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RetiJev: Fast and Source-Grounded Ophthalmic Decision Models

arXiv:2610.30947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ophthalmic clinical decision support requires fast, accurate, and privacy-preserving inference, yet autoregressive large language models (LLMs) incur substantial latency and computational overhead for decisions among predefined actions. We therefore investigate a decision-oriented alternative to generative reasoning. Specifically, we first introduce RetiJev-Data, a source-grounded ophthalmology corpus comprising 78,158 clinical-decision and diagnosis questions derived from articles in PubMed Central and a MeSH vocabulary covering 531 eye diseases, and 50,074 guideline-grading questions spanning 11 grading systems, along with a 24,662-question evaluation benchmark. Based on this, we develop RetiJev, a family of 0.8B-9B decision models that dir

RetiJev: Fast and Source-Grounded Ophthalmic Decision Models
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Research reveals the “norm–oracle gap” problem in benchmarking coding agents.

A paper published on arXiv on October 24, 2026, points out that current mainstream benchmarks for coding AIs—such as SWE-Milestone—suffer from a “specification–oracle gap”: the natural-language descriptions of tasks fail to capture crucial implementation details required for testing (e.g., constant names, module paths, and precise error messages), resulting in evaluations that measure the ability to reproduce upstream code rather than genuine understanding and reasoning.

What the Specification Did Not Say: Specification-Oracle Gaps in Test-Graded Coding-Agent Benchmarks

Why it matters:This study is the first to formally define this type of bias, develop a static analysis tool covering five languages (with 89.2% precision and 92.9% recall), and empirically demonstrate in SWE-Milestone that 25 milestone tasks contain non-inferable implicit dependencies, significantly increasing the failure rate (80.6% vs. 48.4%). These findings reveal that current leaderboards may systematically favor “name‑copying” agents. The results have been made publicly available, including the open-source auditing tool and corrective resources, offering both methodological and practical value.

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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I'm pleased to note I called this one last December, when Anthropic first declared skills to be an "open standard": I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up in the AAIF, recently the new home of the MCP specification. Fun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the datasette-mcp plugin I found that post by prompting Claude to "Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills t

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VocabX: Reduces the inference cost of domain-specific small language models by 77% through cost-weighted vocabulary specialization.

Dharma-AI has introduced the VocabX method, which reconfigures the vocabulary of language models for specific tasks—such as automated scoring of Portuguese essays—by optimizing for cost rather than word frequency. Without modifying the model architecture, parameters, or training pipeline, empirical results show a 77% reduction in inference costs, while the evaluation score (bench score) improved from 0.703 to 0.810.

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Postgres wait events, now in Query Insights

Query Insights for ClickHouse Managed Postgres now shows what active sessions are waiting on, with wait event breakdowns, blocked-session and lock-wait charts, and the same metrics in Prometheus.

llm-gemini 0.35

Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan. Here are the low, medium and high pelicans. As expected, they are all excellent: Gemini has a track record of producing great SVGs, and are the only lab where I know their staff have invested in SVG specifically (and who have boasted about their pelicans before.) Here's the "high" illustration, which cost me 17.166 cents: The pricing is interesting. At launch, Argon is $2/million input and $10/million output - the same price as GPT-6 Sol, half the price of Claude Opus 5.5 and 1/5th the price of Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. But on December 1st Argon is set to double in price - so it will be the same pri

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Chasing that 32 ms tail latency in ClickHouse

A customer saw an extra ~32 ms on simple SELECT queries after idle periods. We traced it to unbatched Native protocol metadata packets overflowing a reset TCP congestion window, reproduced it with network namespaces, and fixed it by batching them.

Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy Your Own Qwen with Context Length up to 1M Tokens

Tech Report HuggingFace ModelScope Qwen Chat HuggingFace Demo ModelScope Demo DISCORD Introduction Two months after upgrading Qwen2.5-Turbo to support context length up to one million tokens, we are back with the open-source Qwen2.5-1M models and the corresponding inference framework support. Here’s what you can expect from this release: Opensource Models: We’re releasing two new checkpoints, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M, marking the first time we’ve upgraded our opensource Qwen models to handle 1M-token contexts.