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Our internal AI agent was a brute-force nightmare. 🛑 It burned 40,000 tokens, took 2 minutes, and only hit 68% accuracy just to answer a single question. Why? Traditional databases are built for human

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Applications

Our research, as well as that of other researchers, shows better prompting techniques help a lot, but model training is still a huge limitin…

DGX agent

Ethan Mollick discusses research findings showing that while improved prompting techniques provide significant benefits for AI model performance, the underlying model training remains the primary limi

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11 May 2026

Outlier Smoothing with Closed-Form Rotations for W4A4 Large Language Model Quantization

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arXiv:2511.22316v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) quantization facilitates deploying LLMs in resource-limited settings, but existing methods that combine incompatible gr

Tools

Over 80% of issues detected with default effort are resolved by users at merge time. And with high effort, Bugbot finds 35% more bugs with t…

Cursor's Bugbot tool detects code issues during development, with over 80% of default-effort issues being resolved by users before code merge. The high-effort detection mode identifies 35% additional

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Local Ai

Overcoming data scarcity through multi-center federated learning for organs-at-risk segmentation in pediatric upper abdominal radiotherapy

arXiv:2605.06820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning-based organs/structures-at-risk(OARs) auto-contouring models can improve radiotherapy workflows, but models trained on adult data often

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Overview of the TREC 2025 RAGTIME Track

arXiv:2602.10024v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The principal goal of the RAG TREC Instrument for Multilingual Evaluation (RAGTIME) track at TREC is to study report generation from multiling

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PACEvolve++: Improving Test-time Learning for Evolutionary Search Agents

arXiv:2605.07039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have become drivers of evolutionary search, but most systems rely on a fixed, prompt-elicited policy to sample next candidates. Th

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PAIR-Former: Budgeted Relational Multi-Instance Learning for Functional miRNA Target Prediction

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arXiv:2602.00465v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Functional miRNA--mRNA targeting is a large-bag prediction problem where each transcript yields a heavy-tailed pool of candidate target sites

Agents

Palm-sized Omnidirectional Vision-Based UAV Exploration with Sparse Topological Map Guidance

arXiv:2605.07275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classic exploration methods often rely on dense occupancy maps or high-resolution point clouds for frontier detection and path planning, resulting in su

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Tutorials

PAMPOS: Causal Transformer-based Trajectory Prediction for Attack-Agnostic Misbehavior Detection in V2X Networks

arXiv:2605.06833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Misbehavior detection in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks is a second line of defense against insider falsification attacks that cryptographic mec

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Pan-FM: A Pan-Organ Foundation Model with Saliency-Guided Masking for Missing Robustness

arXiv:2605.07055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) have shown great promise in medical imaging, but most FMs are trained on unimodal data within isolated domains, such as brain

Parallel Lifted Planning via Semi-Naive Datalog Evaluation

arXiv:2605.07584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lifted classical planners operate directly on first-order planning tasks to avoid the computationally demanding grounding step. However, lifted planning

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Industry

Passengers from hantavirus ship arrive in US; 3 people in biocontainment

Eighteen U.S. cruise passengers from the MV Hondius returned to the U.S. on May 11, 2026, after weeks aboard the ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. One passenger tested 'mildly' posit

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PaT: Planning-after-Trial for Efficient Test-Time Code Generation

arXiv:2605.07248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Beyond training-time optimization, scaling test-time computation has emerged as a key paradigm to extend the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Mo

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Tutorials

Path Integration and Object-Location Binding Emerge in an Action-Conditioned Predictive Sequence Network

arXiv:2602.03490v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adaptive cognition requires structured internal models of objects and their relations. Predictive neural networks are often proposed to learn such w

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PathPainter: Transferring the Generalization Ability of Image Generation Models to Embodied Navigation

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arXiv:2605.07496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bird's-eye-view (BEV) images have been widely demonstrated to provide valuable prior information for navigation. Given the global information provided b

Penalty-Based First-Order Methods for Bilevel Optimization with Minimax and Constrained Lower-Level Problems

arXiv:2605.08006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a class of bilevel optimization problems in which both the upper- and lower-level problems have minimax structures. This setting captures a b

PerCaM-Health: Personalized Dynamic Causal Graphs for Healthcare Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.07267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized healthcare decisions require reasoning about how physiological and behavioral variables influence an individual patient over time. Existing

PerfCoder: Large Language Models for Interpretable Code Performance Optimization

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arXiv:2512.14018v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in automatic code generation, yet their ability to produce high-performance cod

Persistent-Transient Policy Evaluation for Markov Chains via Minimal Peripheral Quotients

arXiv:2602.00474v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study fixed-policy evaluation for finite Markov chains that may be reducible and periodic. Classical evaluation methods with gain and bias

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PersonaGest: Personalized Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Motion Representation

arXiv:2605.07252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Co-speech gesture generation aims to synthesize realistic body movements that are semantically coherent with speech and faithful to a user-specified g

PET-Adapter: Test-Time Domain Adaptation for Full and Limited-Angle PET Image Reconstruction

arXiv:2605.08030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further ex

Physical Simulators as Do-Operators: Causal Discovery under Latent Confounders for AI-for-Science

arXiv:2605.07467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing interventional causal discovery methods -- IGSP, DCDI, ENCO -- assume causal sufficiency (no latent confounders) and rely on virtual interven

