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The Cancellation Hypothesis in Critic-Free RL: From Outcome Rewards to Token Credits

arXiv:2605.08666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A commonly accepted explanation of critic-free RL for LLMs, based on sequence-level rewards, is that it reinforces successful rollouts with a positive a

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The Cartesian Shortcut: Re-evaluate Vision Reasoning in Polar Coordinate Space

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arXiv:2605.09883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores gen

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The Convergence of Open Table Formats and Open Catalogs: Catalog Commits is Generally Available

Databricks announced the general availability of Catalog Commits, a feature that integrates open table formats with open catalog systems to enable versioning and tracking of catalog-level changes. Thi

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The Differences Between Direct Alignment Algorithms are a Blur

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arXiv:2502.01237v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) simplify LLM alignment by directly optimizing policies, bypassing reward modeling and RL. While DAAs differ in th

The Direct Integration Theorem: A Rigorous Framework for Consistent Discrete Solutions of the Inverse Radon Problem

arXiv:2605.09020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel Direct Integration Theorem (DIT), derived as a non-trivial corollary of the classical Central Slice Theorem (CST). The DIT p

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The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

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. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning econ

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The DSA's Blind Spot: Algorithmic Audit of Advertising and Minor Profiling on TikTok

arXiv:2603.05653v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adolescents spend an increasing amount of their time in digital environments where their still-developing cognitive capacities leave them unab

The Echo Amplifies the Knowledge: Somatic Marker Analogues in Language Models via Emotion Vector Re-Injection

arXiv:2605.08611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current language model memory systems store what happened but not how it felt. This distinction -- between semantic memory (knowing about a past event)

Hardware

The EDA Primer: From RTL to Silicon

The EDA Primer covers the semiconductor design and manufacturing workflow, explaining how Electronic Design Automation tools transform Register Transfer Level (RTL) code into physical silicon through

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The Ensemble Schr{odinger Bridge filter for Nonlinear Data Assimilation

arXiv:2512.18928v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work introduces a novel nonlinear optimal filtering method, termed the Ensemble Schr{odinger Bridge nonlinear filter. The proposed filter combi

The Extrapolation Cliff in On-Policy Distillation of Near-Deterministic Structured Outputs

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arXiv:2605.08737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is widely used for LLM post-training. When pushed with a reward-extrapolation coefficient lambda > 1, the student can lif

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The finite expression method for turbulent dynamics with high-order moment recovery

arXiv:2605.10687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turbulent dynamical systems are characterized by nonlinear interactions and stochastic effects that generate coupled statistical quantities, such as non

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The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Misleading Information in Long-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2605.10828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models are increasingly deployed in retrieval-augmented generation and agentic systems that accumulate extensive context, understandin

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The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're usin…

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1

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The Generalized Turing Test: A Foundation for Comparing Intelligence

arXiv:2605.10851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Generalized Turing Test (GTT), a formal framework for comparing the capabilities of arbitrary agents via indistinguishability. For agen

The Geometric Reasoner: Manifold-Informed Latent Foresight Search for Long-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2601.18832v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling test-time compute enhances long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, yet existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off between computa

The Geometric Structure of Models Learning Sparse Data

arXiv:2605.08464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The manifold hypothesis (MH) is often used to explain how machine learning can overcome the curse of dimensionality. However, the MH is only applicable

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The Geometric Wall: Manifold Structure Predicts Layerwise Sparse Autoencoder Scaling Laws

arXiv:2605.09887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) operationalise the linear representation hypothesis: they reconstruct model activations as sparse linear combinations of in

The Geometry of Forgetting: Temporal Knowledge Drift as an Independent Axis in LLM Representations

arXiv:2605.09195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models confidently produce outdated answers, and no existing method can detect them. We show this is not an engineering failure but a str

The Global Empirical NTK: Self-Referential Bias and Dimensionality of Gradient Descent Learning

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arXiv:2605.08746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In training a neural network with gradient descent (GD), each iteration induces a linear operator that governs first-order updates to a model's internal

The Gordian Knot for VLMs: Diagrammatic Knot Reasoning as a Hard Benchmark

arXiv:2605.09900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A vision-language model can look at a knot diagram and report what it sees, yet fail to act on that structure. KnotBench pairs an 858,318-image corpus f

The Grounding Gap: How LLMs Anchor the Meaning of Abstract Concepts Differently from Humans

arXiv:2605.08837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Abstract concepts - justice, theory, availability - have no single perceivable referent; in the human brain, their meaning emerges from a web of exper

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The Impact of Editorial Intervention on Detecting Native Language Traces

arXiv:2605.10216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) from their non-native writings. With the advent of huma

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The Invisible Handshake: Persistent Overpricing by Adaptive Market Agents

arXiv:2510.15995v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study overpricing in a repeated game between two representative agents: a market maker, who controls market liquidity, and a market taker,

The Last Word Often Wins: A Format Confound in Chain-of-Thought Corruption Studies

arXiv:2605.10799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Corruption studies, the primary tool for evaluating chain-of-thought (CoT) faithfulness, identify which chain positions are 'computationally important

