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Telegraph censured for story of fictional family's struggle to pay school fees

theguardian.com
9 points·by tshanmu·4 months ago·1 comments

Beaver: An Efficient Deterministic LLM Verifier

arxiv.org
1 points·by tshanmu·7 months ago·1 comments

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tshanmu
·4 months ago·discuss
In the UK, the telegraph newspaper censured for story of fictional top-earner family’s struggle to pay school fees
tshanmu
·6 months ago·discuss
Wow! This is the kind of news that we want on hacker news in 2026. Amazing hacker ethos.

The article could have been better with sharing some photos taken with the new camera.
tshanmu
·7 months ago·discuss
As large language models (LLMs) transition from research prototypes to production systems, practitioners often need reliable methods to verify that model outputs satisfy required constraints. While sampling-based estimates provide an intuition of model behavior, they offer no sound guarantees. We present BEAVER, the first practical framework for computing deterministic, sound probability bounds on LLM constraint satisfaction. Given any prefix-closed semantic constraint, BEAVER systematically explores the generation space using novel token trie and frontier data structures, maintaining provably sound bounds at every iteration. We formalize the verification problem, prove soundness of our approach, and evaluate BEAVER on correctness verification, privacy verification and secure code generation tasks across multiple state of the art LLMs. BEAVER achieves 6 to 8 times tighter probability bounds and identifies 3 to 4 times more high risk instances compared to baseline methods under identical computational budgets, enabling precise characterization and risk assessment that loose bounds or empirical evaluation cannot provide.
tshanmu
·8 months ago·discuss
how are you creating the IR?
tshanmu
·9 months ago·discuss
this reminds me of permutation city and the question of what is time...
tshanmu
·10 months ago·discuss
you would know before consuming how much you would end up paying. not so in the land of the free.
tshanmu
·9 years ago·discuss
https://smilingmind.com.au/ is a great resource to get started as well.