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Solve for the Hyperparameter, Skip the Search: Kolmogorov-Optimal Scaling Laws for Spline Regression

arXiv:2606.23575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperparameter tuning almost always means search: fit the model at every value on a grid, score each by cross-validation, and keep the winner. For splin

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Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners

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Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat

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Sony releases trailer for Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun

Sony released the first trailer for Taika Waititi's dystopian sci-fi film 'Klara and the Sun,' starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Natasha Lyonne. The film is based on Kazuo Ishiguro's New York Time

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Sony’s AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks

When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with

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Soros wants to end Western Civilization

Soros wants to end Western Civilization The open society and its enemy, Soros. While he named his Open Society Foundations after Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” his project stands as

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Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to 50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals — Abu Dhabi's MGX ha

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Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~1B at a ~7.5B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~1B at a ~7.5B post-money valuation — Company runs AI-powered factories tha

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Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers — The experimental app, internal

Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems

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Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M — US

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Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between 20B and 25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about $89B of demand (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between 20B and 25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about 89B of demand — SpaceX Loses 600 Billion in Value Over Three Days — Video Player is

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio — Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negot

Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement — Federal officials are urg

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South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading — Global stocks sold

Sovereign Execution Broker: Enforcing Certificate-Bound Authority in Agentic Control Planes

arXiv:2606.20520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous agents are increasingly connected to cloud, deployment, and data-control workflows, but production mutation authority should not re

SPAR: Semantic-Pixel Self-Alignment and Adaptive Routing for Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2606.23041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in visual understanding but remain constrained in visual generation due to the

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SPARC: A Multi-Agent System for Electrical Circuit Question Answering

arXiv:2606.20643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electrical circuit diagram QA tasks require complex mathematical reasoning, which remains challenging for multimodal LLMs. We present SPARC, a multi-a

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Spark: Strategic Policy-Aware Exploration via Dynamic Branching for Long-Horizon Agentic Learning

arXiv:2601.20209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning has empowered large language models to act as intelligent agents, yet training them for long-horizon tasks remains challengin

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Sparse Point-Guided Fusion of Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning Model for Seaweed Segmentation

arXiv:2606.21026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ocean plays a critical role in sustainable development, particularly in climate change mitigation. Among marine ecosystems, blue carbon ecosystems a

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SparseWorld: Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving via World Models with Sparse Scene Representation

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arXiv:2605.24354v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, world models have made significant progress in enhancing end-to-end driving systems through both future situation forecasting and improved

Spatially Grounded Concept-Based Image Classification

arXiv:2510.04180v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks can achieve high accuracy while relying on evidence that is hard to inspect or misaligned with the intended task. Concept Bottl

Spatio-Temporal Wildfire Spread Prediction in Canada using a Video Swin-Hybrid-U-Net and Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2606.20693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Wildfires in Canada present increasing threats to ecosystems, communities, and infrastructure, demanding accurate forecasting tools to aid m

Specialize Roles, Mix Deployments: Pushing the Cost-Accuracy Frontier of LLM Agent Teams

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arXiv:2606.20629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed as multi-role teams, where tasks are divided across specialized roles such as planner, executor, and verifier. In

Specificity- and Calibration-Aware Breast Ultrasound Segmentation via Entropy-Guided Boundary Supervision

arXiv:2606.22308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lesion segmentation in breast ultrasound involves two related challenges. In images with lesions, speckle noise, low tissue contrast, and posterior ac

Spectral Gating via Damped Oscillations for Adaptive Implicit Neural Representations

arXiv:2606.23129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have been proven successful in encoding continuous signals through coordinate-based networks, yet facing a spectr

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Spectral GS-SLAM: Observability-Aware, Degeneracy-Robust Tracking for Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM

arXiv:2606.21258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent 3DGS-SLAM systems enable real-time operation by leveraging conventional feature matching or ICP-based tracking, thereby avoiding the heavy dens

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Spectrally Safe Neural Operator Warm-Starts for Large-Scale Newton Solvers

arXiv:2606.21828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural operators are increasingly used to warm-start Newton solvers for nonlinear PDEs, on the premise that a low test error places the initial guess

SPiralRoll: A Novel Adjustable-Stiffness Underactuated 3-DoF Joint with Torsion Springs for Rolling Robots

arXiv:2606.22443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compliant mechanisms are important in robotics because they can improve adaptability, safety, and energy efficiency while reducing hardware complexity.

