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This entry discusses foundational concepts and context related to the Culture series, particularly the concept of the General Systems Vehicle (GSV) from Iain M. Banks' science fiction novels. The piec

arXiv:2603.00975v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deployed text-to-image diffusion models increasingly require post-hoc concept unlearning for copyright claims, artist opt-outs, safety updates

arXiv:2605.01844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering is a widely used technique for controlling large language models, yet its effects are often unstable and hard to predict. Existing theoretical

arXiv:2604.27553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When the visual style of text is considered, a wide variety can be observed in font, color, and size. However, when a word is read, its meaning is indep

arXiv:2504.11159v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In high-stakes domains, such as healthcare and industry, the explainability of AI-based decision-making has become crucial. Without insight into mod

arXiv:2604.19212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard for learning on graphs, yet they have limited expressive power, often expressed in terms of the Weisfeiler

arXiv:2505.20779v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A hallmark of human innovation is recombination -- the creation of novel ideas by integrating elements from existing concepts and mechanisms. In thi

arXiv:2604.16363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image models are commercially valuable assets often distributed under restrictive licenses, but such licenses are enforceable only when violat

arXiv:2512.05534v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As AI models achieve remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, understanding what representations they learn and how they encode concept

arXiv:2608.10843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: First-order concept synthesis asks a system to infer one formula that classifies labeled objects consistently across several finite relational structure

arXiv:2608.08416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning [Val84] is a fundamental learning model that has been extensively investigated. In this model, H subseteq

arXiv:2608.05164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Independently trained large language models may develop shared internal representations of semantic concepts despite architectural differences -- but wh

arXiv:2510.14538v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI aims to develop deep neural networks whose predictions comply with prior knowledge encoding, e.g. safety or structural cons

arXiv:2608.04864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the neural echo as a tool for understanding the behavior of neural networks. It generalizes the model-based concepts of impulse responses

arXiv:2607.23368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are demonstrating significant capabilities in medical tasks like radiology analysis, yet providing faithful and interpre

LLMs handle speech well once you run speech-to-text. They don't hear the rest: a bird outside, a glass breaking two rooms away, a smoke alarm two floors down. I've been working on an experimental open

arXiv:2607.05409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Introductory programming instruction relies on hands-on practice and short learning activities to support mastery of foundational concepts. Although m

arXiv:2607.02995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models can exhibit visual concept-conditioned divergence: given images containing demographic features, corporate logos, or ideologica

arXiv:2606.31495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a single idea across two settings: that a prediction-error signal, computed by a small predictor over the latent space of a frozen encoder, can

arXiv:2512.03578v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series extrinsic regression (TSER) refers to the task of predicting a continuous target variable from an input time series. It appears in

arXiv:2606.24997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geographic implicit neural representations (INRs) learn to map any coordinate on Earth to a location embedding, implicitly encoding geospatial data into

arXiv:2605.05220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering intermediate representations has emerged as a powerful strategy for controlling generative models, particularly in post-deployment al

arXiv:2605.31513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong general multimodal capability and are increasingly deployed in downstream systems. This tr

arXiv:2605.28664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety detection models require examples of HHH (Helpful, Harmless, Honest)-violating outputs for robust generalization, however such examples are sca

arXiv:2605.26332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove specific concepts from pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, yet several white- and black-box attacks have been

arXiv:2504.07756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding human behaviour, neuroscience and psychology using concepts from the domain of AI is increasing in popularity. Given the massive integ

arXiv:2605.19284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the training data used by large language models (LLMs), the same latent concept is often presented in multiple distinct ways: the same facts appear i

arXiv:2605.19410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Segmentation has become easy when the concept is known, requiring retrieval of a learned visual grounding from text. It remains hard for open ad-hoc con

arXiv:2605.16372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Steering or intervening on model representations at inference time to correct predictions is essential for AI interpretability and safety, yet existin

arXiv:2605.15737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning has reached a critical bottleneck. As traditional weight-space interventions focus primarily on erasing targeted concepts, they often

arXiv:2510.18184v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating fluent text, but their internal reasoning remains opaque and difficult to control. Sparse aut

arXiv:2603.09970v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key component of creativity is associative reasoning: the ability to draw novel yet meaningful connections between concepts. We introduce CREATE,

arXiv:2605.00273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual fidelity, yet they remain unreliable in multi-object generation. Despite extensive empirical ev

arXiv:2604.28186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most familiar equilibrium concepts, such as Nash and correlated equilibrium, guarantee only that no single player can improve their utility by deviati

arXiv:2602.21977v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a leading technique for efficiently fine-tuning text-to-image diffusion models, and its widespread adoptio

arXiv:2603.11024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: VLMs have become increasingly proficient at a range of computer vision tasks, such as visual question answering and object detection. This includes

arXiv:2510.06700v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Both humans and large language models (LLMs) exhibit content effects: biases in which the plausibility of the semantic content of a reasoning proble

arXiv:2506.18141v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We identify semantically coherent, context-consistent network components in large language models (LLMs) using coactivation of sparse autoencoder (S

arXiv:2604.15339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty, vagueness, and ambiguity are closely related and often confused concepts in human-robot interaction (HRI). In earlier studies, these conc

arXiv:2604.06172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start cross-domain recommender (CDR) systems predict a user's preferences in a target domain using only their source-domain behavior, yet existin

arXiv:2604.08295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI models grow more complex, explainability is essential for building trust, yet concept-based counterfactual methods still face a trade-off betwee

arXiv:2608.10295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen foundation-model (FM) embeddings are increasingly used as off-the-shelf brain-MRI representations, on the assumption that they capture anatomy.

arXiv:2608.10420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning shortcuts are solutions of a neurosymbolic system's rules that produce correct predictions through unintended concepts. A recent framework of

arXiv:2608.07594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretability is often treated as a tax on capability: language models are trained as opaque systems, then explained after the fact, with methods w

I'm a retired platform engineer, coding mainly in Rust, and involved with a ML study group. I developed a ML programming language (alternative to Python, Colab) to help me learn (and teach) ML concept

arXiv:2608.05455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a student must learn concepts connected by prerequisite dependencies, when does the order of instruction matter, and what does it cost to find the