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RCTEA: Richness-guided Co-training for Temporal Entity Alignment
arXiv:2605.18255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal Entity Alignment (TEA), which aims to identify equivalent entities across Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs), is crucial for integrating knowledge facts from multiple sources. However, existing TEA models often fail to capture the orthogonal yet complementary effects between structural and temporal features, and typically overlook the importance of information richness, a key factor for effective message passing in neural feature encoders. To address these limitations, we propose the RCTEA framework, which jointly models both structural and temporal aspects of TKGs for entity alignment. Specifically, we design a richness-guided attention mechanism along with an adaptive weighting strategy to facilitate effective feature fusion. To ensure robust alignment despite noisy entity contexts, we introduce a dual-view neighborhood consensus algorithm that jointly refines the feature encoders to enforce local structural consistency of the predicted alignments. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of RCTEA, achieving state-of-the-art performance on public TEA benchmarks.
Time Series Extrinsic Regression of Ion Cyclotron Emission Spectra Trained on Particle-In-Cell Simulations
arXiv:2605.18268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ion Cyclotron Emission (ICE) is a ubiquitous magnetised plasma phenomenon previously detected on virtually all large magnetic fusion devices and whose diagnostic potential for future power plants rests upon an accurate mapping of plasma parameters to spectra. This work demonstrates that the inverse problem is solved by training Time-Series Extrinsic Regression (TSER) models on synthetic ICE spectra from oblique propagation angle sweeps of nonlinear fully kinetic 1D3V particle-in-cell simulations of the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability. Using datasets from a systematically constructed scan over reactor-relevant ranges of background magnetic field strength, density, and alpha-particle velocity pitch ($v_\parallel/|v|$) and concentration, we show that these bulk and fast ion parameters may be recovered from a JET ICE spectrum via TSER models with near real-time capability.
Soap2Soap: Long Cinematic Video Remaking via Multi-Agent Collaboration
arXiv:2605.17423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study series-level cinematic remaking, a long-horizon video-to-video generation problem that localizes full episodes or films via stylization or actor replacement while strictly preserving narrative structure, motion choreography, and character identity across hundreds of shots. Existing video generation and editing pipelines often break down in this regime due to compounding identity drift, background mutation, and semantic erosion under large camera motions and viewpoint changes. We propose Soap2Soap, a multi-agent framework that enforces long-term language-visual consistency through a Dual-Bridge Consistency mechanism: a scene-aware JSON screenplay serving as a persistent semantic backbone, and dynamically allocated visual reference anchors at both scene and shot levels. To suppress drift before video synthesis, we introduce batch keyframe consistency, jointly generating multiple keyframes in a shared latent context via a grid-based formulation. A closed-loop verification agent further audits identity, stability, and alignment to trigger selective regeneration. Experiments on SoapBench demonstrate strong improvements over commercial video generation APIs in long-term consistency and narrative fidelity.
Efficient generation of large-scale non-equilibrium distributions of particles
arXiv:2605.18254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents an efficient algorithm for generating statistically representative microstructures of particulate composites in periodic representative volume elements. The Swelling and Random Migration (SRM) algorithm combines collective particle rearrangements with an adaptive cell-based neighbor-search scheme, enabling near-linear computational scaling for low to intermediate volume fractions and allowing simulations with up to $10^7$ particles in two and three dimensions. SRM offers great flexibility, allowing the controlled generation of both equilibrium-like and strongly non-equilibrium particle arrangements. The method is readily extendable to non-spherical inclusions; this capability is demonstrated by modeling thin circular platelets and generating qualitatively distinct platelet microstructures, including highly interconnected "house-of-cards" networks and metastable quasi-nematic domains. The results highlight the importance of microstructural arrangement in structure-property relationships and establish SRM as a powerful tool for generating realistic, diverse, and computationally accessible particle configurations for composite material modeling.
