Role-Aware Conditional Inference for Spatiotemporal Ecosystem Carbon Flux Prediction
arXiv:2603.03531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of terrestrial ecosystem carbon fluxes (e.g., CO$_2$, GPP, and CH$_4$) is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle and managing its impacts. However, prediction remains challenging due to strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity: ecosystem flux...
Hybrid Belief Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Coordinated Spatial Exploration
arXiv:2603.03595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to explore and serve spatially heterogeneous demand requires jointly learning unknown spatial patterns and planning trajectories that maximize task performance. Pure model-based approaches provide structured uncertainty estimates but lack adaptive policy...
Riemannian Optimization in Modular Systems
arXiv:2603.03610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how systems built out of modular components can be jointly optimized is an important problem in biology, engineering, and machine learning. The backpropagation algorithm is one such solution and has been instrumental in the...
Freezing of Gait Prediction using Proactive Agent that Learns from Selected Experience and DDQN Algorithm
arXiv:2603.03651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Freezing of Gait (FOG) is a debilitating motor symptom commonly experienced by individuals with Parkinson's Disease (PD) which often leads to falls and reduced mobility. Timely and accurate prediction of FOG episodes is essential for...
Why Do Unlearnable Examples Work: A Novel Perspective of Mutual Information
arXiv:2603.03725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The volume of freely scraped data on the Internet has driven the tremendous success of deep learning. Along with this comes the growing concern about data privacy and security. Numerous methods for generating unlearnable examples...
Nodes Are Early, Edges Are Late: Probing Diagram Representations in Large Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2603.02865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong performance on diagram understanding benchmarks, yet they still struggle with understanding relationships between elements, particularly those represented by nodes and directed edges (e.g., arrows and lines). To investigate the...
Characterizing and Predicting Wildfire Evacuation Behavior: A Dual-Stage ML Approach
arXiv:2603.02223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wildfire evacuation behavior is highly variable and influenced by complex interactions among household resources, preparedness, and situational cues. Using a large-scale MTurk survey of residents in California, Colorado, and Oregon, this study integrates unsupervised and...
PRISM: Exploring Heterogeneous Pretrained EEG Foundation Model Transfer to Clinical Differential Diagnosis
arXiv:2603.02268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EEG foundation models are typically pretrained on narrow-source clinical archives and evaluated on benchmarks from the same ecosystem, leaving unclear whether representations encode neural physiology or recording-distribution artifacts. We introduce PRISM (Population Representative Invariant Signal...
The Malignant Tail: Spectral Segregation of Label Noise in Over-Parameterized Networks
arXiv:2603.02293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While implicit regularization facilitates benign overfitting in low-noise regimes, recent theoretical work predicts a sharp phase transition to harmful overfitting as the noise-to-signal ratio increases. We experimentally isolate the geometric mechanism of this transition: the...
ParEVO: Synthesizing Code for Irregular Data: High-Performance Parallelism through Agentic Evolution
arXiv:2603.02510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from sequential to parallel computing is essential for modern high-performance applications but is hindered by the steep learning curve of concurrent programming. This challenge is magnified for irregular data structures (such as sparse...
Thermodynamic Regulation of Finite-Time Gibbs Training in Energy-Based Models: A Restricted Boltzmann Machine Study
arXiv:2603.02525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are typically trained using finite-length Gibbs chains under a fixed sampling temperature. This practice implicitly assumes that the stochastic regime remains valid as the energy landscape evolves during learning. We argue...
Court unanimously sides with government in immigration dispute
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the federal government on Wednesday in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, holding in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that federal courts of appeals must […]The postCourt unanimously sides with government in immigration disputeappeared first...
Opinions for Wednesday, March 4
We were live as the court released its opinions in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi and Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp..The postOpinions for Wednesday, March 4appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Birthright citizenship: an empirical analysis of supposedly originalist briefs
Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from […]The postBirthright citizenship: an empirical analysis of...
The SCOTUS attorney switcheroo
Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and […]The postThe SCOTUS attorney switcherooappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 4
Good morning, and welcome to the court’s fourth opinion day in less than two weeks. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.The postSCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 4appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says
Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.
Google Search rolls out Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode to all US users
Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.
The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing
As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.
How Large Language Models Get Stuck: Early structure with persistent errors
arXiv:2603.00359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linguistic insights may help make Large Language Model (LLM) training more efficient. We trained Meta's OPT model on the 100M word BabyLM dataset, and evaluated it on the BLiMP benchmark, which consists of 67 classes,...
Piecing Together Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Datasets: Systematic Dataset Analysis and Unification
arXiv:2603.00621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research in CDCR remains fragmented due to heterogeneous dataset formats, varying annotation standards, and the predominance of the CDCR definition as the event coreference resolution (ECR). To address these challenges, we introduce uCDCR, a unified...
Transit Network Design with Two-Level Demand Uncertainties: A Machine Learning and Contextual Stochastic Optimization Framework
arXiv:2603.00010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transit Network Design is a well-studied problem in the field of transportation, typically addressed by solving optimization models under fixed demand assumptions. Considering the limitations of these assumptions, this paper proposes a new framework, namely...
Econometric vs. Causal Structure-Learning for Time-Series Policy Decisions: Evidence from the UK COVID-19 Policies
arXiv:2603.00041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal machine learning (ML) recovers graphical structures that inform us about potential cause-and-effect relationships. Most progress has focused on cross-sectional data with no explicit time order, whereas recovering causal structures from time series data remains...
Property-Driven Evaluation of GNN Expressiveness at Scale: Datasets, Framework, and Study
arXiv:2603.00044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advancing trustworthy AI requires principled software engineering approaches to model evaluation. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in processing graph-structured data, however, their expressiveness in capturing fundamental graph properties remains an open challenge....
BiJEPA: Bi-directional Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Symmetric Representation Learning
arXiv:2603.00049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has shifted from pixel-level reconstruction to latent space prediction, spearheaded by the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). While effective, standard JEPA models typically rely on a uni-directional prediction mechanism (e.g. Context $\to$...
Engineering FAIR Privacy-preserving Applications that Learn Histories of Disease
arXiv:2603.00181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recent report on "Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers" created an opportunity to assess the engineering challenge of delivering user-facing Generative AI applications in privacy-sensitive domains. The application of these...
Task-Driven Subspace Decomposition for Knowledge Sharing and Isolation in LoRA-based Continual Learning
arXiv:2603.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual Learning (CL) requires models to sequentially adapt to new tasks without forgetting old knowledge. Recently, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a representative Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has gained increasing attention in CL. Several LoRA-based CL methods...
A medical coding language model trained on clinical narratives from a population-wide cohort of 1.8 million patients
arXiv:2603.00221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical coding translates clinical documentation into standardized codes for billing, research, and public health, but manual coding is time-consuming and error-prone. Existing automation efforts rely on small datasets that poorly represent real-world patient heterogeneity. We...
Quantifying Catastrophic Forgetting in IoT Intrusion Detection Systems
arXiv:2603.00363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution shifts in attack patterns within RPL-based IoT networks pose a critical threat to the reliability and security of large-scale connected systems. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) trained on static datasets often fail to generalize to...
Deep Learning-Based Meat Freshness Detection with Segmentation and OOD-Aware Classification
arXiv:2603.00368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we present a meat freshness classification framework from Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images that supports both packaged and unpackaged meat datasets. The system classifies four in-distribution (ID) meat classes and uses an out-of-distribution (OOD)-aware...