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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI safety and reliability in deployment — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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On the Last-Iterate Convergence of Clipped Gradient Methods
The paper provides theoretical last-iterate convergence guarantees for clipped stochastic gradient methods under heavy-tailed noise.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies gradient descent math, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
SALTO: Solver-Anchored Lifted Transfer Operators for Nonlinear Event Inference
The paper introduces an operator-learning framework using linear transfer operators to infer localized finite-amplitude source events in nonlinear dynamical systems.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Scientific inverse problem modeling, not AI safety, jailbreak defense, or guardrails.
Score Mismatch and Set-Constrained Sampling in Zero-Shot Conditional Discrete Diffusion
The paper provides theoretical bounds on the approximation error caused by score mismatch during zero-shot conditional sampling in discrete diffusion models.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on discrete diffusion distribution shifts, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Adaptive Randomized Neural Networks for PDEs: Structure-Aware Feature Redistribution and Residual-Driven Block Enrichment
The paper introduces a two-stage adaptive feature construction method to improve randomized neural networks for solving partial differential equations.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Numerical PDE solution technique, not deployment safety or robustness in LLMs.
StochLOB: Heavy-Tailed Score Matching for Robust Limit Order Book Trend Prediction
The paper proposes a heavy-tailed score-matching framework for limit order book trend prediction without needing reverse diffusion sampling at inference.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Limit order book forecasting, not AI safety, alignment, or guardrail systems.
Noise-Space Reward Alignment for Few-Step Generative Models
The paper proposes Noise Policy Optimization to align few-step generative models with black-box rewards by steering their initial input noise space.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on reward alignment in generative models, not deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
Predicting Live Birth After Fresh Embryo Transfer in IVF/ICSI: Differential ICM/Trophectoderm Morphology Encoding and a Hybrid Attention--Logistic Regression Ensemble
The paper presents an attention-based neural network and logistic regression ensemble to predict live birth outcomes before fresh embryo transfer.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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IVF clinical outcome prediction, not LLM safety, guardrails, or red-teaming.
Pathwise Shrinkage and Probabilistic Calibration of the Multiplicative Half-Cauchy Process
The paper analyzes theoretical properties of the multiplicative half-Cauchy process and provides a calibration rule linking prior beliefs to its scale parameter.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Mathematical stochastic process analysis, not AI deployment safety or jailbreak defense.
Coordination-Free Workload Regularization for Variable-Cost Distributed Training
The paper proposes a rank-local data-loading policy that rebalances variable-cost training batches without cross-node coordination to speed up distributed training.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Hardware workload balancing, not AI deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Sensor Diagnosis for Fuel and Emissions Monitoring in Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles
The paper evaluates two machine learning procedures to diagnose faulty sensors and correct fuel and emission estimates in heavy-duty diesel engines.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Automotive engine sensor monitoring, not LLM safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Hard Way, The Only Way: Provable Merits of Training on Hardest Examples
The paper provides a high-dimensional theoretical analysis of data pruning strategies when training models on the hardest examples.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Mathematical sample pruning analysis, not AI safety guardrails or deployment risks.
Learning and Forecasting Multiscale Spatiotemporal Epidemic Dynamics with Lagrangian-Eulerian Graph Neural ODEs
The authors introduce a graph neural ordinary differential equation framework to forecast multiscale spatiotemporal epidemic spreading dynamics.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on spatio-temporal epidemic modeling, not LLM deployment safety or guardrails.
Compatibility Matters: A Framework for Token-Level Teacher Selection in On-Policy Distillation
The authors propose a theoretical and empirical framework to route token-level teacher selection during on-policy student distillation.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Centers on distillation policy routing, not deployment safety or alignment robustness.
Rethinking Learning from Label Proportions via Moment Matching
The paper presents a moment-matching framework for weakly supervised learning when labels are grouped into bags non-randomly.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on label-proportion statistical learning, not deployment safety guardrails or robustness.
Regret Lower Bound for Online Learning of Quantum States with Logarithmic Loss, with Applications to Quantum State Tomography and Confidence Sequences for Matrix Means
The authors establish regret lower bounds for online quantum state learning under logarithmic loss with applications to tomography.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with quantum tomography regret bounds, not AI deployment safety or jailbreaks.
Can Capability Enhancement be Localized?
The study investigates whether removing small subsets of attention heads can improve language model performance on specific tasks.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on capability improvement via head removal, not safety guardrails or robustness.
Personalized Projected Ascent for Federated Stackelberg Optimization
The paper analyzes personalized projected ascent algorithms for federated minimax problems with client-specific maximization variables.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical optimization paper, not LLM safety, guardrails, or deployment reliability.
Spectrum Is Not Enough: A Random-Matrix Account of Data-Free Preconditioning for Differentially Private Learning
The authors use random matrix theory to establish theoretical limits on synthetic data-free preconditioning in differentially private learning.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical analysis of private learning preconditioning, not deployment safety or reliability.
Dimension-Free PAC-Bayes Generalization for Deep Neural Networks via Dirichlet Processes
The paper develops dimension-free PAC-Bayesian generalization bounds for deep neural networks using Dirichlet processes over data distributions.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical generalization analysis without AI deployment safety focus.