EveryQuery: Zero-Shot Clinical Prediction via Task-Conditioned Pretraining over Electronic Health Records
arXiv:2603.07900v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models pretrained on electronic health records (EHR) have demonstrated zero-shot clinical prediction capabilities by generating synthetic patient futures and aggregating statistics over sampled trajectories. However, this autoregressive inference procedure is computationally expensive, statistically noisy, and not natively promptable because users cannot directly condition predictions on specific clinical questions. In this preliminary work, we introduce EveryQuery, an EHR foundation model that achieves zero-shot inference through task-conditioned pre-training. Rather than generating future events, EveryQuery takes as input a patient's history and a structured query specifying a clinical task, and directly estimates the likelihood of the outcome occurring in the future window via a single forward pass. EveryQuery realizes this capability by pre-training over randomly sampled combinations of query tasks and patient contexts, directly training the model to produce correct answers to arbitrary input prompts. This enables zero-shot prediction for any task in the query space without finetuning, linear probing, or trajectory generation. On MIMIC-IV, EveryQuery outperforms an autoregressive baseline on 82% of 39 randomly sampled prediction tasks, with a mean AUC improvement of +0.16 (95% CI: [0.10,0.22]). This advantage remains consistent on tasks that were explicitly held out from the pre-training distribution. Further, EveryQuery's performance gains are most pronounced for rare clinical events, affirming and demonstrating a solution to the fundamental limitation of autoregressive inference for low-prevalence outcomes. However, at present, EveryQuery underperforms on tasks requiring disjunctive reasoning over multiple codes, such as 30-day readmission, exposing a concrete expressiveness limitation of the current query language.
Machine Unlearning for Masked Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2605.18253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent masked diffusion language models (MDLMs), such as LLaDA and Dream, have achieved performance comparable to autoregressive large language models. Unlike autoregressive models, which generate text sequentially, MDLMs generate text by iteratively denoising masked positions in parallel. During fine-tuning, MDLMs learn to recover responses from masked response states conditioned on a prompt, thereby shifting their predictions from a prompt-masked unconditional distribution toward a prompt-conditional distribution. Despite this distinct generative and fine-tuning mechanism, machine unlearning for MDLMs remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we propose Masked Diffusion Unlearning (MDU), the first unlearning framework for MDLMs, by revisiting the process of learning specific knowledge in terms of diffusion. Specifically, MDU minimizes a forward KL divergence from the prompt-conditional prediction to a prompt-masked unconditional anchor at every masked response position, with a temperature scaling parameter to control the privacy-utility trade-off. Our empirical results on standard benchmarks and MDLM backbones show that MDU achieves high unlearning performance compared to existing LLM unlearning methods. Code is available at https://github.com/leegeoru/MDU.
Optimal Control of Multiclass Fluid Queueing Networks: A Machine Learning Approach
arXiv:2307.12405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a machine learning approach to the optimal control of multiclass fluid queueing networks (MFQNETs) that provides explicit and insightful control policies. We prove that a piecewise constant optimal policy exists for MFQNET control problems, with segments separated by hyperplanes passing through the origin. We use Optimal Classification Trees with hyperplane splits (OCT-H) to learn an optimal control policy for MFQNETs. We use numerical solutions of MFQNET control problems as a training set and apply OCT-H to learn explicit control policies. Furthermore, we show that both the theoretical results and the proposed algorithm extend to robust MFQNETs with uncertain service and arrival rates. We report experimental results with up to 33 servers and 99 classes that demonstrate that the learned policies achieve 100% accuracy on the test set. While the offline training of OCT-H can take days in large networks, the online application takes milliseconds.
GaussianZoom: Progressive Zoom-in Generative 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometric and Semantic Guidance
arXiv:2605.18252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce GaussianZoom, a generative zoom-in 3D reconstruction system with an iterative progressive framework that combines geometry-consistent scene modeling and multi-scale semantic reasoning to enable high-fidelity extreme zoom-in rendering from low-resolution inputs. To achieve this, we develop a novel multi-view consistent super-resolution module with depth-based feature warping and VLM-driven detail synthesis, ensuring accurate multi-view correspondence while enriching fine-scale appearance beyond the observed resolution. To support zooming across large magnification ranges, we further introduce a new expandable continuous Level-of-Detail hierarchy that dynamically modulates Gaussian visibility for smooth, alias-free cross-scale rendering. Experiments on Mip-NeRF360 and Tanks\&Temples demonstrate that GaussianZoom achieves superior perceptual quality, multi-view consistency, and robustness under extreme magnification, establishing a strong baseline for generative zoom-in 3D scene reconstruction.
