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A study released by UK-based financial services comparison platform Confused.com in January found that 59% of Brits are using AI for medical self-diagnosis – and 20% even using ChatGPT as their mental health therapist. In terms of use cases, 63% of people in the UK use AI to search for physical or mental symptoms, while 50% check side effects, 38% research wellbeing techniques in diet and fitness, and 30% examine treatment options such as medication and surgery. A […]

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arXiv:2601.20875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dependent upon strategic resource distribution. We propose a causal discovery framework using Panel Vector Autoregression, along with both country-specific fixed effects and PCMCI+ conditional independence testing on 168 countries (2000-2025) to develop the first complete causal architecture of SDG dependencies. Utilizing 8 strategically chosen SDGs, we identify a distributed causal network (i.e., no single ‘hub’ SDG), with 10 statistically significant Granger-causal relationships identified […]

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This paper introduces the radius of integrability, a quantitative invariant that transforms the qualitative ϵ-δ formulation of Riemann integration into a measurable property of function spaces. For a Riemann integrable function and a prescribed accuracy ϵ, the radius identifies the largest partition mesh δ that guarantees every tagged Riemann sum approximates the integral within the specified error. The framework is developed for both compact domain intervals, via pointwise and uniform radii, and unbounded intervals, through the tail integrability […]

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Deep learning, despite its remarkable successes, is a young field – perhaps ten years old. While models called artificial neural networks have been studied for decades, much of that work seems only tenuously connected to modern results. It’s often the case that young fields start in a very ad-hoc manner. Later, the mature field is understood very differently than it was understood by its early practitioners. It seems quite likely that deep learning is in this ad-hoc state… […]

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arXiv:2601.05281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates the performance of multi-user covert communications over a fixed bandwidth in a multi-cell scenario with both eavesdroppers and malicious jammers. We propose an intelligent spectrum control (ISC) scheme that combines high-accuracy spectrum sensing with AI-assisted real-time decision-making to generate time-frequency dynamic occupation patterns for multiple legitimate users. The scheme can proactively avoid external interference and intra-system co-channel collisions, thereby improving covertness and reliability. Within this framework, we derive closed-form expressions […]

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arXiv:2503.00307v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Part of the success of diffusion models stems from their ability to perform iterative refinement, i.e., repeatedly correcting outputs during generation. However, modern masked discrete diffusion lacks this capability: when a token is generated, it cannot be updated again, even when it introduces an error. Here, we address this limitation by introducing the remasking diffusion model (ReMDM) sampler, a method that can be applied to pretrained masked diffusion models in a principled way […]

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arXiv:2602.18600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systematic evaluation of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is crucial for advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, existing benchmarks remain insufficient for rigorously assessing their constrained reasoning capabilities. To bridge this gap, we introduce MapTab, a multimodal benchmark specifically designed to evaluate constrained reasoning in MLLMs via route planning tasks. MapTab requires MLLMs to perceive and ground visual cues from map images alongside route attributes (e.g., Time, Price) from structured tabular data. The […]

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arXiv:2602.13104v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a finite-sample, design-based theory for random forests in which each tree is a randomized conditional predictor acting on fixed covariates and the forest is their Monte Carlo average. An exact variance identity separates Monte Carlo error from a covariance floor that persists under infinite aggregation. The floor arises through two mechanisms: observation reuse, where the same training outcomes receive weight across multiple trees, and partition alignment, where independently generated trees discover […]

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arXiv:2601.19041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heatmap-based non-autoregressive solvers for large-scale Travelling Salesman Problems output dense edge-probability scores, yet final performance largely hinges on the decoder that must satisfy degree-2 constraints and form a single Hamiltonian tour. Greedy commitment can cascade into irreparable mistakes at large $N$, whereas MCTS-guided local search is accurate but compute-heavy and highly engineered. We instead treat the heatmap as a soft edge prior and cast decoding as probabilistic tour construction under feasibility constraints, where […]

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arXiv:2603.06685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic differential equation (SDE)-based generative models have achieved substantial progress in conditional generation via training-free differentiable loss-guided approaches. However, existing methodologies utilizing posterior sam- pling typically confront a substantial estimation error, which results in inaccu- rate gradients for guidance and leading to inconsistent generation results. To mitigate this issue, we propose that performing an additional backward denois- ing step and Monte-Carlo sampling (ABMS) can achieve better guided diffu- sion, which is a plug-and-play […]

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