Building an Interactive Weather Data Scraper in Google Colab: A Code Guide to Extract, Display, and Download Live Forecast Data Using Python, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Pandas, and Ipywidgets

In this tutorial, we will build an interactive web scraping project in Google Colab! This guide will walk you through extracting live weather forecast data from the U.S. National Weather…

Optimizing Imitation Learning: How X‑IL is Shaping the Future of Robotics

Designing imitation learning (IL) policies involves many choices, such as selecting features, architecture, and policy representation. The field is advancing quickly, introducing many new techniques and increasing complexity, making it…

DeepSeek AI Releases DeepGEMM: An FP8 GEMM Library that Supports both Dense and MoE GEMMs Powering V3/R1 Training and Inference

Efficient matrix multiplications remain a critical component in modern deep learning and high-performance computing. As models become increasingly complex, conventional approaches to General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) often face challenges related…

CoSyn: An AI Framework that Leverages the Coding Capabilities of Text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) to Automatically Create Synthetic Text-Rich Multimodal Data

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in general image understanding, but face significant challenges when processing text-rich visual content such as charts, documents, diagrams, and screenshots. These specialised images…

Researchers from Moonshot AI Introduce Muon and Moonlight: Optimizing Large-Scale Language Models with Efficient Training Techniques

Optimizing large-scale language models demands advanced training techniques that reduce computational costs while maintaining high performance. Optimization algorithms are crucial in determining training efficiency, particularly in large models with extensive…

FinData Explorer: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using BeautifulSoup, yfinance, matplotlib, ipywidgets, and fpdf for Financial Data Extraction, Interactive Visualization, and Dynamic PDF Report Generation

In this tutorial, we will guide you through building an advanced financial data reporting tool on Google Colab by combining multiple Python libraries. You’ll learn how to scrape live financial…

Convergence Releases Proxy Lite: A Mini, Open-Weights Version of Proxy Assistant Performing Pretty Well on UI Navigation Tasks

In today’s digital landscape, automating interactions with web content remains a nuanced challenge. Many existing solutions are resource-intensive and tailored for narrowly defined tasks, which limits their broader applicability. Developers…

Enhancing Instruction Tuning in LLMs: A Diversity-Aware Data Selection Strategy Using Sparse Autoencoders

Pre-trained LLMs require instruction tuning to align with human preferences. Still, the vast data collection and rapid model iteration often lead to oversaturation, making efficient data selection a crucial yet…

DeepSeek AI Releases DeepEP: An Open-Source EP Communication Library for MoE Model Training and Inference

Large language models that use the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture have enabled significant increases in model capacity without a corresponding rise in computation. However, this approach also introduces challenges—especially when it…

Open-Reasoner-Zero: An Open-source Implementation of Large-Scale Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Training

Large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) training of language models on reasoning tasks has become a promising technique for mastering complex problem-solving skills. Currently, methods like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1-Zero, have…