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Taming the Monster Every Context: Complexity Measure and Unified Framework for Offline-Oracle Efficient Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2602.09456v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose an algorithmic framework, Offline Estimation to Decisions (OE2D), that efficiently reduces contextual bandit learning with general reward

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Tandem Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

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arXiv:2606.28166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly improved the reasoning capability of large language models, reaching expert or e

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Temporal Convolutional Autoencoder for Interference Mitigation in FMCW Radar Altimeters

arXiv:2505.22783v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable altitude estimation with frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar altimeters is increasingly a challenge due to in-band inter

TeRoR: Decoupled Temporal Rotation with Relational Circular Region for Temporal Knowledge Graph Embedding

arXiv:2606.27651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, with the emergence of Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs), research on learning entity and relation representations in TKGs has attracted

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

arXiv:2606.27510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation patching is the primary tool in mechanistic interpretability. It attributes causal responsibility for a model behavior to each of its indiv

The Decision Geometry of Covariance Estimation for the Global Minimum-Variance Portfolio under Heavy Tails

arXiv:2606.27462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The global minimum-variance portfolio (GMVP) is the canonical decision built from an estimated covariance matrix, yet covariance estimators are univer

The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful

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The Remittance Blueprint: Data-driven Intelligence for Sri Lanka

arXiv:2606.28190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study analyzes Sri Lankan migration and remittances over 32 years (1994-2025). Using a 384-month harmonized dataset, we apply exploratory data an

The Shift Toward Open and Reproducible AI Research

arXiv:2606.16974v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reproducibility crisis has directed the AI research community toward improving documentation practices. Several studies have identified methodol

The Weakest Link Tells It All: Outcome-Supervised Process Reward Modeling via Learnable Credit Assignment

arXiv:2606.27739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process reward models (PRMs) enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing fine-grained feedback, yet training PRMs ty

Toward Robust In-Context Segmentation via Concept Guidance

arXiv:2606.28149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-context segmentation (ICS) requires a model to segment target regions in a query image using only a few reference images and their corresponding ma

Towards Reliable and Robust LLM Planning: Symbolic Feedback-Driven Iterative Self-Refinement Framework

arXiv:2606.27757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have attracted widespread attention from academia and industry, yet their deployment raises critical security concerns rega

ToxiREX: A Dataset on Toxic REasoning in ConteXt

arXiv:2606.27981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a new, contextual, multilingual dataset called ToxiREX: Toxic REasoning in ConteXt. The dataset consists of threads of Reddit comments and

Training-free Uncertainty Guidance for Complex Visual Tasks with MLLMs

arXiv:2510.00705v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often struggle with fine-grained perception, such as identifying small objects in high-resolution images or

Unbiased Diffusion Variational Inversion via Principled Posterior Matching

arXiv:2605.25042v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing score-based methods for inverse problems often resort to approximate minimization of the KL divergence between the inversion distribution a

Understanding How MLLMs Describe Artworks Using Token Activation Maps

arXiv:2606.27947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) describe artworks with remarkable fluency, yet the visual reasoning behind their outputs remains opaque. When a

Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors

arXiv:2606.28237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots have achieved remarkable locomotion, yet their behavioral repertoire remains confined to a few gaits--far from the expressive, companio

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USAD: Uncertainty-aware Statistical Adversarial Detection

arXiv:2606.27832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical adversarial detection (SAD) treats detection as a two-sample test. Given a reference set of clean examples (CEs) and a batch of queries, pot

VGB for Masked Diffusion Model: Efficient Test-time Scaling for Reward Satisfaction and Sample Editing

arXiv:2606.28301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time scaling is a promising paradigm to improve generative models, especially when outputs must satisfy structural constraints or optimize dow

Vision-Default, Prior-Override: Causal Mechanisms of Perception-Knowledge Conflict in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606.28273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models must reconcile visual evidence with memorized world knowledge when the two conflict. How they resolve this conflict shapes the re

WattLayer: Get Layers Right to Estimate Inference Energy of Neural Networks

arXiv:2606.27841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to increasing concerns about energy consumption, yet there is a lack of standardized m

What Was That Again? Certified Robustness for Automatic Speech Recognition

arXiv:2606.27698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition systems are notoriously both sensitive to adversarial and benign perturbations. While this has been repeatedly demonstrat

Which Nash Equilibrium? Solver-Dependent Selection on Zero-Sum Nash Polytopes

arXiv:2606.28308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many two-player zero-sum games admit not a unique Nash equilibrium but a convex set of them: a polytope of profiles that all share the minimax value V

It's quite rational to regulate frontier API models, especially to get more transparency for the government, without regulating open-source …

It's quite rational to regulate frontier API models, especially to get more transparency for the government, without regulating open-source AI. Here's why: 1. The most dangerous AI systems right now a

Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem

This article discusses recent open-source AI model releases and developments from three companies—Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside—and their contributions to expanding the broader AI ecosystem. It likely

