arXiv:2603.06602v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As datasets continue to grow in size and complexity, finding succinct yet accurate data summaries poses a key challenge. Centroid-based clustering, a widely adopted approach to address this challenge, finds informative summaries of datasets in terms o...
Best-of-Tails: Bridging Optimism and Pessimism in Inference-Time Alignment
arXiv:2603.06797v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference-time alignment effectively steers large language models (LLMs) by generating multiple candidates from a reference model and selecting among them with an imperfect reward model. However, current strategies face a fundamental dilemma: ``optimi...
The emergence of the AI Architect: Engineering the future of tech
According to Gartner, over 80% of enterprise AI projects fail to move beyond the prototype stage, highlighting the need for professionals who can design systems that work in the real world. Enter the AI Architect...
FedEMA-Distill: Exponential Moving Average Guided Knowledge Distillation for Robust Federated Learning
arXiv:2603.04422v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated learning (FL) often degrades when clients hold heterogeneous non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data and when some clients behave adversarially, leading to client drift, slow convergence, and high communication overhead. T...
Capability Thresholds and Manufacturing Topology: How Embodied Intelligence Triggers Phase Transitions in Economic Geography
arXiv:2603.04457v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The fundamental topology of manufacturing has not undergone a paradigm-level transformation since Henry Ford's moving assembly line in 1913. Every major innovation of the past century, from the Toyota Production System to Industry 4.0, has optimized w...
Enterprise adoption is shifting from “capability” to “credibility.” Organizations without strong oversight, documentation, and risk management risk losing trust and market momentum. Are you ready?
Estimating Visual Attribute Effects in Advertising from Observational Data: A Deepfake-Informed Double Machine Learning Approach
arXiv:2603.02359v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Digital advertising increasingly relies on visual content, yet marketers lack rigorous methods for understanding how specific visual attributes causally affect consumer engagement. This paper addresses a fundamental methodological challenge: estimatin...
arXiv:2603.02365v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper investigates whether and how AI systems can realize states of uncertainty. By adopting a functionalist and behavioral perspective, it examines how symbolic, connectionist and hybrid architectures make room for uncertainty. The paper distingu...
Microsoft research lead Doug Burger introduces his new podcast series, The Shape of Things to Come, an exploration into the fundamental truths about AI and how the technology will reshape the future.
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StaTS: Spectral Trajectory Schedule Learning for Adaptive Time Series Forecasting with Frequency Guided Denoiser
arXiv:2603.00037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models have been used for probabilistic time series forecasting and show strong potential. However, fixed noise schedules often produce intermediate states that are hard to invert and a terminal state that deviates from the near noise assump...
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 ser...
EMBridge: Enhancing Gesture Generalization from EMG Signals through Cross-Modal Representation Learning
Hand gesture classification using high-quality structured data such as videos, im-
ages, and hand skeletons is a well-explored problem in computer vision. Alterna-
tively, leveraging low-power, cost-effective bio-signals, e.g., surface electromyo-
graphy (sEMG), allows for continuous gesture predict...
ChatGPT as a therapist? New study reveals serious ethical risks
As millions turn to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for therapy-style advice, new research from Brown University raises a serious red flag: even when instructed to act like trained therapists, these systems routinely break core ethical standards of mental health care. In side-by-side evaluations with ...
Causal Identification from Counterfactual Data: Completeness and Bounding Results
arXiv:2602.23541v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Previous work establishing completeness results for $\textit{counterfactual identification}$ has been circumscribed to the setting where the input data belongs to observational or interventional distributions (Layers 1 and 2 of Pearl's Causal Hierarch...
Construct, Merge, Solve & Adapt with Reinforcement Learning for the min-max Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem
arXiv:2602.23579v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) extends the Traveling Salesman Problem to m tours that start and end at a common depot and jointly visit all customers exactly once. In the min-max variant, the objective is to minimize the longest tour, ...
Patient-Centered, Graph-Augmented Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Passive Surveillance for Early Stroke Risk Detection in High-Risk Individuals
arXiv:2602.22228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Stroke affected millions annually, yet poor symptom recognition often delayed care-seeking. To address risk recognition gap, we developed a passive surveillance system for early stroke risk detection using patient-reported symptoms among individuals w...
Causal Direction from Convergence Time: Faster Training in the True Causal Direction
arXiv:2602.22254v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Causal Computational Asymmetry (CCA), a principle for causal direction identification based on optimization dynamics in which one neural network is trained to predict $Y$ from $X$ and another to predict $X$ from $Y$, and the direction tha...
From Privacy to ‘Glass Box’ AI, Stanford Students Are Targeting Real-World Problems
An Amazon-backed fellowship will support 10 Stanford PhD students whose work explores everything from how we communicate to understanding disease and protecting our data.
Urban Vibrancy Embedding and Application on Traffic Prediction
arXiv:2602.21232v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban vibrancy reflects the dynamic human activity within urban spaces and is often measured using mobile data that captures floating population trends. This study proposes a novel approach to derive Urban Vibrancy embeddings from real-time floating p...
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 incom...