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Multivariable optimization is an essential mathematical exercise in daily engineering design and troubleshooting. To this end, simplex multivariable optimization method is a powerful optimization approach that has served many engineering disciplines well over the years. One such simplex algorithm is the Nelder Mead algorithm. But, the reflection step of the Nelder Mead algorithm may increase the number of iterations needed to arrive at the optimal point, as it reflects the starting point to the opposite side of the […]

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arXiv:2601.15406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated strong performance on a wide range of vision-language tasks, raising interest in their potential use for biometric applications. In this paper, we conduct a systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art MLLMs for heterogeneous face recognition (HFR), where enrollment and probe images are from different sensing modalities, including visual (VIS), near infrared (NIR), short-wave infrared (SWIR), and thermal camera. We benchmark multiple open-source MLLMs across several cross-modality scenarios, […]

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arXiv:2601.04299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a highly metabolically heterogeneous disease that cannot be adequately characterized by conventional biomarkers such as glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). This study proposes an explainable deep learning framework that integrates continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data with laboratory profiles to learn multimodal temporal embeddings of individual metabolic status. Temporal dependencies across modalities are modeled using a transformer encoder, while latent metabolic phenotypes are identified via Gaussian mixture modeling. Model interpretability is […]

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There’s a question that quietly predicts whether an AI agent will feel sharp or strangely distant: How long does the agent remain misaligned when a new domain term enters the conversation? It sounds almost trivial — a glossary issue, a maintenance task. But in practice, this single latency window reveals more about an agent’s reliability than most teams realize. Because language doesn’t evolve politely. It arrives mid‑conversation. A finance analyst introduces a new internal metric. A product team […]

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Ashforth and Anand show how bad acts become business as usual—first embedded in routines, then justified by clever self-deception, and finally taught to newcomers as “how we do things.” The villain isn’t a monster in the mirror, but a system that slowly teaches good people to forget what good means.

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arXiv:2603.02406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have recently advanced $textit{de novo}$ protein design by learning the statistical regularities of natural structures. However, current approaches face three key limitations: (1) Existing methods cannot jointly learn protein geometry and design tasks, where pretraining can be a solution; (2) Current pretraining methods mostly rely on local, non-rigid atomic representations for property prediction downstream tasks, limiting global geometric understanding for protein generation tasks; and (3) Existing approaches have yet to effectively […]

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arXiv:2601.21102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first empirical study of AI-generated pull requests that are ‘silent,’ meaning no comments or discussions accompany them. This absence of any comments or discussions associated with such silent AI pull requests (SPRs) poses a unique challenge in understanding the rationale for their acceptance or rejection. Hence, we quantitatively study 4,762 SPRs of five AI agents made to popular Python repositories drawn from the AIDev public dataset. We examine SPRs impact […]

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arXiv:2512.04475v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning on graphs has recently achieved impressive progress in various domains, including molecular property prediction and chip design. However, benchmarking practices remain fragmented, often relying on narrow, task-specific datasets and inconsistent evaluation protocols, which hampers reproducibility and broader progress. To address this, we introduce GraphBench, a comprehensive benchmarking suite that spans diverse domains and prediction tasks, including node-level, edge-level, graph-level, and generative settings. GraphBench provides standardized evaluation protocols — with consistent dataset […]

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Recently, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems (e.g., Whisper) have achieved remarkable accuracy improvements but remain highly sensitive to real-world unseen data (data with large distribution shifts), including noisy environments and diverse accents. To address this issue, test-time adaptation (TTA) has shown great potential in improving the model adaptability at inference time without ground-truth labels, and existing TTA methods often rely on pseudo-labeling or entropy minimization. However, by treating model confidence as a learning signal, these methods may reinforce […]

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