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How Non-Linguistic Is the Indus Sign System? A Synthetic-Baseline Scorecard

arXiv:2604.17828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether the Indus Valley sign system (c. 2600-1900 BCE) encodes spoken language has been debated for decades. This paper introduces a multi-metric discr

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How Training Data Shapes the Use of Parametric and In-Context Knowledge in Language Models

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arXiv:2510.02370v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models leverage both parametric knowledge acquired during pretraining and in-context knowledge provided at inference time. Crucially,

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Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Enhanced Breast Cancer Thermographic Classification: A Novel Quantum-Classical Integration Approach

arXiv:2604.16953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer diagnosis through thermographic image analysis remains a critical challenge in medical AI, with classical deep learning approaches facin

I built a web analytics system to track traffic and events across all my @Replit projects in one place. Drop-in @posthog stack: → Full analy…

I built a web analytics system to track traffic and events across all my @Replit projects in one place. Drop-in @posthog stack: → Full analytics dashboard → Reverse proxy (beat ad blockers) → AI skill

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I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that th…

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I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can no

In-Context Learning Under Regime Change

arXiv:2604.16988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-stationary sequences arise naturally in control, forecasting, and decision-making. The data-generating process shifts at unknown times, and models m

Integrating Feature Selection and Machine Learning for Nitrogen Assessment in Grapevine Leaves using In-Field Hyperspectral Imaging

arXiv:2507.17869v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nitrogen (N) is one of the most critical nutrients in winegrape production, influencing vine vigor, fruit composition, and wine quality. Becau

Introducing the Databricks Excel Add-in for Business Users

The Databricks Excel Add-in is a tool that enables business users to directly access and analyze data from Databricks within Microsoft Excel without requiring advanced technical skills. This integrati

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Introducing the O-Value: A Universal Standardization for Confusion-Matrix-Based Classification Performance Metrics

arXiv:2505.07033v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many classification performance metrics exist, each suited to a specific application. However, these metrics often differ in scale and can exh

Kimi 2.6 Thinking seems very good for an open weights model, but many rough edges compared to closed SoTA. The Lem Test resulted in a 74 pag…

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Kimi 2.6 Thinking seems very good for an open weights model, but many rough edges compared to closed SoTA. The Lem Test resulted in a 74 page thinking trace... and an okay-ish answer. It did an okay T

LAGS: Low-Altitude Gaussian Splatting with Groupwise Heterogeneous Graph Learning

arXiv:2604.16910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-altitude Gaussian splatting (LAGS) facilitates 3D scene reconstruction by aggregating aerial images from distributed drones. However, as LAGS priori

Large Language Models Are Bad Dice Players: LLMs Struggle to Generate Random Numbers from Statistical Distributions

arXiv:2601.05414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) transition from chat interfaces to integral components of stochastic pipelines and systems approaching general intel

Learning from Less: Measuring the Effectiveness of RLVR in Low Data and Compute Regimes

arXiv:2604.18381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) typically relies on large quantities of high-quality annotated data, or questions with well-defined ground tr

Lightweight Cybersickness Detection based on User-Specific Eye and Head Tracking Data in Virtual Reality

arXiv:2604.17158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The occurrence of cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) significantly impairs users' perception and sense of immersion. Therefore, timely detection of

LiveGraph: Active-Structure Neural Re-ranking for Exercise Recommendation

arXiv:2602.17036v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The continuous expansion of digital learning environments has catalyzed the demand for intelligent systems capable of providing personalized e

Local learning for stable backpropagation-free neural network training towards physical learning

arXiv:2603.24790v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While backpropagation and automatic differentiation have driven deep learning's success, the physical limits of chip manufacturing and rising enviro

MambaKick: Early Penalty Direction Prediction from HAR Embeddings

arXiv:2604.16588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Penalty kicks in soccer are decided under extreme time constraints, where goalkeepers benefit from anticipating shot direction from the kickers motion b

Many folks seem to be confused, and think the collapse of the CS major graduation numbers at Berkeley could be linked to the 'AI is taking S…

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Many folks seem to be confused, and think the collapse of the CS major graduation numbers at Berkeley could be linked to the 'AI is taking SWE jobs' hysteria narrative. Here's the easiest way to see t

Measuring Distribution Shift in User Prompts and Its Effects on LLM Performance

arXiv:2604.17650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly deployed in dynamic, real-world settings, where the distribution of user prompts can shift substantially over time as new tasks, p

Modeling Human Perspectives with Socio-Demographic Representations

arXiv:2604.18069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans often hold different perspectives on the same issues. In many NLP tasks, annotation disagreement can reflect valid subjective perspectives. Model

MoGERNN: An Inductive Traffic Predictor for Unobserved Locations

arXiv:2501.12281v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Given a partially observed road network, how can we predict the traffic state of interested unobserved locations? Traffic prediction is crucial for

MoVE: Translating Laughter and Tears via Mixture of Vocalization Experts in Speech-to-Speech Translation

arXiv:2604.17435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) systems achieve strong semantic accuracy yet consistently strip away non-verbal vocalizations (NVs), such as

MU-GeNeRF: Multi-view Uncertainty-guided Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Distractor-aware Scene

arXiv:2604.17965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (GeNeRFs) enable high-quality scene reconstruction from sparse views and can generalize to unseen scenes. However,