The Metacognitive Probe: Five Behavioural Calibration Diagnostics for LLMs

arXiv:2605.09844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Metacognitive Probe is an exploratory five-task, 15-slot diagnostic that decomposes an LLM's confidence behaviour into five behaviourally-distinct d

the Mini Shai-Hulud attack is scary because it attacks new AI coding workflows like CI, editor hooks, agent configs, etc

The Mini Shai-Hulud attack targets emerging AI-assisted development workflows by compromising multiple integration points including continuous integration systems, code editor hooks, and AI agent conf

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The Mixing method: low-rank coordinate descent for semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints

arXiv:1706.00476v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a low-rank coordinate descent approach to structured semidefinite programming with diagonal constraints. The approac

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The new Cofounder site is literally a step-by-step guide on how to start a company. When i started my first company there was all sorts of s…

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The new Cofounder site is literally a step-by-step guide on how to start a company. When i started my first company there was all sorts of stuff i had to learn and all of the guides were SEO maxxed sl

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The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

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The Observable Wasserstein Distance

arXiv:2605.09916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Po

The Open-Box Fallacy: Why AI Deployment Needs a Calibrated Verification Regime

arXiv:2605.10601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI deployment in sensitive domains such as health care, credit, employment, and criminal justice is often treated as unsafe to authorize until model int

The Pokemon Theorem and other Fairness Impossibility Results

arXiv:2605.09221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness impossibility results often look like distinct scalar incompatibility statements. We show that several share one RKHS geometry: fairness crit

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The Polynomial Counting Capabilities of Message Passing Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.10393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The counting power of Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNN) has been the subject of many recent papers, showing that they can express logic that involv

The Power of Second Order Methods for Sequence Preconditioning

arXiv:2605.08390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequence prediction methods for dynamical systems with long memory, i.e. marginally stable systems, typically achieve regret that grows polynomially wit

The Procrustean Bed of Time Series: The Optimization Bias in Point-wise Loss Functions

arXiv:2512.18610v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intuitively, a more deterministic time series should be easier to forecast. However, point-wise loss functions (e.g., MSE and MAE), serving as diffe

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The Propagation Field: A Geometric Substrate Theory of Deep Learning

arXiv:2605.08529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep learning treats neural networks primarily as endpoint functions from inputs to outputs. Inspired by the shift from force to geometry in phys

The Realignment Problem: When Right becomes Wrong in LLMs

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arXiv:2511.02623v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training alignment of large language models (LLMs) relies on large-scale human annotations guided by policy specifications that change over tim

The Reciprocity Gradient

arXiv:2605.08323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication is fundamental to sustaining reciprocity and cooperation in strategic interactions. We identify and formulate the influence attribution

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The Rise of Sports Intelligence: How the Lakehouse Turns Tracking Data into Competitive Advantage

Databricks explores how lakehouse architecture enables sports organizations to process and analyze player tracking data at scale, converting raw motion capture and sensor information into actionable c

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The Safety-Aware Denoiser for Text Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.08116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work on text diffusion models offers a promising alternative to autoregressive generation, but controlling their safety remains underexplored.

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The Sample Complexity of Uniform Approximation for Multi-Dimensional CDFs and Fixed-Price Mechanisms

arXiv:2602.10868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the sample complexity of learning a uniform approximation of an n-dimensional cumulative distribution function (CDF) within an error epsilo

The scale of the infra on HF is insane. If you're still hosting models, datasets, agent memory,... in S3 or R2, talk to use and we can help …

Hugging Face offers substantial infrastructure capabilities for hosting machine learning models, datasets, and agent memory systems. The statement suggests that organizations currently using alternati

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The silent removal of Study Mode from ChatGPT is a big mistake (both Claude and Gemini still have theirs) We have enough evidence that using…

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The silent removal of Study Mode from ChatGPT is a big mistake (both Claude and Gemini still have theirs) We have enough evidence that using AI in assistant mode to study can hurt learning because it

The Silent Vote: Improving Zero-Shot LLM Reliability by Aggregating Semantic Neighborhoods

arXiv:2605.09739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly used as zero-shot classifiers in complex reasoning tasks. However, standard constrained decoding suffers from a

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The talks that will define what comes next in creativity. Vibecon brings the voices shaping code-as-medium to the stage in NYC June 17–18. G…

Vibecon is a conference hosted by Replit taking place in New York City on June 17-18 that features speakers and discussions about code-as-medium and the future of creative coding. The event brings tog

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The Trap of Trajectory: Towards Understanding and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Agentic Memory

arXiv:2605.09330v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic memory enables LLMs to persist information beyond a single context window and reuse it in later decisions, but it also introduces a new vulner

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The Truth Lies Somewhere in the Middle (of the Generated Tokens)

arXiv:2605.09969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How should hidden states generated autoregressively be collapsed into a representation that reflects a language model's internal state? Despite tokens

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