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From Orbit Matching to Docking: A Hierarchical Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Multiphase Rendezvous Trajectory Design
The paper proposes a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework to automate multi-phase spacecraft rendezvous and docking trajectories.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with spacecraft control dynamics rather than AI deployment safety or language model alignment.
Structure-preserving fidelity diagnostics for partial differential equations
The paper introduces diagnostic scores to test whether neural network surrogates respect underlying physical conservation laws rather than numerical errors.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Evaluates physical conservation properties in PDE surrogates, not AI deployment safety.
A Time-Synchronous Prequential Evaluation Framework for Next-Week Student Disengagement Prediction from Moodle LMS Logs
The paper evaluates online machine learning models within a time-synchronous framework to predict weekly student disengagement from activity logs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses student disengagement models rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Longitudinal Learner Participation Profiling in Online Learning: Heterogeneous Consensus Clustering under Unequal Observation Windows
The paper evaluates clustering methods on learning management system logs to identify learner participation profiles across unequal observation windows.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers learner analytics rather than AI deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Merit: Making every modality earn its contribution in multimodal attention decoding
The paper introduces a multimodal auditory attention decoding framework designed to maintain reliance on neural signals alongside behavioural tracking.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on auditory signal decoding rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
ATTUNE: Agentic Throughput Tuning for LLM Training
The paper presents an automated coding agent that tunes large model training configurations for throughput under user-defined compute budgets.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses training throughput optimization rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Training Generalist Navigation Policies via Action Self-Distillation
The paper introduces a self-distillation framework where a vision-language model teaches itself language-conditioned robotic navigation policies without human annotations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on robotic navigation learning rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
FedLoRD: Personalized Federated Learning based on Low-Rank Structures of Model Parameter Differences
The paper introduces a personalized federated learning method that regularizes local model updates using low-rank difference structures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies federated optimization rather than AI deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Mixed Precision Scaling Laws for Quantized Pretraining
The paper proposes mixed precision scaling laws to model the trade-offs of low-precision quantization during model pretraining.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Analyzes quantization scaling behavior rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Focus on What You Need: Global-to-Local Dynamic Attention for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
The paper introduces a global-to-local dynamic attention model to filter visual noise and improve multimodal sarcasm detection.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies sarcasm detection rather than AI deployment safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
MissPath-FM: Flow Matching with Structured Priors for Partially Observed Time Series
The paper develops a flow matching framework with structured priors to model partially observed time series without wasting capacity on observed entries.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on missing data imputation rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Representation Geometry and Inductive Biases in Quantum Classifiers across Classical Visual Benchmarks
The paper investigates the representation geometry and inductive biases of quantum classifiers when applied to classical visual benchmark datasets.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies quantum feature mappings rather than AI deployment safety or reliability risks.
Hybrid Parallel Bessel KAN Model: a Kolmogorov Arnold Network: integrated framework for developing a novel architecture to reconstruct the fused-basis approach via a parameter free quadratic interaction
The paper proposes a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network architecture using parallel Bessel branches and quadratic interactions to reduce parameters and conditioning problems.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on function approximation architecture rather than AI deployment safety or reliability.
Follow the Perturbed Leader for Linear Bandits: $\sqrt{T}$ Regret over General Convex Sets
The paper provides an adversarial linear bandit algorithm achieving sublinear regret over general convex action sets using follow-the-perturbed-leader.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on theoretical linear bandits rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
GeoNIRS: Geometry-Aware Pretraining for Heterogeneous fNIRS Representation Learning
The paper presents a geometry-aware pretraining framework that aligns heterogeneous probe layouts for functional near-infrared spectroscopy representation learning.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers hemodynamic representation learning rather than AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Persistence Positional Encoding: A Minimal Transformer Recipe for Persistence Diagrams
The paper proposes a minimal positional encoding method using random Fourier features to feed persistence diagrams directly into standard Transformers.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses topological data representations, not deployment safety or reliability risks.
Searching for What Matters: Open-Ended Discovery of Multiple Hypotheses with Agentic Data Exploration
The paper introduces an open-ended benchmark for evaluating agentic systems on discovering multiple data-supported hypotheses from tabular datasets.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies scientific hypothesis generation rather than safety, guardrails, or deployment risks.
Deep Mesoscopic Dynamics
The paper develops a neural network approach to learn effective mesoscopic field equations directly from microscopic trajectory data.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses physical system simulation, not AI deployment safety or reliability.
FlashMask-3: Efficient and Expressive Mask-Aware Distributed Attention
The paper presents an expressive and distributed attention kernel that compresses structured attention masks to enable efficient context parallelism on Hopper GPUs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers GPU kernel and communication optimizations, not AI safety or guardrails.
NBCLT: Parameter-Agnostic Norm-Ball Clipped Local Training
The paper introduces a unified local training framework using norm-ball clipping to improve communication efficiency in distributed and federated learning.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical federated learning convergence, not safety guardrails or deployment risks.
