weekly-papers-2026-07-11 on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/series/weekly-papers-2026-07-11/ Recent content in weekly-papers-2026-07-11 on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Super Weights in LLMs and the Failure of Selective Training https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/super-weights-2607.08733/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/super-weights-2607.08733/ Super Weights are outsized in importance but not in trainability: fine-tuning them in isolation collapses to random-guessing while vanilla LoRA succeeds with the same parameter budget. The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/chubby-lock-service-2006/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/chubby-lock-service-2006/ Mike Burrows' 2006 Chubby paper — how Google turned a Paxos-backed lock service into the coordination substrate underneath GFS, BigTable, and every service that came after. Who Needs DRAM? We Have Fiber https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/fiber-memory-2607.08407/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/07/papers/fiber-memory-2607.08407/ Fiber Memory: repurposing recirculating optical fiber as a shared, immutable delay-line store for LLM weights, cutting weight-delivery energy by 70% across 10,000 accelerators.