Court reverses ruling on qualified immunity, denies review of death-row case and First Amendment challenge by citizen journalist
In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court, holding that a Vermont police officer is entitled to qualified […]The postCourt reverses ruling on qualified immunity, denies review of...
Birthright citizenship: reading the text and sidestepping the parent trap
“The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a notable book on legal interpretation. “Only […]The postBirthright citizenship: reading the text and sidestepping the parent...
Court appears ready to overturn state law allowing for late-arriving mail-in ballots
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to overturn a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and then received within […]The postCourt appears ready to overturn state law allowing for...
Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, March 25
On Wednesday, March 25, will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of […]The postAnnouncement of opinions for Wednesday, March 25appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
The bottom line
Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Supreme Court watchers are accustomed to poring over the […]The postThe bottom lineappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
SCOTUStoday for Monday, March 23
Good morning, and welcome to the March argument session, which includes the argument on birthright citizenship on Wednesday, April 1. This Thursday, March 26, SCOTUSblog is teaming up with Briefly […]The postSCOTUStoday for Monday, March 23appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
Stepwise: Neuro-Symbolic Proof Search for Automated Systems Verification
arXiv:2603.19715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal verification via interactive theorem proving is increasingly used to ensure the correctness of critical systems, yet constructing large proof scripts remains highly manual and limits scalability. Advances in large language models (LLMs), especially in...
A Subgoal-driven Framework for Improving Long-Horizon LLM Agents
arXiv:2603.19685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents have emerged as powerful autonomous controllers for digital environments, including mobile interfaces, operating systems, and web browsers. Web navigation, for example, requires handling dynamic content and long sequences of actions,...
Grounded Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Drafting of Radiology Impressions Using Case-Based Similarity Search
arXiv:2603.17765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated radiology report generation has gained increasing attention with the rise of deep learning and large language models. However, fully generative approaches often suffer from hallucinations and lack clinical grounding, limiting their reliability in real-world...
Probing to Refine: Reinforcement Distillation of LLMs via Explanatory Inversion
arXiv:2603.19266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling robust reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs) into smaller, computationally efficient student models remains an unresolved challenge. Despite recent advances, distilled models frequently suffer from superficial pattern memorization and subpar generalization. To overcome...
Improving Automatic Summarization of Radiology Reports through Mid-Training of Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.19275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic summarization of radiology reports is an essential application to reduce the burden on physicians. Previous studies have widely used the "pre-training, fine-tuning" strategy to adapt large language models (LLMs) for summarization. This study proposed...
Joint Return and Risk Modeling with Deep Neural Networks for Portfolio Construction
arXiv:2603.19288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portfolio construction traditionally relies on separately estimating expected returns and covariance matrices using historical statistics, often leading to suboptimal allocation under time-varying market conditions. This paper proposes a joint return and risk modeling framework based...
Reviewing the Reviewer: Graph-Enhanced LLMs for E-commerce Appeal Adjudication
arXiv:2603.19267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical review workflows, where a second-tier reviewer (Checker) corrects first-tier (Maker) decisions, generate valuable correction signals that encode why initial judgments failed. However, learning from these signals is hindered by information asymmetry: corrections often depend...
Autonoma: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Workflow Automation
arXiv:2603.19270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of user demands necessitates automation frameworks that can reliably translate open-ended instructions into robust, multi-step workflows. Current monolithic agent architectures often struggle with the challenges of scalability, error propagation, and maintaining focus...
PrefPO: Pairwise Preference Prompt Optimization
arXiv:2603.19311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt engineering is effective but labor-intensive, motivating automated optimization methods. Existing methods typically require labeled datasets, which are often unavailable, and produce verbose, repetitive prompts. We introduce PrefPO, a minimal prompt optimization approach inspired by...
CLaRE-ty Amid Chaos: Quantifying Representational Entanglement to Predict Ripple Effects in LLM Editing
arXiv:2603.19297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The static knowledge representations of large language models (LLMs) inevitably become outdated or incorrect over time. While model-editing techniques offer a promising solution by modifying a model's factual associations, they often produce unpredictable ripple effects,...
LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
arXiv:2603.19312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a compelling framework for learning world models in compact latent spaces, yet existing methods remain fragile, relying on complex multi-term losses, exponential moving averages, pre-trained encoders, or auxiliary supervision...
Deep Hilbert--Galerkin Methods for Infinite-Dimensional PDEs and Optimal Control
arXiv:2603.19463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop deep learning-based approximation methods for fully nonlinear second-order PDEs on separable Hilbert spaces, such as HJB equations for infinite-dimensional control, by parameterizing solutions via Hilbert--Galerkin Neural Operators (HGNOs). We prove the first Universal...
Any-Subgroup Equivariant Networks via Symmetry Breaking
arXiv:2603.19486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The inclusion of symmetries as an inductive bias, known as equivariance, often improves generalization on geometric data (e.g. grids, sets, and graphs). However, equivariant architectures are usually highly constrained, designed for symmetries chosen a priori,...
Neural Uncertainty Principle: A Unified View of Adversarial Fragility and LLM Hallucination
arXiv:2603.19562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial vulnerability in vision and hallucination in large language models are conventionally viewed as separate problems, each addressed with modality-specific patches. This study first reveals that they share a common geometric origin: the input and...
Wearable Foundation Models Should Go Beyond Static Encoders
arXiv:2603.19564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable foundation models (WFMs), trained on large volumes of data collected by affordable, always-on devices, have demonstrated strong performance on short-term, well-defined health monitoring tasks, including activity recognition, fitness tracking, and cardiovascular signal assessment. However,...
Heavy-Tailed and Long-Range Dependent Noise in Stochastic Approximation: A Finite-Time Analysis
arXiv:2603.19648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic approximation (SA) is a fundamental iterative framework with broad applications in reinforcement learning and optimization. Classical analyses typically rely on martingale difference or Markov noise with bounded second moments, but many practical settings, including...
Scale-Dependent Radial Geometry and Metric Mismatch in Wasserstein Propagation for Reverse Diffusion
arXiv:2603.19670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing analyses of reverse diffusion often propagate sampling error in the Euclidean geometry underlying \(\Wtwo\) along the entire reverse trajectory. Under weak log-concavity, however, Gaussian smoothing can create contraction first at large separations while short...
Unanimous court allows street preacher’s free speech case to move forward
A unanimous court on Friday sided with a Mississippi street preacher who sued to block future enforcement of a public demonstration ordinance that he was previously convicted of violating. A […]The postUnanimous court allows street preacher’s free speech case to...
Oral argument live blog for Wednesday, April 1
On Wednesday, April 1, we will be live blogging as the court hears argument in Trump v. Barbara, on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. […]The postOral argument live blog for Wednesday, April 1appeared first...
Justices to consider arbitration exemption for “last-mile” drivers
Flowers Foods v. Brock brings the justices another in a lengthening line of cases about the exemptions from the Federal Arbitration Act. The specific question is whether “last-mile” drivers – […]The postJustices to consider arbitration exemption for “last-mile” driversappeared first...
SCOTUStoday for Friday, March 20
The court has indicated that it may announce opinions this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Our opinion day live blog begins at 9:30. Join us!The postSCOTUStoday for Friday, March 20appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon's assertion that the AI company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings...
Agentic Framework for Political Biography Extraction
arXiv:2603.18010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The production of large-scale political datasets typically demands extracting structured facts from vast piles of unstructured documents or web sources, a task that traditionally relies on expensive human experts and remains prohibitively difficult to automate...