Stories tagged science & research.
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arXiv:2609.26603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical latent communication improves the generalization of a multi-grid power-flow model to new operating scenarios. The module exchanges information through two reduced graphs within a GENCO-based corrective network. We compare Kron-derived…
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arXiv:2609.25541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models learn to predict cell values in context, whereas world-model self-supervision asks for prediction in representation space (LeCun, 2022; Assran et al., 2023). On a tabular foundation-model prior, the latent term of a…
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arXiv:2609.25492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) can be efficiently deployed under stringent memory and latency constraints through post training quantization (PTQ). However, most PTQ methods are designed for unimodal large language models (LLMs). These methods…
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arXiv:2609.26176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Encoded-prompt attacks are evaluated almost entirely on their harmful arm: a benchmark sends obfuscated harmful requests and reports how often the model complied. We show that this arm carries almost no information about the model under test. Across…
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arXiv:2609.25430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural surrogates can substantially accelerate computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflows, but their use in design requires uncertainty estimates that remain meaningful across varying geometries, spatial prediction fields, and engineering quantities…
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arXiv:2609.25388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A classical question in statistics is which observable quantities to condition on when drawing inferences about unobservable targets. For conformal prediction in nonparametric uncertainty quantification, standard marginal validity offers limited…
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arXiv:2609.26112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability reverse-engineers transformer circuits one input at a time, leaving observed mechanisms without guarantees over bounded input neighbourhoods. We address this gap with a framework based on constrained polynomial-zonotope…
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arXiv:2609.25194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI agents are deployed at scale, safety will depend not only on technical safeguards and individual model design, but also on collective equilibria that determine how agent populations process information, prioritize actions, and…
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arXiv:2609.25166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion data-point unlearning is typically evaluated immediately after each deletion, even though subsequent requests may repeatedly update the same model. We identify sequential reappearance, a failure mode in which an instance that is initially…
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arXiv:2609.25755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applying large language models to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) prescription generation reveals three clinically critical gaps: models produce end-to-end mappings without auditable reasoning following the li-fa-fang-yao paradigm (SR Gap), treat…
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arXiv:2609.25143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised Continual chunking is a fundamental problem in machine learning and neuroscience, where the goal is to identify groups of states that frequently co-occur in temporal sequences. A key challenge is to form accurate chunks while…
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arXiv:2609.25108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual data is increasingly consumed by machine-vision systems rather than by human observers. Image Coding for Machines (ICM) compresses images assuming the main observer is a computer vision application and that the human observer needs to inspect…
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arXiv:2609.25674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for precollege students to engage with contemporary robotics. However, translating a complete research workflow, spanning mechanical assembly…
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arXiv:2609.25048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How many prompts does on-policy distillation (OPD) need, and how does the answer depend on the student policies that generate its training responses? We study these two controls jointly: prompt breadth and rollout refresh. A 3x3…
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arXiv:2609.26779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents often work on complex problems that require millions of tokens of context, which necessitates compacting across sessions due to limited context windows. We develop CliffCompaction, an autocompaction technique that reduces cost by up to 50%…
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arXiv:2609.25586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly support decisions where values are in tension, yet little is known about whether interacting with them changes which values users prioritize. In a preregistered study, 200 U.S. adults interacted with ChatGPT…
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arXiv:2609.25760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using large language models (LLMs) to simulate diverse human populations has the potential to transform many aspects of computational social science, yet many evaluations score the average response rather than the spread of opinion within real groups…
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arXiv:2609.25678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents must generalize from tools seen during training to unseen tools at deployment. A key challenge is tool trialing, i.e., excessive trials waste the interaction budget, whereas selective trials enable exploration of…
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arXiv:2609.25376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training quantization reduces the memory requirements of vision-language-action (VLA) models, but precision selection must account for the interaction between layer scope, numerical format, and calibration. We introduce \textbf{VLAQuantBench}…
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arXiv:2609.25618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training has become an effective approach for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). However, adapting post-RL models to new knowledge domains or behaviors through subsequent supervised…
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arXiv:2609.25575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly advance Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), but are often deployed as guiding policies within tree search rather than for single-attempt generation. Recent work shows cross entropy is suboptimal for…
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arXiv:2609.25189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative search systems rank products and services for consequential decisions, and publishers can cheaply make candidate text look relevant. Yet evidence status is not a text property but a claim-evidence relation: text-only rankers and defenses…
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arXiv:2609.25496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we motivate the need for a participatory speech dataset creation framework through a case study of the LGBTQIA+, or queer, community - a community with documented concerns about AI and reported harms, including attempts to develop…
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arXiv:2609.25466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hand gesture recognition is a key component in human-computer interaction (HCI), enabling intuitive interfaces for applications in gaming, virtual reality (VR), robotics, and more. This study integrates transformer-based machine-learning models for…
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arXiv:2609.25154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated imagery evolves faster than benchmark-specific detector evaluations, making a single score an incomplete account of generalization. This paper evaluates Neural Defend ARCAS 1B across benchmark families without benchmark-specific…
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arXiv:2609.25036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting provides an explicit representation of evolving 3D scenes, but existing approaches are primarily optimized for reconstruction, future-state generation, or rendering rather than for learning reusable predictive dynamics. We…
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arXiv:2609.15322v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretrained driving vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual, route, language, and driving context into rich driving priors, yet their representation objectives remain separated from continuous driving planning. Existing methods…
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arXiv:2609.25134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a probabilistic perspective on large language models (LLMs), developed with the aim of bringing together, in a single self-contained account, tools that are usually treated separately across the literature. LLMs are described…
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arXiv:2609.25050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce FrontierMath Erd\H{o}s (FME), a benchmark of 68 Erd\H{o}s problems that are open as of August 2026. To solve a task in FME, AI systems must resolve (prove or disprove) one of the 68 conjectures in the proof assistant Lean. Our 68…
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arXiv:2608.03079v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Breast core needle biopsy (CNB) is central to breast cancer diagnosis yet remains challenging because limited tissue sampling, lesion heterogeneity, and subtle morphologic overlap can obscure subtype distinctions. We developed CorePath, a…