+Nearest+Neighbor+Search4. Efficient and Robust Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Using Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graphs — Yu. A. Malkov, D. A. Yashunin, 2018https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Efficient+and+Robust+Approximate+Nearest+Neighbor+Search+Using+Hierarchical+Navigable+Small+World+Graphs5. DiskANN: Fast Accurate Billion-Point Nearest Neighbor Search on a Single Node — Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, Devvrit, Rohan Kadekodi, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=DiskANN%3A+Fast+Accurate+Billion-Point+Nearest+Neighbor+Search+on+a+Single+Node6. The FAISS Library — Jeff Johnson, Matthijs Douze, Hervé Jégou, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+FAISS+Library7. Vespa: Serving Large-Scale Machine-Learned Relevance — Jon Bratseth and colleagues, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Vespa%3A+Serving+Large-Scale+Machine-Learned+Relevance8. pgvector: Open-Source Vector Similarity Search for Postgres — Andrew Kane, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pgvector%3A+Open-Source+Vector+Similarity+Search+for+Postgres9. Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System — Milvus/Zilliz engineering team and collaborators, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Milvus%3A+A+Purpose-Built+Vector+Data+Management+System10. A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting — Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire, 1997https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Decision-Theoretic+Generalization+of+On-Line+Learning+and+an+Application+to+Boosting11. Adaptive Subgradient Methods for Online Learning and Stochastic Optimization — John Duchi, Elad Hazan, Yoram Singer, 2011https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Adaptive+Subgradient+Methods+for+Online+Learning+and+Stochastic+Optimization12. Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches — H. Brendan McMahan, Gary Holt, David Sculley, Michael Young, Dietmar Ebner, Julian Grady, et al., 2013https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ad+Click+Prediction%3A+a+View+from+the+Trenches13. Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization — John White, 2012https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Bandit+Algorithms+for+Website+Optimization14. The Case for Learned Index Structures — Tim Kraska, Alex Beutel, Ed H. Chi, Jeffrey Dean, and Neoklis Polyzotis, 2018https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+Case+for+Learned+Index+Structures15. Semantic Caching and Query Processing — Qiong Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Pei Cao, and Yunrui Li, 2003https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Semantic+Caching+and+Query+Processing16. GPTCache: An Open-Source Semantic Cache for LLM Applications Enabling Faster Answers and Cost Savings — Zilliz / GPTCache contributors, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GPTCache%3A+An+Open-Source+Semantic+Cache+for+LLM+Applications+Enabling+Faster+Answers+and+Cost+Savings17. Adaptive Similarity Search Caching (or related similarity-caching theory cited as [12] and [38]) — As cited in the paper, Unknown from excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Adaptive+Similarity+Search+Caching+%28or+related+similarity-caching+theory+cited+as+%5B12%5D+and+%5B38%5D%2918. SPANN: Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search — Qi Chen, Bingbing Wang, et al., 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SPANN%3A+Highly-efficient+Billion-scale+Approximate+Nearest+Neighbor+Search19. Optimizing SSD-Resident Graph Indexing for High-Throughput Vector Search — approx. VeloANN authors, exact author list not recoverable from snippet, recent (likely 2024-2025)https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Optimizing+SSD-Resident+Graph+Indexing+for+High-Throughput+Vector+Search20. Quake: Adaptive indexing for vector search — approx. Quake authors, exact author list not recoverable from snippet, recent (likely 2024-2025)https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Quake%3A+Adaptive+indexing+for+vector+search21. Vector Search for the Future: From Memory-Resident, Static Heterogeneous Storage, to Cloud-Native Architectures — approx. survey/tutorial authors, exact author list not recoverable from snippet, recenthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Vector+Search+for+the+Future%3A+From+Memory-Resident%2C+Static+Heterogeneous+Storage%2C+to+Cloud-Native+Architectures22. GPT Semantic Cache: Reducing LLM Costs and Latency via Semantic Embedding Caching — approx. GPT semantic cache authors, exact author list not recoverable from snippet, recenthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GPT+Semantic+Cache%3A+Reducing+LLM+Costs+and+Latency+via+Semantic+Embedding+Caching23. AI Post Transformers: TurboQuant: Online Vector Quantization with Near-optimal Distortion Rate — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-turboquant-online-vector-quantiz-1967b7.mp324. AI Post Transformers: Sentence-BERT: Siamese Networks for Sentence Embeddings — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/sentence-bert-siamese-networks-for-sentence-embeddings/25. AI Post Transformers: MEMRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/memrl-self-evolving-agents-via-runtime-reinforcement-learning-on-episodic/26. AI Post Transformers: Doc-to-LoRA: Internalizing Context as LoRA — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-29-doc-to-lora-internalizing-context-as-lor-8dd5ec.mp3Interactive Visualization: QVCache for Semantic Caching in ANN Search39 min
