https://sparsenotes.com/series/weekly-papers-2026-08-29/ Recent content in weekly-papers-2026-08-29 on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/levjepa-video-pretraining/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/levjepa-video-pretraining/ Replacing EMA target encoders and predictors with a provable anti-collapse regularizer lets a single video encoder match V-JEPA 2 at 5.6–20.8x less compute — and discarding 95% of tokens improves accuracy rather than degrading it. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/mold-massively-parallel-linker/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/mold-massively-parallel-linker/ A clean-slate ELF linker that decouples parsing from symbol resolution so every pass can be a parallel-for loop — 2.4–16.1x faster than lld on nine large real-world programs. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/unix-time-sharing-system/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/unix-time-sharing-system/ Seminal paper of the week: Ritchie and Thompson's CACM paper, the design that fit a general-purpose operating system into 16K words by refusing to add features — and left us the file abstraction, pipes, and fork/exec. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/08/papers/ This week's picks: mold, a linker that parallelizes every pass and beats lld by 2.4–16.1x; LeVJEPA, video pretraining with the collapse-prevention machinery removed; and Ritchie and Thompson's original UNIX paper as the seminal pick.