USE: Uncertainty Structure Estimation for Robust Semi-Supervised Learning
arXiv:2603.00404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, a novel idea, Uncertainty Structure Estimation (USE), a lightweight, algorithm-agnostic procedure that emphasizes the often-overlooked role of unlabeled data quality is introduced for Semi-supervised learning (SSL). SSL has achieved impressive progress, but...
Exact and Asymptotically Complete Robust Verifications of Neural Networks via Quantum Optimization
arXiv:2603.00408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable high performance across domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Here, we introduce two quantum-optimization-based models for robust verification that reduce the combinatorial burden...
ROKA: Robust Knowledge Unlearning against Adversaries
arXiv:2603.00436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The need for machine unlearning is critical for data privacy, yet existing methods often cause Knowledge Contamination by unintentionally damaging related knowledge. Such a degraded model performance after unlearning has been recently leveraged for new...
Analyzing Physical Adversarial Example Threats to Machine Learning in Election Systems
arXiv:2603.00481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developments in the machine learning voting domain have shown both promising results and risks. Trained models perform well on ballot classification tasks (> 99% accuracy) but are at risk from adversarial example attacks that cause...
Déjà vu all over again
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court is continuing to […]The postDéjà vu all over againappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
The UK Supreme Court
Welcome to SCOUTSblog’s newest recurring series, in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. For our debut column, we […]The postThe UK Supreme Courtappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
The justices’ troubling message to lower courts
Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. In two recent decisions, the Supreme Court summarily reversed […]The postThe justices’ troubling message to lower courtsappeared first onSCOTUSblog.
SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 3
As we’ve noted before, we read a lot of legal news in the process of preparing this newsletter. Here’s a headline we saw recently that we won’t soon forget: References […]The postSCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 3appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Cybersecurity’s Role in Securing Elections
SPEAKERS: Professor Chris Hoofnagle, Beth Calley, Lucy Huang Podcast Transcript: [Lucy Huang] 00:07 Hello and welcome to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal podcast. My name is Lucy Huang and I am one of the senior editors of the podcast. Today,...
BRIDGE the Gap: Mitigating Bias Amplification in Automated Scoring of English Language Learners via Inter-group Data Augmentation
arXiv:2602.23580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the field of educational assessment, automated scoring systems increasingly rely on deep learning and large language models (LLMs). However, these systems face significant risks of bias amplification, where model prediction gaps between student groups...
EDDA-Coordinata: An Annotated Dataset of Historical Geographic Coordinates
arXiv:2602.23941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a dataset of enriched geographic coordinates retrieved from Diderot and d'Alembert's eighteenth-century Encyclopedie. Automatically recovering geographic coordinates from historical texts is a complex task, as they are expressed in a variety of...
Jailbreak Foundry: From Papers to Runnable Attacks for Reproducible Benchmarking
arXiv:2602.24009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak techniques for large language models (LLMs) evolve faster than benchmarks, making robustness estimates stale and difficult to compare across papers due to drift in datasets, harnesses, and judging protocols. We introduce JAILBREAK FOUNDRY (JBF),...
FedDAG: Clustered Federated Learning via Global Data and Gradient Integration for Heterogeneous Environments
arXiv:2602.23504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing individual data, but its performance drops when client data are heterogeneous. Clustered FL tackles this by grouping similar clients. However,...
Provable Subspace Identification of Nonlinear Multi-view CCA
arXiv:2602.23785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate the identifiability of nonlinear Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) in a multi-view setup, where each view is generated by an unknown nonlinear map applied to a linear mixture of shared latents and view-private noise....
MPU: Towards Secure and Privacy-Preserving Knowledge Unlearning for Large Language Models
arXiv:2602.23798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning for large language models often faces a privacy dilemma in which strict constraints prohibit sharing either the server's parameters or the client's forget set. To address this dual non-disclosure constraint, we propose MPU,...
