ProtAlign: Contrastive learning paradigm for Sequence and structure alignment
arXiv:2603.06722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models often take into consideration the alignment between a protein sequence and its textual description. However, they do not take structural information into consideration. Traditional methods treat sequence and structure separately, limiting the...
Bi Directional Feedback Fusion for Activity Aware Forecasting of Indoor CO2 and PM2.5
arXiv:2603.06724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor air quality (IAQ) forecasting plays a critical role in safeguarding occupant health, ensuring thermal comfort, and supporting intelligent building control. However, predicting future concentrations of key pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and fine...
Regression Models Meet Foundation Models: A Hybrid-AI Approach to Practical Electricity Price Forecasting
arXiv:2603.06726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electricity market prices exhibit extreme volatility, nonlinearity, and non-stationarity, making accurate forecasting a significant challenge. While cutting-edge time series foundation models (TSFMs) effectively capture temporal dependencies, they typically underutilize cross-variate correlations and non-periodic patterns that...
Safe Transformer: An Explicit Safety Bit For Interpretable And Controllable Alignment
arXiv:2603.06727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety alignment methods encode safe behavior implicitly within model parameters, creating a fundamental opacity: we cannot easily inspect why a model refuses a request, nor intervene when its safety judgments fail. We propose Safe...
Don't Freeze, Don't Crash: Extending the Safe Operating Range of Neural Navigation in Dense Crowds
arXiv:2603.06729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating safely through dense crowds requires collision avoidance that generalizes beyond the densities seen during training. Learning-based crowd navigation can break under out-of-distribution crowd sizes due to density-sensitive observation normalization and social-cost scaling, while analytical...
Improved Constrained Generation by Bridging Pretrained Generative Models
arXiv:2603.06742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take the form of simple linear...
Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2603.06743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is highly effective for post-training autoregressive (AR) language models, yet its direct application to diffusion large language models (dLLMs) often triggers reward collapse. We identify two sources of incompatibility. First,...
Latent Autoencoder Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data assimilation
arXiv:2603.06752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is widely used for data assimilation in high-dimensional systems, but its performance often deteriorates for strongly nonlinear dynamics due to the structural mismatch between the Kalman update and the underlying...
Court agrees to hear case on environmental laws, does not act on several Second Amendment challenges
Updated on March 9 at 5:14 p.m. The Supreme Court added just one case – a technical dispute over the interaction between two federal environmental laws – to its docket […]The postCourt agrees to hear case on environmental laws, does...
In birthright citizenship case, Justice Department urges court to treat an old concept in a new way
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. President Donald Trump’s […]The postIn birthright citizenship case, Justice Department urges court to...
The dissent that believed the Olympics belong to everyone
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. The Olympics are one of those rare moments when the […]The postThe dissent that believed the Olympics belong to everyoneappeared...
SCOTUStoday for Monday, March 9
Just 22% of U.S. registered voters have “a great deal” (7%) or “quite a bit” (15%) of confidence in the Supreme Court, according to a new NBC News poll shared […]The postSCOTUStoday for Monday, March 9appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial
States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury.
Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds
Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.
Boosting deep Reinforcement Learning using pretraining with Logical Options
arXiv:2603.06565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning agents are often misaligned, as they over-exploit early reward signals. Recently, several symbolic approaches have addressed these challenges by encoding sparse objectives along with aligned plans. However, purely symbolic architectures are complex...
Talk Freely, Execute Strictly: Schema-Gated Agentic AI for Flexible and Reproducible Scientific Workflows
arXiv:2603.06394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can now translate a researcher's plain-language goal into executable computation, yet scientific workflows demand determinism, provenance, and governance that are difficult to guarantee when an LLM decides what runs. Semi-structured interviews...
DreamCAD: Scaling Multi-modal CAD Generation using Differentiable Parametric Surfaces
arXiv:2603.05607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) relies on structured and editable geometric representations, yet existing generative methods are constrained by small annotated datasets with explicit design histories or boundary representation (BRep) labels. Meanwhile, millions of unannotated 3D meshes...
