Africa
The Price of Implicit Bias in Adversarially Robust Generalization
We study the implicit bias of optimization in robust empirical risk minimization (robust ERM) and its connection with robust generalization.
As Sudanese city returns to life after two-year siege, drone threat lingers
Life is cautiously returning to the streets of Dilling, the second largest city in South Kordofan state, after the Sudanese army broke a suffocating siege that had isolated the area for more than two years. For months, the city had been encircled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), cutting off vital supply lines and trapping civilians in a severe humanitarian crisis. Al Jazeera Arabic's Hisham Uweit, reporting from Dilling, described a city "recovering slowly" from the economic strangulation. "For over two years, heavy siege conditions were imposed on the city. Movement disappeared, goods vanished and livelihoods narrowed," Uweit said.
Error Discovery By Clustering Influence Embeddings Fulton Wang
We formalize coherence --a requirement that erroneous predictions, within a slice, should be wrong for the same reason --as a key property that any slice discovery method should satisfy.
Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model Kenneth Li
This intervention significantly improves the performance of LLaMA models on the TruthfulQA benchmark.
ODGS: 3D Scene Reconstruction from Omnidirectional Images with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Omnidirectional (or 360-degree) images are increasingly being used for 3D applications since they allow the rendering of an entire scene with a single image.