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The Recovery Mechanism: Technology, Education, and What Happens When the Pattern Breaks

arXiv:2605.16283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For centuries, each new technology has automated some layer of cognitive work and been absorbed by education retreating upward to teach the skills mac

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there's 4 parts to this AI SDLC 1. have ~50 tests in place, with instructions to add more, including 'make a memory that whenever you do browser e2e tests, use computer vision to visually spot check d

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Thermal-Only Crowd Counting with Deployment-Time Privacy Protection

arXiv:2605.17042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While RGB-Thermal crowd counting has shown promise, the paradigm faces critical limitations: RGB data raises privacy concerns in public surveillance, an

this was not on my bingo card

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this was not on my bingo card Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get b

Traces of Social Competence in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.04161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The False Belief Test (FBT) has been the main method for assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) and related socio-cognitive competencies. For Large Language

Tracking Drift: Variation-Aware Entropy Scheduling for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601.19624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning often faces environment drift, but most existing methods rely on static entropy coefficients/target entropy,

Training data attribution in diffusion models via mirrored unlearning and noise-consistent skew

arXiv:2605.17938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training data attribution (TDA) should enable generative model interpretability and foster a variety of related downstream tasks. Nonetheless, current

Transformers for Learning on Noisy and Task-Level Manifolds: Approximation and Generalization Insights

arXiv:2505.03205v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers serve as the foundational architecture for large language and video generation models, such as GPT, BERT, SORA and their successors. Em

TriOpt: A Scalable Algorithm for Linear Causal Discovery

arXiv:2605.17465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning causal relations from observational data is challenging because the graph search space grows super-exponentially with the number of variables.

Uncertainty Quantification as a Principled Foundation for Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Case Study of Counterfactual Explanations

arXiv:2502.17007v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper we argue that, to its detriment, transparency research overlooks many foundational concepts of artificial intelligence. As an il

Understanding the modern cybercrime landscape

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Throughout 2025, HPE observed significant changes in how cybercriminals operate. Analyzing real-world threats, our HPE Threat Labs highlighted an industrialization of the cyber criminals’ methods in i

Universal Time-Series Representation Learning: A Survey

arXiv:2401.03717v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series data exists in every corner of real-world systems and services, ranging from satellites in the sky to wearable devices on human bo

UniversalRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Corpora of Diverse Modalities and Granularities

arXiv:2504.20734v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown substantial promise in improving factual accuracy by grounding model responses with external kn

Unleashing LLMs in Bayesian Optimization: Preference-Guided Framework for Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2605.17976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery is increasingly constrained by costly experiments and limited resources, underscoring the need for efficient optimization in AI for

Unveiling Memorization-Generalization Coexistence: A Case Study on Arithmetic Tasks with Label Noise

arXiv:2605.18022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Highly over-parameterized models can simultaneously memorize noisy labels and generalize well, yet how these behaviors coexist remains poorly understo

VISAFF: Speaker-Centered Visual Affective Feature Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

arXiv:2605.18547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is essential for effective human-machine interaction, aiming to identify speakers' emotional states in multi-t

VVitCutLER: Towards Unsupervised Object Detection and Segmentation in Videos

arXiv:2605.17584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised pixel-level video understanding remains challenging in real-world scenarios, where motion blur, occlusion, and fast object dynamics often c

Weakly Supervised Cross-Modal Learning for 4D Radar Scene Flow Estimation

arXiv:2605.18507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the difficulty of obtaining ground-truth data for 4D radar scene flow estimation, previous methods typically rely on either self-supervised losse

What Drives Success in Physical Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models?

arXiv:2512.24497v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A long-standing challenge in AI is to develop agents capable of solving a wide range of physical tasks and generalizing to new, unseen tasks and env

What’s new in Unity AI Gateway: service policies, guardrails, observability, and cost controls for AI agents and MCPs

Unity AI Gateway introduces new enterprise features including service policies, guardrails, observability tools, and cost controls designed to manage and monitor AI agents and Model Context Protocols

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XCTFormer: Leveraging Cross-Channel and Cross-Time Dependencies for Enhanced Time-Series Analysis

arXiv:2605.18534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multivariate time-series analysis involves extracting informative representations from sequences of multiple interdependent variables, supporting tasks

You don't need to move everything internally, so you can still gain from vendor specialists when needed, just less often This is similar to …

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You don't need to move everything internally, so you can still gain from vendor specialists when needed, just less often This is similar to how most companies are not going to want to replace all thei

A Cascaded Generative Approach for e-Commerce Recommendations

arXiv:2605.11118v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized storefronts in large e-commerce marketplaces are often assembled from many independent components: static themes per page section ('pla

A QUBO Formulation Framework for Kinematic Structure-Based Robot Design Optimization: A Robotic Hand Case Study

arXiv:2605.15510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization-based formulation framework for robot design optimization using kinematic structure-le

