Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases. www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/a...

Citation Parsing and Analysis with Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15948

Stanford researchers have debuted an adaptive compression method for visual language models that cuts token redundancy in multimodal processing. Their cluster-based aggregation technique exceeds previous methods, indicating more efficient multimodal AI systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17892

Greener on the other side?

My new paper with @yunnanchen.bsky.social uses AI to analyze China's green lending portfolio.

We aimed to demonstrate practical LLM applications for policy research while sharing transparent methods others can build upon.

#China #BRI #Databs #Rstats #EconSky #Climate

A review of key developments in the Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian literature through the lens of a simple model, with ready-to-use code for the main model and many extensions, from Adrien Auclert, Matthew Rognlie, and Ludwig Straub https://www.nber.org/papers/w32991

Kecheng Chen, Pingping Zhang, Hui Liu, Jie Liu, Yibing Liu, Jixin Huang, Shiqi Wang, Hong Yan, Haoliang Li
Large Language Models for Lossless Image Compression: Next-Pixel Prediction in Language Space is All You Need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12448