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There’s a very specific kind of productivity that only engineers know. It looks like progress. It feels like progress. It even *logs* like progress. But nothing ships. I know this because I’ve lived there. For weeks. Sometimes months. Writing code. Rewriting code. Refactoring code that hasn’t offended anyone yet. Stashing changes like they’re radioactive. Telling myself, *“I’m being careful.”* No. I was being scared. Let’s call it what it is. This isn’t engineering. This is avoidance in a […]

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arXiv:2602.15874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities but remain limited by their reliance on static training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses this constraint by retrieving external knowledge during inference, though it still depends heavily on knowledge base quality. To explore potential improvements, we evaluated three RAG variants-Standard RAG, DA-RAG, and our proposed Prompt-Enhanced Parametric RAG (P-RAG), a hybrid architecture that integrates parametric knowledge within the LLM and retrieved evidence, guided by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) […]

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works Convex Relaxation Techniques for Hyperbolic SVMs 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 Original Formulation of the HSVM 3.3 Semidefinite Formulation 3.4 Moment-Sum-of-Squares Relaxation Experiments 4.1 Synthetic Dataset 4.2 Real Dataset Discussions, Acknowledgements, and References A. Proofs B. Solution Extraction in Relaxed Formulation C. On Moment Sum-of-Squares Relaxation Hierarchy D. Platt Scaling [31] E. Detailed Experimental Results F. Robust Hyperbolic Support Vector Machine E Detailed Experimental Results E.1 Visualizing Decision Boundaries Here we […]

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Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.

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Breast-Conserving Surgery (BCS) requires precise intraoperative margin assessment to preserve healthy tissue. Deep Ultraviolet Fluorescence Scanning Microscopy (DUV-FSM) offers rapid, high-resolution surface imaging for this purpose; however, the scarcity of annotated DUV data hinders the training of robust deep learning models. To address this, we propose an Self-Supervised Learning (SSL)-guided Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) to generate high-quality synthetic training patches. By guiding the LDM with embeddings from a fine-tuned DINO teacher, we inject rich semantic details of cellular […]

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arXiv:2601.08987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work introduces ABE-VVS, a framework that performs attribute based selective coordinate encryption for point cloud based volumetric video streaming, enabling lightweight yet effective digital rights management (DRM). Rather than encrypting entire point cloud frames, our approach encrypts only selected subsets of coordinates ($X, Y, Z$, or combinations), lowering computational overhead and latency while still producing strong visual distortion that prevents meaningful unauthorized viewing. Our experiments show that encrypting only the $X$ coordinates […]

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arXiv:2601.19791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study grokking, the onset of generalization long after overfitting, in a classical ridge regression setting. We prove end-to-end grokking results for learning over-parameterized linear regression models using gradient descent with weight decay. Specifically, we prove that the following stages occur: (i) the model overfits the training data early during training; (ii) poor generalization persists long after overfitting has manifested; and (iii) the generalization error eventually becomes arbitrarily small. Moreover, we show, both […]

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The development of political fragmentation and the rigid division of groups into us and them has disrupted a primordial connection, one that once allowed humans to participate in something like a shared, distributed intelligence. Think of it as a legacy peer-to-peer network, running for millennia without central servers, gradually throttled to near-zero bandwidth by the demands of modernity. Ancient civilizations maintained what you might call a worldwide knowledge graph, coherent, interconnected, holistic, before it was shattered and replaced […]

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