Online Quantile Omniprediction for Proper Losses
The authors introduce online algorithms to generate quantile forecasts that remain accurate across multiple proper loss functions simultaneously.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical quantile forecasting analysis, not AI system safety.
Honesty is the Best Policy ... or is it? Demand Management for Probabilistic Service Options
The paper models demand management using probabilistic service options and analyzes provider incentives under transparency constraints.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on customer choice manipulation in operations research, not AI safety.
Two Sample Sizes in Test-Time LLM Ensembling: Buffered ERM and Minimax Theory
The authors analyze theoretical sample-complexity tradeoffs between questions and generations when ensembling multiple language models at test time.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Mathematical analysis of ensembling risk rather than deployment safety.
Same Target, Different Origins: Aligning Latent Rollout for Consistent PDE Emulation
The paper introduces a regularization technique that aligns internal representations across rollout origins to improve neural differential equation emulation.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with scientific neural PDE emulation, not AI safety.
Does Compression Imply Generalization? A Minimum Description Length Perspective
The authors show how prequential regret from minimum description length bounds neural network generalization error without held-out data.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers theoretical machine learning bounds, not deployment safety.
RDL-Bench: A Benchmark for Task-Aware Question Answering over Relational Databases
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate question answering systems on reasoning and predictive tasks over relational databases.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Benchmark paper for database QA, not focused on AI safety.
Fault Detection and Bit-Error Rate Diagnostics in Optical Wireless Links Using Edge-AI
The authors implement an on-device machine learning diagnostic engine on a microcontroller for optical wireless communication links.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on telecommunication link diagnostics rather than AI system safety.
Learning to Forecast on Multiple Spatiotemporal Hierarchies
The paper proposes a graph neural network framework to exploit multiple spatiotemporal aggregation hierarchies for time-series forecasting.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses time-series aggregation architectures, not AI deployment safety.
What Does History Add? Calendar Controls and Information-Timing Audits for University Trajectory Forecasting
This study audits how historical information and calendar controls affect trajectory forecasting within a university simulator.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies trajectory simulator predictions, not AI deployment safety.
Policy-Aligned Predictive Verification for Adaptive VLA Action-Chunk Execution
The paper presents a predictive verifier that decides how many actions from a vision-language-action chunk to execute safely.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Targets robotic manipulation task success rather than AI deployment safety risks.
Each Reward to Its Relevant Tokens: Reward-Specific Token-Level Credit Assignment for Multi-Reward RL
The authors propose an algorithm that assigns multi-reward reinforcement learning credit specifically to relevant response tokens.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on multi-reward optimization for instruction following rather than deployment safety guardrails.
DuET: Note-Frame Dual Encoding for Piano Performance-to-Score Transcription
The paper introduces a dual-encoder transformer that jointly transcribes piano performances to scores and tracks metrical beat frames.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Music score transcription does not address AI deployment safety.
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: Curse of Dimensionality and Structural Bias
This paper analyzes Kolmogorov-Arnold networks to show that favorable dimension scaling depends on target smoothness rather than the architecture alone.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical network capacity analysis without AI safety focus.
Phase Kernel Lifts Capacity of Dense Associative Memory
The authors introduce a nonlinear phase kernel to expand the effective retrieval capacity of modern Hopfield networks.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Examines memory network retrieval capacity rather than deployment safety.
When the KV Cache Is Slower Than the GPU: Scaling Remote KV Tiers for Context-Parallel Prefill
The paper analyzes performance bottlenecks when using remote key-value caches during context-parallel prefill in large language model serving.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses latency and systems throughput, not AI safety risks.
Activation-Adjacent Layer Normalization: Effects on Approximation Power
The paper analyzes the mathematical approximation capabilities of neural networks when layer normalization or RMSNorm is placed directly adjacent to activations.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on functional approximation theory rather than AI safety.
Finite-Time Guarantees for Constrained Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
The paper develops a primal-dual reinforcement learning algorithm providing finite-time performance and constraint-satisfaction bounds under partial observability.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses abstract RL constraint bounds rather than real-world AI deployment safety.
Reducing the Cost of Qudit State Preparation by Learning a Sparse Structure for SNAP Gates
The paper presents a differentiable masking technique to learn sparse control phases for preparing bosonic qudit quantum states.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Quantum state preparation does not address AI deployment safety.
A Quantum Machine Learning Approach to Content-Based Media Recommendation
The paper applies quantum natural language processing circuits to content-based TV programme recommendations, comparing efficiency against classical models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
From Perception to Prediction and Intervention: Benchmarking Proactive Video Assistants in Real-Life Scenarios
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate proactive video assistants across perception, risk prediction, and timely real-world intervention tasks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on proactive multimodal video benchmarking, not deployment guardrails.
Transfer Learning in Bandits from Unknown Adaptive Policies: Problem-Dependent Lower and Upper Bounds
The paper establishes regret bounds and an algorithm for transfer learning in multi-armed bandits when historical data comes from unknown adaptive policies.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers theoretical bandit regret bounds, not deployment safety.
