Sparking Scientific Creativity via LLM-Driven Interdisciplinary Inspiration
arXiv:2603.12226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite interdisciplinary research leading to larger and longer-term impact, most work remains confined to single-domain academic silos. Recent AI-based approaches to scientific discovery show promise for interdisciplinary research, but many prioritize rapidly designing experiments and...
Comparison of Outlier Detection Algorithms on String Data
arXiv:2603.11049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Outlier detection is a well-researched and crucial problem in machine learning. However, there is little research on string data outlier detection, as most literature focuses on outlier detection of numerical data. A robust string data...
Structure-Aware Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Operator PDE Surrogates
arXiv:2603.11052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators (NOs) provide fast, resolution-invariant surrogates for mapping input fields to PDE solution fields, but their predictions can exhibit significant epistemic uncertainty due to finite data, imperfect optimization, and distribution shift. For practical deployment...
Interventional Time Series Priors for Causal Foundation Models
arXiv:2603.11090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have emerged as powerful foundation models for tabular causal inference, yet their extension to time series remains limited by the absence of synthetic data generators that provide interventional targets. Existing time...
Fingerprinting Concepts in Data Streams with Supervised and Unsupervised Meta-Information
arXiv:2603.11094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming sources of data are becoming more common as the ability to collect data in real-time grows. A major concern in dealing with data streams is concept drift, a change in the distribution of data...
Graph Tokenization for Bridging Graphs and Transformers
arXiv:2603.11099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of large pretrained Transformers is closely tied to tokenizers, which convert raw input into discrete symbols. Extending these models to graph-structured data remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce a graph...
Learning Tree-Based Models with Gradient Descent
arXiv:2603.11117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tree-based models are widely recognized for their interpretability and have proven effective in various application domains, particularly in high-stakes domains. However, learning decision trees (DTs) poses a significant challenge due to their combinatorial complexity and...
A Learning-Based Superposition Operator for Non-Renewal Arrival Processes in Queueing Networks
arXiv:2603.11118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The superposition of arrival processes is a fundamental yet analytically intractable operation in queueing networks when inputs are general non-renewal streams. Classical methods either reduce merged flows to renewal surrogates, rely on computationally prohibitive Markovian...
Group Resonance Network: Learnable Prototypes and Multi-Subject Resonance for EEG Emotion Recognition
arXiv:2603.11119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography(EEG)-basedemotionrecognitionre- mains challenging in cross-subject settings due to severe inter-subject variability. Existing methods mainly learn subject-invariant features, but often under-exploit stimulus-locked group regularities shared across sub- jects. To address this issue, we propose the Group...
Beyond Barren Plateaus: A Scalable Quantum Convolutional Architecture for High-Fidelity Image Classification
arXiv:2603.11131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) offer a theoretical paradigm for quantum machine learning, their practical implementation is severely bottlenecked by barren plateaus -- the exponential vanishing of gradients -- and poor empirical accuracy compared...
Procedural Fairness via Group Counterfactual Explanation
arXiv:2603.11140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness in machine learning research has largely focused on outcome-oriented fairness criteria such as Equalized Odds, while comparatively less attention has been given to procedural-oriented fairness, which addresses how a model arrives at its predictions....
Attention Gathers, MLPs Compose: A Causal Analysis of an Action-Outcome Circuit in VideoViT
arXiv:2603.11142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper explores how video models trained for classification tasks represent nuanced, hidden semantic information that may not affect the final outcome, a key challenge for Trustworthy AI models. Through Explainable and Interpretable AI methods,...
Algorithmic Capture, Computational Complexity, and Inductive Bias of Infinite Transformers
arXiv:2603.11161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formally define Algorithmic Capture (i.e., ``grokking'' an algorithm) as the ability of a neural network to generalize to arbitrary problem sizes ($T$) with controllable error and minimal sample adaptation, distinguishing true algorithmic learning from...
