Hacker Papers

1. 926
   

   Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models

   Danijar Hafner et al. · 2023

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   • Jan 2023Mastering Diverse Domains Through World Models
   • Jan 2023Google’s DeepMind: Mastering Diverse Domains Through World Models
   • Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
   • Apr 2025DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught

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2. 927
   

   How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball

   Muru Zhang et al. · 2023

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   • May 2023How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
   • May 2023A Logic for Expressing Transformers
   • Sep 2025An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
   • Dec 2025Project Vend: Phase Two

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3. 928
   

   SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression

   Tim Dettmers et al. · 2023

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   • Jun 2023SpQR: A Sparse-Quantized Representation for Near-Lossless LLM Weight Compression
   • Jun 2023LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
   • Sep 2023ROCm Is AMD's #1 Priority, Executive Says
   • Mar 2024Fine tune a 70B language model at home

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4. 929
   

   Quantum computing and the entanglement frontier

   John Preskill · 2012

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   • Oct 2017Scientists pinpoint the singularity for quantum computers
   • Sep 2019On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
   • Oct 2019IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy

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5. 930
   

   Better Balance by Being Biased: A 0.8776-Approximation for Max Bisection

   Per Austrin et al. · 2012

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   • Jan 2017P vs. NP
   • Aug 2017A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
   • Oct 2021The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science

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6. 931
   

   Fast Training of Convolutional Networks through FFTs

   Michael Mathieu et al. · 2013

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   • Apr 2015Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
   • May 2015A distributed supercomputer using Parallella boards
   • Sep 2020VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

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7. 932
   

   Interacting Hopf Algebras

   Filippo Bonchi et al. · 2014

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   • Apr 2015Graphical Linear Algebra
   • Jun 2015Matrices, diagrammatically
   • Aug 2020Graphical Linear Algebra

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8. 933
   

   Quantum algorithms for topological and geometric analysis of big data

   Seth Lloyd et al. · 2014

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   • Oct 2014Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics
   • Jan 2016Combining topology and quantum computing = huge analysis of data sets
   • Oct 2016Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved

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9. 934
   

   Certifying and removing disparate impact

   Michael Feldman et al. · 2014

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   • Sep 2015Computer Scientists Find Bias in Algorithms
   • Mar 2016Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
   • Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals

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10. 935
    

    Trust Region Policy Optimization

    John Schulman et al. · 2015

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    • Mar 2016The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1
    • Jun 2016Generative Models
    • May 2017Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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11. 936
    

    The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory

    David Deutsch · 2015

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    • Feb 2018The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]
    • Aug 2018The Paradox of Karl Popper
    • Oct 2022Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness

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12. 937
    

    Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation

    Minh-Thang Luong et al. · 2015

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    • Feb 2023Planning for AGI and Beyond
    • May 2023Google receives patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks
    • Jan 2026The Q, K, V Matrices

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13. 938
    

    Variational Information Maximisation for Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning

    Shakir Mohamed, Danilo Jimenez Rezende · 2015

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    • Oct 2015Obstacles on the Path to AI
    • Dec 2015The A.I. Anxiety
    • Jun 2016Deep Mind Playing Montezuma's Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation [video]

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14. 939
    

    Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Artificial Neural Networks

    Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer · 2016

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    • Feb 2017Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems
    • May 2017C++ Code for Quantum Many Body Solutions with Artificial Neural Networks
    • Mar 2018Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]

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15. 940
    

    Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

    Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2016

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    • Feb 2020Reflections on Software Performance
    • Jun 2020C performance mystery: delete unused string constant
    • Jan 2025Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

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16. 941
    

    Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks

    Thomas N. Kipf, Max Welling · 2016

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    • May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
    • Dec 2020Deep Graph Library: Easy Deep Learning on Graphs
    • Jan 2023Ask HN: ML Papers to Implement

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17. 942
    

    Image-to-Markup Generation with Coarse-to-Fine Attention

    Yuntian Deng et al. · 2016

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    • May 2017Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
    • Dec 2017Accessibility Through Semantic HTML
    • Nov 2023Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code

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18. 943
    

    Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors

    Jonathan Huang et al. · 2016

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    • Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
    • Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
    • Nov 2019Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models

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19. 944
    

    Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks

    Chelsea Finn et al. · 2017

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    • Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
    • Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
    • Mar 2019Gödel Machine

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20. 945
    

    Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures

    Denny Britz et al. · 2017

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    • Mar 2017Google Team Refines GPU Powered Neural Machine Translation
    • Jun 2017Exploring LSTMs
    • Oct 2024Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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21. 946
    

    Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation to the Real World

    Josh Tobin et al. · 2017

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    • Apr 2017Spam detection in the physical world
    • Feb 2021A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
    • Apr 2021Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)

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22. 947
    

    Deep Learning is Robust to Massive Label Noise

    David Rolnick et al. · 2017

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    • Mar 2022Deep learning on electronic medical records is doomed to fail
    • Oct 2022Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
    • Jul 2024A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens

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23. 948
    

    Deep Image Prior

    Dmitry Ulyanov et al. · 2017

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    • Aug 2018This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
    • Feb 2021Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition
    • Dec 2021HyperNeRF

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24. 949
    

    Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure

    Zhao-Hui Du et al. · 2017

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    • Jun 2020How SGX Fails in Practice
    • Jul 2020Confidential VMs
    • Mar 2021Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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25. 950
    

    Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning

    Lydia T. Liu et al. · 2018

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    • Jan 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms
    • Sep 2020Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial
    • Dec 2020AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google

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