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Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs
Research

Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs

Detecting communities in heterophilic graphs -- where connected nodes often belong to different classes -- is hard for unsupervised methods: classical modularit…
Defending Against Harmful Supervision Hidden in Benign Samples
Research

Defending Against Harmful Supervision Hidden in Benign Samples

Existing defenses are effective when harmful content is explicitly mixed into downstream fine-tuning data, but crafted samples can instead hide harmful supervis…
PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning
Research

PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) combine textual semantics with graph structure and are central to many graph learning tasks. However, existing fusion methods ofte…
Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents
Research

Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents

Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: …
Toward an Energy-Optimized Operation of Data Centers Located in Wind Farms Using Reinforcement Learning
Research

Toward an Energy-Optimized Operation of Data Centers Located in Wind Farms Using Reinforcement Learning

This paper studies Reinforcement Learning as an online controller for curtailment-aware workload shifting in wind-turbine-integrated high-performance computing …
MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications
Research

MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, defines a standardized interface for connecting large language models (LLMs) to exte…
Optimizing Image Preparation and Compression for Face Recognition within 1024 Bytes
Research

Optimizing Image Preparation and Compression for Face Recognition within 1024 Bytes

ICAO-compliant machine readable travel documents enable automated biometric face verification. The biometric reference is stored on an RFID chip included in for…
UniGP: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Prior-Preserved Unified Generation and Perception
Research

UniGP: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Prior-Preserved Unified Generation and Perception

Recent advances in diffusion models have shown impressive performance in controllable image generation and dense prediction tasks. However, existing approaches …
FlexTab: A Flexible Encoder-Decoder Architecture for In-Context Learning Across Diverse Tabular Tasks
Research

FlexTab: A Flexible Encoder-Decoder Architecture for In-Context Learning Across Diverse Tabular Tasks

We introduce FlexTab, a flexible encoder-decoder architecture for in-context learning on tabular data that pairs a single, task-agnostic encoder with a suite of…
A Classifier-Agnostic Zero-Shot Adversarial Attack Detection via CLIP
Research

A Classifier-Agnostic Zero-Shot Adversarial Attack Detection via CLIP

Adversarial attacks pose a challenge to the reliability of deep learning models, motivating effective detection methods. Existing techniques often rely on attac…
Residual-Guided Expert Specialization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
Research

Residual-Guided Expert Specialization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning

As real-world prediction systems often face missing modalities at inference, incomplete multimodal learning (IML) remains a practical challenge. While prior met…
Scalar Representations of Neural Network Training Dynamics
Research

Scalar Representations of Neural Network Training Dynamics

Training in artificial neural networks can be viewed as a trajectory evolving through a high-dimensional loss landscape. However, the large number of trainable …
SGD Provably Prioritizes a Shortcut Spurious Feature in the XOR Model
Research

SGD Provably Prioritizes a Shortcut Spurious Feature in the XOR Model

Neural networks are known to be susceptible to over-reliance on spurious correlations. However, the precise mechanism by which models exploit shortcut features …
Curvature-Weighted Gradient Diversity: A Noise Measure for Geometry-Adaptive SGD Schedules
Research

Curvature-Weighted Gradient Diversity: A Noise Measure for Geometry-Adaptive SGD Schedules

The standard convergence analysis of mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) models gradient noise using a single variance term that treats all parameter d…
StereoGS: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting via Stereo Priors
Research

StereoGS: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting via Stereo Priors

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable success in real-time novel view synthesis, yet it suffers from severe overfitting under sparse-view setting…
The Fundamental Limits of Valid Transport Map Estimation
Research

The Fundamental Limits of Valid Transport Map Estimation

Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distribution…
A Hybrid Framework For Crypto-Ransomware Detection In Enterprise Shared Storage
Research

A Hybrid Framework For Crypto-Ransomware Detection In Enterprise Shared Storage

Most corporate workplace environments enforce policies and technical controls that limit the storage of sensitive data on client endpoints. Consequently, ransom…
Wireless Backdoor Attack and Defense for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channel
Research

Wireless Backdoor Attack and Defense for Semantic Communications over Multiple Access Channel

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to preserve semantic meaning and task-oriented information beyond conventional message recovery over wireless channels. The…
One-Step Gradient Delay is Not a Barrier for Large-Scale Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel LLM Pretraining
Research

One-Step Gradient Delay is Not a Barrier for Large-Scale Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel LLM Pretraining

Modern large-scale LLM pretraining benefits from utilizing Pipeline Parallelism; however, synchronous implementations leave GPUs idle during pipeline bubbles, w…
Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why
Practice

Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why

Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of dramatically diverging investment …
From access to assets: How early-life wealth building can shape economic mobility
Practice

From access to assets: How early-life wealth building can shape economic mobility

Investing in children’s financial futures can narrow disparities and expand opportunity. Different scenarios for the new 530A accounts, also known as Trump Acco…
Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers
Labs

Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers

Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered technologies.…
Nuclear power: A renaissance in the making
Practice

Nuclear power: A renaissance in the making

The explosion of AI data centers and the continued electrification of automobiles and other products have greatly increased demand for electricity, sparking ren…
Semiconductors: Etching the new map of strategic supply
Practice

Semiconductors: Etching the new map of strategic supply

As geopolitics shift, more countries are wooing semiconductor manufacturers to enhance resilience. At the same time, demand for advanced semiconductors continue…
Solar power: From intermittent sunshine to reliable power
Practice

Solar power: From intermittent sunshine to reliable power

Solar photovoltaic projects with battery energy storage systems are moving beyond low-cost generation by transforming intermittent output into more reliable, hi…
Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI
Practice

Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI

Data center capital expenditures are surging as AI workloads grow, yet competitiveness increasingly depends on securing advanced accelerators, reliable electric…
Biopharma R&D: The evolving formula for discovery and development
Practice

Biopharma R&D: The evolving formula for discovery and development

Innovation after innovation is advancing the biopharmaceutical industry, enabling better treatment of complex diseases. The industry has historically made its h…
Polyethylene: Widely produced—but not one-size-fits-all
Practice

Polyethylene: Widely produced—but not one-size-fits-all

Manufacturing polyethylene is a highly competitive business. Success depends greatly on access to feedstocks, yet investment doesn’t always follow economics.…
Pharmaceuticals: Innovating and advancing around the world
Practice

Pharmaceuticals: Innovating and advancing around the world

The continued rise of monoclonal antibody therapies and demographic changes are powering growth in the pharmaceuticals industry.…
Batteries: Scaling the engine of electrification
Practice

Batteries: Scaling the engine of electrification

Demand for batteries is surging as electric vehicles and storage grow, but competitiveness depends on securing materials, ramping up gigafactories, and building…