ULW-SleepNet: An Ultra-Lightweight Network for Multimodal Sleep Stage Scoring
arXiv:2602.23852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic sleep stage scoring is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Although deep learning models have advanced the field, many existing models are computationally demanding and designed for single-channel electroencephalography (EEG), limiting...
A Theory of Random Graph Shift in Truncated-Spectrum vRKHS
arXiv:2602.23880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a theory of graph classification under domain shift through a random-graph generative lens, where we consider intra-class graphs sharing the same random graph model (RGM) and the domain shift induced by changes...
Court sides with parents in dispute over California policies on transgender students
The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request from a group of California parents to reinstate a ruling by a federal district court that prohibits schools in that state […]The postCourt sides with parents in dispute over California policies...
Supreme Court grants Republicans’ request to pause order to redraw New York congressional map
The Supreme Court on Monday night cleared the way for New York to go forward with the 2026 elections using the state’s existing congressional map. Over the objections of the […]The postSupreme Court grants Republicans’ request to pause order to...
Court turns down several cases, including on filing fees for indigent prisoners and ability of felons to possess guns
Over the objections of the court’s three Democratic appointees, the Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to hear a case involving the payment of filing fees by indigent prisoners. The […]The postCourt turns down several cases, including on filing fees...
Birthright citizenship: A note on foundlings and comments on four complementary amicus briefs
Foundlings – babies born of unknown parentage – loomed large in the imagination of mid-19th century Americans, who dutifully read their Bibles and thought about baby Moses in a basket. […]The postBirthright citizenship: A note on foundlings and comments on...
Supreme Court skeptical of law banning drug users from possessing firearms
The Supreme Court on Monday was skeptical that the indictment of a Texas man on charges that he violated a federal law prohibiting the possession of a gun by the […]The postSupreme Court skeptical of law banning drug users from...
Justices to consider breadth of a federal defendant’s waiver of appeal
In Hunter v. United States, to be argued on Tuesday, March 3, the Supreme Court will address how broad federal defendants’ waivers of their right to appeal can be and […]The postJustices to consider breadth of a federal defendant’s waiver...
SCOTUStoday for Monday, March 2
If you are looking for a great introduction to this morning’s argument in United States v. Hemani, please check out this animated explainer, done in partnership with Briefly. Our live […]The postSCOTUStoday for Monday, March 2appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure: Reconceptualizing the Commerce Clause Basis for the Federal Prohibition on Felon Firearm Possession
Introduction Jonathan Adler recently posted the provocative piece: “Is the Federal Prohibition on Felon Firearm Possession Constitutional?”[1] Although Second Amendment challenges are all the rage, Adler instead asks about Congress’s commerce power. This Essay takes up Adler’s challenge to reconceptualize...
First Amendment Inversion
Introduction A new arrangement of First Amendment positions has upturned constitutional discourse in key areas. Familiar perspectives have transposed not only in Supreme Court opinions but also in policymaking and public debate—and some are reverting back. Inversion on important questions...
Expressive Association as Shield, not Sword: A Constitutional Defense of DEI
Introduction Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—an effort aimed at remedying historic inequality in opportunities—faces the chopping block. Its opposition claims it commits the very sin it aimed to rid: discrimination. DEI’s opposition has mobilized and attacked on all fronts, already...
Academic Freedom by Other Names: Historical Foundations for the First Amendment Right
Introduction The Supreme Court has stated that academic freedom is a “special concern” of the First Amendment.[1] Yet before 1957, there were no American legal precedents that recognized academic freedom as a component of the First Amendment. But these protections...
Multilevel Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among U.S. Children Aged 10-17: Comparative Evaluation of Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches Using the 2021 National Survey of Children's Health
arXiv:2602.20303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity remain major public health concerns in the United States and are shaped by behavioral, household, and community factors. Their joint predictive structure at the population level remains incompletely...
DMCD: Semantic-Statistical Framework for Causal Discovery
arXiv:2602.20333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DMCD (DataMap Causal Discovery), a two-phase causal discovery framework that integrates LLM-based semantic drafting from variable metadata with statistical validation on observational data. In Phase I, a large language model proposes a sparse...