My most popular AI post was a bunch of made-up 'graphs' four years ago. Now, the new GPT-2 image generator does it for real (though not perf…

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My most popular AI post was a bunch of made-up 'graphs' four years ago. Now, the new GPT-2 image generator does it for real (though not perfect) Here's the famous AI task horizons graph with a touch o

NaviFormer: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Transformer-like Model to Holistically Solve the Navigation Problem

arXiv:2604.16967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Path planning is usually solved by addressing either the (high-level) route planning problem (waypoint sequencing to achieve the final goal) or the (low

Neighbor Embedding for High-Dimensional Sparse Poisson Data

arXiv:2604.16932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Across many scientific fields, measurements often represent the number of times an event occurs. For example, a document can be represented by word oc

Neuromorphic BrailleNet: Accurate and Generalizable Braille Reading Beyond Single Characters through Event-Based Optical Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2601.19079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional robotic Braille readers typically rely on discrete, character-by-character scanning, limiting reading speed and disrupting natural flow

NOOUGAT: Towards Unified Online and Offline Multi-Object Tracking

arXiv:2509.02111v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The long-standing division between extit{online} and extit{offline} Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has led to fragmented solutions that fail to address

NullFace: Training-Free Localized Face Anonymization

arXiv:2503.08478v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to

OFlow: Injecting Object-Aware Temporal Flow Matching for Robust Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2604.17876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires not only predicting how the scene evolves over time, but also recognizing task-relevant objects in complex scenes.

Omni-Embed-Audio: Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Robust Audio-Text Retrieval

arXiv:2604.18360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-text retrieval systems based on Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) achieve strong performance on traditional benchmarks; however, the

PARM: Pipeline-Adapted Reward Model

arXiv:2604.18327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward models (RMs) are central to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, powering RLHF and advanced decoding strategies. While

PestVL-Net: Enabling Multimodal Pest Learning via Fine-grained Vision-Language Interaction

arXiv:2604.17278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective pest recognition and management are crucial for sustainable agricultural development. However, collecting pest data in real scenarios is often

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Biological 2D{+}t Reaction-Diffusion Systems

arXiv:2604.18548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a powerful framework for learning governing equations of dynamical systems from data. Biologically-info

PlankFormer: Robust Plankton Instance Segmentation via MAE-Pretrained Vision Transformers and Pseudo Community Image Generation

arXiv:2604.17856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plankton monitoring is essential for assessing aquatic ecosystems but is limited by the labor-intensive nature of manual microscopic analysis. Automatin

Preventing overfitting in deep learning using differential privacy

arXiv:2604.16334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of Deep Neural Network based systems in the real world is growing. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many image, speech and tex

Proprietary lock-in is holding back enterprise AI ambition, says SUSE CEO

As enterprises race to adopt AI without sacrificing control or flexibility, open-source infrastructure is the stable foundation that enables organizations to modernize while maintaining full digital s

applicationssiliconangle

Putting a Face to Forgetting: Continual Learning meets Mechanistic Interpretability

arXiv:2601.22012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning is often measured at the performance or last-layer representation level, overlooking the underlying me

RA-RRG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Radiology Report Generation with Key Phrase Extraction

arXiv:2504.07415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated radiology report generation (RRG) holds potential to reduce the workload of radiologists, and recent advances in multimodal large la

RAG-DIVE: A Dynamic Approach for Multi-Turn Dialogue Evaluation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2604.16310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using static multi-turn datasets fails to capture the dynamic nature of real-world dialogues.

Ranking Abuse via Strategic Pairwise Data Perturbations

arXiv:2604.17805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pairwise ranking systems based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), such as the Bradley-Terry model, are widely used to aggregate preferences from pa

RASP-Tuner: Retrieval-Augmented Soft Prompts for Context-Aware Black-Box Optimization in Non-Stationary Environments

arXiv:2604.18026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many deployed systems expose black-box objectives whose minimizing configuration shifts with an externally observed context. When contexts revisit a sma

Real-World Intelligence ChatGPT Images 2.0 has an updated knowledge cutoff of December 2025 and intelligence that allows it to expertly hand…

Real-World Intelligence ChatGPT Images 2.0 has an updated knowledge cutoff of December 2025 and intelligence that allows it to expertly handle tasks end-to-end, from copywriting to analysis to design

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ReconVLA: An Uncertainty-Guided and Failure-Aware Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robotic Control

arXiv:2604.16677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as generalist robotic controllers capable of mapping visual observations and natural language instructi

REFLEX: Reference-Free Evaluation of Log Summarization via Large Language Model Judgment

arXiv:2511.07458v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating log summarization systems is challenging due to the lack of high-quality reference summaries and the limitations of existing metrics like

Rethinking Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs: A Principled Single-Sequence Measure

arXiv:2412.15176v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, driving the need to evaluate the trustworthiness of their generat

SFTMix: Elevating Language Model Instruction Tuning with Mixup Recipe

arXiv:2410.05248v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To acquire instruction-following capabilities, large language models (LLMs) undergo instruction tuning, where they are trained on instruction-respon

Shifting the Gradient: Understanding How Defensive Training Methods Protect Language Model Integrity

arXiv:2604.16423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Defensive training methods such as positive preventative steering (PPS) and inoculation prompting (IP) offer surprising results through seemingly simila