When Feedback Crosses the Line
How leaders can ensure their constructive input doesn’t veer into destructive criticism.
How leaders can ensure their constructive input doesn’t veer into destructive criticism.
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Architecting Synthetic Populations for Predictive System Validation Continue reading on Towards AI »
We present a large scale benchmark of modern deep learning architectures for a financial time series prediction and position sizing task, with a primary focus on Sharpe ratio optimization. Evaluating linear models, recurrent networks, transformer based architectures, state space models, and recent sequence representation approaches, we assess out of sample performance on a daily futures dataset spanning commodities, equity indices, bonds, and FX spanning 2010 to 2025. Our evaluation goes beyond average returns and includes statistical significance, downside […]
In this paper, we present a novel learning framework for finding shortest paths in graphs utilizing Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). First, we examine theoretical properties of GFlowNets in non-acyclic environments in relation to shortest paths. We prove that, if the total flow is minimized, forward and backward policies traverse the environment graph exclusively along shortest paths between the initial and terminal states. Building on this result, we show that the pathfinding problem in an arbitrary graph can be […]
arXiv:2602.22631 [cs.MS]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22631 Robert Joseph George, Jennifer Cruden, Xiangru Zhong, Huan Zhang, Anima Anandkumar Abstract: Neural networks are increasingly deployed in safety- and mission-critical pipelines, yet many verification and analysis results are produced outside the programming environment that defines and runs the model. This separation creates a semantic gap between the executed network and the analyzed artifact, so guarantees can hinge on implicit conventions such as operator semantics, tensor layouts, preprocessing, and floating-point corner cases. We introduce TorchLean, […]
Understanding Curriculum Learning, Data Ordering, Active Learning, Data Augmentation, and Quality Filtering Continue reading on Towards AI »
In the Trump FCC’s latest series of attacks on TV broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has been threatening to enforce the equal-time rule on daytime and late-night talk shows. The interview portions of talk shows have historically been exempt from equal-time regulations, but Carr has a habit of interpreting FCC rules in novel ways to target networks disfavored by President Trump. Critics of Carr point out that his threats of equal-time enforcement apply unequally since he […]
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Current deep learning primitives dealing with temporal dynamics suffer from a fundamental dichotomy: they are either discrete and unstable (LSTMs) citep{pascanu_difficulty_2013}, leading to exploding or vanishing gradients; or they are continuous and dissipative (Neural ODEs) citep{dupont_augmented_2019}, which destroy information over time to ensure stability. We propose the textbf{Causal Hamiltonian Learning Unit} (pronounced: textit{clue}), a novel Physics-grounded computational learning primitive. By enforcing a Relativistic Hamiltonian structure and utilizing symplectic integration, a CHLU strictly conserves phase-space volume, as an attempt […]