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The ggml library has been updated to make tied selections in the radix Top-K algorithm deterministic on CUDA and Metal backends by replacing atomic compaction loops with a deterministic scheme using simdgroup scans and coalesced memory accesses. This change ensures byte-identical outputs across runs, improves performance by 20-45% on M5 Ultra hardware, and enables deterministic testing for Metal and ROCm. Redundant CUDA kernel resets were removed, and Vulkan/Metal changes were reduced or skipped.

Show HN: Combining Bursts of Images

An approach of taking many photos to enhance one final image is a technique called "stacking". Stacking alone doesn't account for everything so this is a take that helps get better alignment of images, allows comparisons, and drop bad images that dont match. Its not super resolution but it feels like when you look at it. it reduces the noise and makes it look more organic shot with less expensive hardware. enjoy! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401218 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Householder Motion Embedding: Noise Modulation for Motion-Controllable Video Generation

arXiv:2611.07294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models for video generation have achieved remarkable success, yet precise motion control under explicit user guidance remains challenging. Recent noise-warping methods introduce temporal correlations by warping the noise according to the user-provided motion signal. However, standard spatial warping generally disrupts the noise's i.i.d. Gaussian structure, requiring distribution correction, such as Jacobian-based correction, but at a substantial computational overhead. We propose Householder Motion Embedding (HME), which encodes the motion signal into the noise through a sequence of Householder reflections that together form an orthogonal transformation applied to each location's channel vector. HME exactly preserves the spatial Gaussian structure within each frame while introducing cross-frame correlations that promote temporally consistent video. HME is agnostic to the network architecture and integrates directly into standard video diffusion fine-tuning pipelines. Experiments on different scenarios show that HME matches or outperforms the state of the art, while achieving a 2.7x speedup over noise warping. These results demonstrate that channel-space Householder transformations offer a principled and efficient alternative to noise warping for motion-controllable video generation.

GC-MoE: Overlapping Expert-Parallel Token Dispatch with FP8/FP4 Grouped GEMM via CUDA Green Contexts

arXiv:2611.04222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under expert parallelism, mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers pay all-to-all token dispatch, grouped GEMMs, and a combine step in every layer. In decode each rank holds only 1-256 tokens: dispatch latency and weight traffic dominate while tensor-core utilization is inherently low. In fused operators such as DeepGEMM's Mega MoE, dispatch and computation overlap only by sharing every SM: dispatch warps compete with TMA/MMA and epilogue warps for registers, shared memory, and issue slots; every phase shares one CTA resource budget, synchronization spans the whole SM array, and every replay ends with a workspace-clean pass and a cross-rank barrier. We present GC-MoE, an open-source FP8/FP4 MoE inference operator for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs that uses CUDA Green Contexts to split the device into a small communication partition and a large compute partition. Each role gets its own kernel, resource budget, and synchronization domain, so dispatch and GEMM tune independently. A three-node CUDA Graph (four on Hopper with fused shared experts) launches the dispatch and grouped-GEMM kernels as concurrent roots; a token-ring handshake starts computation on the first filled ring blocks, and double-buffered receive counters remove the trailing cross-rank barrier between replays. The compute partition runs operand-swapped tcgen05 block-scaled MMA on Blackwell and register-A WGMMA with in-register FP4 decoding on Hopper, with fused SwiGLU, requantization, and optional shared experts. On 8 H20 GPUs GC-MoE accelerates DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash decode by 1.188x on average on both the routed and shared-expert suites (peaks 1.296x and 1.353x); on 8 B300 GPUs it accelerates GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash by 1.106x (1.123x with fused shared experts, peak 1.209x), beating Mega MoE at all 54 measured points at matched accuracy. GC-MoE reserves only 20 of 148 SMs on B300 for dispatch.

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CUDA: fuse FFN gate/up matmuls and GLU in MMQ with interleaved gate/up rows (#29948) * cuda: fuse FFN gate/up and GLU in MMQ with interleaved gate/up rows For prompt processing, run the gate and up matmuls of a dense FFN as one mul_mat_q launch and apply the GLU in the write-back. - The loaders take the gate weights as a second pointer and fill the weight tile with up and gate rows interleaved in chunks of 8, so each thread holds an up value and the matching gate value (rows r and r + 8 of an MMA tile). - The MMA loop is unchanged: same tile, warp layout, vec_dot and one sum[] per thread. The fused write-back computes the GLU from registers and writes half the rows. - The fused path uses the regular tiling (no stream-k) with the column tiles innermost so that neighbouring blocks share weig

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Black October: A Comprehensive Overview of the AI-Driven Cybersecurity Crisis—From Its Peak to Defensive Response

Around October 21–22, 2026, over a span of approximately 48 hours, more than a dozen high‑severity AI‑related vulnerabilities and intrusion incidents were reported worldwide, including PHP2Shell, GitLab RCE (CVSS 10), NGINX/HTTP/3 DoS, LiteLLM password theft, eMudhra CA key leakage, and Quest Diagnostics medical data exposure. State actors such as Storm‑0940 leveraged open‑source intelligent penetration‑testing frameworks like ARTEX to launch large‑scale attacks. Concurrently, AI security defense systems were rapidly being developed, encompassing formal verification, open‑source patching agents, standardization of agent capabilities, and hardware‑level optimizations.

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Mistral partners with NVIDIA to advance AI-native engineering workflows, releases Mistral Large 4, and jointly develops physical and agent-based AI evaluation benchmarks.

Mistral and NVIDIA announced a deepened collaboration, integrating Mistral’s Large 4 model, physics-based modeling pipelines, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack (CUDA-X, Warp, Omniverse) to co-develop AI-native engineering workflows for industries such as aerospace, automotive, and semiconductors. The two parties will jointly release open-source datasets and public evaluation benchmarks, covering the assessment of agent capabilities in physics-informed AI and CAE/EDA use cases.

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European industrial giants are leveraging NVIDIA AI and digital twin technologies to reshape their engineering and manufacturing systems.

Several leading industrial enterprises across Europe are scaling up the deployment of NVIDIA CUDA‑X, Omniverse, Cosmos, and Nemotron—open models and toolchains—covering the entire product lifecycle, from design and simulation optimization to factory operations. NVIDIA’s Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is now available in early access, enabling the creation of real-time, collaboratively coordinated industrial agents. Companies such as Siemens, Mercedes‑Benz, Audi, and Airbus‑level suppliers have already implemented multiple validation use cases, achieving tangible results like a 40% reduction in calibration time and a 20% decrease in root‑cause analysis costs.

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Microduck open-source bipedal robot supports both simulation training and real-world deployment: NVIDIA Isaac Lab 3.0 enables a Sim-to-Real closed loop.

Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have jointly unveiled Microduck, a low-cost, open-source bipedal robot, integrating NVIDIA Isaac Lab 3.0 and the Newton physics engine. It supports training walking policies in GPU-accelerated parallel simulations, with domain randomization and high-fidelity actuator modeling—including backlash, latency, and friction—enhancing robustness during simulation-to-real transfer. The resulting ONNX model can be directly deployed on the physical robot.

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Wan2.1 parameter sweep

We've been playing with Alibaba's WAN2.1 text-to-video model lately. What happens when you tweak those mysterious parameters? Let's find out.