arXiv:2608. 02464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents fail mid-episode -- they loop, cascade tool errors, drift off goal, fabricate results, or silently absorb corrupted content -- and the standard remedy, judging every step with a second LLM, costs more than the agent itself.
By Sunny Dubey
The paper introduces Open-1B, a language model trained under a new fully auditable regime that ensures every training operation is reproducible on heterogeneous commodity hardware with bitwise certainty. By enforcing a fixed order on sources of nondeterminism—GPU reductions, data batch ordering, and inter/intra-node communication—the authors enable auditors to replay and verify individual training steps on a single machine. The release includes the full pretraining dataset, all intermediate checkpoints, the training codebase, and an audit harness for step-by-step verification.
By John Donaghy, Brian Wilcox, O\u{g}uzhan Ersoy, Shikhar Rastogi, Adam St Arnaud, Alexey Titov, Jordan Greenberg, Ben Fielding, Harry Grieve
Safety alignment in large language models can be fragile under fine-tuning, as even benign task adaptation may increase harmful compliance. Existing defenses mainly follow two directions: they either intervene during or after fine-tuning through retraining or weight modification, which can be costly and may hurt task performance, or they use model-agnostic safety classifiers, which may miss failures specific to a given fine-tuned checkpoint.
arXiv:2412. 07151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed model training needs to be adapted to challenges such as the straggler effect and Byzantine attacks.
By Jiahe Yan, Pratik Chaudhari, Leonard Kleinrock
arXiv:2607. 01646v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-of-the-art large language model (LLM) training takes tens of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) for months and encounters failures across the software and hardware stack.
By Haotian Xie, Junlin Chen, Mingkai Zheng, Lishan Yang, Zhao Zhang
arXiv:2609.35792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Industrial predictive maintenance increasingly depends on learning from equipment spread across sites whose sensor data cannot easily be pooled. Federa...
By Yusuf \"Ozt\"urk, Enes G\"oktekin, Bengisu Atl{\i}, Ak{\i}n \"Ozt\"urk, Zhixiang Wang, Ulas Bagci