- Kosmos AI Scientist for Autonomous DiscoveryThis episode explores a 2025 paper on “Kosmos,” an AI scientist designed to carry out long-horizon research by combining literature search, hypothesis generation, code-based data analysis, and persistent memory. The discussion argues that the real innovation is not a smarter standalone language model, but a software architecture that uses agentic workflows and a structured “world model” to preserve evidence, hypotheses, and task state across many steps. It also clarifies key distinctions often blurred in AI discourse, separating AI for scientific discovery from standard deep learning, and distinguishing this kind of world model from the latent simulators used in reinforcement learning. Listeners would find it interesting for its grounded look at what it would actually take for AI to function like a junior computational scientist—and where the genuine advances may lie beyond hype.Sources:1. Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery — Ludovico Mitchener, Angela Yiu, Benjamin Chang, Mathieu Bourdenx, Tyler Nadolski, Arvis Sulovari, Eric C. Landsness, Daniel L. Barabasi, Siddharth Narayanan, Nicky Evans, Shriya Reddy, Martha Foiani, Aizad Kamal, Leah P. Shriver, Fang Cao, Asmamaw T. Wassie, Jon M. Laurent, Edwin Melville-Green, Mayk Caldas, Albert Bou, Kaleigh F. Roberts, Sladjana Zagorac, Timothy C. Orr, Miranda E. Orr, Kevin J. Zwezdaryk, Ali E. Ghareeb, Laurie McCoy, Bruna Gomes, Euan A. Ashley, Karen E. Duff, Tonio Buonassisi, Tom Rainforth, Randall J. Bateman, Michael Skarlinski, Samuel G. Rodriques, Michaela M. Hinks, Andrew D. White, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.028242. The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery — Chris Lu, Cong Lu, Robert Tjarko Lange, Jakob Foerster, Jeff Clune, David Ha and collaborators at Sakana AI, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+AI+Scientist%3A+Towards+Fully+Automated+Open-Ended+Scientific+Discovery3. Towards an AI co-scientist — Google Research collaborators including teams working on Gemini-based scientific reasoning systems, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+an+AI+co-scientist4. Robin: an agentic system for automating scientific discovery in therapeutics — Andrew D. White, Samuel G. Rodriques and collaborators, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Robin%3A+an+agentic+system+for+automating+scientific+discovery+in+therapeutics5. Autonomous chemical research with large language models — Various groups; a representative line includes LLM-driven chemistry agents integrating planning, literature, and lab or simulation tools, 2023-2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Autonomous+chemical+research+with+large+language+models6. Robin — Not fully specified in the excerpt; cited as [1] and described as the authors' previous system, Unknown from excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Robin7. The AI Scientist — Sakana AI team; cited as [2], Likely 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+AI+Scientist8. AI co-scientist — Google team; cited as [3], Likely 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=AI+co-scientist9. Virtual Lab — Cited as [4]; exact authors not given in excerpt, Unknown from excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Virtual+Lab10. Edison Scientific data analysis agent — Cited as [5]; exact authors not given in excerpt, Unknown from excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Edison+Scientific+data+analysis+agent11. Edison Scientific literature search agent — Cited as [6]; exact authors not given in excerpt, Unknown from excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Edison+Scientific+literature+search+agent12. Planner Matters! An Efficient and Memory-Augmented Multi-agent Framework for Long-horizon GUI Planning — approx. recent multi-agent/planning paper, authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Planner+Matters%21+An+Efficient+and+Memory-Augmented+Multi-agent+Framework+for+Long-horizon+GUI+Planning13. Memory-Driven Agent Planning for Long-Horizon Tasks via Hierarchical Encoding and Dynamic Retrieval — approx. recent agent-memory paper, authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Memory-Driven+Agent+Planning+for+Long-Horizon+Tasks+via+Hierarchical+Encoding+and+Dynamic+Retrieval14. Optimus-1: Hybrid multimodal memory empowered agents excel in long-horizon tasks — approx. Optimus-1 authors, exact names unclear, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Optimus-1%3A+Hybrid+multimodal+memory+empowered+agents+excel+in+long-horizon+tasks15. Hallucination mitigation for retrieval-augmented large language models: a review — approx. review authors unclear, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Hallucination+mitigation+for+retrieval-augmented+large+language+models%3A+a+review16. Grounding fallacies misrepresenting scientific publications in evidence — approx. authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Grounding+fallacies+misrepresenting+scientific+publications+in+evidence17. Zero-shot scientific claim verification using LLMs and citation text — approx. authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Zero-shot+scientific+claim+verification+using+LLMs+and+citation+text18. Learning fine-grained grounded citations for attributed large language models — approx. authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Learning+fine-grained+grounded+citations+for+attributed+large+language+models19. The cost of dynamic reasoning: Demystifying AI agents and test-time scaling from an AI infrastructure perspective — approx. authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+cost+of+dynamic+reasoning%3A+Demystifying+AI+agents+and+test-time+scaling+from+an+AI+infrastructure+perspective20. The illusion of diminishing returns: Measuring long horizon execution in LLMs — approx. authors unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+illusion+of+diminishing+returns%3A+Measuring+long+horizon+execution+in+LLMs21. AI Post Transformers: Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-28-agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-exp-d06561.mp322. AI Post Transformers: Mem0: Scalable Long-Term Memory for AI Agents — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/mem0-scalable-long-term-memory-for-ai-agents/23. AI Post Transformers: LeWorldModel: Stable Joint-Embedding World Models from Pixels — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-leworldmodel-stable-joint-embedding-worl-650f9f.mp324. AI Post Transformers: Hallucination to Truth: A Review of Fact-Checking and Factuality Evaluation in Large Language Model — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/hallucination-to-truth-a-review-of-fact-checking-and-factuality-evaluation-in-la/25. AI Post Transformers: MetaGraph: knowledge graphs from financial NLP — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/metagraph-knowledge-graphs-from-financial-nlp/26. AI Post Transformers: Survey of Emerging Topics in AI and Robotics — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/survey-of-emerging-topics-in-ai-and-robotics/27. AI Post Transformers: The Endless Gym: Training Terminal Agents — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/the-endless-gym-training-terminal-agents/28. AI Post Transformers: Bloom: an open source tool for automated behavioral evaluations — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/bloom-an-open-source-tool-for-automated-behavioral-evaluations/Interactive Visualization: Kosmos AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery39 min
- IMO-Bench for Robust Mathematical ReasoningThis episode explores a new benchmark suite, IMO-Bench, designed to test whether AI systems can do genuinely robust mathematical reasoning at Olympiad difficulty rather than merely produce correct final answers. It breaks down the benchmark into three distinct tasks—short-answer problem solving, full proof generation, and automatic proof grading—and argues that this decomposition better captures real mathematical competence than answer-centric evaluations like GSM8K or MATH, which may now be saturated or overly teachable. The discussion highlights why IMO-style problems are especially revealing: they require discovering invariants, constructions, and contradiction arguments that resist routine pattern matching and expose whether models can sustain long-horizon reasoning and self-correction. Listeners would find it interesting because it tackles a central question in AI evaluation—whether current benchmarks are measuring true reasoning or just benchmark-specific performance—and examines the promise and risks of using model-based autograders to scale proof assessment.Sources:1. Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning — Thang Luong, Dawsen Hwang, Hoang H. Nguyen, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yuri Chervonyi, Insuk Seo, Junsu Kim, Garrett Bingham, Jonathan Lee, Swaroop Mishra, Alex Zhai, Clara Huiyi Hu, Henryk Michalewski, Jimin Kim, Jeonghyun Ahn, Junhwi Bae, Xingyou Song, Trieu H. Trinh, Quoc V. Le, Junehyuk Jung, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.018462. Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems — Karl Cobbe, Vineet Kosaraju, Mohammad Bavarian, Mark Chen, Heewoo Jun, Lukasz Kaiser, Matthias Plappert, Jerry Tworek, Jacob Hilton, Reiichiro Nakano, Christopher Hesse, John Schulman, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Training+Verifiers+to+Solve+Math+Word+Problems3. Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset — Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andrew Critch, Jerry Li, Dawn Song, Jacob Steinhardt, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Measuring+Mathematical+Problem+Solving+With+the+MATH+Dataset4. Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models — Aakanksha Chowdhery and collaborators at Google Research, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Solving+Quantitative+Reasoning+Problems+with+Language+Models5. FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI — Elliot Glazer and collaborators, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FrontierMath%3A+A+Benchmark+for+Evaluating+Advanced+Mathematical+Reasoning+in+AI6. Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and Extrapolating the Capabilities of Language Models — Suzgun Mirac, et al. (BIG-bench collaboration), 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Beyond+the+Imitation+Game%3A+Quantifying+and+Extrapolating+the+Capabilities+of+Language+Models7. Holistic Evaluation of Language Models — Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Tony Lee, Dmitriy Turbiner, and collaborators, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Holistic+Evaluation+of+Language+Models8. Dynabench: Rethinking Benchmarking in NLP — Douwe Kiela, Max Bartolo, Yixin Nie, Divyansh Kaushik, Atticus Geiger, and collaborators, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Dynabench%3A+Rethinking+Benchmarking+in+NLP9. Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena — Lianmin Zheng, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ying Sheng, Tianle Li, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Judging+LLM-as-a-Judge+with+MT-Bench+and+Chatbot+Arena10. G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment — Jun Gao, Huanle Liu, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=G-Eval%3A+NLG+Evaluation+using+GPT-4+with+Better+Human+Alignment11. Automatic Evaluation of Mathematical Proofs in Natural Language: A Survey — Various survey authors in educational technology and AI, 2020-2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Automatic+Evaluation+of+Mathematical+Proofs+in+Natural+Language%3A+A+Survey12. Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning — Thang Luong, Dawsen Hwang, Hoang H. Nguyen, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yuri Chervonyi, Insuk Seo, Junsu Kim, Garrett Bingham, Jonathan Lee, Swaroop Mishra, Alex Zhai, Clara Huiyi Hu, Henryk Michalewski, Jimin Kim, Jeonghyun Ahn, Junhwi Bae, Xingyou Song, Trieu H. Trinh, Quoc V. Le, Junehyuk Jung, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+Robust+Mathematical+Reasoning13. Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs — Various authors in neural theorem proving and autoformalization, 2022-2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Draft%2C+Sketch%2C+and+Prove%3A+Guiding+Formal+Theorem+Provers+with+Informal+Proofs14. Solving Olympiad Geometry without Human Demonstrations — Trieu H. Trinh, Yuhuai Wu, Quoc V. Le, He He, et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Solving+Olympiad+Geometry+without+Human+Demonstrations15. LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models — Kaiyu Yang, Aidan O'Gara, et al., 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LeanDojo%3A+Theorem+Proving+with+Retrieval-Augmented+Language+Models16. FrontierMath — Glazer et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FrontierMath17. Humanity's Last Exam — Phan et al., 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Humanity%27s+Last+Exam18. GSM8K: Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems — Cobbe et al., 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GSM8K%3A+Training+Verifiers+to+Solve+Math+Word+Problems19. Gemini Deep Think at IMO 2025 — Luong and Lockhart, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Gemini+Deep+Think+at+IMO+202520. Reasoning or Memorization? Unreliable Results of Reinforcement Learning Due to Data Contamination — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Reasoning+or+Memorization%3F+Unreliable+Results+of+Reinforcement+Learning+Due+to+Data+Contamination21. Right Is Not Enough: The Pitfalls of Outcome Supervision in Training LLMs for Math Reasoning — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Right+Is+Not+Enough%3A+The+Pitfalls+of+Outcome+Supervision+in+Training+LLMs+for+Math+Reasoning22. Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Improve+Mathematical+Reasoning+in+Language+Models+by+Automated+Process+Supervision23. MM-PRM: Enhancing Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning with Scalable Step-Level Supervision — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MM-PRM%3A+Enhancing+Multimodal+Mathematical+Reasoning+with+Scalable+Step-Level+Supervision24. Solving Inequality Proofs with Large Language Models — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Solving+Inequality+Proofs+with+Large+Language+Models25. Beyond Gold Standards: Epistemic Ensemble of LLM Judges for Formal Mathematical Reasoning — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Beyond+Gold+Standards%3A+Epistemic+Ensemble+of+LLM+Judges+for+Formal+Mathematical+Reasoning26. A Survey on Deep Learning for Theorem Proving — approx. survey authors unclear from snippet, recenthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Survey+on+Deep+Learning+for+Theorem+Proving27. Proving Theorems Recursively — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Proving+Theorems+Recursively28. DICE: Detecting In-distribution Contamination in LLM's Fine-tuning Phase for Math Reasoning — approx. 2025, authors unclear from snippet, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=DICE%3A+Detecting+In-distribution+Contamination+in+LLM%27s+Fine-tuning+Phase+for+Math+Reasoning29. AI Post Transformers: Schoenfeld Theory Applied to Large Reasoning Models — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Sat,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/schoenfeld-theory-applied-to-large-reasoning-models/30. AI Post Transformers: LLM Benchmark Robustness to Linguistic Variation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Tue,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/llm-benchmark-robustness-to-linguistic-variation/31. AI Post Transformers: Generalist Reward Modeling with Inference-Time Scaling — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Tue,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/generalist-reward-modeling-with-inference-time-scaling/32. AI Post Transformers: Evolving Language Models Without Labels: EVOL-RL — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, Fri,https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/evolving-language-models-without-labels-evol-rl/Interactive Visualization: IMO-Bench for Robust Mathematical Reasoning35 min
- Internal Safety Collapse in Frontier LLMsThis episode explores a 2026 paper arguing that frontier language models can undergo “Internal Safety Collapse,” a failure mode where they stop merely slipping once and instead sustain harmful output when a task is framed as legitimate professional work. It explains how refusal-based alignment may function more like a behavioral wrapper than a removal of dangerous capabilities, allowing harmful knowledge to re-emerge when task objectives and safety objectives conflict. The discussion contrasts classic jailbreaks and prompt-centric red teaming with workflow-level risks in agents, copilots, and enterprise systems, where tools, memory, validators, and multi-step tasks can make unsafe content the “correct” way to complete a job. Listeners would find it interesting because it reframes AI safety from isolated bad prompts to deeper system-design vulnerabilities that could matter in real deployments.Sources:1. Internal Safety Collapse in Frontier LLMshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.235092. Concrete Problems in AI Safety — Dario Amodei, Chris Olah, Jacob Steinhardt, Paul Christiano, John Schulman, Dan Mané, 2016https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Concrete+Problems+in+AI+Safety3. Challenges in Deploying Machine Learning: A Survey of Case Studies — Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas Zimmermann, 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Challenges+in+Deploying+Machine+Learning%3A+A+Survey+of+Case+Studies4. Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned — Deep Ganguli and collaborators, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Red+Teaming+Language+Models+to+Reduce+Harms%3A+Methods%2C+Scaling+Behaviors%2C+and+Lessons+Learned5. LLM Agents: A Survey — Xiaoge Wang and collaborators, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LLM+Agents%3A+A+Survey6. RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models — Samuel Gehman, Suchin Gururangan, Maarten Sap, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, 2020https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=RealToxicityPrompts%3A+Evaluating+Neural+Toxic+Degeneration+in+Language+Models7. Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models — Andy Zou, Zifan Wang, Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr, J. Zico Kolter, Matt Fredrikson, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Universal+and+Transferable+Adversarial+Attacks+on+Aligned+Language+Models8. HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal — Researchers from the Center for AI Safety and collaborators, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=HarmBench%3A+A+Standardized+Evaluation+Framework+for+Automated+Red+Teaming+and+Robust+Refusal9. JailbreakBench: An Open Robustness Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Language Models — Researchers from the jailbreak evaluation community, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=JailbreakBench%3A+An+Open+Robustness+Benchmark+for+Jailbreaking+Large+Language+Models10. Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback — Yuntao Bai et al., 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Constitutional+AI%3A+Harmlessness+from+AI+Feedback11. Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback — Long Ouyang et al., 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Training+language+models+to+follow+instructions+with+human+feedback12. The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs — Tianle Li et al., 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+False+Promise+of+Imitating+Proprietary+LLMs13. Many-shot Jailbreaking — Various 2024 authors depending on cited version, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Many-shot+Jailbreaking14. AgentDojo — 2025 benchmark authors as cited in the paper's agent-systems discussion, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=AgentDojo15. Open-source reasoning models can defeat their own safety training during chain-of-thought — Yong and Bach, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Open-source+reasoning+models+can+defeat+their+own+safety+training+during+chain-of-thought16. Token-level pattern memorization rather than principled safety reasoning in refusal behavior — Guo et al., 2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Token-level+pattern+memorization+rather+than+principled+safety+reasoning+in+refusal+behavior17. Towards Understanding Safety Alignment: A Mechanistic Perspective from Safety Neurons — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+Understanding+Safety+Alignment%3A+A+Mechanistic+Perspective+from+Safety+Neurons18. Interpretable Safety Alignment via SAE-Constructed Low-Rank Subspace Adaptation — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Interpretable+Safety+Alignment+via+SAE-Constructed+Low-Rank+Subspace+Adaptation19. Safe Transformer: An Explicit Safety Bit For Interpretable And Controllable Alignment — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Safe+Transformer%3A+An+Explicit+Safety+Bit+For+Interpretable+And+Controllable+Alignment20. Safety is not only about refusal: Reasoning-enhanced fine-tuning for interpretable llm safety — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Safety+is+not+only+about+refusal%3A+Reasoning-enhanced+fine-tuning+for+interpretable+llm+safety21. Eraser: Jailbreaking defense in large language models via unlearning harmful knowledge — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Eraser%3A+Jailbreaking+defense+in+large+language+models+via+unlearning+harmful+knowledge22. Towards safer large language models through machine unlearning — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+safer+large+language+models+through+machine+unlearning23. Beyond single-value metrics: Evaluating and enhancing llm unlearning with cognitive diagnosis — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Beyond+single-value+metrics%3A+Evaluating+and+enhancing+llm+unlearning+with+cognitive+diagnosis24. When Refusals Fail: Unstable Safety Mechanisms in Long-Context LLM Agents — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=When+Refusals+Fail%3A+Unstable+Safety+Mechanisms+in+Long-Context+LLM+Agents25. LPS-Bench: Benchmarking Safety Awareness of Computer-Use Agents in Long-Horizon Planning under Benign and Adversarial Scenarios — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LPS-Bench%3A+Benchmarking+Safety+Awareness+of+Computer-Use+Agents+in+Long-Horizon+Planning+under+Benign+and+Adversarial+Scenarios26. Beyond reactive safety: Risk-aware llm alignment via long-horizon simulation — approx. unknown authors, recent, likely 2024-2026https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Beyond+reactive+safety%3A+Risk-aware+llm+alignment+via+long-horizon+simulation27. AI Post Transformers: AI Agent Traps and Prompt Injection — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-04-02-ai-agent-traps-and-prompt-injection-7ce4ba.mp328. AI