MUSE: Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation
arXiv:2605.17421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate visual state estimation has been a central topic in robotics with a wide range of applications in robot navigation, autonomous driving, and autonomous flight. Recent advances in robot perception have led to significant improvements in the accuracy and robustness of state estimation, yet a fundamental challenge remains in how to quantify and calibrate its precision, i.e., how confident we are in an estimate and whether failures can be detected. This issue is particularly pronounced in visual-inertial odometry (VIO), where the heteroscedastic and multimodal nature of the problem makes uncertainty quantification especially difficult. This paper introduces MUSE (Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation), a novel real-time learning-based framework that leverages the strong and efficient sequential modeling capacity of Mamba to estimate localization uncertainty from multiple asynchronous sensor streams. Experiments on both public and in-house datasets demonstrate that MUSE achieves superior reliability and robustness compared to existing uncertainty quantification methods, and ablation studies justify the benefits of its key design choices.
Diffusion-Based sRGB Real Noise Generation via Prompt-Driven Noise Representation Learning
arXiv:2603.04870v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Denoising in the sRGB image space is challenging due to large noise variability. Although end-to-end methods perform well, their effectiveness in real-world scenarios is limited by the scarcity of real noisy-clean image pairs, which are expensive and difficult to collect. To address this limitation, several generative methods have been developed to synthesize realistic noisy images from limited data. These approaches often rely on camera metadata during both training and testing to synthesize real-world noise. However, the lack of metadata or inconsistencies between devices restricts their usability. Therefore, we propose a novel framework called Prompt-Driven Noise Generation (PNG). This model is capable of acquiring high-dimensional prompt features that capture the characteristics of real-world input noise and creating a variety of realistic noisy images consistent with the distribution of the input noise. By eliminating the dependency on explicit camera metadata, our approach significantly enhances the generalizability and applicability of noise synthesis. Comprehensive experiments reveal that our model effectively produces realistic noisy images and show the successful application of these generated images in removing real-world noise across various benchmark datasets.
Herding CATs: ALARA for Agent Harness Engineering in Portable Composable Multi-Agent Teams
arXiv:2603.20380v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industry practitioners and academic researchers regularly use multi-agent systems to accelerate their work, but the applications through which users operate these systems do not provide a simple, unified mechanism for scalably managing critical components of the agent harness. This lack of control adversely impacts both the quality of individual human-agent interactions and reduces the capacity for practitioners to coordinate context engineering efforts. The behavioral specifications that define what agents in such systems can do remain fragmented across prose instruction files--for which compliance cannot be guaranteed--or framework-internal configurations, making these specifications difficult to share, version, or collaboratively maintain across teams and projects. Applying the ALARA principle from radiation safety (exposures kept as low as reasonably achievable) to context, we introduce a context-agent-tool (CAT) data layer expressed through interrelated plain-text files, allowing users to directly declare tool access for each agent and to modify the tools themselves that are used by the agents when processing. We demonstrate capability of this CAT data layer to enable real agentic usage by using a command-line shell that loads the team and executes agent runs -- \texttt{npcsh} -- and evaluating 22 locally-hosted models from 0.6B to 35B parameters across 115 practical tasks spanning file operations, web search, multi-step scripting, tool chaining, and multi-agent delegation. We characterize which model families succeed in certain task categories and where they break down across $\sim$2500 total executions.
Machine Learning Enabled Graph Analysis of Particulate Composites: Application to Solid-state Battery Cathodes
arXiv:2512.16085v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Particulate composites underpin many solid-state chemical and electrochemical systems, where microstructural features such as multiphase boundaries and inter-particle connections strongly influence system performance. Advances in X-ray microscopy enable capturing large-scale, multimodal images of these complex microstructures with an unprecedentedly high throughput. However, harnessing these datasets to discover new physical insights and guide microstructure optimization remains a major challenge. Here, we develop a machine learning (ML) enabled framework that enables automated transformation of experimental multimodal X-ray images of multiphase particulate composites into scalable, topology-aware graphs for extracting physical insights and establishing local microstructure-property relationships at both the particle and network level. Using the multiphase particulate cathode of solid-state lithium batteries as an example, our ML-enabled graph analysis corroborates the critical role of triple phase junctions and concurrent ion/electron conduction channels in realizing desirable local electrochemical activity. Our work establishes graph-based microstructure representation as a powerful paradigm for bridging multimodal experimental imaging and functional understanding, and facilitating microstructure-aware data-driven materials design in a broad range of particulate composites.
