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Skillful high-resolution weather forecasting independent of physical models

arXiv:2605.28153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and timely weather forecasts are critical for high-impact decisions in modern society. Machine-learning-based weather prediction is emerging

SkillGrad: Optimizing Agent Skills Like Gradient Descent

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arXiv:2605.27760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills provide a lightweight way to adapt LLM agents to specialized domains by storing reusable procedural knowledge in structured files. However,

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Agents

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slide from The Redpoint InfraRed 100 is now live. These are the companies building the infrastructure that powers everything happening in AI right now, from world models and agent runtimes to the sand

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Smaller, Younger, and More Impactful: How AI-Assisted Writing Transforms Research Teams

arXiv:2605.27404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The era of Big Science has long been defined by increasingly large and specialized research teams pushing the frontiers of knowledge. However, recent

SmartDirector: Keyframe-Conditioned Cinematic Video Generation with Narrative Pacing Control

arXiv:2605.27891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The narrative quality of a video fundamentally determines its perceptual value. Although existing video generation methods can produce visually appeal

SmartIterator: Visual Analytics Workflows for Supervising Unsupervised Data Grouping

arXiv:2605.28219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised learning methods -- topic modeling, partition-based and density-based clustering -- produce data groupings without human guidance, yet ch

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SMILE-Next: Teaching Large Language Models to Detect, Classify, and Reason about Laughter

arXiv:2605.28084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Laughter is a complex social signal that conveys communicative intent beyond amusement. While prior work has focused on isolated laughter analysis tas

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Smoothed Score Queries and the Complexity of Sampling

arXiv:2605.27769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the query complexity of sampling from high-dimensional Gaussian distributions using gradient information. In the standard oracle model, exact

SNARE: Adaptive Scenario Synthesis for Eliciting Overeager Behavior in Coding Agents

arXiv:2605.28122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A coding agent executes a benign task as a sequence of shell, file, and network actions, any of which can quietly exceed the authorized scope while th

Snippet-Driven Supply Chain Discovery with LLMs: Scaling Visibility in China

arXiv:2605.27845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial and economic research often relies on structured supply-chain disclosures and commercial databases. In China, supplier--customer disclosure

Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon — Software stocks popped on Thursda

Snowveil: A Framework for Decentralised Preference Discovery

arXiv:2512.18444v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aggregating subjective preferences in social choice traditionally assumes a trusted central authority. In contrast, this paper formalises Dece

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Soft Specialists: alpha-Renyi Ensembles for Uncertainty-Aware LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2605.27747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing training approaches for large language models learn a single set of parameters, based on large volumes of data, which is typically heterogene

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Soft-SVeRL: Self-Verified Reinforcement Learning with Soft Rewards

arXiv:2605.28561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved language models in domains such as mathematics and code, where correctness can be che

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SONIC-O1: A Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Audio-Video Understanding

arXiv:2601.21666v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are a major focus of recent AI research. However, most prior work focuses on static image understanding, wh

Soro: A Lightweight Foundation Model and Chatbot for Tajik

arXiv:2605.27379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Soro, a family of Tajik-specialized conversational large language models (LLMs) designed for real-world deployment under tight compute and co

Hardware

Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures (Reuters)

Reuters: Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures — China is designing a futures ma

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Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October (Axios)

Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~12B valuation, up from 8B late last year, and hit 1.5B in ARR, up from 1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised

Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks — Senio

Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease — Apollo Global Management Inc

Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists — Music has been core to TikT

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy us…

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal

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SPAR: Support-Preserving Action Rectification

arXiv:2605.27877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline policy improvement faces an inherent conflict between maximizing value and fitting the data distribution. While in-sample weighted regression

SPARD: Defending Harmful Fine-Tuning Attack via Safety Projection with Relevance-Diversity Data Selection

arXiv:2605.28030v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models often undermines their safety alignment, a problem further amplified by harmful fine-tuning attacks in which adversa

Sparse POD Mode Selection and Manifold Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks

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arXiv:2605.27756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-performance computing enables simulation of high-dimensional physical systems, but downstream analyses such as inverse problems and control remai

Sparse Scheduled Diffusion Guidance for Inverse Problems

arXiv:2603.07860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models are effective priors for Bayesian inverse problems, but posterior sampling with these priors is often costly because dat

SparseOpt: Addressing Normalization-induced Gradient Skew in Sparse Training

arXiv:2605.27541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods train neural networks by maintaining sparsity while dynamically adapting the network topology. Despite the promise

Speaking of Language: Reflections on Metalanguage Research in NLP

arXiv:2604.02645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work aims to shine a spotlight on the topic of metalanguage. We first define metalanguage, link it to NLP and LLMs, and then discuss our

Spectacular work by @ClementDelangue and the team at @huggingface!

