Causal Reconstruction of Sentiment Signals from Sparse News Data
arXiv:2603.23568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentiment signals derived from sparse news are commonly used in financial analysis and technology monitoring, yet transforming raw article-level observations into reliable temporal series remains a largely unsolved engineering problem. Rather than treating this as...
StateLinFormer: Stateful Training Enhancing Long-term Memory in Navigation
arXiv:2603.23571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective navigation intelligence relies on long-term memory to support both immediate generalization and sustained adaptation. However, existing approaches face a dilemma: modular systems rely on explicit mapping but lack flexibility, while Transformer-based end-to-end models are...
PoiCGAN: A Targeted Poisoning Based on Feature-Label Joint Perturbation in Federated Learning
arXiv:2603.23574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL), as a popular distributed learning paradigm, has shown outstanding performance in improving computational efficiency and protecting data privacy, and is widely applied in industrial image classification. However, due to its distributed nature,...
Residual Attention Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Robust Multiphysics Simulation of Steady-State Electrothermal Energy Systems
arXiv:2603.23578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient thermal management and precise field prediction are critical for the design of advanced energy systems, including electrohydrodynamic transport, microfluidic energy harvesters, and electrically driven thermal regulators. However, the steady-state simulation of these electrothermal coupled...
MetaKube: An Experience-Aware LLM Framework for Kubernetes Failure Diagnosis
arXiv:2603.23580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM-based Kubernetes diagnostic systems cannot learn from operational experience, operating on static knowledge bases without improving from past resolutions. We present MetaKube, an experience-aware LLM framework through three synergistic innovations: (1) an Episodic Pattern...
AI Generalisation Gap In Comorbid Sleep Disorder Staging
arXiv:2603.23582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate sleep staging is essential for diagnosing OSA and hypopnea in stroke patients. Although PSG is reliable, it is costly, labor-intensive, and manually scored. While deep learning enables automated EEG-based sleep staging in healthy subjects,...
LineMVGNN: Anti-Money Laundering with Line-Graph-Assisted Multi-View Graph Neural Networks
arXiv:2603.23584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anti-money laundering (AML) systems are important for protecting the global economy. However, conventional rule-based methods rely on domain knowledge, leading to suboptimal accuracy and a lack of scalability. Graph neural networks (GNNs) for digraphs (directed...
BXRL: Behavior-Explainable Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.23738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A major challenge of Reinforcement Learning is that agents often learn undesired behaviors that seem to defy the reward structure they were given. Explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) methods can answer queries such as "explain this...
Self Paced Gaussian Contextual Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.23755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curriculum learning improves reinforcement learning (RL) efficiency by sequencing tasks from simple to complex. However, many self-paced curriculum methods rely on computationally expensive inner-loop optimizations, limiting their scalability in high-dimensional context spaces. In this paper,...
Latent Algorithmic Structure Precedes Grokking: A Mechanistic Study of ReLU MLPs on Modular Arithmetic
arXiv:2603.23784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grokking-the phenomenon where validation accuracy of neural networks on modular addition of two integers rises long after training data has been memorized-has been characterized in previous works as producing sinusoidal input weight distributions in transformers...
Manifold Generalization Provably Proceeds Memorization in Diffusion Models
arXiv:2603.23792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models often generate novel samples even when the learned score is only \emph{coarse} -- a phenomenon not accounted for by the standard view of diffusion training as density estimation. In this paper, we show...
Resolving gradient pathology in physics-informed epidemiological models
arXiv:2603.23799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are increasingly used in mathematical epidemiology to bridge the gap between noisy clinical data and compartmental models, such as the susceptible-exposed-infected-removed (SEIR) model. However, training these hybrid networks is often unstable...
Why the Maximum Second Derivative of Activations Matters for Adversarial Robustness
arXiv:2603.23860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates the critical role of activation function curvature -- quantified by the maximum second derivative $\max|\sigma''|$ -- in adversarial robustness. Using the Recursive Curvature-Tunable Activation Family (RCT-AF), which enables precise control over curvature...
Optimal Variance-Dependent Regret Bounds for Infinite-Horizon MDPs
arXiv:2603.23926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online reinforcement learning in infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) remains less theoretically and algorithmically developed than its episodic counterpart, with many algorithms suffering from high ``burn-in'' costs and failing to adapt to benign instance-specific complexity....