Memory-Efficient Differentially Private Training with Gradient Random Projection
arXiv:2506.15588v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) protects sensitive data during neural network training, but standard methods like DP-Adam suffer from high memory overhead due to per-sample gradient clipping, limiting scalability. We introduce DP-GRAPE (Gradient RAndom ProjEction), a DP training method that significantly reduces memory usage while maintaining utility on par with first-order DP approaches. DP-GRAPE is motivated by our finding that privatization flattens the gradient singular value spectrum, making SVD-based projections (as in GaLore (Zhao et al., 2024)) unnecessary. Consequently, DP-GRAPE employs three key components: (1) random Gaussian matrices replace SVD-based subspaces, (2) gradients are privatized after projection, and (3) projection is applied during backpropagation. These contributions eliminate the need for costly SVD computations, enable substantial memory savings, and lead to improved utility. Despite operating in lower-dimensional subspaces, our theoretical analysis shows that DP-GRAPE achieves a privacy-utility tradeoff comparable to DP-SGD. Our extensive empirical experiments show that DP-GRAPE can significantly reduce the memory footprint of DP training without sacrificing accuracy or training time. In particular, DP-GRAPE reduces memory usage by over 63% when pre-training Vision Transformers and over 70% when fine-tuning RoBERTa-Large as compared to DP-Adam, while achieving similar performance. We further demonstrate that DP-GRAPE scales to fine-tuning large models such as OPT with up to 6.7 billion parameters, a scale at which DP-Adam fails due to memory constraints. Our code is available at https://github.com/alexmul1114/DP_GRAPE.
Learning Displacement-Robust Representations for Landslide Early Warning under Rainfall Forecast Uncertainty
arXiv:2605.17419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rainfall-induced landslides pose a growing risk worldwide as climate change intensifies extreme rainfall events. To provide sufficient evacuation time, landslide early warning systems (LEWS) for real-time disaster monitoring must estimate near-future landslide risk by integrating observed rainfall with short-term rainfall forecasts from spatio-temporal environmental data streams. Although recent landslide prediction methods have improved predictive performance using statistical and deep learning approaches, most assume accurate rainfall inputs. In operational settings, however, landslide prediction relies on rainfall forecasts, which often contain spatial displacement of rainfall fields due to forecasting uncertainties. Such displacement can alter local accumulated rainfall and degrade prediction accuracy. To address this challenge, we propose a novel LEWS robust to rainfall field displacement. The key idea is to learn latent representations from rainfall and terrain data that remain stable under displacement in rainfall field motion, enabling reliable geospatial data integration for landslide risk estimation. The landslide prediction model is trained using Rainfall-Motion-Aware Contrastive Learning (RMCL), which introduces temporally correlated rainfall field perturbations to emulate forecast-induced displacement in rainfall-driven spatio-temporal environmental data streams. Experiments were conducted using two years of rainfall and terrain data across Japan, covering 19 regions with landslide events. The proposed system achieved up to 37% higher precision than state-of-the-art baselines. These results demonstrate that modeling rainfall as a moving spatial field and addressing rainfall field displacement during learning significantly improve the reliability of short-term landslide prediction in operational early warning systems.
Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence
arXiv:2605.18193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding correspondences is a fundamental and extensively researched problem in computer vision and graphics. In this work, we examine the underexplored task of estimating segmentation-to-segmentation correspondence between images in the wild and untextured 3D shapes. This task is highly challenging due to substantial differences in appearance, geometry, and viewpoint. Our approach bridges the cross-modality gap by linking pixels in the image segment to vertices in the corresponding semantic part of the 3D shape. To achieve this, we first distill deep visual features from a 2D vision model onto the 3D shape surface, allowing for the computation of feature similarity between image pixels and shape vertices. Then, we identify Best Segmentation Buddies, vertices whose most similar image pixel lies within the image segmentation region, enabling the reliable discovery of vertices in semantically corresponding shape parts. Finally, we leverage distilled 3D features from the 2D image segmentation model to segment the shape directly in 3D, bootstrapping the correspondence process. We demonstrate the generality and robustness of our approach across a wide range of image-shape pairs, showcasing accurate and semantically meaningful correspondences. Our project page is at https://threedle.github.io/bsb/.