Stein Variational Distributional Reinforcement Learning: Score-Guided Particles for Multivariate Return Distributions
The paper introduces a score-guided particle framework using Stein variational gradient descent to model multivariate return distributions in reinforcement learning.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses theoretical RL particle representation, not deployment safety or alignment.
Learning Distributions from Samples and Qualities
This paper establishes accelerated parameter estimation rates when continuous data samples are accompanied by binary quality labels or pairwise preferences.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with theoretical sample distribution estimation, not AI safety or reliability.
Neural Dimensional Analysis: Foundations of Dimensionless and Scale-Consistent Computation
This paper introduces a dimensional analysis framework and diagnostic metrics to maintain scale consistency across Transformer components.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on training stability via dimensional analysis, not deployment safety or reliability.
AlignPred: Error-Controlled KV Cache Compression via Alignment and Predictive Coding
This paper presents an error-controlled compression codec for key-value caches using coordinate alignment and predictive coding.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses serving efficiency and memory compression, not AI safety or guardrails.
All-electron machine-learned orbital-free density functional for periodic CHNO systems
This paper presents an equivariant neural network functional to perform orbital-free density functional theory for periodic CHNO systems.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on quantum chemistry calculations, not AI deployment safety.
Exact power indices for plurality-voting ensembles
This paper introduces an exact method to compute Banzhaf and Shapley power indices for base classifiers in plurality-voting ensembles.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies voting ensemble attribution, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
Improving Neural Symbolic Regression with a Diverse Prior and Post-training Alignment
This paper improves neural symbolic regression by using a tabular prior and reinforcement learning alignment to fit noisy data.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on symbolic mathematical regression, not deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
FRACTION: Fraud Explanation Generation via Agentic Graph Context Navigation
This paper presents an agentic framework and an evaluation rubric for generating explanations of risk labels in graph fraud detection.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Presents an agentic tool for fraud explanation rather than safety or alignment guardrails.
Weighting-Based Strategies for Classification: Analysis and Local Peak Dynamics with CART Trees
This paper theoretically and empirically compares weighting-based rebalancing strategies to unweighted methods in imbalanced tabular classification tasks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies class-imbalance weighting in decision trees, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
LADDER: A Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Benchmark
This paper introduces a robot manipulation benchmark to isolate failures across scaling subgoal horizons and orchestration methods.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Evaluates robotics manipulation policies, not AI deployment safety or jailbreak risks.
Reliable Scale-Free Bandits via Empirical Likelihood
This paper develops an empirical-likelihood bandit policy that provides asymptotic regret guarantees without knowledge of reward scales.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on theoretical bandit regret bounds rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Causal Discovery Under Hard Selection Bias: A New Robust Score-Matching Approach
This paper proposes a score-matching approach for causal discovery in additive noise models under hard selection bias and truncation.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on statistical causal discovery rather than AI deployment safety or robustness.
Failure Recovery via Belief Updates and World Modeling for Long-Horizon Agents
This paper introduces a framework combining persistent belief states with implicit world modeling to help long-horizon language agents recover from failures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on agent planning recovery rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Same Function, Different Trajectory: No Standard Optimizer Is Equivariant to Transformer Reparameterization
This paper demonstrates that standard optimizers are sensitive to parameter scaling in Transformers and proposes a symmetry-aware gradient adjustment.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Concerns training stability and optimization theory, not deployment safety or reliability.
The Effect of Layer Ordering in Hybrid Architectures
This paper analyzes how layer ordering and selection affect performance across tasks in hybrid attention model architectures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on hybrid model architecture optimization, not safety or guardrails.
Distance Prediction for Quantum Codes
This paper introduces an attention-based neural network to predict code distances for bivariate bicycle quantum low-density parity-check codes.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Quantum code distance calculation, not AI deployment safety.
Revisiting Error Feedback for Model Quantization
This paper formulates a trace-minimization framework to design causal error-feedback coefficients for neural network weight quantization.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Compression error feedback, not deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Learning a Group Element from Its Action: Galois Correspondences, Optimal ERM, and an Abel-Ruffini Threshold for the Natarajan Dimension
This paper analyzes the sample and mistake complexity of learning group elements from actions using Galois correspondences and multiclass dimensions.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Pure statistical learning theory, not deployed AI safety.
Random Probing for Structural Self-Interactions in Graph Neural Networks
This paper proposes a message-passing layer using randomized probing of operator diagonals to capture node self-interactions in graph neural networks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Graph neural network architecture, not AI safety or reliability.
Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Shared Spatial Fields
This paper introduces a reinforcement learning navigation policy using shared spatial fields for large-scale lifelong multi-agent path finding.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Grid navigation pathfinding, not deployed AI safety or guardrails.
