Briefing

MambaADv2: Evolving Duality-enhanced State Space Model for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

While recent advancements in anomaly detection have demonstrated the efficacy of CNN- and Transformer-based approaches, these architectures face inherent limita…

Expert Consensus on Criteria for the Automated Assessment of Laparoscopic Camera Navigation

Background: Laparoscopic camera navigation (LCN) is a critical skill, yet its current assessment typically relies on manual rating systems which are time-consum…

EML Trees Are Universal Approximators

The recently introduced EML (Exp-Minus-Log) function acts as continuous analogue of NAND gates, providing a compositional building block capable of representing…

StreamPPG: Low-Latency rPPG Estimation via Consistent Privileged Learning

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) estimates the blood volume pulse (BVP) signal from facial videos, enabling contact-free health monitoring. Conventional clip-…

Deep learning-based detection of cessation of breathing in pre-term infants

Apnoea of prematurity is characterised by recurrent episodes of cessation of breathing and remains difficult to detect reliably using routinely monitored physio…

RS-Gen: A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Reasoning and Search-Augmented Image Generation

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation and editing, particularly regarding instruction following and visual fidelity. However, when…

PhysFlow: Frequency Decoupled with Dual-Field Rectified Flow for Remote Photoplethysmography

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless pulse estimation from facial videos, serving as a vital tool for health monitoring. However, current deep…

Transfer learning-based method for automated ewaste recycling in smart cities

Sorting a huge stream of waste accurately within a short period can be done with the support of digitalization, particularly Artificial Intelligence, instead of…

The Watermark Shortcut: How Provenance Marking Sabotages Audio Deepfake Detection

Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, pr…

Ultra-Peripheral Collisions as a Nuclear-Structure Interferometer with Interpretable Multitask Deep Learning

Precise knowledge of nuclear structure is essential across fundamental physics, yet probing these structures is notoriously difficult. To address this challenge…

TooBad: Backdoor Diffusion Models with Ultra-Low Poison Rate and Imperceptible Trigger

Diffusion models (DMs), despite their impressive capabilities across a wide range of generative tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. How…

Polynomial Dice Loss for Medical Image Segmentation

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task for medical image processing and computer-assisted intervention, yet data imbalance and small lesion detection …

UnBias-Plus: Detect, Explain, and Rewrite Bias

Bias in natural language remains a persistent challenge in both human-written and AI-generated content, affecting domains such as journalism, education, and AI …

AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction

AI agents are driving a new software paradigm, with the ability to autonomously call tools, extract information, manage memory, and complete tasks that span app…

Sublinearly Structured Deep Neural Networks Achieve Feature Learning Consistency for Compositional Functions

Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their p…

Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference

Long-running LLM agents keep valuable state resident on GPUs: KV caches, request schedulers, communication state, and sometimes online adapters. Losing this sta…

A Generative Model for Closed-Loop Microsimulation of Signalized Intersections

Traffic microsimulators rely on hand-crafted behavior models that reproduce aggregate flow but miss the heterogeneous interactions between vehicles at signalize…

Real-Time Multimodal Activity-Aware Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery improves surgical precision but introduces complexity, making technical error detection essential for ensuring patient…

Discovering Latent Groups for Robust Classification

Machine learning models exploit spurious correlations, achieving high average accuracy but failing disproportionately on underrepresented subgroups. Existing me…

CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Humanoid loco-manipulation is often simplified into a stop-and-go process: walking to an object, stopping to manipulate it, and then resuming locomotion. It als…

Keep The Essentials: Efficient Reference Conditioned Generation via Token Dropping

Reference-based diffusion models enable highly controllable image generation by leveraging elements from input images to guide prompt-driven synthesis. However,…

NVIDIA Brings Trusted, 24/7 AI Agents to Telecom Operations

Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that i…

Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix

Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background and Pol…

Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. America s…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ushers in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation

ACCELERATING QUANTUM INNOVATION: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to supercharge U.S. innovation in quantum technologies and stre…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

DRIVING INNOVATION WHILE DEFENDING DATA:  Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to safeguard America’s most sensitive data, our c…

Capturing Central Europe’s AI opportunity

AI is advancing too quickly to remain a side initiative for businesses. Central European companies can get ahead by redesigning business domains—and the organiz…

State of the Consumer 2026: When tech acceleration and cost pressures collide

The consumer is changing fast. Four trends—the tech-driven path to purchase, the health revolution, the experience economy, and the resourceful consumer—will re…

How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue