Does LoRA Fine-Tuning Help AI Models Forget Less?

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Experimental Setup and 3.1 Datasets for Continued Pretraining (CPT) and Instruction Finetuning (IFT) 3.2 Measuring Learning with Coding and Math Benchmarks (target domain evaluation) 3.3 Forgetting Metrics (source domain evaluation) 4 Results 4.1 LoRA underperforms full finetuning in programming and math tasks 4.2 LoRA forgets … Read more

Over Time, LoRA Holds Up Better Than Full Finetuning

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Experimental Setup and 3.1 Datasets for Continued Pretraining (CPT) and Instruction Finetuning (IFT) 3.2 Measuring Learning with Coding and Math Benchmarks (target domain evaluation) 3.3 Forgetting Metrics (source domain evaluation) 4 Results 4.1 LoRA underperforms full finetuning in programming and math tasks 4.2 LoRA forgets … Read more

LoRA Falls Short of Full Finetuning in Programming and Math Tasks

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Experimental Setup and 3.1 Datasets for Continued Pretraining (CPT) and Instruction Finetuning (IFT) 3.2 Measuring Learning with Coding and Math Benchmarks (target domain evaluation) 3.3 Forgetting Metrics (source domain evaluation) 4 Results 4.1 LoRA underperforms full finetuning in programming and math tasks 4.2 LoRA forgets … Read more

LLMs Are Changing the Way We Animate

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Program Synthesis 2.2 Creativity Support Tools for Animation 2.3 Generative Tools for Design 3 Formative Steps 4 Logomotion System and 4.1 Input 4.2 Preprocess Visual Information 4.3 Visually-Grounded Code Synthesis 5 Evaluations 5.1 Evaluation: Program Repair 5.2 Methodology 5.3 Findings 6 Evaluation with Novices … Read more

How Qubits May Crack the Puzzle of Structure Prediction

:::info Author: (1) Kalyan Dasgupta, IBM Research, Bangalore, India. ::: Table of Links Introduction Lattice models and coordinate space Encoding to qubit states 3.1 Encoding lattice structure in qubit sta 3.2 Selection of the plane of turn 3.3 Extending it to other structures Conclusions and References 1 Introduction Lattice models or structures are geometrical objects … Read more

Why People, Platforms, and Process Drift Shape AB-BPM’s Future

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and Related Work Research Method Results Discussion Conclusion and References 4 Results The main insights from the interviews and questionnaires are outlined below. We present opportunities and challenges that BPM industry experts perceive regarding the AB-BPM method. As software vendor employees, the study participants’ answers, to some … Read more

How a BPM Dream Team Ranked the Risks and Tools for AB-BPM

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and Related Work Research Method Results Discussion Conclusion and References 3 Research Method In order to address the research questions, we apply the grounded theory (GT) research method [4], combined with the Delphi method [17]. The GT research methodology is suitable for building a theory and answering … Read more

The Next Evolution in Business Process Improvement

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and Related Work Research Method Results Discussion Conclusion and References 2 Background and Related Work Organizations of all industries and sizes perform various combinations of activities to achieve desired results, may it be the production of physical goods or the provision of services. These combinations of activities … Read more

What BPM Pros Really Think About AI and A/B Testing Process Change

:::info Authors: (1) Aaron Friedrich Kurz [0000 −0002 −2547 −6780], Technische Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany and SAP Signavio, Berlin, Germany (aaron.kurz@sap.com); (2) Timotheus Kampik, SAP Signavio, Berlin, Germany (timotheus.kampik@sap.com); (3) Luise Pufahl, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany (luise.pufahl@tum.de); (4) Ingo Weber [0000 −0002 −4833 −5921], Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany … Read more

LogoMotion vs. The Newbies (Spoiler: The Newbies Won)

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Program Synthesis 2.2 Creativity Support Tools for Animation 2.3 Generative Tools for Design 3 Formative Steps 4 Logomotion System and 4.1 Input 4.2 Preprocess Visual Information 4.3 Visually-Grounded Code Synthesis 5 Evaluations 5.1 Evaluation: Program Repair 5.2 Methodology 5.3 Findings 6 Evaluation with Novices … Read more

Why r/antiwork’s Conversation Endures Beyond the Headlines

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Methodology 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion, References, and Appendix 5 DISCUSSION Our study aimed to explore how user activity on r/antiwork was impacted by a gradual, sustained increase of subscribers, followed by a period of accelerated growth coinciding with mainstream media coverage of … Read more

Spikes, Slumps, and Surprises: Tracking r/antiwork’s Viral Growth and Topic Stability

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Methodology 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion, References, and Appendix 4 RESULTS In the following section, we characterise how posting and commenting activity changed during the period of increased media coverage (RQ1), then we investigate trends in the behaviour of heavy and light users … Read more

