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arXiv:2508.19437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The importance of analyzing nontrivial datasets when testing quantum machine learning (QML) models is becoming increasingly prominent in literature, yet a cohesive framework for understanding dataset characteristics remains elusive. In this work, we introduce a data-generation tool that allows to construct semi-artificial classical datasets tailored to quantum kernel methods (QKMs). Using this tool, we show that on fully classical dataset

arXiv:2511.15615v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted regression to the more general Lipschitz setting. A key component is a nonlinear feature expansion that maps max-affine functions into a subclass of delta-convex functions, which act as universal approximat

arXiv:2602.21479v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Across many risk-sensitive areas, it is critical to continuously audit machine learning systems as we receive more data to quickly determine if they are performing as designed. This auditing task can be modeled as a sequential hypothesis testing problem with $k$ data streams and a global null hypothesis that asserts the system operates as intended across all $k$ streams. Under the alternative, the standard global sequential test, which us

arXiv:2605.13922v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: During thDuring the last few years, the term Mechanistic Interpretability, a specific area, under the umbrella of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), has been introduced, to explain the decisions made by complex machine learning (ML) models in critical systems like UAV intrusion detection systems (UAVIDS). In this paper, we apply best-practices for data pre-processing and examine a wide range of tree-ensembles, deep neural networks

arXiv:2607.04527v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Biological systems exhibit a hierarchical structure, characterised by directed flow from upstream regulators to downstream effects. Although this ordering provides a natural scaffold for causal inference, most causal discovery and GRN methods either ignore the tiered organisation or condition on all upstream variables, which becomes infeasible for high-dimensional omics data. We present ASCEND (Ancestral Scalable Causal discovEry via iNhe

arXiv:2511.20297v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly capable of complex, multi-step tasks such as GUI automation, tool use, and data manipulation, yet they cannot learn from experience: each new session rediscovers solutions from scratch. We introduce BREW (Bootstrapping expeRientially-learned Environmental knoWledge), a framework that distills an agent's past interaction trajectories into a structured, retrievable knowledge base (KB) of na

arXiv:2601.09097v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-constraint planning involves identifying, evaluating, and refining candidate plans while satisfying multiple, potentially conflicting constraints. Existing large language model (LLM) approaches face fundamental limitations in this domain. Pure reasoning paradigms, which rely on long natural language chains, are prone to inconsistency, error accumulation, and prohibitive cost as constraints compound. Conversely, LLMs combined with coding-

arXiv:2603.05361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 9-1-1 call-taking training requires mastery of over a thousand interdependent skills, covering diverse incident types and protocol-specific nuances. A nationwide labor shortage is already straining training capacity, but effective instruction still demands that trainers tailor objectives to each trainee's evolving competencies. This personalization burden is one that current practice cannot scale. Partnering with Metro Nashville Department of E

arXiv:2604.01480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metasurface inverse design can realize complex optical functionality, but turning a target optical response into executable optimization code still requires substantial expertise in computational electromagnetics and solver-specific software engineering. We present a self-evolving agentic framework that lowers this barrier by coupling a coding agent, explicit human-readable skill files, and a deterministic physics-based evaluator. Rather than u

arXiv:2604.17267v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models can generate synthetic survey responses at low cost, but their accuracy varies unpredictably across questions. We study the design problem of allocating a fixed budget of human respondents across estimation tasks when cheap LLM predictions are available for every task. Our framework combines three components. First, building on Prediction-Powered Inference, we characterize a question-specific rectification difficulty that

arXiv:2604.17502v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Misaligned artificial agents might resist shutdown. One proposed solution is to train agents to lack preferences between different-length trajectories. The Discounted Reward for Same-Length Trajectories (DReST) reward function does this by penalizing agents for repeatedly choosing same-length trajectories, and thus incentivizes agents to (1) choose stochastically between different trajectory-lengths (be NEUTRAL about trajectory-lengths), and (2

arXiv:2604.20140v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective framework for aligning large language models with human preferences, but it struggles with complex reasoning tasks. DPO optimizes for the likelihood of generating preferred over dispreferred responses in their entirety and lacks the granularity to provide feedback on subsections of many-step solutions typical of reasoning tasks. Existing methods excel at either stable preference learning (e.g

arXiv:2605.17393v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Coordination graphs are a central abstraction in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), yet existing sparse-graph learners lack a theoretically grounded mechanism to decide which edges should exist and how much information each edge should carry. Current methods rely on heuristic criteria that offer no formal guarantee on the learned topology, and no principled way to allocate different communication capacities to structurally d

