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Proximal operators are fundamental across many applications in signal processing and machine learning, including solving ill-posed inverse problems. Recent work has introduced Learned Proximal Networks (LPNs), providing parametric functions that compute exact proximals for data-driven and potentially non-convex regularizers. However, in many settings it is important to include additional structure to these regularizers–and their corresponding proximals–such as shift and scale equivariance. In this work, we show how to obtain learned functions parametrized by neural networks that provably compute […]

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arXiv:2602.04931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that decoder-only large language models exhibit a depth-wise transition from context-processing to prediction-forming phases of computation accompanied by a reorganization of representational geometry. Using a unified framework combining geometric analysis with mechanistic intervention, we demonstrate that late-layer representations implement a structured geometric code that enables selective causal control over token prediction. Specifically, angular organization of the representation geometry parametrizes prediction distributional similarity, while representation norms encode context-specific information that does not […]

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arXiv:2509.11338v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a simple and scalable implementation of next-generation reservoir computing (NGRC) for modeling dynamical systems from time-series data. The method uses a pseudorandom nonlinear projection of time-delay embedded inputs, allowing the feature-space dimension to be chosen independently of the observation size and offering a flexible alternative to polynomial-based NGRC projections. We demonstrate the approach on benchmark tasks, including attractor reconstruction and bifurcation diagram estimation, using partial and noisy measurements. We further show […]

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arXiv:2604.06193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression is underdiagnosed in primary care, yet timely identification remains critical. Recorded clinical encounters, increasingly common with digital scribing technologies, present an opportunity to detect depression from naturalistic dialogue. We investigated automated depression detection from 1,108 audio-recorded primary care encounters in the Establishing Focus study, with depression defined by PHQ-9 (n=253 depressed, n=855 non-depressed). We compared three supervised approaches, Sentence-BERT + Logistic Regression (LR), LIWC+LR and ModernBERT, against a zero-shot GPT-OSS. GPT-OSS achieved […]

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arXiv:2507.08150v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate uncertainty quantification is critical for reliable predictive modeling. Existing methods typically address either aleatoric uncertainty due to measurement noise or epistemic uncertainty resulting from limited data, but not both in a balanced manner. We propose CLEAR, a calibration method with two distinct parameters, $gamma_1$ and $gamma_2$, to combine the two uncertainty components and improve the conditional coverage of predictive intervals for regression tasks. CLEAR is compatible with any pair of aleatoric and […]

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I sat down to write the pgvector section of this post—the HNSW index DDL, the reranker batching, the metadata filter shapes—and realized I kept reaching for the wrong file. The query I was proud of wasn’t the vector search. It was dedupeRagChunks. That’s the moment this post changed shape. I’d been treating retrieval as a storage problem (pick the right index, tune the right parameters) when the engineering that actually broke and got fixed was the pipeline above […]

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arXiv:2604.09694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably detect thin obstacles such as wires, poles, and branches to navigate safely in real-world environments. These structures remain difficult to perceive because they occupy few pixels, often exhibit weak visual contrast, and are strongly affected by class imbalance. Existing segmentation methods primarily target coarser obstacles and do not fully exploit the complementary multimodal cues needed for thin-structure perception. We present EDFNet, a modular early-fusion segmentation framework […]

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Batman made his first appearance in 1939. When you have a character who has been around for 80 years, they’re bound to change their appearance from time to time. So, it only makes sense for video games like Batman: Arkham Knight to take advantage of this and add different alternative costumes that players can pick and choose from. Some of these were hits, some of these were misses, and some were just okay. Let’s take a look at […]

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Existing multi-hazard susceptibility mapping (MHSM) studies often rely on spatially uniform models, treat hazards independently, and provide limited representation of cross-hazard dependence and uncertainty. To address these limitations, this study proposes a deep learning (DL) workflow for joint flood-landslide multi-hazard susceptibility mapping (FL-MHSM) that combines two-level spatial partitioning, probabilistic Early Fusion (EF), a tree-based Late Fusion (LF) baseline, and a soft-gating Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, with MoE serving as final predictive model. The proposed design preserves spatial […]

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