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Top AI Papers of the Week: February 9-15
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SAR Makes AI Reasoning Smarter and 30 Percent Cheaper
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Can we make AI reasoning both smarter and 30 percent cheaper at the same time? Researchers from UIUC and Amazon Web Services just introduced SAR to solve the problem of long-winded and expensive AI models. Instead of just checking if an answer is right or wrong, Self-Aligned
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Industry-ready Time Series Forecasting with Python and PyTorch
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Modern #TimeSeries #Forecasting with #Python — Industry-ready #MachineLearning and #DeepLearning time series analysis with PyTorch and PANDAS: http://
amzn.to/4eP5yYt v/ @PacktDataML 𝓚𝓮𝔂 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼:
Apply ML and global models to improve forecasting accuracy through -

Accelerating Time: AI’s Mission to Compress Process Durations
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Collapse minutes to seconds,
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Book: Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
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Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch): http://
amzn.to/3WYFNO5 by @rasbt v/ @ManningBooks —————
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Build a Text-to-Image Generator from Scratch
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Hot New Release >> Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch), with transformers and diffusions: http://
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Book: Machine Learning for Tabular Data — XGBoost & Deep Learning
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Excellent book from @ManningBooks >> #MachineLearning for Tabular Data: XGBoost, Deep Learning, and #AI, by @MarkRyanMkm & @lucamassaron Get it here: http://
amzn.to/41J8WA6 • Master XGBoost
• Apply deep learning to tabular data
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Designing Machine Learning Systems for Production
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Designing #MachineLearning Systems — An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications: http://
amzn.to/46epLSi by @chipro — 𝓣𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓬𝓼:
Engineering data and choosing the right metrics to solve a business problem Automating the process for continually developing, -
LTX-2: Open-Source Model with 3.3M Downloads in One Month
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— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 14 février 2026
+3.3 Million downloads in 1 Month Yet most people are sleeping on LTX-2 plus the fact that its Open-Source
That's right, you can even run it at home, at the cost of electricity. Let's dig into why I think you should spend some time with this model. A thread -

Video AI and World Models: HKUST Research on Physical Understanding
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Can video generation AI actually understand the physical world, or is it just a digital illusion? Researchers from HKUST (GZ), Tongji University, and Kuaishou Technology present a new mechanistic framework to bridge the gap between video generation and true world models! They