arXiv:2606.00726v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strong reasoning depends not only on model knowledge but also on how effectively cognitive behaviors are deployed during generation. Existing methods often rely on explicit behavior-level control, making them insufficiently adaptive when failures and required corrections vary across reasoning states, tasks, and models. To this end, we propose Latent Reward Steering (LRS), an adaptive inference-time framework that promotes cognitive behaviors by

arXiv:2504.18902v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the forthcoming era of 6G networks, characterized by unprecedented data rates, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity, effective management of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) is essential. VNFs are software-based counterparts of traditional hardware devices that facilitate flexible and scalable service provisioning. Service Function Chains (SFCs), structured as ordered sequences of VNFs, are pivotal in delivering complex n

arXiv:2506.10915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video generation has significantly enriched content creation and holds the potential to evolve into powerful world simulators. However, modeling the vast spatiotemporal space remains computationally demanding, particularly when employing Transformers, which incur quadratic complexity in sequence processing and thus limit practical applications. Recent advancements in linear-time sequence modeling, particularly the Mamba architectu

arXiv:2506.22784v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging task in autonomous driving and robotic perception. A key difficulty lies in the modality gap between unstructured point clouds and structured images, especially under sparse single-frame LiDAR settings. Existing methods typically extract features separately from point clouds and images, then rely on hand-crafted or learned matching strat

arXiv:2511.17113v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these methods require accurately labelled datasets, which are very costly to obtain. Moreover, existing public datasets have limited and/or outdated attacks, and many of them suffer from mislabelled data. To reduc

arXiv:2512.01317v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Measurement-induced entanglement (MIE) captures how local measurements generate long-range quantum correlations and drive dynamical phase transitions in many-body systems. Yet estimating MIE experimentally remains challenging: direct evaluation requires extensive post-selection over measurement outcomes, raising the question of whether MIE is accessible with only polynomial resources. We address this challenge by reframing MIE detection a

arXiv:2512.03238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High quality data is needed to unlock the full potential of AI for end users. However finding new sources of such data is getting harder: most publicly-available human generated data will soon have been used. Additionally, publicly available data often is not representative of users of a particular system -- for example, a research speech dataset of contractors interacting with an AI assistant will likely be more homogeneous, well articul

arXiv:2512.16861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community. We propose ReinforceGen, a system that combines task decomposition, data generation, imitation learning, and motion planning to form an initial solution, and improves each component through reinforcement-learning-based fine-tuning. ReinforceGen first segments the task into multiple localized skills, which are connected through motion planning. The skil

arXiv:2601.09881v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to their inefficient multi-step sampling process. In this work, we present Transition Matching Distillation (TMD), a novel framework for distilling video diffusion models into efficient few-step generators. The central idea of TMD is to match the multi-step denoisi

arXiv:2602.04078v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of domains, significantly expanding the frontiers of what is achievable in artificial intelligence. Yet, despite these advances, critical challenges remain -- most notably, ensuring robustness to small input perturbations and generalization to out-of-distribution data. These critical challenges underscore the need to understand the underlying fundamental principles that gov

arXiv:2602.07764v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) seeks to train agents capable of balancing conflicting objectives. While single preference-conditioned policies offer a highly scalable solution, existing approaches remain brittle in practice, frequently failing to recover dense Pareto fronts. We demonstrate that this failure stems from two structural pathologies: destructive advantage cancellation caused by premature Early Scalarization (ES), and

arXiv:2606.03979v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the design of machine learning algorithms, from early studies on task-specific shallow models to more general deep Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite showing promising results in tasks that require instant prediction or in-context learning, existing models lack the ability to continually learn and effectively transfer their temporal in-context knowledge to their long-term parameters

arXiv:2606.31650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon language agents must repeatedly interact with tools, accumulate evidence, and make decisions under bounded context windows. Context-management methods make such rollouts feasible by simplifying past interactions through deletion, folding, or memory editing. However, when useful history is collapsed into compressed states, the reconstructed context may no longer reveal which earlier observations support a successful final answer. Th

arXiv:2605.05882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial-intelligence systems are becoming ubiquitous in society, yet their predictions typically inherit biases with respect to protected attributes such as race, gender, or age. Classical fairness notions, most notably Statistical Parity (SP), demand that predictions be independent of the protected attributes, but are overly restrictive when these attributes influence mediating variables that are considered business necessities. Recen

