High-resolution weather-guided surrogate modeling for data-efficient cross-location building energy prediction
arXiv:2603.11121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building design optimization often depends on physics-based simulation tools such as EnergyPlus, which, although accurate, are computationally expensive and slow. Surrogate models provide a faster alternative, yet most are location-specific, and even weather-informed variants require...
Reference-Guided Machine Unlearning
arXiv:2603.11210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models while preserving general utility. Existing approximate unlearning methods often rely on performance-degradation heuristics, such as loss maximization or random labeling. However, these...
Harnessing Data Asymmetry: Manifold Learning in the Finsler World
arXiv:2603.11396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manifold learning is a fundamental task at the core of data analysis and visualisation. It aims to capture the simple underlying structure of complex high-dimensional data by preserving pairwise dissimilarities in low-dimensional embeddings. Traditional methods...
A Stable Neural Statistical Dependence Estimator for Autoencoder Feature Analysis
arXiv:2603.11428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical dependence measures like mutual information is ideal for analyzing autoencoders, but it can be ill-posed for deterministic, static, noise-free networks. We adopt the variational (Gaussian) formulation that makes dependence among inputs, latents, and reconstructions...
UniHetCO: A Unified Heterogeneous Representation for Multi-Problem Learning in Unsupervised Neural Combinatorial Optimization
arXiv:2603.11456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) offers an appealing alternative to supervised approaches by training learning-based solvers without ground-truth solutions, directly minimizing instance objectives and constraint violations. Yet for graph node subset-selection problems (e.g., Maximum Clique...
Bridging Discrete Marks and Continuous Dynamics: Dual-Path Cross-Interaction for Marked Temporal Point Processes
arXiv:2603.11462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting irregularly spaced event sequences with discrete marks poses significant challenges due to the complex, asynchronous dependencies embedded within continuous-time data streams.Existing sequential approaches capture dependencies among event tokens but ignore the continuous evolution between...
SENS-ASR: Semantic Embedding injection in Neural-transducer for Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition
arXiv:2603.10005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications require streaming processing of the audio data. In streaming mode, ASR systems need to start transcribing the input stream before it is complete, i.e., the systems have to process...
The Prediction-Measurement Gap: Toward Meaning Representations as Scientific Instruments
arXiv:2603.10130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text embeddings have become central to computational social science and psychology, enabling scalable measurement of meaning and mixed-method inference. Yet most representation learning is optimized and evaluated for prediction and retrieval, yielding a prediction-measurement gap:...
Adaptive Activation Cancellation for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.10195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models frequently generate fluent but factually incorrect text. We propose Adaptive Activation Cancellation (AAC), a real-time inference-time framework that treats hallucination-associated neural activations as structured interference within the transformer residual stream, drawing an...
ViDia2Std: A Parallel Corpus and Methods for Low-Resource Vietnamese Dialect-to-Standard Translation
arXiv:2603.10211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vietnamese exhibits extensive dialectal variation, posing challenges for NLP systems trained predominantly on standard Vietnamese. Such systems often underperform on dialectal inputs, especially from underrepresented Central and Southern regions. Previous work on dialect normalization has...
LWM-Temporal: Sparse Spatio-Temporal Attention for Wireless Channel Representation Learning
arXiv:2603.10024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LWM-Temporal is a new member of the Large Wireless Models (LWM) family that targets the spatiotemporal nature of wireless channels. Designed as a task-agnostic foundation model, LWM-Temporal learns universal channel embeddings that capture mobility-induced evolution...
Optimal Expert-Attention Allocation in Mixture-of-Experts: A Scalable Law for Dynamic Model Design
arXiv:2603.10379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel extension of neural scaling laws to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, focusing on the optimal allocation of compute between expert and attention sub-layers. As MoE architectures have emerged as an efficient method...
AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard
This song is an AI actor's rallying cry to other AI actors, urging them to keep going despite the naysayers who doubt their humanity. Literally no one can relate to this.
The Confidence Gate Theorem: When Should Ranked Decision Systems Abstain?
arXiv:2603.09947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ranked decision systems -- recommenders, ad auctions, clinical triage queues -- must decide when to intervene in ranked outputs and when to abstain. We study when confidence-based abstention monotonically improves decision quality, and when it...
AI Act Evaluation Benchmark: An Open, Transparent, and Reproducible Evaluation Dataset for NLP and RAG Systems
arXiv:2603.09435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rollout of AI in heterogeneous public and societal sectors has subsequently escalated the need for compliance with regulatory standards and frameworks. The EU AI Act has emerged as a landmark in the regulatory...
