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Highlights: New research compares text-based and image-based retrieval in multimodal RAG systems. Direct multimodal embedding achieves a 13% absolute improvement in mAP@5 and 11% in nDCG@5 over text-based summarization. Study…
Highlights: New study explores how users strategically interact with learning platforms at scale. Introduces ‘look-ahead reasoning’—a framework capturing how users anticipate others’ actions. Finds that higher reasoning speeds up equilibrium…
Highlights: Introduces AdamHD (AdamHuberDecay), a drop-in replacement for AdamW with Huber regularization. Boosts pre-training efficiency for large language models like GPT-2 and GPT-3. Achieves 10–15% faster convergence and up to…
Highlights: Introduces ModularSubsetSelection (MSS), a new algorithm for locally differentially private frequency estimation. Uses Residue Number Systems (RNS) to reduce communication cost and improve computational efficiency. Achieves comparable accuracy to…
Highlights: New mathematical analysis explores multistationarity in semi-open biochemical cycles. Opening enzyme species destroys, while opening substrate species preserves, switching behavior. The study introduces a general reduction framework based on…
Highlights: New quantization technique ‘ParoQuant’ enhances reasoning LLM efficiency. Introduces pairwise Givens rotations and channel-wise scaling for finer precision. Achieves 2.4% average accuracy improvement over previous methods. Less than 10%…
Highlights: Introduces SmolVLM2 variants for blind and low-vision accessibility research. Develops two novel evaluation frameworks – Multi-Context BLV and Navigational Assistance. Assesses 500M and 2.2B parameter models on AVCaps (outdoor)…
Highlights: New AI language ‘Regular Games’ (RG) introduces an automata-based approach to General Game Playing (GGP). The system uses a finite automaton to define game rules for greater computational efficiency.…
Highlights: Introduces a framework for safe planning in interactive environments such as self-driving vehicles among human actors. Combines iterative policy updates with adversarially robust conformal prediction (CP) to maintain safety…
Highlights: Introduces Regular Games (RG), a new automata-based framework for general game playing (GGP). Combines computational efficiency with a flexible design language for human and procedural game creation. Outperforms existing…