arXiv:2604.18631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical metronome indications for Beethoven’s five piano and cello sonatas (as transmitted by Czerny, Moscheles, and Kolisch), have long been regarded as problematic by performers and scholars alike. This paper presents the first systematic empirical assessment of those indications against a corpus of over one hundred movement-level recordings spanning 1930–2012, encompassing first, second, and third movements across all five sonatas (Op.~5 Nos.~1 and~2; Op.~69; Op.~102 Nos.~1 and~2). The core findings are threefold. First, […]

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arXiv:2601.05261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online consumer reviews play a crucial role in guiding purchase decisions by offering insights into product quality, usability, and performance. However, the increasing volume of user-generated reviews has led to information overload, making it difficult for consumers to identify content that aligns with their specific preferences. Existing review ranking systems typically rely on metrics such as helpfulness votes, star ratings, and recency, but these fail to capture individual user interests and often treat […]

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arXiv:2603.02344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a passivity-agnostic framework for distributed adaptive synchronization under position-only communication, bounded disturbances, and unknown leader dynamics. By passivity-agnostic we mean the design does not require the closed loop system to be strictly positive real (SPR) a priori: it certifies SPR when present and recovers it by frequency shaping when absent. Followers are heterogeneous second-order systems with unknown (possibly unstable) dynamics. In the SPR regime, a structured reparameterization yields gradient-based adaptive error […]

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arXiv:2603.05002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Edge of Stability (EoS) is a phenomenon where the sharpness (largest eigenvalue) of the Hessian converges to $2/eta$ during training with gradient descent (GD) with a step-size $eta$. Despite (apparently) violating classical smoothness assumptions, EoS has been widely observed in deep learning, but its theoretical foundations remain incomplete. We provide an interpretation of EoS through the lens of Directional Smoothness Mishkin et al. [2024]. This interpretation naturally extends to non-Euclidean norms, which […]

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arXiv:2602.17689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models show strong potential for joint reasoning over medical images and clinical text, but their performance often degrades under domain shift caused by variations in imaging devices, acquisition protocols, and reporting styles. Existing multi-modal pre-training methods largely overlook robustness, treating it as a downstream adaptation problem. In this work, we propose Robust Multi-Modal Masked Reconstruction (Robust-MMR), a self-supervised pre-training framework that explicitly incorporates robustness objectives into masked vision-language learning. Robust-MMR integrates […]

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arXiv:2602.05027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are powerful tools for interpreting neural representations, yet their use in audio remains underexplored. We train SAEs across all encoder layers of Whisper and HuBERT, provide an extensive evaluation of their stability, interpretability, and show their practical utility. Over 50% of the features remain consistent across random seeds, and reconstruction quality is preserved. SAE features capture general acoustic and semantic information as well as specific events, including environmental noises and […]

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Monitoring behavioural drift, the sustained shift in an individual’s daily activity, sleep, or social patterns offers a significant lens for early mental health intervention. However, detecting these drifts in free-living settings remains challenging due to the absence of ground-truth labels, the temporal complexity of human behaviour, and fragmentation across heterogeneous sensing modalities. This paper proposes a multimodal approach to quantify and detect behavioural drift using longitudinal data from over 500 university students in the NetHealth cohort. We extract […]

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arXiv:2603.24761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spreading and storing erasure-coded data in distributed systems effectively is challenging in real settings. Practical deployments must contend with unpredictable network latencies, particularly when information dispersal is integrated into consensus protocols, a prominent and latency-sensitive use case. Existing approaches address this challenge through timeout-based dissemination and adaptive communication or storage decisions driven by acknowledgments during dissemination. However, these designs focus almost exclusively on dissemination-time efficiency, complicate recovery with reconstruction procedures that require metadata […]

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