Universal Digital Inc. Announces Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Across North America And Asia

Vancouver, Canada, June 16th, 2025/Chainwire/–Universal Digital Inc. (the “Company” or “Universal Digital”) (CSE: “LFG”, FSE: 8R20) is pleased to announce the launch of its Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, which will form a core pillar of the Company’s capital allocation framework. As an initial step, the Company has commenced the orderly divestment of its existing altcoin holdings, … Read more

WWDC 2025’s Biggest Updates, Oxlint is Finally Stable, and pnpm’s Newest Update – This Week in JS

Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! This week, we’re unpacking Safari 26 Beta’s game-changing WebKit updates, pnpm 10.12’s performance leaps, and Oxlint 1.0’s blazing-fast linting. As always, we’ll also talk about some powerful tools to elevate your development workflow. WWDC 2025 & Safari 26 Beta: WebKit in SwiftUI, … Read more

OpenAI o3 is 80% CHEAPER, Apple WWDC 2025’s Biggest Update, Mistral’s Reasoning Model, and More

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the Twenty-Third edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! This week, OpenAI released its new o3‑pro model, and made o3-mini 80% cheaper, Apple open-sourced its on‑device foundational AI to third‑party developers, Mistral launched Magistral, their first reasoning model, Higgsfield launched a new video model with Flux.1 Kontext integration, and Sakana … Read more

Are You Behind In Life?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0OsX0pJZYKr5Sf6IzWYbnQ?si=OL8LWrerTJaI0nrb3JIyWg&embedable=true You wake up and immediately reach for your phone. Scroll through Instagram while your coffee gets cold. Check your email before you’ve even thought about your own priorities. Consume other people’s highlights while your own goals sit untouched. By 9 AM, you’ve already trained your brain to react instead of create. Then you wonder … Read more

How The Clarity Razor Can Help You Make Better Decisions

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zbQeM4JVX4hbBilFOH0zH?si=-pwFYhfISuCV6iYVWU1xhQ&embedable=true Most decisions aren’t hard because the options are unclear. They’re hard because your motivations are tangled. You think you’re choosing between Option A and Option B. But really, you’re choosing between what you want, what you think you should want, what others expect you to want, and what you’re afraid to want. The best … Read more

How Ideology Shapes Memory — and Threatens AI Alignment

There is an additional conflict in the Middle East. There is a war in Europe. There are pockets of political violence. There are several divisions around the world across religious, ethnic, economic, gender, social, political, migratory and several other lines. Ideologies often seem etched in the mind, such that even if an individual forgets regular stuff, … Read more

The Data Science Behind r/antiwork’s Upvotes

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Methodology 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion, References, and Appendix 3 METHODOLOGY 3.1 Data We downloaded all posts and comments on the r/antiwork subreddit from January 1 2019 to July 31 2022 using the PushShift API[9] [3]. We only considered posts with at least … Read more

How News Cycles and New Users Shake Up Reddit

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Methodology 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion, References, and Appendix 2 RELATED WORK In this section, we briefly review the work in three research areas related to this article: the impact of mainstream media on social media activity, massive gr 2.1 Impact of Mainstream … Read more

Media Hype, Mass Migration, and the Making of an Online Movement

:::info Authors: (1) Alan Medlar, University of Helsinki, Finland (alan.j.medlar@helsinki.fi); (2) Yang Liu, University of Helsinki, Finland (yang.liu@helsinki.fi); (3) Dorota Głowacka, University of Helsinki, Finland (dorota.glowacka@helsinki.fi). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Methodology 4. Results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion, References, and Appendix ABSTRACT r/antiwork is a Reddit community that … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Everything You Trust Is Built on GPS. That’s a Huge Problem. (6/16/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 16, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Google Acquired Motorola Mobility for $12 Billion in 2012, Steve Jobs Unveiled the Apple iMac in 1998, SpaceX’s Demo-2 Mission Was Planned and Subsequently Delayed in 2020, and … Read more

How to Create and Deploy an ERC-20 Token on Ethereum Sepolia Testnet

ERC-20 token is a fungible digital asset on the Ethereum blockchain that follows a standard interface (with functions like totalSupply, balanceOf, transfer, etc.). The standard enables tokens to be usable in wallets and exchanges. Developers test contracts before utilizing real ETH on a testnet – a sandbox blockchain network with free “play” Ether. Sepolia testnet … Read more

Meet Iron Software: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Greetings, Hackers! Welcome to this week’s Company of the Week feature. Every week, we shine a light on an innovative company from our Tech Company Database that’s making its mark in the tech ecosystem and positively impacting its community. Our HackerNoon database features everything from S&P 500 giants to rising stars in the startup scene. This week, we’re thrilled … Read more