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Sentiment Analysis and AI: Everything You Need to Know in 2025
In today's digital world, businesses must stay ahead of customer sentiment to maintain their reputation and improve customer experience. Sentiment analysis helps companies understand emotions in customer feedback entries, social...
Nix Package Manager on Linux: How Is It Different From APT?
Nix is a declarative package manager with atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and reproducibility. APT is a binary package manager that installs pre-built binaries from repositories. Nix builds packages from source by...
Are People Noticing the Internet Is Slowly Becoming Unusable?
The internet is no longer free and open. It is now a prison. The open web is shrinking as companies force users to remain inside their platforms. Any free content...
Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed
Hackers have stood firm and challenged corporate capitalism and government surveillance. The history of hacking predates the internet. One of the earliest incidents of hacking existed since the telephone era....
Who Owns AI? Sentientâs Massive NFT Mint Redefines AI Ownership
Sentient has completed a large-scale ownership mint with 650,000 participants. The campaign distributes NFTs tied to Dobby, the first decentralized Loyal AI model. Holders can later claim ownership and unique...
Adaptive Attacks Expose SLM Vulnerabilities and Qualitative Insights
This section reports on adaptive attacks against SLMs where attackers, aware of the defense, use a larger step size (α=0.0001) to overcome TDNF. The defense reduces attack success, especially with...
Transfer Attacks Reveal SLM Vulnerabilities and Effective Noise Defenses
This section evaluates transfer attacks on SLMs by applying adversarial perturbations from a surrogate model to victim models. FlanT5-based SLMs show more robustness in grey-box settings, but black-box experiments reveal...
Cross-Prompt Attacks and Data Ablations Impact SLM Robustness
This appendix section covers three experiments: (A.3) Cross-prompt attacks, using 10 random perturbations per target, are less effective than sample-specific ones but still beat random noise; (A.4) Training data ablations...
Safety Alignment and Jailbreak Attacks Challenge Modern LLMs
This section reviews the background on safety alignment for LLMs, highlighting the HHH criteria and red team prompt crafting used to deter harmful outputs. It examines both manual and automated...
Audio Encoder Pre-training and Evaluation Enhance SLM Safety
This appendix details the pre-training and evaluation of our audio encoder for speech language models (SLMs). The encoder is a 24-layer Conformer with 300M parameters pre-trained using the BEST-RQ method...
Integrated Speech Language Models Face Critical Safety Vulnerabilities
This study examines the safety alignment of speech language models in Spoken QA. It shows that adversaries with white-box access can jailbreak these systems using nearly imperceptible perturbations, and that...
SpeechVerse Unites Audio Encoder and LLM for Superior Spoken QA
This section details the experimental setup for SpeechVerse, our unified speech language model. It describes using a 24-layer Conformer audio encoder paired with two LLMsâFlan-T5-XL and Mistral-7B variantsâfor spoken QA....
Unified Speech and Language Models Can Be Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks
This study investigates the safety and robustness of integrated speech and language models (SLMs) that follow speech instructions. It demonstrates that adversarial attacksâboth white-box and transfer-basedâcan jailbreak SLM safety guardrails...
SLMs Outperform Competitors Yet Suffer Rapid Adversarial Jailbreaks
This section discusses the results and insights from evaluating our SpeechVerse SLMs. Our models outperform competitors like SpeechGPT, showing over 40% better safety and 20% improved helpfulness, thanks to effective...
Applying Modern Technology to Business: Shoyu Roâs Path to Success
Shoyu Roâs journey from an intern to a tech entrepreneur showcases his expertise in AI and SaaS. He led major projects at AnyMind and FLUX before founding LR Inc., where...
Adversarial Settings and Random Noise Reveal Speech LLM Vulnerabilities
This section details the attack and countermeasure settings for SpeechVerse. Using a step size of 0.00001 and up to 100 iterations with early-stopping on unsafe responses, adversarial attacks are run...
Datasets and Evaluation Define the Robustness of Speech Language Models
This section describes the datasets and evaluation methods for SpeechVerse. The training data includes 2.5K hours of ASR speech-text pairs and 150 hours of Spoken QA pairs generated via TTS....
Adversarial Attacks Challenge the Integrity of Speech Language Models
This section details adversarial attacks and defenses for spoken QA in speech language models (SLMs). It explains white-box attacks using gradient-based methods like PGD and transfer attacks via cross-model and...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Space Telescopes Might Be Seeing More Than They Bargained For (2/6/2025)
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, February 6, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our Startups Community!
Welcome to HackerNoon Decodedâthe ultimate recap of the Startups' stories, writers, and trends that defined 2024! Explore the top Startups' stories that captivated our readers, meet the leading writers who...