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New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing 'critical minerals' deals with FOURTEEN different companies that h…

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing 'critical minerals' deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - de

Putin's cannon fodder: 'The average life expectancy of a new recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies...betw…

Putin's cannon fodder: 'The average life expectancy of a new recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies...between 10 days and 3 weeks. Once...sent onto the battlefield, R

TechCrunch on Sakana Fugu and the broader conversation around frontier AI access in Asia. Our position remains that AI is best developed tog…

TechCrunch on Sakana Fugu and the broader conversation around frontier AI access in Asia. Our position remains that AI is best developed together rather than hoarded. Sakana AI will continue contribut

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To really move the needle in terms of innovation, like the era in Japan when you had companies like Sony or Panasonic come out, there are a …

To really move the needle in terms of innovation, like the era in Japan when you had companies like Sony or Panasonic come out, there are a few factors at play. One is that the nation needs to have a

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Come and take it

'Come and take it' is a historical phrase and motto associated with resistance to government authority, most famously used during the Texas Revolution (1835-1836) and later adopted in American politic

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Fugu-Ultra is now available on Vercel AI Gateway https://vercel.com/changelog/sakana-fugu-ultra-now-available-on-ai-gateway ✨

Sakana AI's Fugu-Ultra model is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway, expanding access to this language model through Vercel's infrastructure. This integration allows developers to use Fugu-Ultra

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Link to the full article: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents

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This article explores the implementation and use of local coding agents—AI systems designed to autonomously write, test, and debug code on local machines without relying on external APIs. The piece li

Loop engineering is just prompt engineering with great system design.

Loop engineering refers to an iterative approach to AI system design that combines prompt engineering with robust system architecture, emphasizing that effective AI applications depend equally on how

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Only Art and Science raise humanity to the sublime. But the magic isn't in the output. It's in the process of creation and discovery, and th…

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François Chollet argues that art and science elevate humanity through the creative and discovery processes themselves, rather than through their final outputs or products. He emphasizes that the trans

The Trump administration claims that mass deportations will free millions of jobs for Americans by reducing foreigner competiton. In fact, i…

The Trump administration claims that mass deportations will free millions of jobs for Americans by reducing foreigner competiton. In fact, in the first nine months of 2025, ICE operations led to at le

A Causal Foundation Model for Structure and Outcome Prediction

arXiv:2606.26467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce TabPFN-CFM, a causal foundation model that can handle multiple causal problems. TabPFN-CFM predicts both causal structure and outcomes from

A General Framework for Learning Algebraic Properties from Cayley Graphs using Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2606.26212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A Graph Neural Network (GNN) framework for predicting the solvability of finite groups from their Cayley graph representations was introduced in [1]. In

A Generalization Theory for JEPA-Based World Models

arXiv:2606.27014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for world modeling by learning predictive dynamics in a l

A good chunk of Tokyo is also reclaimed from the bay, a process that continues to this day but has slowed down significantly (peak was in th…

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A good chunk of Tokyo is also reclaimed from the bay, a process that continues to this day but has slowed down significantly (peak was in the 1960s-1970s alongside other major infrastructure buildups)

A Latent ODE Approach to Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cine Cardiac MRI

arXiv:2606.26718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) captures rich spatiotemporal information about ventricular structure and motion, but conventional risk models u

A multi-task spatiotemporal deep neural network for predicting penetration depth and morphology in laser welding

arXiv:2606.26260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In laser penetration welding, the assessment of penetration state and weld seam morphology plays a crucial role in determining the weld quality. This

A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2606.26425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots could take on physically demanding, hazardous, and repetitive work in spaces built for humans. However, a useful robot for these spaces

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A Systematic Survey of Semantic Role Labeling in the Era of Pretrained Language Models

arXiv:2502.08660v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a central natural language processing task for understanding predicate-argument structures within texts and enabling

A UAV-Based Multispectral and RGB Dataset for Multi-Stage Paddy Crop Monitoring in Indian Agricultural Fields

arXiv:2601.01084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based RGB and multispectral image dataset collected over paddy fields in the Vijayawada regio

A3C3: AI Algorithm and Accelerator Co-design, Co-search, and Co-generation

arXiv:2606.20869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a holistic methodology for artificial intelligence algorithm and accelerator co-design, co-search, and co-generation (A3C3), which

Analyzing and Encoding the Al-Mawrid Arabic-English Dictionary with the ISO Language Markup Framework and TEI Lex-0

arXiv:2606.18205v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a robust methodology for the systematic digitization and encoding of the Al-Mawrid Arabic-English dictionary, transforming it fr

Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis

arXiv:2606.26764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shif

Application of LLMs to Threat Assessment of Foreign Peacekeeping Missions

arXiv:2606.27106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a novel approach for applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to threat assessment in the context of foreign peacekeeping missions. Building o