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We propose semi-offline RL, a novel paradigm that smoothly transits from offline to online settings, balances exploration capability and traini","authors":["Chen, Changyu","Wang, Xiting","Jin, Yiqiao","Dong, Victor Ye","Dong, Li","Cao, Jie"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09712","arxiv_id":"2306.09712","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Rethinking Distribution Shifts: Empirical Analysis and Modeling for Tabular Data","abstract":"Different distribution shifts require different interventions, and algorithms must be grounded in the specific shifts they address. However, methodological development for robust algorithms typically relies on structural assumptions that lack empirical validation. Advocating for an empirically grounded data-driven approach to algorithm development, we build an empirical testbed comprising natural shifts across 8 tabu","authors":["Wang, Tianyu","Liu, Jiashuo","Cui, Peng","Namkoong, Hongseok"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05284","arxiv_id":"2307.05284","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Can Language Models Learn to Listen?","abstract":"We present a framework for generating appropriate facial responses from a listener in dyadic social interactions based on the speaker's words. Given an input transcription of the speaker's words with their timestamps, our approach autoregressively predicts a response of a listener: a sequence of listener facial gestures, quantized using a VQ-VAE. Since gesture is a language component, we propose treating the ","authors":["Ng, Evonne","Subramanian, Sanjay","Klein, Dan","Kanazawa, Angjoo","Darrell, Trevor","Ginosar, Shiry"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10897","arxiv_id":"2308.10897","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Enhancing cardiovascular risk prediction through AI-enabled calcium-omics","abstract":"Background. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a powerful predictor of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). Traditional Agatston score simply sums the calcium, albeit in a non-linear way, leaving room for improved calcification assessments that will more fully capture the extent of disease. Objective. To determine if AI methods using detailed calcification features (i.e., calcium-omics) can improve MACE predicti","authors":["Hoori, Ammar","Al-Kindi, Sadeer","Hu, Tao","Song, Yingnan","Wu, Hao","Lee, Juhwan"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12224","arxiv_id":"2308.12224","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Uncovering Model Processing Strategies with Non-Negative Per-Example Fisher Factorization","abstract":"We introduce NPEFF (Non-Negative Per-Example Fisher Factorization), an interpretability method that aims to uncover strategies used by a model to generate its predictions. NPEFF decomposes per-example Fisher matrices using a novel decomposition algorithm that learns a set of components represented by learned rank-1 positive semi-definite matrices. Through a combination of human evaluation and automated analysis, we d","authors":["Matena, Michael","Raffel, Colin"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04649","arxiv_id":"2310.04649","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Exploration via linearly perturbed loss minimisation","abstract":"We introduce exploration via linear loss perturbations (EVILL), a randomised exploration method for structured stochastic bandit problems that works by solving for the minimiser of a linearly perturbed regularised negative log-likelihood function. We show that, for the case of generalised linear bandits, EVILL reduces to perturbed history exploration (PHE), a method where exploration is done by training on randomly p","authors":["Janz, David","Liu, Shuai","Ayoub, Alex","Szepesvári, Csaba"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07565","arxiv_id":"2311.07565","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Binary Gaussian Copula Synthesis: an LLM-powered data augmentation framework for early dialysis prediction in chronic kidney disease","abstract":"Only a small fraction of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) progress to dialysis, creating severe class imbalance that limits the performance of machine learning models for early dialysis prediction. This challenge is compounded by the binary structure of electronic health record (EHR) data, for which most existing augmentation methods were not designed. We propose Binary Gaussian Copula Synthesis (BGCS), a t","authors":["Khosravi, Hamed","Khanchi, Milad","Noori, Mobina","Das, Srinjoy","Al-Mamun, Abdullah","Ahmed, Imtiaz"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00965","arxiv_id":"2403.00965","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Know Yourself Better: Diverse Object-Related Features Improve Open Set Recognition","abstract":"Open set recognition (OSR) is a critical aspect of machine learning, addressing the challenge of detecting novel classes during inference. Within the realm of deep learning, neural classifiers trained on