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Exploring LLMs with MLX and the Neural Accelerators in the M5 GPU

November 19, 2025

Mac with Apple silicon is increasingly popular among AI developers and researchers interested in using their Mac to experiment with the latest models and techniques. With MLX, users can explore and run LLMs efficiently on Mac. It allows researchers to experiment with new inference or fine-tuning techniques, or investigate AI techniques in a private environment, on their own hardware. MLX works with all Apple silicon systems, and with the latest…

The “Super Weight:” How Even a Single Parameter can Determine a Large Language Model’s Behavior

August 21, 2025

A recent paper from Apple researchers, “The Super Weight in Large Language Models,” reveals that an extremely small subset of parameters in LLMs (in some cases, a single parameter) can exert a disproportionate influence on an LLM’s overall functionality (see Figure 1). This work highlights the critical role of these “super weights” and their corresponding “super activations,”…

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ExpertLens: Activation Steering Features Are Highly Interpretable

Methods and Algorithms, Speech and Natural Language ProcessingWorkshop at NeurIPS2025

Masha Fedzechkina, Eleonora Gualdoni, Sinead Williamson, Katherine Metcalf, Skyler Seto, Barry-John Theobald

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Learning Deformable Body Interactions With Adaptive Spatial Tokenization

Data Science and Annotation, Methods and AlgorithmsWorkshop at NeurIPS2025

Hao Wang*, Yu Liu*, Daniel Biggs, Haoru Wang, Jiandong Yu, Ping Huang

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Events

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Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

October 29, 2025research area Speech and Natural Language Processing

Apple is presenting new work at the annual Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference, which takes place in person from November 4 - 9, in Suzhou, China. EMNLP focuses on research surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing.

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025

October 13, 2025research area Computer Vision

Apple is presenting new work at the biennial International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), which takes place in person from October 19 to 23, in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The conference alternates each year with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), and focuses on important topics the field of computer vision.