From factory worker to full-stack developer in 18 months: Pune man shares inspiring journey

A Pune man turned his life around in 18 months by teaching himself to code after working in a factory, eventually landing a ...
InfoWorld

Back to the future: The most popular JavaScript stories and themes of 2025

The key themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return ...
GitHub

verl: Volcano Engine Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

verl is a flexible, efficient and production-ready RL training library for large language models (LLMs). verl is the open-source version of HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Framework paper.
IEEE

Aligning Crowd-Sourced Human Feedback for Reinforcement Learning on Code Generation by Large Language Models

Abstract: This paper studies how AI-assisted programming and large language models (LLM) improve software developers' ability via AI tools (LLM agents) like Github Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, ...
IEEE

IGU-Aug: Information-Guided Unsupervised Augmentation and Pixel-Wise Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Abstract: Contrastive learning (CL) is a form of self-supervised learning and has been widely used for various tasks. Different from widely studied instance-level contrastive learning, pixel-wise ...
Microsoft

Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

AI agents are reshaping software development, from writing code to carrying out complex instructions. Yet LLM-based agents are prone to errors and often perform poorly on complicated, multi-step tasks ...