The Singular Role of Public Pension Funds in Corporate Governance
Introduction U.S. public pension funds manage more than $6 trillion in assets.[1] The law, policy, and public debates about how they should manage this money are based on a theoretical model that is descriptively inaccurate and yields policy proposals that...
Catching Pokémon, Not Tax Bills
Introduction What if we told you that you could play a unique and magical game for free? What if we told you this game would let you chase fantastical creatures across your neighborhood, turning your daily stroll into an epic...
Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine
Introduction The relevance of historical facts to constitutional law has never been greater or more contested in our legal system. In an increasingly wide range of cases involving everything from abortion[1] and gun rights[2] to trademark law[3] and agency funding,[4]...
The State of Charity Care in the United States: Holding Nonprofit Hospitals Accountable for Their Tax Exemptions
Introduction A health system in the Midwest withholds medical care from patients who have $4,500 or more of unpaid debt.[1] A busy university hospital in Manhattan has emergency room nurses redirecting homeless patients to a public hospital that primarily serves...
Federated Multi Agent Deep Learning and Neural Networks for Advanced Distributed Sensing in Wireless Networks
arXiv:2603.16881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent deep learning (MADL), including multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), distributed/federated training, and graph-structured neural networks, is becoming a unifying framework for decision-making and inference in wireless systems where sensing, communication, and computing are tightly...
Transformers Can Learn Rules They've Never Seen: Proof of Computation Beyond Interpolation
arXiv:2603.17019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central question in the LLM debate is whether transformers can infer rules absent from training, or whether apparent generalisation reduces to similarity-based interpolation over observed examples. We test a strong interpolation-only hypothesis in two...
Personalized Fall Detection by Balancing Data with Selective Feedback Using Contrastive Learning
arXiv:2603.17148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized fall detection models can significantly improve accuracy by adapting to individual motion patterns, yet their effectiveness is often limited by the scarcity of real-world fall data and the dominance of non-fall feedback samples. This...
MetaClaw: Just Talk -- An Agent That Meta-Learns and Evolves in the Wild
arXiv:2603.17187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for complex tasks, yet deployed agents often remain static, failing to adapt as user needs evolve. This creates a tension between the need for continuous service and...
On the Cone Effect and Modality Gap in Medical Vision-Language Embeddings
arXiv:2603.17246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit a characteristic "cone effect" in which nonlinear encoders map embeddings into highly concentrated regions of the representation space, contributing to cross-modal separation known as the modality gap. While this phenomenon has...
Large-Scale 3D Ground-Motion Synthesis with Physics-Inspired Latent Operator Flow Matching
arXiv:2603.17403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earthquake hazard analysis and design of spatially distributed infrastructure, such as power grids and energy pipeline networks, require scenario-specific ground-motion time histories with realistic frequency content and spatiotemporal coherence. However, producing the large ensembles needed...
Supreme Court asylum decision burdens already overworked DOJ
Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices. Requests for asylum […]The postSupreme Court asylum decision burdens already overworked DOJappeared first...
Court to hear argument in case that could have significant impact on 2026 elections
The Supreme Court will kick off its March argument session by hearing a case that could have major implications for the 2026 elections and beyond. In Watson v. Republican National […]The postCourt to hear argument in case that could have...
SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 18
Should the White House look more like the Supreme Court Building? The chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., has suggested swapping the White House’s “graceful […]The postSCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 18appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Optimizing Hospital Capacity During Pandemics: A Dual-Component Framework for Strategic Patient Relocation
arXiv:2603.15960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed immense strain on hospital systems worldwide, leading to critical capacity challenges. This research proposes a two-part framework to optimize hospital capacity through patient relocation strategies. The first component involves developing...
Persona-Conditioned Risk Behavior in Large Language Models: A Simulated Gambling Study with GPT-4.1
arXiv:2603.15831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in uncertain, sequential decision-making contexts. Yet it remains poorly understood whether the behaviors they exhibit in such environments reflect principled cognitive patterns or simply surface-level...
SQL-ASTRA: Alleviating Sparse Feedback in Agentic SQL via Column-Set Matching and Trajectory Aggregation
arXiv:2603.16161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) shows promise for complex tasks, but Text-to-SQL remains mostly restricted to single-turn paradigms. A primary bottleneck is the credit assignment problem. In traditional paradigms, rewards are determined solely by the final-turn...