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SPOT-E: Test-Time Entropy Shaping with Visual Spotlights for Frozen VLMs

arXiv:2606.20244v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) often underperform on evidence intensive tasks because decisive visual evidence are small, localized, and easy to over

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SpotAttention: Plug-In Block-Sparse Routing for Pretrained Long-Context Transformers

arXiv:2606.22874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long contexts have become standard in pretrained LLMs, yet they remain expensive to run: prefill compute grows quadratically with sequence length, and e

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SPOTR: Spatio-temporal Pooling One-Token Reconstruction for Universal Physiological Signal Self-supervised Learning

arXiv:2606.21973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physiological signals such as EEG, ECG, and PPG are widely used in clinical monitoring. Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods offer an attractiv

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SQLConductor: Search-to-Policy Learning for Step-wise Text-to-SQL Orchestration

arXiv:2606.23537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-SQL enables users to access relational databases via natural language, but real-world settings remain challenging due to coordinated reasoning

Stabilizing Consistency Training: A Flow Map Analysis and Self-Distillation

arXiv:2601.22679v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Consistency models have been proposed for fast generative modeling, achieving results competitive with diffusion and flow models. However, the

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Stable Transformer-Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control: A Contraction Analysis Approach

arXiv:2606.20197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control (MPC) effectively addresses complex, non-convex control problems, but guaranteeing the closed-loop stability o

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Stage-dependent integer-binary encoding in factorization-machine black-box optimization

arXiv:2606.23188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box optimization (BBO) deals with problems where objective functions lack explicit analytical forms and are expensive to evaluate. Factorization m

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Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

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Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, sec

Stark, which has a deal to supply 'kamikaze' drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties — US billionaire's fun

Starlink coming to @AmericanAir next year!

Elon Musk announced via X that Starlink satellite internet service will be available on American Airlines flights beginning in the following year. This integration would provide passengers with high-s

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Stationary Robust Mean-Field Games under Model Mismatches

arXiv:2606.22579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in the real world is often limited by model mismatches between the training simulators and the true

Statistical Inference for Misspecified Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2606.22639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contextual bandit algorithms have transformed modern experimentation by enabling real-time adaptation for personalized treatment. Yet these advantages

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Statistical Matching via Schrodinger Bridge beyond Conditional Independence

arXiv:2606.22770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical matching combines partially overlapping datasets that share covariates X but observe the target Y and auxiliary variables Z separately. Clas

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Stealthy World Model Manipulation via Data Poisoning

arXiv:2606.18697v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model-based learning agents use learned world models to predict future states, plan actions, and adapt to new environments. However, the process of

Steer, Don't Solve: Training Small Critic Models for Large Code Agents

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arXiv:2606.21811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end code agent training is resource-intensive and plateaus on the strategy-level reasoning needed to resolve code issues, since jointly optimiz

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SteerVTE: Seamless Video Text Editing with Style and Glyph Control

arXiv:2606.23254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual text editing aims to precisely modify text in images and videos while preserving stylistic consistency and visual realism. Despite significant ad

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Stephen Miller on USAID: 'There is probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats …

Stephen Miller on USAID: 'There is probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats with less accountability, less oversight than USAID. They fu

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Stochastic Signed Distance Processes

arXiv:2606.20856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view surface reconstruction is a core problem in computer vision. One prominent line of work represents the surface implicitly as a signed distanc

Streaming Dense Voxel Representations for 3D Occupancy Prediction

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arXiv:2503.22087v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we explore dense voxel streaming for accurate and efficient 3D occupancy prediction. While dense voxel representations offer fine-gra

StreamPPG: Low-Latency rPPG Estimation via Consistent Privileged Learning

arXiv:2606.23186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) estimates the blood volume pulse (BVP) signal from facial videos, enabling contact-free health monitoring. Convention