Structural Segmentation of the Minimum Set Cover Problem: Exploiting Universe Decomposability for Metaheuristic Optimization
arXiv:2604.03234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Minimum Set Cover Problem (MSCP) is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with numerous applications in science and engineering. Although a wide range of exact, approximate, and metaheuristic approaches have been proposed, most me...
General Explicit Network (GEN): A novel deep learning architecture for solving partial differential equations
arXiv:2604.03321v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine learning, especially physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and their neural network variants, has been widely used to solve problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). The successful deployment of such methods beyond academic ...
arXiv:2604.02434v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study structured abstraction-based reasoning for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) and compare its generalization to test-time approaches. Purely neural architectures lack reliable combinatorial generalization, while strictly symbolic syst...
DySCo: Dynamic Semantic Compression for Effective Long-term Time Series Forecasting
arXiv:2604.01261v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time series forecasting (TSF) is critical across domains such as finance, meteorology, and energy. While extending the lookback window theoretically provides richer historical context, in practice, it often introduces irrelevant noise and computationa...
Sven: Singular Value Descent as a Computationally Efficient Natural Gradient Method
arXiv:2604.01279v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Sven (Singular Value dEsceNt), a new optimization algorithm for neural networks that exploits the natural decomposition of loss functions into a sum over individual data points, rather than reducing the full loss to a single scalar before...
Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions with Foresight Learning
arXiv:2604.01298v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Anticipating supply chain disruptions before they materialize is a core challenge for firms and policymakers alike. A key difficulty is learning to reason reliably about infrequent, high-impact events from noisy and unstructured inputs - a setting whe...
UQ-SHRED: uncertainty quantification of shallow recurrent decoder networks for sparse sensing via engression
arXiv:2604.01305v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconstructing high-dimensional spatiotemporal fields from sparse sensor measurements is critical in a wide range of scientific applications. The SHallow REcurrent Decoder (SHRED) architecture is a recent state-of-the-art architecture that reconstruct...
arXiv:2604.00066v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Although Deep Reinforcement Learning has proven highly effective for complex decision-making problems, it demands significant computational resources and careful parameter adjustment in order to develop successful strategies. Evolution strategies offe...
Perspective: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning
arXiv:2604.00069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming molecular and materials science, but its growing computational and data demands raise critical sustainability challenges. In this Perspective, we examine resource considerations across the AI-driven discovery pi...
How Emotion Shapes the Behavior of LLMs and Agents: A Mechanistic Study
arXiv:2604.00005v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotion plays an important role in human cognition and performance. Motivated by this, we investigate whether analogous emotional signals can shape the behavior of large language models (LLMs) and agents. Existing emotion-aware studies mainly treat em...
Structural Pass Analysis in Football: Learning Pass Archetypes and Tactical Impact from Spatio-Temporal Tracking Data
arXiv:2603.28916v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The increasing availability of spatio-temporal tracking data has created new opportunities for analysing tactical behaviour in football. However, many existing approaches evaluate passes primarily through outcome-based metrics such as scoring probabil...
ChartDiff: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Comprehending Pairs of Charts
arXiv:2603.28902v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Charts are central to analytical reasoning, yet existing benchmarks for chart understanding focus almost exclusively on single-chart interpretation rather than comparative reasoning across multiple charts. To address this gap, we introduce ChartDiff, ...
Mitigating Forgetting in Continual Learning with Selective Gradient Projection
arXiv:2603.26671v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As neural networks are increasingly deployed in dynamic environments, they face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, the tendency to overwrite previously learned knowledge when adapting to new tasks, resulting in severe performance degradation on...
Compliance-Aware Predictive Process Monitoring: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach
arXiv:2603.26948v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing approaches for predictive process monitoring are sub-symbolic, meaning that they learn correlations between descriptive features and a target feature fully based on data, e.g., predicting the surgical needs of a patient based on historical ev...
Concerning Uncertainty -- A Systematic Survey of Uncertainty-Aware XAI
arXiv:2603.26838v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper surveys uncertainty-aware explainable artificial intelligence (UAXAI), examining how uncertainty is incorporated into explanatory pipelines and how such methods are evaluated. Across the literature, three recurring approaches to uncertainty...
arXiv:2603.25839v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep neural networks exhibit a simplicity bias, a well-documented tendency to favor simple functions over complex ones. In this work, we cast new light on this phenomenon through the lens of the Minimum Description Length principle, formalizing superv...
Empowering Epidemic Response: The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Infectious Disease Control
arXiv:2603.25771v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), owing to its adaptability to various dynamic systems in many real-world scenarios and the capability of maximizing long-term outcomes under different constraints, has been used in infectious disease control to optimize the...
Incorporating contextual information into KGWAS for interpretable GWAS discovery
arXiv:2603.25855v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) identify associations between genetic variants and disease; however, moving beyond associations to causal mechanisms is critical for therapeutic target prioritization. The recently proposed Knowledge Graph GWAS (...
Pure and Physics-Guided Deep Learning Solutions for Spatio-Temporal Groundwater Level Prediction at Arbitrary Locations
arXiv:2603.25779v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Groundwater represents a key element of the water cycle, yet it exhibits intricate and context-dependent relationships that make its modeling a challenging task. Theory-based models have been the cornerstone of scientific understanding. However, their...
GUIDE: Resolving Domain Bias in GUI Agents through Real-Time Web Video Retrieval and Plug-and-Play Annotation
arXiv:2603.26266v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large vision-language models have endowed GUI agents with strong general capabilities for interface understanding and interaction. However, due to insufficient exposure to domain-specific software operation data during training, these agents exhibit s...
Semi-Automated Knowledge Engineering and Process Mapping for Total Airport Management
arXiv:2603.26076v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Documentation of airport operations is inherently complex due to extensive technical terminology, rigorous regulations, proprietary regional information, and fragmented communication across multiple stakeholders. The resulting data silos and semantic ...
Safe Reinforcement Learning with Preference-based Constraint Inference
arXiv:2603.23565v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning (RL) is a standard paradigm for safety-critical decision making. However, real-world safety constraints can be complex, subjective, and even hard to explicitly specify. Existing works on constraint inference rely on restric...