Bayesian Optimization of Partially Known Systems using Hybrid Models
arXiv:2603.11199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) has gained attention as an efficient algorithm for black-box optimization of expensive-to-evaluate systems, where the BO algorithm iteratively queries the system and suggests new trials based on a probabilistic model fitted to...
Representation Finetuning for Continual Learning
arXiv:2603.11201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The world is inherently dynamic, and continual learning aims to enable models to adapt to ever-evolving data streams. While pre-trained models have shown powerful performance in continual learning, they still require finetuning to adapt effectively...
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...
Monitoring and Prediction of Mood in Elderly People during Daily Life Activities
arXiv:2603.11230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an intelligent wearable system to monitor and predict mood states of elderly people during their daily life activities. Our system is composed of a wristband to record different physiological activities together with a...
Differentiable Thermodynamic Phase-Equilibria for Machine Learning
arXiv:2603.11249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of phase equilibria remains a central challenge in chemical engineering. Physics-consistent machine learning methods that incorporate thermodynamic structure into neural networks have recently shown strong performance for activity-coefficient modeling. However, extending such approaches...
Client-Conditional Federated Learning via Local Training Data Statistics
arXiv:2603.11307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) under data heterogeneity remains challenging: existing methods either ignore client differences (FedAvg), require costly cluster discovery (IFCA), or maintain per-client models (Ditto). All degrade when data is sparse or heterogeneity is multi-dimensional....
On the Robustness of Langevin Dynamics to Score Function Error
arXiv:2603.11319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the robustness of score-based generative modeling to errors in the estimate of the score function. In particular, we show that Langevin dynamics is not robust to the L^2 errors (more generally L^p errors)...
Hindsight-Anchored Policy Optimization: Turning Failure into Feedback in Sparse Reward Settings
arXiv:2603.11321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for post-training reasoning models. However, group-based methods such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) face a critical dilemma in sparse-reward settings: pure Reinforcement...
Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection for Agentic Search
arXiv:2603.11327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces MR-Search, an in-context meta reinforcement learning (RL) formulation for agentic search with self-reflection. Instead of optimizing a policy within a single independent episode with sparse rewards, MR-Search trains a policy that conditions...
Jailbreak Scaling Laws for Large Language Models: Polynomial-Exponential Crossover
arXiv:2603.11331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks can reliably steer safety-aligned large language models toward unsafe behavior. Empirically, we find that adversarial prompt-injection attacks can amplify attack success rate from the slow polynomial growth observed without injection to exponential growth...
Teleodynamic Learning a new Paradigm For Interpretable AI
arXiv:2603.11355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Teleodynamic Learning, a new paradigm for machine learning in which learning is not the minimization of a fixed objective, but the emergence and stabilization of functional organization under constraint. Inspired by living systems,...
Multilingual Financial Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning and Transformer Models: A Bangla-English Study
arXiv:2603.11358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial fraud detection has emerged as a critical research challenge amid the rapid expansion of digital financial platforms. Although machine learning approaches have demonstrated strong performance in identifying fraudulent activities, most existing research focuses exclusively...
abx_amr_simulator: A simulation environment for antibiotic prescribing policy optimization under antimicrobial resistance
arXiv:2603.11369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global health threat, reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics and complicating clinical decision-making. To address this challenge, we introduce abx_amr_simulator, a Python-based simulation package designed to model antibiotic prescribing and AMR...
Ensuring Safety in Automated Mechanical Ventilation through Offline Reinforcement Learning and Digital Twin Verification
arXiv:2603.11372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving intervention for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) in the ICU. However, inappropriate ventilator settings could cause ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). Also, clinicians workload is shown to be directly...
ARROW: Augmented Replay for RObust World models
arXiv:2603.11395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning challenges agents to acquire new skills while retaining previously learned ones with the goal of improving performance in both past and future tasks. Most existing approaches rely on model-free methods with replay...
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...
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...