Benchmarking Mythos-Linked Bug Rediscovery
arXiv:2605.17416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anthropic's April 2026 Mythos materials combine benchmark claims with concrete bug-finding stories across OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, FFmpeg, and browsers. This paper reports a controlled target-file rediscovery experiment on six public or high-confidence Mythos-linked systems tasks. Each model receives the same target file or files, read-only source tools, three repeats per task, and one manual target-matching rubric; prompts omit CVE identifiers, patch hashes, advisory text, author names, disclosure dates, and answer key root cause language. The experiment contains 54 counted model-task attempts: three models, six tasks, and three repeats, giving 18 attempts per model. GPT-5.5 xhigh achieves 5/18 target rediscoveries, covering 2/6 tasks; counting one wrong-target mpegts.c finding separately gives 3/6 distinct core bugs. Claude Opus 4.7 achieves 1/18 target rediscoveries, covering 1/6 tasks. Kimi K2 records 0/18 target rediscoveries. The dominant failure mode is early commitment to plausible alternate candidates within the assigned file: models often submit source-grounded hypotheses while missing the specific invariant corrected by public Mythos patch evidence. These results do not refute Anthropic's undisclosed workflow, but show that under this favorable target-file scaffold, systems-specific prompting yields only six target matches across 54 counted attempts.
View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
arXiv:2605.18192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification (AGPReID) remains highly challenging due to drastic viewpoint variations between drones and fixed cameras. Existing methods typically follow a view-invariant paradigm, aligning shared features across views to achieve robustness. However, view-invariant inherently enforces part-level alignment, which ignores view-specific cues and discriminative identity information. To this end, this work proposes ViSA (View-aware Semantic Alignment), a view-aware framework that achieves cross-view semantic consistency containing an Expert-driven Token Generation Module (ETGM) and a Dual-branch Local Fusion Module (DLFM). Technically, the former constructs a set of view-aware experts to generate adaptive semantic queries that perceive viewpoint-specific patterns, while the latter leverages graph reasoning to extract and align local regions responsive to different experts. Extensive experiments on three AGPReID benchmarks including AG-ReID.v2, CARGO and LAGPeR demonstrate that ViSA consistently achieves superior performance, with a notable 10.06\% mAP improvement on the challenging CARGO cross-view protocol. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/Cat-Zero/ViSA}{https://github.com/Cat-Zero/ViSA}.
Temporal Task Diversity: Inductive Biases Under Non-Stationarity in Synthetic Sequence Modelling
arXiv:2605.18281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep learning science often assumes that neural networks learn from a fixed data distribution. However, many practically important learning problems involve data distributions that change throughout training. How does such non-stationarity impact the inductive biases of deep learning towards models with different structural, generalisation, and safety properties? A fruitful testbed for studying inductive bias is in-context linear regression sequence modelling, where small transformers display strikingly different generalisation patterns depending on the diversity of the (fixed) training task distribution. In this paper, we explore the effect of diversifying the task distribution across training time, finding that such temporal diversity leads to an increased bias towards generalisation over memorisation.
Segmentation of spinal rootlets across MRI contrasts with RootletSeg
arXiv:2509.16255v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Purpose: To develop a deep learning method for the automatic segmentation of spinal nerve rootlets on various MRI scans. Material and Methods: This retrospective study included MRI scans from two open-access and one private dataset, consisting of 3D isotropic 3T TSE T2-weighted (T2w) and 7T MP2RAGE (T1-weighted [T1w] INV1 and INV2, and UNIT1) MRI scans. A deep learning model, RootletSeg, was developed to segment C2-T1 dorsal and ventral spinal rootlets. Training was performed on 76 scans and testing on 17 scans. The Dice score was used to compare the model performance with an existing open-source method. Spinal levels derived from RootletSeg segmentations were compared with vertebral levels defined by intervertebral discs using Bland-Altman analysis. Results: The RootletSeg model developed on 93 MRI scans from 50 healthy adults (mean age, 28.70 years $\pm$ 6.53 [SD]; 28 [56%] males, 22 [44%] females) achieved a mean $\pm$ SD Dice score of 0.67 $\pm$ 0.09 for T1w-INV2, 0.65 $\pm$ 0.11 for UNIT1, 0.64 $\pm$ 0.08 for T2w, and 0.62 $\pm$ 0.10 for T1w-INV1 contrasts. Spinal-vertebral level correspondence showed a progressively increasing rostrocaudal shift, with Bland-Altman bias ranging from 0.00 to 8.15 mm (median difference between level midpoints). Conclusion: RootletSeg accurately segmented C2-T1 spinal rootlets across MRI contrasts, enabling the determination of spinal levels directly from MRI scans. The method is open-source and can be used for a variety of downstream analyses, including lesion classification, neuromodulation therapy, and functional MRI group analysis.
