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DatabricksDatabricks

Smarter Decisions at Scale: How Lotus’s Uses AI and NLQ to Empower 3,000+ Stores with Real-Time Intelligence

Lotus’s leverages AI-powered Natural Language Query and chatbot technology integrated with Databricks infrastructure to provide 3,000+ stores with real-time, personalized retail intelligence that empowers faster, smarter decision-making.

7/28/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Your guide to Google Cloud Security at Black Hat USA 2025

Explore Google Cloud Security innovations, AI-driven threat detection, Mandiant expertise, and hands-on training at Black Hat USA 2025 to enhance your organization's cybersecurity posture.

7/25/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

The White House AI Action Plan: a new chapter in U.S. AI policy

The White House AI Action Plan outlines a comprehensive strategy focused on accelerating AI innovation, building secure American AI infrastructure, and leading international AI diplomacy, with strong emphasis on open-source models, cybersecurity, balanced export controls, and public-private collaboration to maintain U.S. leadership in AI.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages

mRAKL leverages retrieval-augmented generation to enhance multilingual knowledge graph construction for low-resourced languages by reformulating it as a question answering task and employing cross-lingual transfer.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

MMAU: A Holistic Benchmark of Agent Capabilities Across Diverse Domains

MMAU benchmark offers a comprehensive and reproducible evaluation framework for assessing large language models' capabilities across diverse domains and core skills without complex environment setups.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy

Exploring how integrating global calibration into multiaccuracy significantly enhances its effectiveness in achieving stronger fairness guarantees and agnostic learning capabilities.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?

Investigating how augmenting LLM-based annotation systems with external validation tools like web-search and code execution can enhance the quality of pairwise preference data in complex domains such as long-form factual content, math, and code.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

ASPERA: A Simulated Environment to Evaluate Planning for Complex Action Execution

ASPERA introduces a simulated environment and dataset to rigorously evaluate large language models' ability to generate complex action execution plans using custom assistant libraries.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Steering into New Embedding Spaces: Analyzing Cross-Lingual Alignment Induced by Model Interventions in Multilingual Language Models

Investigating how targeted neuron interventions enhance cross-lingual alignment and improve retrieval accuracy in multilingual language models without costly fine-tuning.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

On the Way to LLM Personalization: Learning to Remember User Conversations

Introduces PLUM, a novel pipeline for LLM personalization that leverages memory of user conversations via sequential data augmentation and parameter-efficient fine-tuning to enhance personalized dialogue accuracy.

7/25/2025
Apple MLApple ML

On Information Geometry and Iterative Optimization in Model Compression: Operator Factorization

Explores the use of information geometry and iterative optimization techniques, specifically operator factorization and singular value thresholding, to improve model compression with enhanced accuracy and trainability.

7/25/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

The Practitioner’s Ultimate Guide to Scalable Logging

A comprehensive guide to implementing scalable, structured logging and observability in Databricks environments using standardized log collection, JSON formatting, and efficient ingestion pipelines for improved monitoring and troubleshooting.

7/25/2025