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A Scalable Nonparametric Continuous-Time Survival Model through Numerical Quadrature

arXiv:2605.16208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible continuous-time survival modeling is critical for capturing complex time-varying hazard dynamics in high-dimensional data; however, training

Adesua: Development and Feasibility Study of an AI WhatsApp Bot for Science Learning in West Africa

arXiv:2605.15376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sub-Saharan Africa faces persistently high student-teacher ratios and shortages of qualified teachers, limiting students' access to personalized learnin

ADMIT: Few-shot Knowledge Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based Fact Checking

arXiv:2510.13842v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge poisoning poses a critical threat to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by injecting adversarial content into knowledge ba

Almost every part of Starship V3 is different from V2

Almost every part of Starship V3 is different from V2 Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • D

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Building Specialized Software-Assistant ChatBot with Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2511.05297v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) have become essential tools for helping employees navigate complex enterprise software such as CRM, ERP, or

Calibrating LLMs with Semantic-level Reward

arXiv:2605.15588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in consequential settings such as medical question answering and legal reasoning, the ability to estimate w

Can Vision Language Models Be Adaptive in Mathematics Education? A Learner Model-based Rubric Study

arXiv:2605.16011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive learning refers to educational technologies that track learners' learning progress and adapt the instructional process based on individual le

CHoE: Cross-Domain Heterogeneous Graph Prompt Learning via Structure-Conditioned Experts

arXiv:2605.15888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous Graph Prompt Learning (HGPL)has emerged as a promising paradigm for bridging the gap between the objectives of pre-training foundation m

Defining Cultural Capabilities for AI Evaluation: A Taxonomy Grounded in Intercultural Communication Theory

arXiv:2605.15990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tremendous efforts have been put into evaluating the inclusivity and effectiveness of AI systems across cultures. However, the cultural capabilities con

Does Theory of Mind Improvement Really Benefit Human-AI Interactions? Empirical Findings from Interactive Evaluations

arXiv:2605.15205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving the Theory of Mind (ToM) capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for effective social interactions between these AI models and h

Domain-Independent Game Abstraction using Word Embedding Techniques

arXiv:2605.15543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many games of interest in the real world are often intractably large, thereby necessitating the use of game abstraction to shrink them in size, typica

ExplainerPFN: Towards tabular foundation models for model-free zero-shot feature importance estimations

arXiv:2601.23068v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computing the importance of features in supervised classification tasks is critical for model interpretability. Shapley values are a widely us

FedOptima: Optimizing Resource Utilization in Federated Learning

arXiv:2504.13850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) systems facilitate distributed machine learning across a server and multiple devices. However, FL systems have low res

FM-G-CAM: A Holistic Approach for Explainable AI in Computer Vision

arXiv:2312.05975v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Explainability is a vital aspect of modern AI for real-world impact and usability. The main objective of this paper is to emphasise the need t

Fortress: A Case Study in Stabilizing Search Recommendations via Temporal Data Augmentation and Feature Pruning

arXiv:2605.15299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In search and recommendation systems, predictive models often suffer from temporal instability when certain input features introduce volatility in out

Going Beyond the Edge: Distributed Inference of Transformer Models on Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Devices

arXiv:2605.15694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far ex

Greedy or not, here I come: Language production under vocabulary constraints in humans and resource-rational models

arXiv:2605.15365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communicating using only a limited vocabulary is a common but challenging cognitive phenomenon, requiring an ideal communicator to plan carefully to opt

Hestia: Voxel-Face-Aware Hierarchical Next-Best-View Acquisition for Efficient 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2508.01014v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advances in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis have enabled efficient and photorealistic rendering. However, images for reconstruction

I broke my own rule to never post about AI detection as it is fraught in many ways. The problem is that if you use AI a lot, you know AI wri…

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I broke my own rule to never post about AI detection as it is fraught in many ways. The problem is that if you use AI a lot, you know AI writing on sight, which makes the difficulty of objectively pro

Inevitable Encounters: Backdoor Attacks Involving Lossy Compression

arXiv:2603.13864v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world backdoor attacks often require poisoned datasets to be stored and transmitted before being used to compromise deep learning systems

ITGPT: Generative Pretraining on Irregular Timeseries

arXiv:2605.16069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Timeseries regression models often struggle to leverage large volumes of labeled multimodal data, particularly when the data are irregularly sampled or

Its a consistent theory-of-mind failure in models that are otherwise suprisingly good at theory-of-mind

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Large language models demonstrate a specific and persistent theory-of-mind failure despite excelling at other theory-of-mind tasks, suggesting a particular gap in their reasoning about beliefs, intent

LAPS: Improving Incremental LiDAR Mapping using Active Pooling and Sampling for Neural Distance Fields

arXiv:2605.15496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural distance fields offer a compact and continuous representation of 3D geometry, making them attractive for incremental LiDAR mapping. However, th

Layer-wise Derivative Controlled Networks

arXiv:2605.15463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As machine learning models grow in complexity, they increasingly struggle with three conflicting demands: the need for high accuracy, the requirement fo