RadAnnotate: Large Language Models for Efficient and Reliable Radiology Report Annotation
arXiv:2603.16002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radiology report annotation is essential for clinical NLP, yet manual labeling is slow and costly. We present RadAnnotate, an LLM-based framework that studies retrieval-augmented synthetic reports and confidence-based selective automation to reduce expert effort for...
Understanding Moral Reasoning Trajectories in Large Language Models: Toward Probing-Based Explainability
arXiv:2603.16017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly participate in morally sensitive decision-making, yet how they organize ethical frameworks across reasoning steps remains underexplored. We introduce \textit{moral reasoning trajectories}, sequences of ethical framework invocations across intermediate reasoning steps,...
ASDA: Automated Skill Distillation and Adaptation for Financial Reasoning
arXiv:2603.16112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting large language models (LLMs) to specialized financial reasoning typically requires expensive fine-tuning that produces model-locked expertise. Training-free alternatives have emerged, yet our experiments show that leading methods (GEPA and ACE) achieve only marginal gains...
Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users
arXiv:2603.16120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Research (DR) tools (e.g. OpenAI DR) help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools can synthesize scientific papers to answer researchers' queries, but lack understanding of their users. We change that in MyScholarQA...
SIA: A Synthesize-Inject-Align Framework for Knowledge-Grounded and Secure E-commerce Search LLMs with Industrial Deployment
arXiv:2603.16137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models offer transformative potential for e-commerce search by enabling intent-aware recommendations. However, their industrial deployment is hindered by two critical challenges: (1) knowledge hallucination due to insufficient encoding of dynamic, fine-grained product knowledge,...
DynHD: Hallucination Detection for Diffusion Large Language Models via Denoising Dynamics Deviation Learning
arXiv:2603.16459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (D-LLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to auto-regressive models due to their iterative refinement capabilities. However, hallucinations remain a critical issue that hinders their reliability. To detect hallucination responses from...
Steering Frozen LLMs: Adaptive Social Alignment via Online Prompt Routing
arXiv:2603.15647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are typically governed by post-training alignment (e.g., RLHF or DPO), which yields a largely static policy during deployment and inference. However, real-world safety is a full-lifecycle problem: static defenses degrade against...
How to Achieve Prototypical Birth and Death for OOD Detection?
arXiv:2603.15650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the secure deployment of machine learning models, and prototype-based learning methods are among the mainstream strategies for achieving OOD detection. Existing prototype-based learning methods generally rely on a fixed...
Spectral Edge Dynamics of Training Trajectories: Signal--Noise Geometry Across Scales
arXiv:2603.15678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite hundreds of millions of parameters, transformer training trajectories evolve within only a few coherent directions. We introduce \emph{Spectral Edge Dynamics} (SED) to measure this structure: rolling-window SVD of parameter updates reveals a sharp boundary...
Evidential Domain Adaptation for Remaining Useful Life Prediction with Incomplete Degradation
arXiv:2603.15687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction without labeled target domain data is a critical challenge, and domain adaptation (DA) has been widely adopted to address it by transferring knowledge from a labeled source domain to...
Mastering the Minority: An Uncertainty-guided Multi-Expert Framework for Challenging-tailed Sequence Learning
arXiv:2603.15708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imbalanced data distribution remains a critical challenge in sequential learning, leading models to easily recognize frequent categories while failing to detect minority classes adequately. The Mixture-of-Experts model offers a scalable solution, yet its application is...
Informationally Compressive Anonymization: Non-Degrading Sensitive Input Protection for Privacy-Preserving Supervised Machine Learning
arXiv:2603.15842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning systems increasingly rely on sensitive data, creating significant privacy, security, and regulatory risks that existing privacy-preserving machine learning (ppML) techniques, such as Differential Privacy (DP) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE), address only at...
Electrodermal Activity as a Unimodal Signal for Aerobic Exercise Detection in Wearable Sensors
arXiv:2603.15880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrodermal Activity (EDA) is a non-invasive physiological signal widely available in wearable devices and reflects sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation. Prior multi-modal studies have demonstrated robust performance in distinguishing stress and exercise states when EDA...
Auto Researching, not hyperparameter tuning: Convergence Analysis of 10,000 Experiments
arXiv:2603.15916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When LLM agents autonomously design ML experiments, do they perform genuine architecture search -- or do they default to hyperparameter tuning within a narrow region of the design space? We answer this question by analyzing...