Individual utilities of life satisfaction reveal inequality aversion unrelated to political alignment
arXiv:2509.07793v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How should well-being be prioritised in society, and what trade-offs are people willing to make between fairness and personal well-being? We investigate these questions using a stated preference experiment with a nationally representative UK sample (n = 300), in which participants evaluated life satisfaction outcomes for both themselves and others under conditions of uncertainty. Individual-level utility functions were estimated using an Expected Utility Maximisation (EUM) framework and tested for sensitivity to the overweighting of small probabilities, as characterised by Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT). A majority of participants displayed concave (risk-averse) utility curves and showed stronger aversion to inequality in societal life satisfaction outcomes than to personal risk. These preferences were unrelated to political alignment, suggesting a shared normative stance on fairness in well-being that cuts across ideological boundaries. The results challenge use of average life satisfaction as a policy metric, and support the development of nonlinear utility-based alternatives that more accurately reflect collective human values. Implications for public policy, well-being measurement, and the design of value-aligned AI systems are discussed.
DARC: Disagreement-Aware Alignment via Risk-Constrained Decoding
arXiv:2603.08145v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Preference-based alignment methods (e.g., RLHF, DPO) typically optimize a single scalar objective, implicitly averaging over heterogeneous human preferences. In practice, systematic annotator and user-group disagreement makes mean-reward maximization brittle and susceptible to proxy over-optimization. We propose **Disagreement-Aware Alignment via Risk-Constrained Decoding (DARC)**, a retraining-free inference-time method that frames response selection as distributionally robust, risk-sensitive decision making. Given multiple preference samples or scalable disagreement proxies, DARC reranks candidates by maximizing a *KL-robust (entropic)* satisfaction objective, and provides simple deployment controls that cap or penalize the corresponding entropic risk premium relative to the mean, enabling explicit risk budgets without retraining. We provide theoretical characterization linking this decoding rule to principled pessimism and KL-based distributionally robust optimization. Experiments on alignment benchmarks show that DARC reduces disagreement and tail risk while maintaining competitive average quality under noisy, heterogeneous feedback.
Lipschitz-Guided Design of Interpolation Schedules in Generative Models
arXiv:2509.01629v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the design of interpolation schedules in flow and diffusion-based generative models from both statistical and numerical perspectives. Within the stochastic interpolants framework, we first show that scalar interpolation schedules are statistically equivalent under the Kullback--Leibler divergence in path space, after optimal a posteriori tuning of the diffusion coefficient. This equivalence motivates focusing on numerical properties of the drift field rather than purely statistical criteria. We propose minimizing the averaged squared Lipschitzness of the drift as a principled criterion for schedule design, in contrast with kinetic-energy minimization in optimal transport. A simple transfer formula expresses the drift of one schedule in terms of the drift of another, allowing the designed schedule to be used at inference time with a model trained under a different (e.g., linear) schedule, without retraining. We work out the optimal schedules analytically for Gaussian and Gaussian-mixture targets: for Gaussians, we obtain exponential improvements in the Lipschitz constant over linear schedules; for Gaussian mixtures, we obtain schedules that mitigate mode collapse in few-step sampling. We then validate the approach on high-dimensional invariant measures of stochastic Allen--Cahn and Navier--Stokes equations, where the designed schedule yields markedly more accurate fine-scale statistics at fixed integrator budget.
