Beyond the Mean: Distribution-Aware Loss Functions for Bimodal Regression
arXiv:2603.22328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the strong predictive performance achieved by machine learning models across many application domains, assessing their trustworthiness through reliable estimates of predictive confidence remains a critical challenge. This issue arises in scenarios where the likelihood...
Cloud-Edge Collaborative Large Models for Robust Photovoltaic Power Forecasting
arXiv:2603.22343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting in edge-enabled grids requires balancing forecasting accuracy, robustness under weather-driven distribution shifts, and strict latency constraints. Local specialized models are efficient for routine conditions but often degrade under rare ramp events...
COMPASS-Hedge: Learning Safely Without Knowing the World
arXiv:2603.22348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online learning algorithms often faces a fundamental trilemma: balancing regret guarantees between adversarial and stochastic settings and providing baseline safety against a fixed comparator. While existing methods excel in one or two of these regimes,...
Unveiling the Mechanism of Continuous Representation Full-Waveform Inversion: A Wave Based Neural Tangent Kernel Framework
arXiv:2603.22362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates physical parameters in the wave equation from limited measurements and has been widely applied in geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Conventional FWI methods are limited by their notorious sensitivity...
Three Creates All: You Only Sample 3 Steps
arXiv:2603.22375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity generation but remain slow at inference time due to many sequential network evaluations. We find that standard timestep conditioning becomes a key bottleneck for few-step sampling. Motivated by layer-dependent denoising dynamics,...
Instruction-Tuned, but Not More Verifiable Instruction-Following: A Cross-Task Diagnosis for LoRA Adapters
arXiv:2603.22379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapters are often selected and deployed based on nominal labels (e.g., instruction-tuned), which implicitly suggest what capability improves after adaptation. We test whether nominal training objectives reliably align with realized cross-task capability gains by evaluating...
Learning When to Act: Interval-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Predictive Temporal Structure
arXiv:2603.22384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents operating in continuous environments must decide not only what to do, but when to act. We introduce a lightweight adaptive temporal control system that learns the optimal interval between cognitive ticks from experience,...
Model Predictive Control with Differentiable World Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.22430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to learn optimal policies from fixed offline datasets, without further interactions with the environment. Such methods train an offline policy (or value function), and apply it at inference time without...
SkillRouter: Retrieve-and-Rerank Skill Selection for LLM Agents at Scale
arXiv:2603.22455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agent ecosystems grow, the number of available skills (tools, plugins) has reached tens of thousands, making it infeasible to inject all skills into an agent's context. This creates a need for skill routing...
Adversarial Vulnerabilities in Neural Operator Digital Twins: Gradient-Free Attacks on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Surrogates
arXiv:2603.22525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator learning models are rapidly emerging as the predictive core of digital twins for nuclear and energy systems, promising real-time field reconstruction from sparse sensor measurements. Yet their robustness to adversarial perturbations remains uncharacterized, a...
A Foundation Model for Instruction-Conditioned In-Context Time Series Tasks
arXiv:2603.22586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) allows a model to adapt at inference time by conditioning on examples rather than updating parameters. Existing time-series foundation models use implicit positional context, retrieval, or task-specific objectives, but rarely explicit instruction-conditioned...
The 14th Amendment does not codify English principles of subjectship: A brief reply to the Amar brothers
Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar have responded to my recent post arguing that the 14th Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to the children of temporary visitors to the United […]The postThe 14th Amendment does not codify English principles of...
Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that.
Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.
Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud
The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.
Decentring the governance of AI in the military: a focus on the postcolonial subject
Abstract The governance of emerging technologies with increased autonomy in the military has become a topical issue in recent years, especially considering the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and related innovations in computer science. Despite this hype, the postcolonial subject’s...
DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation
arXiv:2603.20470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of the text-to-image (T2I) community has fostered a thriving online ecosystem of expert models, which are variants of pretrained diffusion models specialized for diverse generative abilities. Yet, existing model merging methods remain...
ORACLE: Optimizing Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models via Constraint-Led Synthetic Data Elicitation
arXiv:2603.21140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) with synthetic reasoning data has become a popular approach to enhancing their reasoning capabilities, while a key factor influencing the effectiveness of this paradigm is the quality of the generated...
Domain-Specialized Tree of Thought through Plug-and-Play Predictors
arXiv:2603.20267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced complex reasoning, prominent methods like the Tree of Thoughts (ToT) framework face a critical trade-off between exploration depth and computational efficiency. Existing ToT implementations often rely on heavyweight...
AutoMOOSE: An Agentic AI for Autonomous Phase-Field Simulation
arXiv:2603.20986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiphysics simulation frameworks such as MOOSE provide rigorous engines for phase-field materials modeling, yet adoption is constrained by the expertise required to construct valid input files, coordinate parameter sweeps, diagnose failures, and extract quantitative results....
gUFO: A Gentle Foundational Ontology for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2603.20948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: gUFO is a lightweight implementation of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) suitable for Semantic Web OWL 2 DL applications. UFO is a mature foundational ontology with a rich axiomatization and that has been employed in...
Context Cartography: Toward Structured Governance of Contextual Space in Large Language Model Systems
arXiv:2603.20578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing approach to improving large language model (LLM) reasoning has centered on expanding context windows, implicitly assuming that more tokens yield better performance. However, empirical evidence - including the "lost in the middle" effect...
Me, Myself, and $\pi$ : Evaluating and Explaining LLM Introspection
arXiv:2603.20276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of human intelligence is Introspection-the ability to assess and reason about one's own cognitive processes. Introspection has emerged as a promising but contested capability in large language models (LLMs). However, current evaluations often...
Governance-Aware Vector Subscriptions for Multi-Agent Knowledge Ecosystems
arXiv:2603.20833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agent ecosystems grow, agents need mechanisms to monitor relevant knowledge in real time. Semantic publish-subscribe systems address this by matching new content against vector subscriptions. However, in multi-agent settings where agents operate under...
From 50% to Mastery in 3 Days: A Low-Resource SOP for Localizing Graduate-Level AI Tutors via Shadow-RAG
arXiv:2603.20650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying high-fidelity AI tutors in schools is often blocked by the Resource Curse -- the need for expensive cloud GPUs and massive data engineering. In this practitioner report, we present a replicable Standard Operating Procedure...
Efficient Counterfactual Reasoning in ProbLog via Single World Intervention Programs
arXiv:2603.20505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP) languages, like ProbLog, naturally support reasoning under uncertainty, while maintaining a declarative and interpretable framework. Meanwhile, counterfactual reasoning (i.e., answering ``what if'' questions) is critical for ensuring AI systems are robust...
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
arXiv:2603.20639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI reveal that frontier reasoning models, such as...
Multi-Agent Debate with Memory Masking
arXiv:2603.20215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks. Currently, mainstream LLM reasoning frameworks predominantly focus on scaling up inference-time sampling to enhance performance. In particular, among all LLM reasoning frameworks, *multi-agent...
Reasoning Traces Shape Outputs but Models Won't Say So
arXiv:2603.20620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can we trust the reasoning traces that large reasoning models (LRMs) produce? We investigate whether these traces faithfully reflect what drives model outputs, and whether models will honestly report their influence. We introduce Thought Injection,...
Expected Reward Prediction, with Applications to Model Routing
arXiv:2603.20217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a standard tool to score responses from LLMs. Reward models are built to rank responses to a fixed prompt sampled from a single model, for example to choose the best of n...