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Tool Tuesday · October 27, 2026The Big Story
Scaling Transformer Energy-Based Models for High Quality Image Synthesis
The Transformer Energy-Based Model (TEM) is introduced as a scalable energy function operating in latent space, combining energies from multiple layers to capture local and global image features. The model incorporates Positive Representation Alignment and advanced sampling strategies to improve sample quality, achieving notable results on class-conditional ImageNet 256×256.
Source: arXiv cs.LG ↗Quick Hits
TACS-RF: Tool-driven Agentic Circuit Synthesis of RF and mmWave Modules
The TACS-RF framework uses a large-language-model coding agent to directly control electronic-design-automation tools for designing RF and mmWave modules, demonstrated by the semi-autonomous design of a 240-251 GHz sub-THz transmitter in a 90 nm SiGe BiCMOS process.
Source: arXiv cs.AI ↗DELA: A Framework for Controllable Edits in Diffusion Language Models
DELA is a plug-in framework that enables controllable draft refinement in diffusion language models by using explicit editing actions and a two-phase decoding procedure to separate high-level edit control from token-level generation.
Source: arXiv cs.AI ↗OpenESM Introduces Energy-Steered Models for Scalable Foundation Language Learning
Energy-steered models (ESMs) combine energy steering and token generation in one architecture to improve token generation through energy-guided search. Pre-trained on large-scale corpora and evaluated on multiple downstream tasks, ESMs show promising scaling behavior and outperform GPT models on most tasks.
Source: arXiv cs.CL ↗TraceQuery improves efficiency in diffusion language model inference by guiding recomputation based on full-denoising trajectories
Diffusion large language models incur high inference costs due to repeated recomputation of token representations across denoising steps. TraceQuery proposes using full-denoising trajectories to guide which positions to recompute, maintaining accuracy by staying close to the full-denoising trajectory rather than relying on fixed schedules or heuristics.
Source: arXiv cs.CL ↗Review of Algorithms and Techniques for Autonomous Non-Destructive Inspection
This paper reviews the current landscape of Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI), focusing on computational algorithms, physical techniques, industrial applications, and research objectives. It highlights the shift from manual methods to a data-centric approach called NDE 4.0, emphasizing ultrasound and visual inspection techniques and the growing use of deep learning for defect recognition, while noting challenges such as limited open-access datasets and the opaque nature of AI models.
Source: arXiv cs.LG ↗
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