ASTRA: Asynchronous Age-Aware Satellite Random Access via Mean-Field Control
arXiv:2605.18282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Satellite Internet-of-Things (IoT) enables massive status-update services beyond terrestrial coverage, but grant-free uplink access creates a coupled freshness-control problem: increasing repetition and receiver-side diversity improves a device's capture-SIC opportunities, yet the resulting population congestion degrades network-wide freshness. Existing AoI-aware random-access models often rely on slot-synchronous collisions, fixed delivery probabilities, or scalar transmit-or-wait decisions and therefore cannot capture asynchronous satellite uplinks with capture and SIC. This paper develops a PHY-aware mean-field framework, termed ASTRA (Asynchronous Age-Aware Satellite Random Access), for freshness-driven satellite IoT random access. We build an access model that captures asynchronous arrivals, partial overlaps, capture, and SIC while preserving the dependence of delivery success on each device's repetition-diversity action. We then formulate the population interaction as a scalable mean-field MDP in which devices optimize access timing and intensity using only local AoI observations. The resulting system admits a mean-field equilibrium in which individual optimality and endogenous congestion are mutually consistent. We further prove that the optimal equilibrium policy admits an age-threshold structure. Numerical results show that the proposed policy reduces AoI relative to age-independent baselines.
CommitDistill: A Lightweight Knowledge-Centric Memory Layer for Software Repositories
arXiv:2605.18284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software repositories accumulate large amounts of unstructured knowledge in commit messages, pull-request discussions, and issue threads, but developers and AI coding assistants rarely reuse this history effectively. Recent work on typed-memory architectures for LLM agents (MemGPT, generative agents, and the PlugMem module of Yang et al.) argues that agent memory should be distilled, typed knowledge rather than raw interaction text. We adapt that stance to a software repository's own git history under a constrained regime: deterministic, dependency-free, local-only, no embeddings. We present CommitDistill, an open-source Python prototype that mines a local git history into typed knowledge units (Facts, Skills, Patterns) using deterministic regex and surfaces them through a TF-IDF retriever with a calibrated silence threshold (theta = 2.5) that abstains on out-of-distribution queries. The artefact is a trust-instrumented memory substrate: deterministic, no external service, inspectable plain-JSON store, tunable abstention. A case study on five public repositories spanning Python, JavaScript, C, and Java (25,000 commits, 1,167 extracted units) reports useful-precision 0.525 at Cohen's kappa = 0.633 on 40 dual-annotated Python units. The decisive finding is budget-constrained retrieval: at a 256-character per-query budget, CommitDistill reaches 0.750 hit-rate on a 12-query benchmark against BM25's 0.333 and git log --grep's 0.083. On a four-arm paired LLM-as-judge evaluation (n=200 time-travel bug-fixes, two judges) covering control, CommitDistill, a body-budget-matched CD-Hybrid, and BM25, no condition produces a statistically detectable lift over control on the headline mean and CD-Hybrid is indistinguishable from BM25 head-to-head. Extraction over 10,000 commits completes in under 4 seconds on a laptop. Source, annotations, baselines, and a reproducibility script accompany this paper.
High-dimensional ridge regression with random features for non-identically distributed data with a variance profile
arXiv:2504.03035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Random feature ridge regression is often analyzed in the high-dimensional regime under the homogeneous sampling model $x_i=\Sigma^{1/2}x_i'$, where the vectors $x_i'$ have iid entries and the same covariance matrix $\Sigma$ is shared by all samples. In this paper, we move beyond this setting and study non-identically distributed data through a variance-profile model in which the training and test covariates have row-dependent diagonal covariance matrices $\Sigma_i=\diag(\gamma_{i1}^2,\ldots,\gamma_{ip}^2)$ and $\widetilde{\Sigma}_i=\diag(\tilde\gamma_{i1}^2,\ldots,\tilde\gamma_{ip}^2)$. Our main contribution is the derivation of asymptotic equivalents for the training and test risks of ridge regression with random features when $n$, $p$, and $m$ grow proportionally. The first set of equivalents is obtained by combining the linear-plus-chaos approximation with traffic-probability arguments, whereas the second set is deterministic and follows from operator-valued free probability through an amalgamation-over-the-diagonal argument. These equivalents are sharp in numerical experiments. They also reveal how heterogeneous variance profiles, including mixture-type profiles inspired by MNIST, can modify generalization and exhibit double-descent behavior when the ridge parameter is small.