paperium.hashnode.devFlash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instabilityin Decentralized ExchangesBlockchain Ordering, Arbitrage Bots, and the Rise of Priority Fees Context and research motivation At first glance, decentralized exchanges promised transparent markets, but the empirical record shows a different trajectory. The work under review doc...39m ago·4 min read
paperium.hashnode.devVision Transformer for Small-Size DatasetsEnhancing Locality in Vision Transformers: A Critical Review of SPT and LSA Context and motivation At first glance, the rise of the Vision Transformer (ViT) family feels like a paradigmatic shift, yet it also exposes a consistent weakness: a heavy re...1h ago·4 min read
paperium.hashnode.devMiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning AttentionMiniMax‑M1: scaling long‑context reasoning with hybrid attention and clipped IS‑weight RL Context and high‑level intent hybrid-attention 1 million token context Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) long-context reasoning At first glance, MiniMax‑M1 appears to be...2h ago·5 min read
paperium.hashnode.devData-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous ManipulationEfficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Stacking: A Critical Review Context and aims At first glance the work under review addresses a familiar bottleneck in robotics: applying powerful function approximators to hard manipulation problems...4h ago·4 min read
paperium.hashnode.devComparing BERT against traditional machine learning text classificationFraming and aims Motivation and high-level questions At first glance the recent ascendancy of BERT signals a real shift in how people approach supervised text classification, and the work behind these chunks sets out to test that shift empirically. T...5h ago·4 min read