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Small Models, Big Claims: Choosing and Quantizing Local LLMs on an Integrated GPU

Running large language models locally on integrated graphics is now practical, but the community's model-selection advice is dominated by vibes: "just grab a 2B at Q4." This report presents a controlled, single-machine measurement study of twelve model/quantization configurations across three model families (Qwen2.5-1....

Light-MFND: Efficient Multimodal Fake News Detection via Fine-Tuned Small Vision-Language Model

Representation over Architecture: A Protocol-Controlled Attribution of Frozen ESM-2 Embeddings versus Encoder Design for Secondary Structure Prediction on CB513

Protein secondary structure prediction (PSSP) on the CB513 benchmark [30] has been near a plateau for close to a decade, and many recent models add protein language-model (pLM) representations on top of increasingly elaborate encoders. How much of a reported gain comes from the representation, and how much from the enc...

Window Theory • AI — Paper II: Landing and Verification

Window Theory - AI (wtAI): A Falsifiable Framework for Flexibility-Fragility Coupling in Large Language Models This is a six-part research series examining a structural pattern in decoder-based next-token-prediction systems deployed as dialogue and instruction agents. It is written for readers with a background in mach...

Comprehension as Compliance: How Grounded Content, Not Form, Moves Small Language Models to Act, and Where It Does Not

A small language model, given a task prefixed with a description of a recurring decision, will often recognize the decision and fail to act on it. This paper draws together a program of studies on that effect and states what drives it. The effect is carried by the content of the description, not by its form: a plain im...

The Martian Federalist Series 1: On the Necessity and Principles of Martian Confederation

Abstract The Martian Federalist Series 1 is a twelve-essay series (Numbers 1–12) explaining and defending the proposed Charter for the United Martian States—a voluntary confederation of sovereign city-states designed for the unique realities of early Mars settlement. The series addresses the inhabitants of Martian habi...

The Charter of the United Martian States: A Proposed Constitution for the Future Settlements on Mars

Abstract This document presents a complete constitutional framework for a future human society on Mars. The Charter of the United Martian States is a confederative instrument designed for a small, dispersed, high-risk frontier environment in which sovereign constituent polities voluntarily cooperate under strict limits...

An Interactive Computational Tool Using the Gauss-Seidel Method for Power Flow Analysis in Electrical Engineering Education

The development and implementation of an interactive computational tool in MATLAB for power flow analysis is presented. The software addresses the challenges of modeling electric power systems under complex topologies and incomplete data. By applying the iterative Gauss-Seidel method, which optimizes computational load...

Paired neuronal-haemodynamic neurovascular coupling measures and cognitive performance in vascular pathology: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

This review will systematically synthesise existing findings, identify remaining knowledge gaps, and outline priorities for future research, to evaluate the association between paired neuronal–haemodynamic NVC measures and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults with vascular pathology.

LLM Compression with Jointly Optimizing Architectural and Quantization Choices

Retina as a window to systemic hypertension: From hypertensive retinopathy to artificial intelligence-driven microvascular biomarkers

The retinal microvasculature is the only vascular bed in the human body that can be visualised directly, non-invasively and repeatedly in vivo.Because retinal arterioles share embryological origin, calibre and autoregulatory physiology with the cerebral and coronary microcirculation, hypertension-induced retinal change...

Parallelism, critical windows, and separations among diffusion language models

A fine-grained comparison of the capacity for parallelism among these three leading approaches is initiated and it is proved that uniform and Gaussian diffusion can sample in a number of forward passes which scales with the dual total correlation of the underlying distribution.