Link Both Views: Cross-Image Routing Attention for Dual-Endpoint V2I Beam-Pair Power Prediction
This paper proposes a cross-image routing attention mechanism to predict millimeter-wave beam power from dual-endpoint vehicle-to-infrastructure camera views.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Wireless channel communication application, not AI safety or reliability.
Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting with Operator-Valued Kernels
This paper presents an operator-valued kernel regression framework that enforces aggregation constraints directly in hierarchical time series forecasting.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Time-series forecasting theory, not AI safety and reliability.
Operator Surrogates
This book chapter provides an overview and mathematical introduction to finite-parametric operator surrogates for approximating maps between infinite-dimensional spaces.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical operator approximation, not operational AI system safety.
When Does Opponent Modeling Pay Off? Spatial Inference Stabilises Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
This paper introduces a spatial transformer opponent model that stabilizes reinforcement learning training under partial observability in competitive foraging games.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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RL training stability in games, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Teach Me After You Learn It: Lookahead Self-Distillation for RLVR
This paper proposes Lookahead Self-Distillation, providing cross-instance token-level supervision to improve reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on reasoning distillation, not deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Optimal Online Regret for Context-Lumpable Bandits
This paper develops an online algorithm achieving optimal regret bounds for stochastic contextual bandits with unknown context-lumpable cluster structures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Bandit optimization theory, not operational AI safety or alignment.
PING: physics informed graph neural network for advection-diffusion processes with applications to solar power forecasting
This paper introduces a physics-informed graph neural network for modeling advection-diffusion processes to forecast solar power production.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on weather and solar modeling, not AI safety.
Reliable Risk Estimation with Kernel Mean Matching under Dependent Sampling
This paper derives finite-sample risk bounds for Kernel Mean Matching under dependent sampling using effective sample sizes.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Concerns theoretical risk estimation bounds, not deployment AI safety.
Bayesian Optimization of CVaR with Unknown Hyperparameters
This paper presents HE-CV-UCB, an algorithm for Bayesian optimization of Conditional Value-at-Risk under unknown Gaussian process hyperparameters.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Mathematical risk optimization, not LLM safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Over-parameterization Is Neither Robust nor Fragile in Matrix Sensing: A Geometric Theory of Solution Robustness
This paper analyzes the geometric robustness of over-parameterized low-rank matrix sensing under the Burer-Monteiro factorization.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Examines mathematical optimization stability, not operational AI system safety.
On the Optimality of Random Features under General Conditions: Misspecified Cases and Robust Learning
This paper provides optimal learning rate bounds for random feature kernel ridge regression under misspecified models and heavy-tailed noise.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Statistical noise robustness theory, not deployed AI safety or guardrails.
Beyond Task Success: A Theory of Representation Reuse
This paper develops a theoretical framework characterizing when representations learned on a source task remain recoverable and reusable for future tasks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical representation study unrelated to AI safety and deployment guardrails.
Beyond RMSE and Granger Gain: Multi-Horizon Forecast-Error Entropy for Nonlinear Predictive Coupling
This paper proposes a forecast-error distribution entropy framework to detect nonlinear predictive coupling across multiple time horizons.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers time-series entropy bounds, not deployment safety or reliability.
LunaTP: Enabling Efficient and Scalable Tensor Product for Equivariant MLIPs
This paper introduces LunaTP, a parallel execution framework that accelerates tensor product convolutions in equivariant machine learning interatomic potentials.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Scientific computing acceleration, not AI deployment safety.
Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting: Continual Learning for Radar Waveform Classification
This paper benchmarks eighteen continual learning methods on a sequential radar waveform recognition task across task- and class-incremental settings.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Domain-specific radar signal classification, not AI deployment safety.
Convergence-Rate-Guided Algorithm Design of Expected Improvement for Continuous Simulation Optimization
This paper develops finite-sample bounds to guide algorithm design for Expected Improvement in continuous simulation optimization with heteroscedastic noise.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Simulation optimization bounds, not AI deployment safety.
FastEEP: Fast Intra-Instance Elastic Scaling for Expert-Parallel MoE Serving
This paper presents FastEEP, a system that speeds up intra-instance elastic scaling for Mixture-of-Experts serving by reusing runtime state.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers inference serving systems, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Graph Metanetworks for Transformer Based Language Models
This paper develops graph metanetworks that respect the weight-space symmetries of transformer language models, including attention matrices and token embeddings.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Metanetworks on model weights, not AI deployment safety.
ProTok: Unified Protein Tokenization via Modular Multi-Codebook Quantization
This paper introduces ProTok, a unified discrete tokenizer for protein sequence, structure, and functional annotations using modular multi-codebook quantization.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Biological tokenization, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
Lifting: Quantum State Discrimination Framework for Mid-Circuit Measurements
This paper presents Lifting, a framework combining repetition encoding and neural decoding for mid-circuit quantum state discrimination on superconducting hardware.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Superconducting quantum hardware reliability, not AI deployment safety.
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