Longitudinal Risk Prediction in Mammography with Privileged History Distillation
arXiv:2603.15814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Longitudinal mammography risk prediction models improve multi-year breast cancer risk prediction based on prior screening exams. However, in real-world clinical practice, longitudinal histories are often...
Counteractive RL: Rethinking Core Principles for Efficient and Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.15871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Following the pivotal success of learning strategies to win at tasks, solely by interacting with an environment without any supervision, agents have gained the ability to make sequential decisions in complex MDPs. Yet, reinforcement learning...
Game-Theory-Assisted Reinforcement Learning for Border Defense: Early Termination based on Analytical Solutions
arXiv:2603.15907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Game theory provides the gold standard for analyzing adversarial engagements, offering strong optimality guarantees. However, these guarantees often become brittle when assumptions such as perfect information are violated. Reinforcement learning (RL), by contrast, is adaptive...
Deriving Hyperparameter Scaling Laws via Modern Optimization Theory
arXiv:2603.15958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperparameter transfer has become an important component of modern large-scale training recipes. Existing methods, such as muP, primarily focus on transfer between model sizes, with transfer across batch sizes and training horizons often relying on...
W2T: LoRA Weights Already Know What They Can Do
arXiv:2603.15990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Each LoRA checkpoint compactly stores task-specific updates in low-rank weight matrices, offering an efficient way to adapt large language models to new tasks and domains. In principle, these weights already encode what the adapter does...
The Importance of Being Smoothly Calibrated
arXiv:2603.16015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has highlighted the centrality of smooth calibration [Kakade and Foster, 2008] as a robust measure of calibration error. We generalize, unify, and extend previous results on smooth calibration, both as a robust calibration...
Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app
Judge tosses Musi case against Apple, sanctions lawyers for "mak[ing] up facts."
Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation
Desert state becomes first to file criminal case against prediction platform.
The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says
After their dramatic falling-out, it doesn't seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.
BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue
BuzzFeed unveiled new AI-powered social apps at SXSW, but its demos drew muted reactions.
Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users
Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses.
AI’s ‘boys’ club’ could widen the wealth gap for women, says Rana el Kaliouby
AI investor Rana el Kaliouby warns that if women are shut out of AI funding and leadership, the consequences will be grim.
World launches tool to verify humans behind AI shopping agents
As AI agents take the reins for online shoppers, Sam Altman's unconventional startup is looking to expand its verification offerings to support agentic commerce.
Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs
The company raised $12 million in seed funding to measure and manage GPU power surges.
Gamma adds AI image-generation tools in bid to take on Canva and Adobe
The company's new product, called Gamma Imagine, will let users employ text prompts to create brand-specific assets like interactive charts and visualizations, marketing collateral, social graphics, and infographics.
Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace
Picsart's AI agent marketplace will launch with four agents, then add more agents each week.
Her Fundamental Right To Procreate: The Unconstitutionality Of Abortion Bans
As she was wheeled into surgery, Amber Thurman said to her mother, “Promise me you’ll take care of my son.” She was suffering a rare complication from the abortion pill that she was legally prescribed at nine weeks of pregnancy....
PA-Net: Precipitation-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Tail Rainfall Nowcasting
arXiv:2603.13818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precipitation nowcasting is vital for flood warning, agricultural management, and emergency response, yet two bottlenecks persist: the prohibitive cost of modeling million-scale spatiotemporal tokens from multi-variate atmospheric fields, and the extreme long-tailed rainfall distribution where...
Prompt Complexity Dilutes Structured Reasoning: A Follow-Up Study on the Car Wash Problem
arXiv:2603.13351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a previous study [Jo, 2026], STAR reasoning (Situation, Task, Action, Result) raised car wash problem accuracy from 0% to 85% on Claude Sonnet 4.5, and to 100% with additional prompt layers. This follow-up asks:...
AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints
arXiv:2603.13348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) to scale up the explicit reasoning process to achieve better performance. However, there are some key challenges...
Agent-Based User-Adaptive Filtering for Categorized Harassing Communication
arXiv:2603.13288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an agent-based framework for personalized filtering of categorized harassing communication in online social networks. Unlike global moderation systems that apply uniform filtering rules, our approach models user-specific tolerance levels and preferences through adaptive...
LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction
arXiv:2603.13773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web information extraction (WIE) is the task of automatically extracting data from web pages, offering high utility for various applications. The evaluation of WIE systems has traditionally relied on benchmarks built from HTML snapshots captured...
Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.13765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a resource-efficient framework for compressing large language models through knowledge distillation, combined with guided chain-of-thought reinforcement learning. Using Qwen 3B as the teacher and Qwen 0.5B as the student, we apply knowledge distillation...
Projection-Free Evolution Strategies for Continuous Prompt Search
arXiv:2603.13786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous prompt search offers a computationally efficient alternative to conventional parameter tuning in natural language processing tasks. Nevertheless, its practical effectiveness can be significantly hindered by the black-box nature and the inherent high-dimensionality of the...
GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
arXiv:2603.13793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low resource languages present unique challenges for natural language processing due to the limited availability of digitized and well structured linguistic data. To address this gap, the GhanaNLP initiative has developed and curated 41,513 parallel...
Traffic and weather driven hybrid digital twin for bridge monitoring
arXiv:2603.14028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hybrid digital twin framework is presented for bridge condition monitoring using existing traffic cameras and weather APIs, reducing reliance on dedicated sensor installations. The approach is demonstrated on the Peace Bridge (99 years in...
Formal Abductive Explanations for Navigating Mental Health Help-Seeking and Diversity in Tech Workplaces
arXiv:2603.14007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work proposes a formal abductive explanation framework designed to systematically uncover rationales underlying AI predictions of mental health help-seeking within tech workplace settings. By computing rigorous justifications for model outputs, this approach enables principled...
vla-eval: A Unified Evaluation Harness for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603.13966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Action VLA models are typically evaluated using per benchmark scripts maintained independently by each model repository, leading to duplicated code, dependency conflicts, and underspecified protocols. We present vla eval, an open source evaluation...
Explain in Your Own Words: Improving Reasoning via Token-Selective Dual Knowledge Distillation
arXiv:2603.13260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) can transfer the reasoning abilities of large models to smaller ones, which can reduce the costs to generate Chain-of-Thoughts for reasoning tasks. KD methods typically ask the student to mimic the teacher's...
MeTok: An Efficient Meteorological Tokenization with Hyper-Aligned Group Learning for Precipitation Nowcasting
arXiv:2603.13752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Transformer-based architectures have advanced meteorological prediction. However, this position-centric tokenizer conflicts with the core principle of meteorological systems, where the weather phenomena undoubtedly involve synergistic interactions among multiple elements while positional information constitutes merely...