Local Temporal Contrasts on Human Motion Data Induce a Latent Geometry
The paper uses local temporal contrastive learning on human motion data to preserve multi-scale latent geometric trajectories in representations.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers time-series representation learning, not AI safety or reliability.
ReFlow: Replay-Driven Decoupling for Efficient RL Post-Training
The paper presents a replay-driven decoupled reinforcement learning framework to improve system efficiency during language model post-training.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses RL system throughput, not safety guardrails or reliability.
Conditional Mean Flows: Few-Step Densities for Simulation-Based Inference
The paper proposes conditional mean flows to enable few-step posterior sampling and tractable density evaluation for simulation-based inference.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with posterior estimation algorithms, not AI deployment safety.
Approaching Backpropagation Accuracy with Weight Perturbation on MNIST
The paper analyzes the accuracy and efficiency trade-offs of derivative-free weight perturbation compared with standard backpropagation on MNIST.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Examines theoretical optimization methods, not AI safety in deployment.
Classical methods for modern applications: synthetic tabular data generation using lightweight discrete response continuous latent variable model
The paper presents a lightweight classical latent variable method for generating synthetic mixed tabular data without complex deep architectures.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Presents tabular data generation, not AI safety or guardrails.
MARS: A Momentum-Aware Adaptive Rating System for Personalized Assessment
The paper proposes an interpretable, momentum-aware adaptive testing system that updates learner proficiency ratings dynamically during timed assessments.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers student assessment algorithms, not AI safety in deployment.
ShiftQAT: Quantization-Aware Training for the Numerical Contract of a Fixed-Function Edge CNN Accelerator
The paper details a quantization-aware training workflow that trains neural networks to match the exact hardware constraints of edge accelerators.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on edge quantization hardware constraints, not safety guardrails.
Robust Covariance Estimation for Entry-wise Contaminated and Partially Observed Data via Expectation Maximization Algorithm
The paper introduces a stochastic approximation expectation maximization algorithm for robust covariance estimation with coordinate-wise contaminated and missing data.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with classical statistical estimation, not AI system safety.
Sparse Federated Echo State Networks for Time-Series Classification via Smooth-L1 Regularization
The paper presents a sparse federated Echo State Network using smooth L1 regularization for efficient edge time-series classification.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers reservoir computing sparsity, not AI safety or guardrails.
Pairwise AUC Optimization Needs Corrective Power: A Unified View
The paper analyzes direct pairwise area-under-curve training to explain why mini-batch stochastic gradient descent can fail on severe ranking errors.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers loss function theory, not deployment safety or robustness.
Q($γ_H$): Entropy-Guided Horizon Mixing in Multi-Discount Q-Learning
The paper introduces a multi-horizon reinforcement learning framework that dynamically mixes multiple discount factors using policy confidence signals.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Investigates standard reinforcement learning optimization, not safety guardrails.
Same Spectrum, Harder First-Order Training: Phase-Locking in Single- versus Multi-Qubit Re-Uploading Circuits
The paper investigates optimization dynamics in variational quantum circuits, showing single-qubit re-uploading circuits encounter phase-locking during first-order training.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers quantum computing theory, not AI safety or reliability.
Measuring the local shape of learning-rate transfer curves
The paper provides analytical formulas to characterize and explain the gradient of learning-rate transfer curves across different model scales.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Examines theoretical training dynamics rather than deployment safety.
A Closed Form Depth-Width Law for Neural Collapse in Deep Linear Networks
The paper derives a closed-form geometric law describing how depth and width affect representation compression in deep linear networks.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with representation geometry theory, not safety or deployment reliability.
Compiling Multi-Threshold Operators for Quantized Non-Monotonic and Fine-Granular Activations in Custom-Tailored DNN Accelerators
The paper proposes an ONNX compiler method to map quantized non-monotonic and fine-granular activations into multi-threshold operators for hardware accelerators.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on FPGA hardware quantization, not safety or guardrails.
Local Epochs as Optimal Stopping: Theory and Evidence in Federated Learning
The paper frames client local training in federated learning as an optimal stopping problem to balance local updates against drift.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on federated optimization, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Physics-Aware Distillation of a Grid Foundation Model for Real-Time Edge Inference
The paper distils a power-grid foundation model into a compact student network for real-time edge inference on power systems.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on model distillation, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Learning Lean Feedback for Efficient Proof-Candidate Evaluation on GPUs
This paper trains GPU-based neural evaluators to predict Lean 4 compiler verdicts and feedback, accelerating proof-candidate filtering.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on training throughput for theorem provers, not safety.
Graph Dirichlet Energy for Fitting-Free Bivariate Causal Inference
This paper proposes a Dirichlet energy criterion on kernel similarity graphs for bivariate causal inference without regression fitting or independence testing.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers statistical causal inference, not AI deployment safety.
Self-Calibrated Subspace Robust PCA for Parameter-Free Removal of Mixed Noise and Line Stripes in Hyperspectral Images
This paper presents a self-calibrated robust PCA method for removing mixed noise and line stripes in hyperspectral images without preset parameters.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on image processing algorithms, not deployment AI safety.
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