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Cross-Scale Transfer Learning for Depression Severity Prediction: From PHQ-8 to HAMD-17 Across Languages and Clinical Paradigms

Sequential LoRA transfer from English PHQ-8 interviews to Chinese HAMD-17 consultations improves depression-score prediction with Qwen3.

The paper proposes sequential LoRA transfer for depression-severity prediction when labeled clinical interviews are scarce. A Qwen3 model is first fine-tuned on 189 English DAIC-WOZ sessions scored with PHQ-8, then the adapter initializes training on 100 Chinese PDCH consultations scored with HAMD-17. On the target task, Qwen3-0.6B reached MAE 4.96, RMSE 6.59, and macro-F1 0.36, while Qwen3-1.7B reached 4.38, 5.62, and 0.46, outperforming target-only and non-LLM baselines. The authors describe a single-site exploratory evaluation and do not claim screening or diagnostic utility.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 23, 17:30 UTC · 3d agoAI research

US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"

The Federal Register briefly deployed Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3 0.6B search model, days after the FBI accused Alibaba of industrial-scale model distillation.

The National Archives removed a Qwen-based AI search tool from the Federal Register website after social media users flagged the contradiction with FBI claims that Alibaba is among six Chinese firms conducting industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models. The tool was a small open-weight Qwen3 0.6B-level model that ran locally to retrieve public documents, and experts told Reuters it posed little security risk since it processed only public content. The episode has intensified the US debate over Chinese open-source models, with House China Committee chair John Moolenaar urging that no federal entity use Chinese AI models.

Ars Technica · AISep 18, 17:28 UTC · 8d agoAI policy

Graph Machine: Towards Better Pretraining via Edges

Researchers propose Graph Machine, an O(n)-state sparse architecture that replaces 75% of Qwen3-0.6B dense layers with only slight loss change.

The paper introduces the Graph Machine (GM), an architecture that maintains an O(n)-sized state accessed through sparse, dynamic routing via pointer-like edges updated differentiably by a referral mechanism resembling pointer chasing. The authors replaced 75% of dense Transformer layers in Qwen3-0.6B with GM sparse layers and pretrained from scratch on 15.7B tokens. Retrieving 2 of 4,096 tokens per KV head in each sparse layer degrades loss only slightly, while retrieving 4 marginally improves loss over the dense baseline.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 1, 20:00 UTC · 25d agoAI research

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Cross-Scale Transfer Learning for Depression Severity Prediction: From PHQ-8 to HAMD-17 Across Languages and Clinical Paradigms

US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"

Graph Machine: Towards Better Pretraining via Edges