Spectacular work by @ClementDelangue and the team at @huggingface! The HF science team just made async RL weight sync ~100x cheaper on bandwidth, and you don't need a shared cluster anymore. The probl

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SPRINT: Efficient Spectral Priors for Humanoid Athletic Sprints

arXiv:2605.28549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The pursuit of humanoid athletic sprints is hindered by a scarcity of humanoid-viable kinematic reference data and the inability of existing framework

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SSR3D-LLM: Structured Spatial Reasoning via Latent Steps for Fine-Grained Grounding in Unified 3D-LLMs

arXiv:2605.28490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D object grounding localizes referred objects in a 3D scene from natural language. Unified instance-centric 3D-LLMs aim to solve grounding together w

ST-ColoNet: Spatio-Temporal Colon Segment Recognition via Hybrid Attention and Edge-Guided Feature Learning

arXiv:2605.28119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Colo-segment recognition in colonoscopy videos is a key requirement for many downstream tasks, but existing automatic recognition methods only use colon

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STAB: Specification-driven Testing for Algorithmic Bottlenecks

arXiv:2605.27981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the efficiency of algorithmic code requires test cases that expose runtime bottlenecks. Previous methods generate efficiency test cases eithe

Stabilizing distribution-free probabilistic forecasts

arXiv:2605.28531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step-ahead forecasts are often updated as new observations become available, since shorter forecast horizons typically improve forecast quality. H

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Stage-wise Distortion-Perception Traversal in Zero-shot Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.28711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The distortion-perception (D-P) tradeoff is a fundamental phenomenon of Bayesian inverse problems, which characterizes the inherent tension between dist

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Stance Detection in Prediction Markets: Addressing Imbalanced Trader Commentary via Counterfactual Augmentation and Market Context

arXiv:2605.28745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prediction markets such as Polymarket aggregate crowd beliefs into real-time probability estimates, and the comments traders post beneath each market co

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Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem

Starburst Data Inc. today is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with the introduction of a platform aimed at allowing organizations to run AI workloads directly on distributed

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Starlink has connected 167K @united flights and counting, delivering seamless internet gate to gate🛰️✈️

Starlink has connected 167K @united flights and counting, delivering seamless internet gate to gate🛰️✈️ Starlink powers the world’s biggest satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. What does that m

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Starlink powers the world’s biggest satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. What does that mean for you? We're rolling out the world’s f…

Starlink powers the world’s biggest satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. What does that mean for you? We're rolling out the world’s fastest, most reliable high-speed inflight Wi-Fi now — with w

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STARS: Spike Tail-Aware Relational Synthesis for ANN-to-SNN Data-Free Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2605.27409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SNNs promise energy-efficient and low-latency inference, but their performance still trails that of ANNs. ANN-to-SNN knowledge distillation helps narr

Stay Fair! Ensuring Group Fairness in Diffusion Models Across Guidance Scales

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arXiv:2605.28036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models steer conditional generation with a tunable guidance scale to trade off prompt alignment and diversity. However, existing debiasing tec

STFlow: Data-Coupled Flow Matching for Geometric Trajectory Simulation

arXiv:2505.18647v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulating trajectories of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in a wide range of fields such as molecular dynamics, biochemistry, and

Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum is Algorithmically Stable

arXiv:2605.28517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDM) is one of the most widely used optimization algorithms in machine learning. While optimization proper

Stop Rewarding Hallucinated Steps: Faithfulness-Aware Step-Level Reinforcement Learning for Small Reasoning Models

arXiv:2602.05897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models become smaller and more efficient, small reasoning models (SRMs) are crucial for enabling chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning

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Stop Suppressing the Tail: Causal Inference for Extreme Events

arXiv:2605.27474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating how an outcome responds to a continuous treatment (the Average Dose-Response Function, or ADRF) is a core causal-inference primitive. Howev

StoryLens: Preference-Aligned Story Rewriting via Context-Aware Narrative Enrichment

arXiv:2605.28073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Story rewriting aims to adapt existing narratives to diverse reader preferences while preserving plot consistency and narrative coherence. Unlike conv

StoryMI: Steerable Multi-Agent Therapeutic Dialogue Generation

arXiv:2605.27393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent dialogue, but prior works lack situational grounding, dynamic strategy control, and evaluation aligne

STR Robot: Design of an Autonomous Mobile Robot from Simulation to Reality

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arXiv:2605.28110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of simulation tools, the development and validation of autonomous robotic systems have become more efficient before real-worl