Synthetic augmentation is increasingly used to mitigate data scarcity in financial machine learning, yet its statistical role remains poorly understood. We formalize synthetic augmentation as a modification of the effective training distribution and show that it induces a structural bias–variance trade-off: while additional samples may reduce estimation error, they may also shift the population objective whenever the synthetic distribution deviates from regions relevant under evaluation. To isolate informational gains from mechanical sample-size effects, we introduce a size-matched null […]

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arXiv:2604.06272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Zero-trust (ZT) model is an increasingly popular model that relies on the idea that no trust should be granted to any entity (network, persons, devices) by default. ZT model is gaining attention from both research and practice, with various levels of adequation between research developed and real-life applications. NIST provided a standard to fulfill requirements of ZT architecture of network core but many practical aspects remain unspecified, some of them requiring solving […]

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arXiv:2602.09269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inclusion, equity, and access are widely valued in AI and education, yet are often assessed through coarse sample descriptors or post-hoc self-reports that miss how inclusion is shaped moment by moment in collaborative problem solving (CPS). In this proof-of-concept paper, we introduce inclusion analytics, a discourse-based framework for examining inclusion as a dynamic, interactional process in CPS. We conceptualize inclusion along three complementary dimensions — participation equity, affective climate, and epistemic equity — […]

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arXiv:2602.02912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many ideas in modern control and reinforcement learning treat decision-making as inference: start from a baseline distribution and update it when a signal arrives. We ask when this can be made literal rather than metaphorical. We study the special case where a KL-regularized soft update is exactly a Bayesian posterior inside a single fixed probabilistic model, so the update variable is a genuine channel through which information is transmitted. In this regime, behavioral […]

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This is an overview of the LLM development process. This one-hour talk focuses on the essential three stages of developing an LLM: coding the architecture, implementing pretraining, and fine-tuning the LLM. Lastly, we also discuss the main ways LLMs are evaluated, along with the caveats of each method.

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arXiv:2601.15498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by decoupling generation and verification. While recent methods improve draft quality by tightly coupling the drafter with the target model, the verification mechanism itself remains largely unchanged, relying on strict token-level rejection sampling. In practice, modern LLMs frequently operate in low-margin regimes where the target model exhibits weak preference among top candidates. In such cases, rejecting plausible runner-up tokens yields negligible information gain […]

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arXiv:2603.05687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-Grounded Policy (CGP) enables fine-grained, contact-rich dexterous manipulation by grounding multi-point contacts through predicting the actual robot state and tactile feedback, and by using a learned contact-consistency mapping to convert these predictions into controller-executable targets for a compliance controller. CGP supports both dense tactile arrays and vision-based tactile sensors mounted on the hand. We collect demonstrations via teleoperation in both simulation and on a physical robot, and evaluate CGP across multiple dexterous manipulation […]

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The rapid expansion of sports broadcasting and digital media platforms has increased the demand for intelligent systems capable of automatically identifying important sports events for real-time analytics and highlight generation. Manual annotation of sports videos requires significant time and effort and may introduce human errors during analysis. This paper presents a real-time sports action recognition framework using a hybrid CNN–Transformer architecture for detecting critical events in football and cricket videos. The proposed system processes live or recorded video […]

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