Wireless communication empowers online scheduling of partially-observable transportation multi-robot systems in a smart factory
arXiv:2603.23967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving agile and reconfigurable production flows in smart factories depends on online multi-robot task assignment (MRTA), which requires online collision-free and congestion-free route scheduling of transportation multi-robot systems (T-MRS), e.g., collaborative automatic guided vehicles (AGVs)....
Can we generate portable representations for clinical time series data using LLMs?
arXiv:2603.23987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying clinical ML is slow and brittle: models that work at one hospital often degrade under distribution shifts at the next. In this work, we study a simple question -- can large language models (LLMs)...
Stochastic Dimension-Free Zeroth-Order Estimator for High-Dimensional and High-Order PINNs
arXiv:2603.24002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for high-dimensional and high-order partial differential equations (PDEs) are primarily constrained by the $\mathcal{O}(d^k)$ spatial derivative complexity and the $\mathcal{O}(P)$ memory overhead of backpropagation (BP). While randomized spatial estimators successfully reduce...
Lagrangian Relaxation Score-based Generation for Mixed Integer linear Programming
arXiv:2603.24033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predict-and-search (PaS) methods have shown promise for accelerating mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solving. However, existing approaches typically assume variable independence and rely on deterministic single-point predictions, which limits solution diversityand often necessitates extensive downstream search...
Birthright citizenship: more on Pete Patterson’s claims
Attorney Pete Patterson’s latest post on birthright citizenship repeats the biggest mistakes of his original post and also makes some new mistakes, chasing irrelevances and mangling the key legal issues. […]The postBirthright citizenship: more on Pete Patterson’s claimsappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead
Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.
Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a memo to staff that small businesses have always been a big part of the company's business model, and that while tens of millions of entrepreneurs already use its platforms to grow and connect...
Beyond Preset Identities: How Agents Form Stances and Boundaries in Generative Societies
arXiv:2603.23406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models simulate social behaviors, their capacity for stable stance formation and identity negotiation during complex interventions remains unclear. To overcome the limitations of static evaluations, this paper proposes a novel mixed-methods framework...
Memory Bear AI Memory Science Engine for Multimodal Affective Intelligence: A Technical Report
arXiv:2603.22306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current moment....
Can LLM Agents Generate Real-World Evidence? Evaluating Observational Studies in Medical Databases
arXiv:2603.22767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Observational studies can yield clinically actionable evidence at scale, but executing them on real-world databases is open-ended and requires coherent decisions across cohort construction, analysis, and reporting. Prior evaluations of LLM agents emphasize isolated steps...
PhySe-RPO: Physics and Semantics Guided Relative Policy Optimization for Diffusion-Based Surgical Smoke Removal
arXiv:2603.22844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical smoke severely degrades intraoperative video quality, obscuring anatomical structures and limiting surgical perception. Existing learning-based desmoking approaches rely on scarce paired supervision and deterministic restoration pipelines, making it difficult to perform exploration or reinforcement-driven...
Empirical Comparison of Agent Communication Protocols for Task Orchestration
arXiv:2603.22823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context. Nowadays, artificial intelligence agent systems are transforming from single-tool interactions to complex multi-agent orchestrations. As a result, two competing communication protocols have emerged: a tool integration protocol that standardizes how agents invoke external tools,...
Intelligence Inertia: Physical Principles and Applications
arXiv:2603.22347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Landauer's principle establishes the fundamental thermodynamic floor for information erasure and Fisher Information provides a metric for local curvature in parameter space, these classical frameworks function effectively only as approximations within regimes of sparse...
LGSE: Lexically Grounded Subword Embedding Initialization for Low-Resource Language Adaptation
arXiv:2603.22629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting pretrained language models to low-resource, morphologically rich languages remains a significant challenge. Existing vocabulary expansion methods typically rely on arbitrarily segmented subword units, resulting in fragmented lexical representations and loss of critical morphological information....
Optimizing Small Language Models for NL2SQL via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2603.22942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Translating Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) remains a critical bottleneck for democratization of data in enterprises. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini 2.5 and other LLMs have demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities, their high inference...