Photonic reservoir computing has attracted increasing attention as a fast and low-cost approach for time-series prediction. Photonic reservoir computing utilizes the high speed, broad bandwidth, and spatial parallelism of light. However, the effect o
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their computational cost limits real-time robotic control. In contrast, lightweight models are suitable for edge deployment but often s
Autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data face severe security risks from prompt injection attacks and reasoning errors. While dynamic Information Flow Control (IFC) provides structural security guarantees, traditional taint trackin
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a novel class of generative models designed to sample from unnormalized distributions and have found applications in various important tasks, attracting great research interest in their training algori
When a language model must pick one answer from a large space of equally valid options, which does it pick -- and how often is it the same answer every other model picks? Asked to "pick a word -- any word," 44 models chose "serendipity" 41% o
"Integrative" solutions are widely praised but rarely defined: we lack an operational way to tell a genuine integration -- one that makes the world cheaper to describe -- from a tidy re-description. Building on the lineage that treats creativity and
Named Entity Recognition (NER) for low-resource languages such as Marathi remains a challenging task due to limited annotated resources and linguistic complexity. Although recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across
Recent work has shown that subword vocabularies can be trained to optimize compression for a specific inference rule rather than relying on greedy heuristics such as Byte Pair Encoding (BPE). We extend this approach to greedy left-to-right longest-matc
We introduce Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 104 billion activated parameters, native vision capabilities, and a 1-million-token context window. Kimi K3 is built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, which improve inf
Over-prompting, a phenomenon where excessive examples in prompts lead to diminished performance in Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges the conventional wisdom about in-context few-shot learning. To investigate this few-shot dilemma, we outline
Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates low-concurrency LLM inference with a draft-then-verify paradigm. Mainstream methods, however, rely on multi-token prediction, which incurs compounding prediction difficulty and exposed draft latency. We propose
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have long sought calibration-free operation, but classifiers are typically benchmarked by discrimination alone, blind to whether predicted probabilities are well calibrated - a meaningful gap given nonstationary electro
Automated sleep staging is increasingly used in large-scale studies to derive sleep-architecture endpoints: total sleep time, REM latency, sleep efficiency, and bout-duration statistics. Deep learning models achieve epoch-level accuracy approaching int
The usefulness of a variational autoencoder (VAE) depends on two properties of its latent space that are hard to obtain together: high encoding capacity in the individual latent variables, and a low-dimensional, disentangled organization of those varia
Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to estimate the utility of facial images for reliable recognition. The evaluation of FIQA methods is predominantly based on the Error-versus-Discard Characteristic (EDC), which evaluates performance by progre
With the rise of large pre-trained foundation models for automatic speech recognition new challenges appear. While the performance of these models is good, runtime and cost of inference increases. One approach to make use of their strength while re
The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer protocol for Bitcoin designed to enable fast and cost-efficient off-chain transactions. Channels in the LN can be closed either by mutual agreement or unilaterally through a forced closure, which locks t
Due to the intricate structure of vascular trees, minor segmentation errors can significantly alter connectivity patterns and increase variability in extracted morphological properties. Global metrics such as the Dice coefficient, precision,
Causal effect estimation from observational data requires careful adjustment for confounding. Classical estimators such as inverse probability weighting and augmented inverse probability weighting can perform well under favorable model specif