a closed set of data typically struggle to identify novel classes, leading to erroneous predictions. To address this issue, various heuristic methods have been proposed, allowing models to express uncertainty by stat","authors":["Xu, Jiawen","Keuper, Margret"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10370","arxiv_id":"2404.10370","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Biology-inspired joint distribution neurons based on Hierarchical Correlation Reconstruction allowing for multidirectional propagation of values and densities","abstract":"Recently a million of biological neurons (BNN) has turned out better from modern RL methods in playing Pong~\\cite{RL}, reminding they are still qualitatively superior e.g. in learning, flexibility and robustness - suggesting to try to improve current artificial e.g. MLP/KAN for better agreement with biological. There is proposed extension of KAN approach to neurons containing model of local joint distribution: $ρ(\\ma","authors":["Duda, Jarek"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05097","arxiv_id":"2405.05097","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"GridPE: A Grid Cell-Inspired Unified Position Embedding for Arbitrary-Dimensional Spaces","abstract":"Understanding spatial relationships across all dimensions is fundamental for intelligent systems. However, existing positional embeddings, such as Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE), lack theoretical guarantees for high-dimensional spatiotemporal tasks like video understanding and robotic navigation. Inspired by the hexagonal periodic coding of grid cells in mammalian spatial cognition, we propose GridPE -- a novel p","authors":["Li, Boyang","Wu, Yulin","Huang, Nuoxian","Zhang, Wenjia"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07049","arxiv_id":"2406.07049","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Separation Power of Equivariant Neural Networks","abstract":"The separation power of a machine learning model refers to its ability to distinguish between different inputs and is often used as a proxy for its expressivity. Indeed, knowing the separation power of a family of models is a necessary condition to obtain fine-grained universality results. In this paper, we analyze the separation power of equivariant neural networks, such as convolutional and permutation-invariant ne","authors":["Pacini, Marco","Dong, Xiaowen","Lepri, Bruno","Santin, Gabriele"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08966","arxiv_id":"2406.08966","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"What Makes Two Language Models Think Alike?","abstract":"Do architectural and training differences influence the way models represent and process language? Traditional similarity metrics tell us whether two models share a similar representational geometry, but they cannot explain why. Here, we propose a new, simple, approach to address this question. This approach maps neural activity in each model layer onto a set of interpretable linguistic features and quantifies how mu","authors":["Jalouzot, Louis","Pallier, Christophe","Chemla, Emmanuel","Lakretz, Yair"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12620","arxiv_id":"2406.12620","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"IDEAL: Leveraging Infinite and Dynamic Characterizations of Large Language Models for Query-focused Summarization","abstract":"Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and personalization. The advent of large language models (LLMs), shows their impressive capability of textual understanding through large-scale pretraining, which implies the great potential of extractive snippet generation. In this paper, we systematically investigated two indispens","authors":["Cao, Jie","Jiao, Dian","Dai, Yang","Yan, Rolan","Zhang, Wenqiao","Tang, Siliang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10486","arxiv_id":"2407.10486","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"FATE: Focal-modulated Attention Encoder for Multivariate Time-series Forecasting","abstract":"Climate change stands as one of the most pressing global challenges of the twenty-first century, with far-reaching consequences such as rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and increasingly extreme weather patterns. Accurate forecasting is critical for monitoring these phenomena and supporting mitigation strategies. While recent data-driven models for time-series forecasting, including CNNs, RNNs, and attention-based","authors":["Ashraf, Tajamul","Bashir, Janibul"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11336","arxiv_id":"2408.11336","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Inverse Entropic Optimal Transport Solves Semi-supervised Learning via Data Likelihood Maximization","abstract":"Learning conditional distributions $π^*(\\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \\sim π^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often challenging, especially in problems such as domain translation. This necessitates the development of $\\textit{semi-supervised}$ models that utilize both limited paired data and