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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates — Daemon Tools, a wi

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🆕 @katiemiller has started following @GaryMarcus

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Katie Miller began following Gary Marcus on X (formerly Twitter). Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher known for his public commentary on artificial intelligence and technology polic

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Kernel Treatment Effects with Adaptively Collected Data

arXiv:2510.10245v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptive experiments improve efficiency by adjusting treatment assignments based on past outcomes, but this adaptivity breaks the i.i.d. assum

Kinematic Kitbashing

arXiv:2510.13048v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Kinematic Kitbashing, an optimization framework that synthesizes articulated 3D objects by assembling reusable parts conditioned on an

Know Yourself Better: Diverse Object-Related Features Improve Open Set Recognition

arXiv:2404.10370v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open set recognition (OSR) is a critical aspect of machine learning, addressing the challenge of detecting novel classes during inference. Within th

Knowledge-Based Design Requirements for Generative Social Robots in Higher Education

arXiv:2602.12873v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative social robots (GSRs) powered by large language models enable adaptive, conversational tutoring but also introduce risks such as mis

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Agents

Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)

@mingchikuo: Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 — 【Industry Check Update】O

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LabBuilder: Protocol-Grounded 3D Layout Generation for Interactable and Safe Laboratory

arXiv:2605.02288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated laboratories hold the promise of accelerating scientific discovery, yet their deployment is bottlenecked by the difficulty of designing safe a

Hardware

Lambda assembles leadership team to power gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure for the superintelligence era

Lambda Labs has assembled a new leadership team to develop and manage large-scale AI infrastructure capable of supporting gigawatt-level power consumption for advanced AI models. The company is positi

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Language models recognize dropout and Gaussian noise applied to their activations

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arXiv:2604.17465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We provide evidence that language models can detect, localize and, to a certain degree, verbalize the difference between perturbations applied to th

Laplacian Frequency Interaction Network for Rural Thematic Road Extraction

arXiv:2605.02866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rural thematic road network construction aims to extract topological road structures from movement trajectory images of agricultural machinery. However,

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Agents

Large Language Models for Multi-Robot Systems: A Survey

arXiv:2502.03814v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities in Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), enabling enhanced communication, ta

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Large margin classifier with graph-based adaptive regularization

arXiv:2605.02027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces the use of per-class regularization hyperparameters in Gabriel graph-based binary classifiers. We demonstrate how the quality inde

Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana

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This newsletter episode covers recent AI industry developments including a legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, Microsoft's involvement in AI developments, the release of DeepSeek's v4 model, a

Latent Bridge: Feature Delta Prediction for Efficient Dual-System Vision-Language-Action Model Inference

arXiv:2605.02739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dual-system Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve state-of-the-art robotic manipulation but are bottlenecked by the VLM backbone, which must execu

Latent Space Probing for Adult Content Detection in Video Generative Models

arXiv:2605.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of AI-powered video generation systems has introduced significant challenges in content moderation, particularly with respect to

Latent Trajectory Dynamics in Large Language Models: A Manifold Evolution Framework with Empirical Validation

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arXiv:2505.20340v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how latent representations evolve during generation is a central open problem in large language model interpretability. We introduce e

LatentDiff: Scaling Semantic Dataset Comparison to Millions of Images

arXiv:2605.00899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present LatentDiff, a scalable framework for semantic dataset comparison that operates directly in the latent space of pretrained vision encoders. By

Lateral String Stability for Vehicle Platoons: Formulation, Definition, and Analysis

arXiv:2605.01731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Platooning of connected and automated vehicles provides significant benefits in terms of energy efficiency, traffic throughput, and, most critically, sa

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Tools

Launch Week Livestream https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RJZzjgBajbJB

Pinecone hosted a Launch Week livestream event to showcase new product features, updates, or announcements related to their vector database platform. The livestream was broadcasted on X (formerly Twit

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Hardware

LEAP: Layer-wise Exit-Aware Pretraining for Efficient Transformer Inference

arXiv:2605.01058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Layer-aligned distillation and convergence-based early exit represent two predominant computational efficiency paradigms for transformer inference; ye

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Learn more on our blog https://blog.comfy.org/p/luma-uni-1-is-now-available-via-partner

Luma Uni 1 is now available through partner integration with ComfyUI, a node-based UI platform for AI image generation and processing. This announcement indicates that users can access Luma Uni 1's ca

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Learn-to-learn on Arbitrary Textual Conditioning: A Hypernetwork-Driven Meta-Gated LLM

arXiv:2605.01973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional LLMs may suffer from corpus heterogeneity and subtle condition changes. While finetuning can create the catastrophe forgetting issue, appli

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Learning a Stochastic Differential Equation Model of Tropical Cyclone Intensification from Reanalysis and Observational Data

arXiv:2601.08116v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tropical cyclones are dangerous natural hazards, but their hazard is challenging to quantify directly from historical datasets due to limited datase

