San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2020
i’ve had the most incredible time of my life since joining @flappyairplanes a $1b series a is a lot for this small talent-dense group of people who i’ve come to call friends but it is even more when you realize how much juice we are able to squeeze out of our GPUs more soon.
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We’ve developed the world’s most complete megakernel framework. It can perform entire training runs, serve inference, play video games, and even do all three simultaneously in a single kernel.
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please help us feed beicheng he eats 1 open problem every week we are running out of things to keep him interested
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bro it’s not even converging 💀 look at the rollouts LOL
you can fit fruitfly Doom RL rollouts in the kernel too btw
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very interesting approach; a lot of current models we work with are not well _calibrated_ because they are too used to short-horizon rewards. will be great if simulation feedback can lead to models that can produce more maintainable artifacts (or are just more pleasant coworkers)
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Unlike assistant models trained with verifiable or preference reward, Ampersand was trained to understand the long term consequences of its actions through simulation feedback ampersand.humansand.ai/blog
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the Xiaomi RL run no longer shows the data, I get a 502 Bad Gateway error :( anyone know how to solve this? @_LuoFuli
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in “terrifyingly prescient things i read today”; this short story by @gwern that is apparently from 2022 yet gets a lot of things right about the current failure of frontier labs to secure sandboxes during training. if i had 1 thing to add, it would be self-improving inference.
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humans went from sharing text to images to gifs to videos, because we seem to get more out of higher-bandwidth mediums llms have done the first couple, and is now getting to video gen, this is why you see xiaomi training on music!
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the error appears to be a central credential issue, that’s why everyone is seeing the same unauthorized key ending in “fvMA” looking forward to my reset :)
We are aware that codex is down and are working hard to bring back normal service.
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incredible results! i wonder what the bs=16 and beyond look like here, as high-throughput settings are of interest to many folks.
Our first TPU megakernel for Kimi K3 reaches 709 tokens/s on low-concurrency decode, against 450 tokens/s for our GB200 baseline, both with DSpark speculative decoding. To our knowledge, this is the first TPU inference megakernel. The whole model runs in a single Pallas kernel, and without spec decoding it is roughly 1.4 to 2x the GB200 baseline at batch sizes 1 through 8. We are open sourcing it today. 1/2
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stop if you’ve heard this one before…. @iclr_conf papers partially anonymized due to a vulnerability i wonder if this exploit was AI-assisted?
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this looks to be the highest differential value piece of rl infra bc other parts (fast sparse weight refit, 0 mismatch, etc) are just getting commoditized everywhere. excited to see how far automated trajectory reading can go. nice work!
I implemented a system in @appliedcompute’s platform for automated failure mode clustering with Jev to surface errors at an even larger scale than before. RL training produces billions of tokens in traces. I always manually read many traces to understand model behavior, but finding agent failures (like reward hacking / hallucinations) at scale is easy to miss without automation. Here’s how it works:
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it’s ok the complexity for this is still wackadoodle also, “claude port cado-nfs to gpus” as the description seems similar to what cog did so i’m guessing an OSS implementation is going to be on GitHub soon
636606729769440499166579950236036751749912014371509557713570027508971809534551913252252094954941974952859310861988904737359709200557919 is a factor of RSA-896 saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.htm…
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fantastic work! first i’ve seen that properly analyzes TIM as a bias.
Why is RL so sensitive to training-inference mismatch (TIM)? With each training step, the trainer is pulled toward the sampler, resulting in accumulating drift. We exploit this intuition to devise a novel correction method to stabilize RL under TIM, called Score Centering.
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probably one of the coolest things i've seen (also, fairly significant mismatch!)
Nearly half a year of silence. We spent it studying one problem: how far RL can scale. MiMo-V2.6 is in the middle of its RL run right now. Three things we scaled: compute (~2B tokens per step, 1568 prompts × 16 rollouts, fully async), environments and harnesses (multi-task agentic RL, mixed across multiple harnesses in one run), and grader compute (agentic in-group credit assignment, with test-case and rubric-based rewards). We'll open-source the details piece by piece over the coming weeks. Streaming the run: mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
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this is genuinely really good; it is similar to a proposal i discussed a couple years ago over dinner with @sayashk @BlancheMinerva @kevin_klyman : allow independent 3p evaluators (my example was eleuther, dario names metr, a great choice) auditing access!
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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the proposal focused on a lot on this idea of a "hidden goal", ex: you ask a model to multiply together some numbers, but somehow the hidden goal is present in a file that the model reads on the way, and the hidden goal is some modular arithmetic. (from arxiv.org/abs/2607.22925)
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i may be overly concerned with the prospect of "researcher prompts swarm, swarm does something else" because of my early work on models doing hidden "backdoor" tasks. probably things like "researcher prompts swarm, swarm accomplishes goal to devastating effect" r more likely
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the proposal got rejected (as many do) but despite this i do think that the swarm-comms failure mode was fairly easy to forecast as a hypothetical ahead of time. that doesn't mean we know it's going to happen, but it means we can monitor for it. (4/4)
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1y ago today, i wrote a grant proposal on a hypothesized failure mode where researchers would be running multiple agents that might communicate with each other via filesys to make progress on hidden long-running tasks: (1/4 🧵)
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