PRISM: Personalized Refinement of Imitation Skills for Manipulation via Human Instructions
arXiv:2603.05574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents PRISM: an instruction-conditioned refinement method for imitation policies in robotic manipulation. This approach bridges Imitation Learning (IL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) frameworks into a seamless pipeline, such that an imitation policy on...
Real-Time AI Service Economy: A Framework for Agentic Computing Across the Continuum
arXiv:2603.05614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time AI services increasingly operate across the device-edge-cloud continuum, where autonomous AI agents generate latency-sensitive workloads, orchestrate multi-stage processing pipelines, and compete for shared resources under policy and governance constraints. This article shows that the...
Offline Materials Optimization with CliqueFlowmer
arXiv:2603.06082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in deep learning inspired neural network-based approaches to computational materials discovery (CMD). A plethora of problems in this field involve finding materials that optimize a target property. Nevertheless, the increasingly popular generative modeling...
An Interactive Multi-Agent System for Evaluation of New Product Concepts
arXiv:2603.05980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Product concept evaluation is a critical stage that determines strategic resource allocation and project success in enterprises. However, traditional expert-led approaches face limitations such as subjective bias and high time and cost requirements. To support...
Relational Semantic Reasoning on 3D Scene Graphs for Open World Interactive Object Search
arXiv:2603.05642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language embeddings similarity, which does not reliably capture task-relevant...
SAHOO: Safeguarded Alignment for High-Order Optimization Objectives in Recursive Self-Improvement
arXiv:2603.06333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement is moving from theory to practice: modern systems can critique, revise, and evaluate their own outputs, yet iterative self-modification risks subtle alignment drift. We introduce SAHOO, a practical framework to monitor and control...
Tool-Genesis: A Task-Driven Tool Creation Benchmark for Self-Evolving Language Agent
arXiv:2603.05578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on self-evolving language agents has accelerated, drawing increasing attention to their ability to create, adapt, and maintain tools from task requirements. However, existing benchmarks predominantly rely on predefined specifications, which limits scalability and hinders...
Adversarial Batch Representation Augmentation for Batch Correction in High-Content Cellular Screening
arXiv:2603.05622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-Content Screening routinely generates massive volumes of cell painting images for phenotypic profiling. However, technical variations across experimental executions inevitably induce biological batch (bio-batch) effects. These cause covariate shifts and degrade the generalization of deep...
Post Fusion Bird's Eye View Feature Stabilization for Robust Multimodal 3D Detection
arXiv:2603.05623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera-LiDAR fusion is widely used in autonomous driving to enable accurate 3D object detection. However, bird's-eye view (BEV) fusion detectors can degrade significantly under domain shift and sensor failures, limiting reliability in real-world deployment. Existing...
CBR-to-SQL: Rethinking Retrieval-based Text-to-SQL using Case-based Reasoning in the Healthcare Domain
arXiv:2603.05569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extracting insights from Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases often requires SQL expertise, creating a barrier for healthcare decision-making and research. While a promising approach is to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate natural language...
JAWS: Enhancing Long-term Rollout of Neural Operators via Spatially-Adaptive Jacobian Regularization
arXiv:2603.05538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven surrogate models improve the efficiency of simulating continuous dynamical systems, yet their autoregressive rollouts are often limited by instability and spectral blow-up. While global regularization techniques can enforce contractive dynamics, they uniformly damp high-frequency...
Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of AI-Driven Traffic Flow Patterns and Land Use Interaction: A GeoAI-Based Analysis of Multimodal Urban Mobility
arXiv:2603.05581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban traffic flow is governed by the complex, nonlinear interaction between land use configuration and spatiotemporally heterogeneous mobility demand. Conventional global regression and time-series models cannot simultaneously capture these multi-scale dynamics across multiple travel modes....
An Embodied Companion for Visual Storytelling
arXiv:2603.05511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As artificial intelligence shifts from pure tool for delegation toward agentic collaboration, its use in the arts can shift beyond the exploration of machine autonomy toward synergistic co-creation. While our earlier robotic works utilized automation...