Learning Decomposed Contextual Token Representations from Pretrained and Collaborative Signals for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2509.10468v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommenders adopt a two-stage paradigm: items are first tokenized into semantic IDs using a pretrained tokenize

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Learning Discriminators for Resampling in the Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filter through a Normalizing Flow Approach

arXiv:2605.01089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ensemble Gaussian mixture filter (EnGMF) is a powerful, convergent particle filter capable of medium-to-high dimensional non-linear filtering. The E

Learning Equivariant Neural-Augmented Object Dynamics From Few Interactions

arXiv:2605.02699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning data-efficient object dynamics models for robotic manipulation remains challenging, especially for deformable objects. A popular approach is

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Learning in the Fisher Subspace: A Guided Initialization for LoRA Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2605.01046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LoRA adapts large language models (LLMs) by restricting updates to low-rank subspaces of pre-trained weights. While this substantially reduces training

Learning Koopman operators for coupled systems via information on governing equations of subsystems

arXiv:2605.01835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonlinear coupled systems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. The analysis and modeling of such systems is challenging due to their high dimensio

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Learning to Act Through Contact: A Unified View of Multi-Task Robot Learning

arXiv:2510.03599v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of

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Learning to Place Objects with Programs and Iterative Self Training

arXiv:2503.04496v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work we study indoor scene object placement. Given a 3D indoor scene and an object, the task is to predict placement locations within

Learning to Race in Minutes: Infoprop Dyna on the Mini Wheelbot

arXiv:2605.01096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enable robots with fast, nonlinear, and unstable dynamics to reach the limits of their performance. How

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Led to Mislead: Adversarial Content Injection for Attacks on Neural Ranking Models

arXiv:2605.01591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Ranking Models (NRMs) are central to modern information retrieval but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. Existing attacks of

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Less is More: Geometric Unlearning for LLMs with Minimal Data Disclosure

arXiv:2605.01735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world systems, they must support post-hoc removal of specific content to meet privacy

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Less Precise Can Be More Reliable: A Systematic Evaluation of Quantization's Impact on VLMs Beyond Accuracy

arXiv:2509.21173v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have revolutionized zero-shot classification and safety-critical tasks, including Out-of-Distribution (OO

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Industry

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (Alice Speri/The Guardian)

Alice Speri / The Guardian: Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive

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Leveraging Argument Structure to Predict Content Hatefulness

arXiv:2605.02457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information disorder is a challenging phenomenon that affects society at large. This phenomenon entails the diffusion of misleading, misinforming, and h

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Leveraging Data Symmetries to Select an Optimal Subset of Training Data under Label Noise

arXiv:2605.01874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of machine learning models often relies on large labeled datasets; however, data collected from diverse sources can contain label noise.

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Leveraging Ensemble-Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Illicit Account Detection in Ethereum DeFi Transactions

arXiv:2412.02408v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of smart contracts has enabled the rapid rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on the Ethereum blockchain, offering substantial rewa

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Leveraging Imperfect Medical Data: A Manifold-Consistent Spatio-Temporal Network for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2605.00913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention in medical and healthcare monitoring, particularly with the growth of I

LGDWT-GS: Local and Global Discrete Wavelet-Regularized 3D Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-View Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2601.17185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a new method for few-shot 3D reconstruction that integrates global and local frequency regularization to stabilize geometry and preserve

LiDAR for Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Survey of Applications, AI Techniques, and Future Directions

arXiv:2605.00879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rehabilitation aims to help patients with limited mobility regain their physical abilities through targeted movements, exercises, stimulation, and other

LiDAR Teach, Radar Repeat: Robust Cross-Modal Navigation in Degenerate and Varying Environments

arXiv:2605.02809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term autonomy requires robust navigation in environments subject to dynamic and static changes, as well as adverse weather conditions. Teach-and-Re

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LIE: LiDAR-only HD Map Construction with Intensity Enhancement via Online Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2605.01478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online High-Definition (HD) map construction is a key component of autonomous driving. Recent methods rely on multi-view camera images for cost-effectiv

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Ligandformer: A Graph Neural Network for Predicting Compound Property with Robust Interpretation

arXiv:2202.10873v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust and efficient interpretation of QSAR methods is quite useful to validate AI prediction rationales with subjective opinion (chemist or b

Limited-Angle Tomography Reconstruction via Projector Guided 3D Diffusion

arXiv:2510.06516v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Limited-angle electron tomography aims to reconstruct 3D shapes from 2D projections of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) within a restricted ra

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Linear-Readout Floors and Threshold Recovery in Computation in Superposition

arXiv:2605.01192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two recent approaches to computation in superposition reach different recursive capacity regimes: Hanni et al. certify ilde{O}(d^{3/2}) computable featu

Linear-Time Global Visual Modeling without Explicit Attention

arXiv:2605.01711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing research largely attributes the global sequence modeling capability of Transformers to the explicit computation of attention weights, a process