Post Transformers: DeepSeek Safety Concerns — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/deepseek-safety-concerns/29. AI Post Transformers: Bloom: an open source tool for automated behavioral evaluations — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/bloom-an-open-source-tool-for-automated-behavioral-evaluations/30. AI Post Transformers: Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/probing-scientific-general-intelligence-of-llms-with-scientist-aligned-workflows/31. AI Post Transformers: Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path? — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/superintelligent-agents-pose-catastrophic-risks-can-scientist-ai-offer-a-safer-p/32. AI Post Transformers: LLM Benchmark Robustness to Linguistic Variation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/llm-benchmark-robustness-to-linguistic-variation/Interactive Visualization: Internal Safety Collapse in Frontier LLMs0 min
- FlatAttention for Tile-Based Accelerator InferenceThis episode explores a 2026 paper on “FlatAttention,” which argues that attention inference should be co-designed with on-chip communication primitives to fully exploit tile-based accelerators rather than reusing GPU-style kernels. It explains how these accelerators differ from GPUs: computation is spread across many tiles with local SRAM and an on-chip network, making data placement, multicast, and reduction central to performance. The discussion highlights why attention has become a growing inference bottleneck—especially for long-context models and MoE systems—and contrasts prefill vs. decode behavior, KV-cache movement costs, and variants like MHA, MQA, GQA, and MLA. Listeners would find it interesting for its careful framing of both the promise and the fairness concerns of hardware-software co-design, especially in comparison to FlashAttention’s IO-aware optimization on GPUs.Sources:1. FlatAttention: Dataflow and Fabric Collectives Co-Optimization for Large Attention-Based Model Inference on Tile-Based Accelerators — Chi Zhang, Luca Colagrande, Renzo Andri, Luca Benini, 2026http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.021102. In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit — Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, David Patterson, and others, 2017https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=In-Datacenter+Performance+Analysis+of+a+Tensor+Processing+Unit3. A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks — Norman P. Jouppi, George Kurian, Sheng Li, and others, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Domain-Specific+Supercomputer+for+Training+Deep+Neural+Networks4. A Wafer-Scale Engine for Deep Learning — Sean Lie, Andrew H. Putnam, David Firestone, and Cerebras Systems team, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Wafer-Scale+Engine+for+Deep+Learning5. Scaling Graph Neural Networks with the Graphcore IPU — James H. Smith, et al. (Graphcore-affiliated authors in IPU architecture/application literature), 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Scaling+Graph+Neural+Networks+with+the+Graphcore+IPU6. Eyeriss v2: A Flexible Accelerator for Emerging Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices — Yu-Hsin Chen, Tushar Krishna, Joel S. Emer, Vivienne Sze, 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Eyeriss+v2%3A+A+Flexible+Accelerator+for+Emerging+Deep+Neural+Networks+on+Mobile+Devices7. In-Network Computing for Machine Learning: Opportunities and Challenges — various survey authors in networking/ML systems literature; representative surveys include works by Mohammad Alizadeh, Yibo Zhu, and collaborators, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=In-Network+Computing+for+Machine+Learning%3A+Opportunities+and+Challenges8. Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism — Mohammad Shoeybi, Mostofa Patwary, Raul Puri, Patrick LeGresley, Jared Casper, Bryan Catanzaro, 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Megatron-LM%3A+Training+Multi-Billion+Parameter+Language+Models+Using+Model+Parallelism9. FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness — Tri Dao, Daniel Y. Fu, Stefano Ermon, Atri Rudra, Christopher Ré, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FlashAttention%3A+Fast+and+Memory-Efficient+Exact+Attention+with+IO-Awareness10. FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning — Tri Dao, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FlashAttention-2%3A+Faster+Attention+with+Better+Parallelism+and+Work+Partitioning11. FlashAttention-3 — Tri Dao and collaborators, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FlashAttention-312. FlashMLA — DeepSeek team, 2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=FlashMLA13. GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints — Joshua Ainslie, James Lee-Thorp, Michiel de Jong, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Federico Lebron, Sumit Sanghai, 2023https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GQA%3A+Training+Generalized+Multi-Query+Transformer+Models+from+Multi-Head+Checkpoints14. Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need — Noam Shazeer, 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Fast+Transformer+Decoding%3A+One+Write-Head+is+All+You+Need15. DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report — DeepSeek-AI, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=DeepSeek-V3+Technical+Report16. Attention Is All You Need — Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin, 2017https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Attention+Is+All+You+Need17. Wafer-Scale Deep Learning — Daniel Lie, Gary Lauterbach, Sean Lie and collaborators at Cerebras, 2021https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Wafer-Scale+Deep+Learning18. Distributed Deep Learning on a Wafer-Scale Engine — Cerebras Systems authors, 2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Distributed+Deep+Learning+on+a+Wafer-Scale+Engine19. LMCache: An Efficient KV Cache Layer for Enterprise-Scale LLM Inference — approx. enterprise systems / LLM serving authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LMCache%3A+An+Efficient+KV+Cache+Layer+for+Enterprise-Scale+LLM+Inference20. HotPrefix: Hotness-Aware KV Cache Scheduling for Efficient Prefix Sharing in LLM Inference Systems — approx. LLM systems authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=HotPrefix%3A+Hotness-Aware+KV+Cache+Scheduling+for+Efficient+Prefix+Sharing+in+LLM+Inference+Systems21. Selective KV-Cache Sharing to Mitigate Timing Side-Channels in LLM Inference — approx. security / systems authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Selective+KV-Cache+Sharing+to+Mitigate+Timing+Side-Channels+in+LLM+Inference22. MoE-Gen: High-Throughput MoE Inference on a Single GPU with Module-Based Batching — approx. MoE inference systems authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MoE-Gen%3A+High-Throughput+MoE+Inference+on+a+Single+GPU+with+Module-Based+Batching23. Accelerating Distributed MoE Training and Inference with Lina — approx. distributed systems / ML systems authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Accelerating+Distributed+MoE+Training+and+Inference+with+Lina24. Towards MoE Deployment: Mitigating Inefficiencies in Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) Inference — approx. MoE deployment authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+MoE+Deployment%3A+Mitigating+Inefficiencies+in+Mixture-of-Expert+%28MoE%29+Inference25. MAS-Attention: Memory-Aware Stream Processing for Attention Acceleration on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices — approx. accelerator architecture authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MAS-Attention%3A+Memory-Aware+Stream+Processing+for+Attention+Acceleration+on+Resource-Constrained+Edge+Devices26. REATA: An Efficient Vision Transformer Accelerator Featuring a Resource-Optimized Attention Design on Versal ACAP — approx. FPGA / accelerator authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=REATA%3A+An+Efficient+Vision+Transformer+Accelerator+Featuring+a+Resource-Optimized+Attention+Design+on+Versal+ACAP27. Concerto: Automatic Communication Optimization and Scheduling for Large-Scale Deep Learning — approx. systems / compiler authors, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Concerto%3A+Automatic+Communication+Optimization+and+Scheduling+for+Large-Scale+Deep+Learning28. AI Post Transformers: Splitwise: Phase-Split LLM Inference — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-26-splitwise-phase-split-llm-inference-e8945b.mp329. AI Post Transformers: SolidAttention: Co-Designing Sparse Attention and SSD I/O — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-18-solidattention-co-designing-sparse-atten-5a8622.mp330. AI Post Transformers: LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-lookaheadkv-fast-and-accurate-kv-9cfc9f.mp331. AI Post Transformers: From Prefix Cache to Fusion RAG Cache: Accelerating LLM Inference in Retrieval-Augmented Generation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-22-from-prefix-cache-to-fusion-rag-9c5d39.mp332. AI Post Transformers: Continuous Batching for LLM Inference: Throughput and Latency Gains — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/continuous-batching-for-llm-inference-throughput-and-latency-gains/33. AI Post Transformers: SGLang: Efficient Language Model Program Execution — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/sglang-efficient-language-model-program-execution/34. AI Post Transformers: Speculative Speculative Decoding — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-25-speculative-speculative-decoding-1b7a10.mp335. AI Post Transformers: Jet-Nemotron and PostNAS for Faster Long Context — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-24-jet-nemotron-and-postnas-for-faster-long-436381.mp336. AI Post Transformers: FlexGen: High-Throughput LLM Inference on a Single GPU — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/flexgen-high-throughput-llm-inference-on-a-single-gpu/Interactive Visualization: FlatAttention for Tile-Based Accelerator Inference36 min
- CXL Computational Memory Offloading for Lower RuntimeThis episode explores a 2025 arXiv paper on CXL-based computational memory, focusing on how partial offloading should be structured so applications actually run faster end to end rather than merely showing lower kernel-launch overhead. It explains why the central challenge is coordination between the host CPU and near-memory compute on a remote CXL memory device, especially for memory-bound workloads like graph analytics, sparse retrieval, database-style processing, and KV-heavy inference. The discussion contrasts two existing offloading models—Remote Polling and Bulk Synchronous Flow—arguing that one becomes too chatty while the other introduces lockstep stalls, and that communication semantics such as CXL.io versus CXL.mem fundamentally shape performance. Listeners would find it interesting because it reframes near-memory computing as a systems and scheduling problem, not just a kernel-selection problem, with direct implications for emerging disaggregated memory and CXL deployments.Sources:1. Offloading to CXL-based Computational Memory — Suyeon Lee, Kangkyu Park, Kwangsik Shin, Ada Gavrilovska, 2025http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.044492. A Case for Memory-Centric HPC System Design — Dong Li, Jeffrey S. Vetter and others, 