arXiv:2608.22059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained image encoders are central to medical image classification, where expert annotation is costly…
Category: AI
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders’ feeling of responsibility…
Discovering Dual-Origin Slow Wind from Solar Orbiter with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
arXiv:2608.22065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether the slow solar wind originates from one coronal source or two distinct channels remains a…
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop 3–12 seconds of…
Barycentric Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Balancing for Causal Inference under Multiple Treatments
arXiv:2608.22024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating heterogeneous single and interaction treatment effects from observational data under multiple…
What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making…
Variance Driven Exploration: A Provable and Efficient Methodology for Pure Exploration in Highly Stochastic Environments
arXiv:2608.21995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Variance Driven Exploration (VarDE), a principled approach for pure exploration in highly…
Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
arXiv:2608.21950v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces unique challenges due to diglossia, extensive regional…
EDGE: Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.21946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with outcome-based objectives such as GRPO enables LLM-based agents to solve…
Bi-EZP: LLM-Guided Bilevel Program Evolution for Ensemble Zero-Cost Proxy Discovery
arXiv:2608.21927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-cost proxies enable neural architecture search (NAS) to rank candidate networks from statistics…