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Label-free AI sorts real cosmic signals from noise
A new arXiv preprint trains a Real-Bogus classifier without human labels, using simulated injections and dual-network co-teaching for noisy survey data.
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QCNN with path signature kernels targets time series
A new preprint pairs quantum convolutional networks with path signature kernels to tackle reparameterisation invariance in time series classification.
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Orcaella protocol: choose fast commit or 54% fault tolerance
New preprint Orcaella lets clients pick a fast 2-message-delay commit or a resilient path tolerating 54% equivocation at double the latency.
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CamVLA: robots work after cameras move, no recalibration
New arXiv preprint from NTU and Alibaba introduces a Vision-Language-Action model needing only a single RGB image to handle unseen camera angles.
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Agentic Data Environments: turning data into agent guardrails
Columbia researchers want data infrastructure to do more than store information — they want it to actively keep autonomous agents from causing harm
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LLM personality traits mapped and controlled in weight space
New arXiv paper shows low-rank adapters can dial up or suppress AI model personality traits like neuroticism and agreeableness, with measurable effects on safet
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Encrypted AI inference: layer-parallel cuts bootstraps 2.65×
New preprint cuts encrypted Transformer bootstraps 2.65× with 1.2% perplexity cost, bringing privacy-preserving AI inference closer to practical real-world depl
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xDECAF open-sources data flow security tool, 20+ models
xDECAF, a browser-based tool checking data flow diagrams against security constraints, shipped as a public preprint with a reusable dataset of over 20 models.
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AI image editing loses spatial accuracy — here's why
A July 2026 preprint shows VLMs lose localization accuracy in a single forward pass inside diffusion editing pipelines, affecting AI image tool builders and use
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FootsiesGym: open-source fighting game AI benchmark
FootsiesGym, a July 8 arXiv preprint, turns a minimalist 2D fighting game into an open-source RL benchmark for imperfect-information games that runs on standard
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Sampling lets AI models generalise to unseen sizes
A new arXiv preprint proposes random sampling maps that let models trained on small inputs handle larger ones they never saw — with explicit generalisation rate
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AI world model's 90% accuracy was a cheat — fix recovers 88%
World model spatial reasoning scores collapse from 0.90 to 0.27 when the goal is hidden, exposing instruction leakage — a prompt-cheating flaw the authors diagn