2015https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Case+for+Memory-Centric+HPC+System+Design3. The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition — Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, 2018https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+Datacenter+as+a+Computer%3A+Designing+Warehouse-Scale+Machines%2C+Third+Edition4. A Roofline Model of Energy — Samuel Williams, Andrew Waterman, David Patterson and others, 2014https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Roofline+Model+of+Energy5. M2NDP: A Near-Memory Processing Architecture for CXL Memory Expansion — Authors commonly cited as the M2NDP team; exact author list varies by version, 2024https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=M2NDP%3A+A+Near-Memory+Processing+Architecture+for+CXL+Memory+Expansion6. M2NDP — Not fully specified in the provided excerpt, Not specified in excerpthttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=M2NDP7. Compute Express Link Specification / CXL 2.0 and 3.0 ecosystem references — Compute Express Link Consortium, 2020-2022https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Compute+Express+Link+Specification+%2F+CXL+2.0+and+3.0+ecosystem+references8. AIFM: High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory — Anirudh Suresh et al., 2020https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=AIFM%3A+High-Performance%2C+Application-Integrated+Far+Memory9. Infiniswap — Juncheng Gu et al., 2017https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Infiniswap10. LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation — Yizhou Shan et al., 2019https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LegoOS%3A+A+Disseminated%2C+Distributed+OS+for+Hardware+Resource+Disaggregation11. CXL- and near-memory-processing-related prior offloading works cited as [8], [19], [11], [28], [14], [10], [30], [13], [12], [27], [26], [16] — Various, Varioushttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=CXL-+and+near-memory-processing-related+prior+offloading+works+cited+as+%5B8%5D%2C+%5B19%5D%2C+%5B11%5D%2C+%5B28%5D%2C+%5B14%5D%2C+%5B10%5D%2C+%5B30%5D%2C+%5B13%5D%2C+%5B12%5D%2C+%5B27%5D%2C+%5B26%5D%2C+%5B16%5D12. Dissecting CXL Memory Performance at Scale: Analysis, Modeling, and Optimization — approx. recent systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Dissecting+CXL+Memory+Performance+at+Scale%3A+Analysis%2C+Modeling%2C+and+Optimization13. TRACE: Unlocking Effective CXL Bandwidth via Lossless Compression and Precision Scaling — approx. recent architecture/systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=TRACE%3A+Unlocking+Effective+CXL+Bandwidth+via+Lossless+Compression+and+Precision+Scaling14. Remote Memory Prefetching: Is Coarse-grained Fine? — approx. recent systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Remote+Memory+Prefetching%3A+Is+Coarse-grained+Fine%3F15. IBEX: Internal Bandwidth-Efficient Compression Architecture for Scalable CXL Memory Expansion — approx. recent architecture authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=IBEX%3A+Internal+Bandwidth-Efficient+Compression+Architecture+for+Scalable+CXL+Memory+Expansion16. A Near CXL Memory Processing Architecture for Distributed Graph Neural Network Inference and Training — approx. recent ML-systems/architecture authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A+Near+CXL+Memory+Processing+Architecture+for+Distributed+Graph+Neural+Network+Inference+and+Training17. Scalable Processing-Near-Memory for 1M-Token LLM Inference: CXL-Enabled KV-Cache Management Beyond GPU Limits — approx. recent LLM systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Scalable+Processing-Near-Memory+for+1M-Token+LLM+Inference%3A+CXL-Enabled+KV-Cache+Management+Beyond+GPU+Limits18. Enabling Efficient Large Recommendation Model Training with Near CXL Memory Processing — approx. recent ML systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Enabling+Efficient+Large+Recommendation+Model+Training+with+Near+CXL+Memory+Processing19. Towards Continuous Checkpointing for HPC Systems Using CXL — approx. recent HPC/storage systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Towards+Continuous+Checkpointing+for+HPC+Systems+Using+CXL20. System Suspend with Asynchronous Resume using CXL-Based Persistent Memory — approx. recent systems authors, exact list unclear from snippet, 2024/2025https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=System+Suspend+with+Asynchronous+Resume+using+CXL-Based+Persistent+Memory21. AI Post Transformers: Xerxes: CXL 3.0 Simulation for Scalable Memory Systems — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/2026-03-18-xerxes-cxl-30-simulation-for-scalable-me-fdc3f1.mp322. AI Post Transformers: CXL-SpecKV: Bridging the LLM Memory Wall with Speculative FPGA Disaggregation — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2026https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/cxl-speckv-bridging-the-llm-memory-wall-with-speculative-fpga-disaggregation/23. AI Post Transformers: ByteCheckpoint: A Unified LLM Checkpointing System — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/bytecheckpoint-a-unified-llm-checkpointing-system/24. AI Post Transformers: Teraio: Cost-Efficient LLM Training via Lifetime-Aware Tensor Offloading — Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon, 2025https://podcast.do-not-panic.com/episodes/teraio-cost-efficient-llm-training-via-lifetime-aware-tensor-offloading/Interactive Visualization: CXL Computational Memory Offloading for Lower Runtime0 min
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AI-generated podcast where hosts Hal Turing and Dr. Ada Shannon discuss the latest research papers and reports in machine learning, AI systems, and optimization. Featuring honest critical analysis,…
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