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Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle

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Computer Vision: SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform)

Elegant object matching from several viewpoints The post Computer Vision: SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What the Kyoto Vision Means for AI-Powered Science

Seventeen countries have endorsed the Kyoto Vision for AI-powered science. Its push toward autonomous discovery raises questions about computing access and how governments will turn policy ambitions into research…

What If AI Is a Phase in Earth’s Evolution?

Philosopher Benjamin Bratton has a much bigger way of thinking about AI: as the newest step in a billions-of-years process where matter produced life, life produced intelligence, and intelligence learned to build…

How to Build a Cheap, Yet Reliable Model Router With Jev

Model routing can finally be a design choice rather than a system enhancement The post How to Build a Cheap, Yet Reliable Model Router With Jev appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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What Nvidia and AMD’s AI Acquisitions Say About the Next Chip War

Nvidia’s planned Hugging Face acquisition and AMD’s World Labs deal bring both chipmakers closer to the developers and researchers shaping future AI workloads, giving them an earlier view of how compute requirements may…

Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study

arXiv:2604.14128v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rhetorical questions are asked not to seek information but to persuade or signal stance. How large language models internally represent them remains unclear. We…

Predictor-Guided Latent Space Codon Optimization for Maximizing Protein Expression

arXiv:2610.03098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Codon optimization, the process of selecting synonymous codons to improve mRNA translation efficiency and protein expression, is central to therapeutic protein…

Can AI Understand the Language of Origami?

arXiv:2603.13856v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building AI systems that can plan, act, and create in the physical world requires more than pattern recognition. Such systems must reason about the generative…

OpenGameEval: Benchmarking Agentic Programming and Exploration in a Stateful Game Engine

arXiv:2610.02563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OpenGameEval, a benchmark and evaluation framework for agentic game development inside Roblox Studio. It runs language models as agents in reproducible,…

Platonic Task Arithmetic

arXiv:2610.00929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distinct pre-trained models specialized for the same task converge to closely similar behavior, yet the parameter updates that produce it share no common coordinate…

ULTRADISCOVERY: Abductive Exploration in an Interconnected, Epistemically Open Universe

arXiv:2610.03092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery often begins when scattered clues call for a new way of describing the world. Such abductive exploration can require constructing the representation…

A Composable AI-Accelerated Iterative Solver for 3D-IC Thermal Modeling

arXiv:2610.02461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate thermal analysis of heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC packages is essential yet computationally prohibitive. A single full-package FEM simulation can take hours, while…

Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Personalized Digital Health Interventions

arXiv:2604.11730v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using behavioural science, health interventions focus on behaviour change by providing a framework to help patients acquire and maintain healthy habits that…

DeskForge: Dense Supervision from Desktop Environments for Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2610.02320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents need to reliably ground action targets in complex desktop scenes, where multiple applications, overlapping windows, and visually similar controls…

Post-Training Quantization of Autoregressive Weather Models

arXiv:2610.02511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advancements in high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) and data assimilation (DA) have shaped the developments in deep learning (DL) architectures emulating…

Overcoming Challenges of Interpretive Structural Modeling with Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.02254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a well-known process for multi-criteria decision making. The success of ISM over other methodologies is its ability to model…

Permutation Robustness Is Not Enough: Action Collapse in Multi-Agent Transformer Policies

arXiv:2610.02848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer policies are attractive for multi-agent robot learning because self-attention can model interactions among agents. However, multi-agent teams are unordered,…

Prospective Hindsight: Self-Calibrating Reinforcement Learning via Prediction-Reality Gaps

arXiv:2610.02740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon agents relies on purely retrospective training signals: credit is assigned only after observing environmental consequences, leaving…