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi folks,</p> <p>I am looking for research group or individuals that are interested in joining this competition. </p> <p>We can form a team.</p> <p><a href="https://aiboost-project.eu/ai-challenge-competition/">https://aiboost-project.eu/ai-challenge-competition/</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tony-Me1998"> /u/Tony-Me1998 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1uv0crm/look_for_a

NeuroVFM is a generalist neuroimaging foundation model from the University of Michigan, trained on 5.24M clinical MRI and CT volumes. Its Vol-JEPA base extends I-JEPA and V-JEPA to volumetric medical imaging, learning brain anatomy and pathology without radiology-report labels. The post Meet NeuroVFM: A New Neuroimaging Foundation Model Trained With Vol-JEPA on Uncurated Clinical MRI and CT Volumes appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A newer pattern replaces that manual back-and-forth with a loop. This guide explains loop engineering using two verified artifacts. The sources are Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch repository and the Bilevel Autoresearch paper. The framing follows a write-up by @0xCodila. […] The post Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine Learning ML Researc

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I hold a Ph.D. in Operations Research, along with a BSc/MSc in Engineering and OR. I previously worked in Big Tech, but I’m currently looking to transition.</p> <p>My primary goal is to <strong>upgrade my technical skillset to maximize my industry-related profitability and marketability.</strong> I want to get away from generic data science and move into high-value, math-heavy engineering and modeling roles.</p> <ul> <li><strong>My Core Interests:</strong> Forec

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey! I'm an ML Engineer at a startup building AI for construction cost estimation, and we're getting ready to publish some research.</p> <p>We've paid professional construction estimators to create item-level takeoffs from construction drawing sets, then had multiple rounds of review with construction specialists to make sure the annotations are as accurate as possible. The idea is to release the benchmark publicly so anyone can test their own models against it

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1uue8cc/zer0fit_i_took_googles_new_tabfm_timesfm_ml/"> <img src="https://preview.redd.it/cy6kekuamsch1.jpg?width=140&height=70&auto=webp&s=73676a2130325bec57d5a5677698a48d658477e2" alt="Zer0Fit: I took Google's new TabFM & TimesFM ML foundation models and made them available as an MCP server for zero-shot ML tasks (forecasts / classifications / regressions). 100% local. [P]" title="Zer0Fit: I took Google's new TabFM & Ti

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The context (in a border sense) viewpoint of neural networks is not thought about too much but it leads to a simple best average linear mapping viewpoint of a layer.</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/a-context-based-view-of-deep-neural-networks">https://archive.org/details/a-context-based-view-of-deep-neural-networks</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/oatmealcraving"> /u/oatmealcraving </a> <br/> <span><a hre

Thinking Machines Lab published "The Future Worth Building Is Human." The essay frames human participation, model ownership, and decentralized alignment as technical challenges. It ties them to interaction models and Tinker's LoRA fine-tuning, where teams train and keep their own model weights. The post Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Makes The Technical Case For Human-Centered AI Built On Customizable Model Weights appeared first on MarkTechPost .

arXiv:2607.07759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural supply chains are vulnerable to disruptions through linked biophysical and economic systems. We develop an AI-powered tool that integrates economic models (GTAP) with biophysical models (APSIM) to analyze supply chain shocks, enabling policymakers and market participants to assess cross-disciplinary impacts through queries and responses written in natural language.

arXiv:2607.07761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as important tools in healthcare, showing growing potential for clinical reasoning and patient care. This survey examines recent progress in medical LLMs, focusing on reasoning applications and requirements. We present a dual-view approach that connects clinical practice with computational methods. On the clinical side, we establish a five-level competency scheme following Miller's Pyramid, progressing from

arXiv:2607.07766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become significant providers of mental health support, yet they remain products of an attention economy whose operational and commercial targets favour sustained engagement over the friction that effective psychological support often requires. Developers' safety responses have been largely reactive, addressing the most visible and acute harms while subtler, longer-term patterns of risk (e.g., dependency, boundary e

arXiv:2607.07775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The human body is at the center of a growing family of technologies designed to tightly and persistently couple biological and digital systems. Robotic prostheses are a representative example of this tight coupling. Also referred to as bionic limbs, robotic prostheses are devices that support people who have lost limbs in pursuing daily life activities such as walking and grasping objects. Bionic limbs are now perceptive and responsive owing to the

arXiv:2607.07846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VectorizationLLM is a specialized Large Language Model based on Google open-weight LLMs. The model is designed to assist students to learn smart vectorization, time/wave vector analysis, piecewise functions, Fourier analysis, and differential equations in MATLAB. The course application is CTEC 247: Applied Computational Analysis II by the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology at New York Institute of Technology Old Westbury. Th