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November 13Friday
  1. Microsoft Research22

    Microsoft Research Focus Edition #98: AI Translation, KLS Conjecture Proof, and Faster Coding Agents

    Microsoft Research Focus Edition #98 highlights AI advances bringing universal translation closer to reality and a new proof resolving the 31-year-old KLS conjecture in high-dimensional geometry. The edition also covers CompactionBench and APEC, which cut coding-agent context compaction costs by up to 25.4% and execution time by 9.6%, plus the Latent Core Tokenizer, which improved tokenization across 104 languages.

November 5Thursday
  1. Amazon Science18

    Amazon Scientist Hamed Karimi Wins 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award

    Amazon senior applied scientist Hamed Karimi and coauthors Julie Nutini and Mark Schmidt received the 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award for their 2016 paper on linear convergence of gradient and proximal-gradient methods under the Polyak–Łojasiewicz condition. The paper showed that this 1963 inequality guarantees linear convergence even when models lack a single best solution, unifying scattered optimization results and extending them to nonsmooth landscapes and algorithms such as coordinate, sign, and stochastic gradient descent. It has been cited over 2,000 times and appears in graduate textbooks.

February 25Wednesday
  1. Modal Blog22

    Modal Blog: How Modal Accelerates AI Research That Accelerates AI Research

    Modal, a cloud infrastructure platform for data- and compute-intensive AI workloads, highlights research from Hazy Research, Scaling Intelligence, and IRIS that used its GPU fleet to speed up AI research. The KernelBench project, led by Scaling Intelligence's Anne Ouyang, Simon Guo, and Will Hu, provides a 250-problem benchmark and research environment for automated GPU kernel generation, using Modal for consistent, scalable benchmarking across hardware from L40s to Blackwell systems.