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  1. 001Hacker NewsSEP · 15English

    WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

    WangNet is a lightweight 1.8 MB neural network that classifies whether numbers are Numberwang, with inference in pure Python requiring no dependencies. It supports 11 languages, achieves 88.9% accuracy on held-out test cases, and can be run locally or via a hosted Hugging Face demo.

    By GraafHenk
  2. 002Hacker NewsSEP · 15English

    White-label AI voice and chat agent platform for resellers

    Famulor offers a white-label AI voice and chat agent platform for agencies and resellers to rebrand and resell to their clients. The platform includes omnichannel monitoring, workspace management, flexible billing, GDPR compliance, multilingual support, and multiple processing modes, with pricing starting at €499/month plus per-minute charges that decrease at scale.

    By imankoma
  3. 003Hacker NewsSEP · 14English

    Building Multilingual Bridges

    Researchers developed Tiny Aya L2-Thinker, a 3.35B multilingual reasoning model that reasons in the user's language rather than defaulting to English, achieving over 93% L2 reasoning rate across 60 languages on six benchmarks. The work demonstrates that reasoning capabilities can be transferred across typologically diverse languages through optimized data composition and scheduling in supervised fine-tuning, without requiring reasoning supervision in each target language.

    By Mehrnaz Mofakhami; Ananya Sahu; Alejandro R Salamanca; Daniel D'souza; Alexandre Bérard; Thomas Euyang; Marzieh Fadaee; Julia Kreutzer
  4. 004Hacker NewsSEP · 11English

    Cross-Lingual Alignment Without Joint Training

    A study demonstrates that monolingual language models trained separately on non-parallel data develop naturally aligned cross-lingual representations without joint training. Through testing Goldfish and independently developed models, researchers found that representational geometry aligns across languages, can be mapped via Procrustes rotation, and functionally transfers between models, suggesting alignment emerges from language structure itself rather than explicit training objectives.

    By Zhou; Ej; Salhan; Suchir; Arnett; Catherine; Korhonen; Anna
  5. 005Hacker NewsSEP · 10English

    Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages (2023)

    A 2023 computer science paper demonstrates that language model tokenizers create unfairness across languages by producing drastically different tokenization lengths for the same text translated into different languages—up to 15 times longer in some cases. These disparities affect cost, processing time, and context length for commercial language services, persisting even in intentionally multilingual tokenizers. The authors argue for developing multilingually fair subword tokenizers for future language models.

    By Petrov; Aleksandar; La Malfa; Emanuele; Torr; Philip H S; Bibi; Adel
  6. 006Hacker NewsSEP · 09English

    BasinRAG – Topological RAG via dynamical basins (0.771 nDCG 10, $0 API cost, CPU

    BasinRAG is a topological retrieval-augmented generation system that indexes and retrieves document passages using dynamical basins of attraction, combining BM25 lexical search, dense FAISS embeddings, and sequential document structure. It supports multilingual cross-lingual retrieval in English and Portuguese, achieving 0.771 nDCG@10 with zero API costs on CPU-only infrastructure.

    By Basinfy
  7. 007Hacker NewsSEP · 08English

    A Single-Tower Multimodal-Native Multilingual Foundation Encoder (By H)

    NeoMME is a family of multimodal multilingual foundation encoders (260M and 800M parameters) that process text and raw image patches in a single bidirectional Transformer. Pretrained with masked discrete-diffusion objectives, NeoMME-Retriever achieves strong performance on the ViDoRe v3 benchmark while offering 2x throughput improvements and 255x compression of embeddings compared to existing models.

    By Lac; Aurélien; Wu; Tony