Physics-Based Benchmarking Metrics for Multimodal Synthetic Images

arXiv:2511.15204v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current state of the art measures like BLEU, CIDEr, VQA score, SigLIP-2 and CLIPScore are often unable to capture semantic or structural accur

Physics-based Digital Twins for Integrated Thermal Energy Systems Using Active Learning

arXiv:2605.06756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time supervisory control of thermal energy distribution systems requires digital twins that are accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware, yet

Hardware

Physics-Based Flow Matching for Full-Field Prediction of Silicon Photonic Devices

arXiv:2605.06929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing photonic integrated circuits requires accurate electromagnetic field simulations, which remain computationally expensive even for simple dev

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Physics-Informed Reduced-Order Operator Learning for Hyperelasticity in Continuum Micromechanics

arXiv:2605.07738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-informed operator learning is an attractive candidate for surrogate modeling of microstructures, especially in multiscale finite-element simul

PhySPRING: Structure-Preserving Reduction of Physics-Informed Twins via GNN

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arXiv:2605.07687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-based digital twins aim to predict the dynamics of real-world objects under interaction, enabling real-to-sim-to-real applications in robotics.

PicoEyes: Unified Gaze Estimation Framework for Mixed Reality with a Large-Scale Multi-View Dataset

arXiv:2605.07188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PicoEyes, a unified gaze estimation framework that directly predicts all key attributes of gaze, including 3D eye parameters, eye-region segm

PISTO: Proximal Inference for Stochastic Trajectory Optimization

arXiv:2605.07215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic trajectory optimization methods like STOMP enable planning with non-differentiable costs, offering substantial flexibility over gradient-base

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PLOT: Progressive Localization via Optimal Transport in Neural Causal Abstraction

arXiv:2605.06979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal abstraction offers a principled framework for mechanistic interpretability, aligning a high-level causal model with the low-level computation r

POETS: Uncertainty-Aware LLM Optimization via Compute-Efficient Policy Ensembles

arXiv:2605.07775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Balancing exploration and exploitation is a core challenge in sequential decision-making and black-box optimization. We introduce POETS (extbf{Po}licy

PolarAdamW: Disentangling Spectral Control and Schur Gauge-Equivariance in Matrix Optimisation

arXiv:2605.07067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon's matrix-level update couples two distinct effects: spectral control via a polar map, and equivariance under orthogonal changes of multiplicity-spa

PolarVLM: Bridging the Semantic-Physical Gap in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2605.07574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream vision-language models (VLMs) fundamentally struggle with severe optical ambiguities, such as reflections and transparent objects, due to the

PolySQL: Scaling Text-to-SQL Evaluation Across SQL Dialects via Automated Backend Isomorphism

arXiv:2605.07796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SQL dialects vary in syntax, types, and functions across database engines. Text-to-SQL benchmarks, however, predominantly support only SQLite. This crea

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Position: Mechanistic Interpretability Must Disclose Identification Assumptions for Causal Claims

arXiv:2605.08012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability papers increasingly use causal vocabulary: circuits, mediators, causal abstraction, monosemanticity. Such claims require

Post-training makes large language models less human-like

arXiv:2605.07632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as surrogates for human participants, but it remains unclear which models best capture human behavi

PPI-Net connects molecular protein interactions to functional processes in disease

arXiv:2605.07838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how molecular alterations propagate across biological systems to drive disease remains a central challenge. Although high-throughput pro

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Pre-trained Tabular Foundation Models as Versatile Summary Networks for Neural Posterior Estimation

arXiv:2605.07765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we study TabPFN as a training-free, modular summary network for simulation-based Bayesian inference (SBI). Tabular foundation models such

Pre-training Enables Extraordinary All-optical Image Denoising

arXiv:2605.07810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optical neural networks are emerging as powerful machine learning and information processing tools because of their potential advantages in speed and

Local Ai

Predictive but Not Plannable: RC-aux for Latent World Models

arXiv:2605.07278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A latent world model may achieve accurate short-horizon prediction while still inducing a latent space that is poorly aligned with planning. A key iss

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Applications

Predictive quality starts where defect detection stops

Predictive quality extends beyond traditional defect detection by using data analytics and machine learning to anticipate quality issues before they occur rather than simply identifying existing defec

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Pretraining a Foundation Model for Small-Molecule Natural Products

arXiv:2503.17656v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural products, as metabolites from microorganisms, animals, or plants, exhibit diverse biological activities, making them crucial for drug

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Pretraining Induces a Reusable Spectral Basis for Downstream Task Adaptation

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arXiv:2605.07302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finetuning pretrained models occurs in a low-dimensional subspace of the full parameter space. Prior work has focused on characterizing this optimizatio

Pretty Good Measurement for Radiomics: A Quantum-Inspired Multi-Class Classifier for Lung Cancer Subtyping and Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification

arXiv:2603.00223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate a quantum-inspired approach to supervised multi-class classification based on the Pretty Good Measurement (PGM), viewed as an operato

PRIMED: Adaptive Modality Suppression for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation via Biased Competition

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arXiv:2605.07154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) seeks to localize and segment target objects in video frames based on visual, auditory, and textual referr

Privately Estimating Black-Box Statistics

arXiv:2510.00322v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard techniques for differentially private estimation, such as Laplace or Gaussian noise addition, require guaranteed bounds on the sensit

Agents

Proactive Instance Navigation with Comparative Judgment for Ambiguous User Queries

arXiv:2605.06223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Natural-language instance navigation becomes challenging when the initial user request does not uniquely specify the target instance. A practical ag

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