EPIC-EuroParl-UdS: Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting
arXiv:2603.09785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces an updated and combined version of the bidirectional English-German EPIC-UdS (spoken) and EuroParl-UdS (written) corpora containing original European Parliament speeches as well as their translations and interpretations. The new version corrects metadata...
N-gram-like Language Models Predict Reading Time Best
arXiv:2603.09872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has found that contemporary language models such as transformers can become so good at next-word prediction that the probabilities they calculate become worse for predicting reading time. In this paper, we propose that...
BiCLIP: Domain Canonicalization via Structured Geometric Transformation
arXiv:2603.08942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities, yet adapting these models to specialized domains remains a significant challenge. Building on recent theoretical insights suggesting that independently trained VLMs are related by...
Generalized Reduction to the Isotropy for Flexible Equivariant Neural Fields
arXiv:2603.08758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many geometric learning problems require invariants on heterogeneous product spaces, i.e., products of distinct spaces carrying different group actions, where standard techniques do not directly apply. We show that, when a group $G$ acts transitively...
Are Expressive Encoders Necessary for Discrete Graph Generation?
arXiv:2603.08825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete graph generation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling graph data, often relying on highly expressive neural backbones such as transformers or higher-order architectures. We revisit this design choice by introducing GenGNN, a...
MAPLE: Elevating Medical Reasoning from Statistical Consensus to Process-Led Alignment
arXiv:2603.08987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in medical large language models have explored Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) to enhance reasoning. However, standard TTRL often relies on majority voting (MV) as a heuristic supervision signal, which can be unreliable in...
$P^2$GNN: Two Prototype Sets to boost GNN Performance
arXiv:2603.09195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Message Passing Graph Neural Networks (MP-GNNs) have garnered attention for addressing various industry challenges, such as user recommendation and fraud detection. However, they face two major hurdles: (1) heavy reliance on local context, often lacking...
RILEC: Detection and Generation of L1 Russian Interference Errors in English Learner Texts
arXiv:2603.07366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many errors in student essays can be explained by influence from the native language (L1). L1 interference refers to errors influenced by a speaker's first language, such as using stadion instead of stadium, reflecting lexical...
A Joint Neural Baseline for Concept, Assertion, and Relation Extraction from Clinical Text
arXiv:2603.07487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical information extraction (e.g., 2010 i2b2/VA challenge) usually presents tasks of concept recognition, assertion classification, and relation extraction. Jointly modeling the multi-stage tasks in the clinical domain is an underexplored topic. The existing independent task...
Bolbosh: Script-Aware Flow Matching for Kashmiri Text-to-Speech
arXiv:2603.07513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kashmiri is spoken by around 7 million people but remains critically underserved in speech technology, despite its official status and rich linguistic heritage. The lack of robust Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems limits digital accessibility and inclusive...
Correlation Analysis of Generative Models
arXiv:2603.06614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Based on literature review about existing diffusion models and flow matching with a neural network to predict a predefined target from noisy data, a unified representation is first proposed for these models using two simple...
Distilling and Adapting: A Topology-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Interaction Prediction in Multiplex Biological Networks
arXiv:2603.06618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiplex Biological Networks (MBNs), which represent multiple interaction types between entities, are crucial for understanding complex biological systems. Yet, existing methods often inadequately model multiplexity, struggle to integrate structural and sequence information, and face difficulties...
Don't Freeze, Don't Crash: Extending the Safe Operating Range of Neural Navigation in Dense Crowds
arXiv:2603.06729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating safely through dense crowds requires collision avoidance that generalizes beyond the densities seen during training. Learning-based crowd navigation can break under out-of-distribution crowd sizes due to density-sensitive observation normalization and social-cost scaling, while analytical...
JAWS: Enhancing Long-term Rollout of Neural Operators via Spatially-Adaptive Jacobian Regularization
arXiv:2603.05538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven surrogate models improve the efficiency of simulating continuous dynamical systems, yet their autoregressive rollouts are often limited by instability and spectral blow-up. While global regularization techniques can enforce contractive dynamics, they uniformly damp high-frequency...
Boosting deep Reinforcement Learning using pretraining with Logical Options
arXiv:2603.06565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning agents are often misaligned, as they over-exploit early reward signals. Recently, several symbolic approaches have addressed these challenges by encoding sparse objectives along with aligned plans. However, purely symbolic architectures are complex...