additional unpa","authors":["Persiianov, Mikhail","Asadulaev, Arip","Andreev, Nikita","Starodubcev, Nikita","Baranchuk, Dmitry","Kratsios, Anastasis"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02628","arxiv_id":"2410.02628","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Comprehensive Monitoring of Air Pollution Hotspots Using Sparse Sensor Networks","abstract":"Urban air pollution hotspots pose significant health risks, yet their detection and analysis remain limited by the sparsity of public sensor networks. This paper addresses this challenge by combining predictive modeling and mechanistic approaches to comprehensively monitor pollution hotspots. We enhanced New Delhi's existing sensor network with 28 low-cost sensors, collecting PM2.5 data over 30 months from May 1,","authors":["Bhardwaj, Ankit","Balashankar, Ananth","Iyer, Shiva","Soans, Nita","Sudarshan, Anant","Pande, Rohini"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04309","arxiv_id":"2410.04309","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Decomposition Polyhedra of Piecewise Linear Functions","abstract":"In this paper we contribute to the frequently studied question of how to decompose a continuous piecewise linear (CPWL) function into a difference of two convex CPWL functions. Every CPWL function has infinitely many such decompositions, but for applications in optimization and neural network theory, it is crucial to find decompositions with as few linear pieces as possible. This is a highly challenging problem, as w","authors":["Brandenburg, Marie-Charlotte","Grillo, Moritz","Hertrich, Christoph"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04907","arxiv_id":"2410.04907","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"On Efficient Variants of Segment Anything Model: A Survey","abstract":"The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundational model for image segmentation tasks, known for its strong generalization across diverse applications. However, its impressive performance comes with significant computational and resource demands, making it challenging to deploy in resource-limited environments such as edge devices. To address this, a variety of SAM variants have been proposed to enhance efficiency wh","authors":["Sun, Xiaorui","Liu, Jun","Shen, Heng Tao","Zhu, Xiaofeng","Hu, Ping"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04960","arxiv_id":"2410.04960","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"ST-WebAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Safety and Trustworthiness in Web Agents","abstract":"Autonomous web agents solve complex browsing tasks, yet existing benchmarks measure only whether an agent finishes a task, ignoring whether it does so safely or in a way enterprises can trust. To integrate these agents into critical workflows, safety and trustworthiness (ST) are prerequisite conditions for adoption. We introduce \\textbf{\\textsc{ST-WebAgentBench}}, a configurable and easily extensible suite for evalua","authors":["Levy, Ido","Wiesel, Ben","Marreed, Sami","Oved, Alon","Yaeli, Avi","Mashkif, Nir"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06703","arxiv_id":"2410.06703","published":"2026-06-05"},{"title":"Channel-Wise Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models","abstract":"Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of language tasks, but their deployment on edge devices remains challenging due to the substantial memory requirements imposed by their large parameter sizes. Weight-only quantization presents a promising solution to reduce the memory footprint of LLMs. However, existing approaches primarily focus on integer-bit quantization, limiti","authors":["Chen, Zihan","Xie, Bike","Li, Jundong","Shen, Cong"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13056","arxiv_id":"2410.13056","published":"2026-06-05"}],"history":{"events":[{"year":2009,"text":"A fire at a day-care center kills 49 children in Mexico","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Hermosillo_daycare_center_fire"},{"year":2009,"text":"After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Bagua province, Peru.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Peruvian_political_crisis"},{"year":2004,"text":"Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France had not yet been legalised.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Mam%C3%A8re"},{"year":2001,"text":"Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison"},{"year":1997,"text":"Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, initiating a second civil war.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Lissouba"},{"year":1989,"text":"An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed \"Tank Man\", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man"},{"year":1981,"text":"The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV%2FAIDS"},{"year":1976,"text":"The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed (failure pictured) as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teton_Dam"},{"year":1968,"text":"U.S. senator Robert F. 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