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Earthquake swarm rattles California on Thanksgiving sending shockwaves up and down the coast
RFK Jr taunts Donald Trump as he shares pointed'Thanksgiving dinner' photo with the president, Elon Musk and Don Jr Fans hail Cece Winans' 'best ever' rendition of the national anthem on Thanksgiving and beg the NFL to get her to the Super Bowl I've seen it too many times - I have to speak up: KENNEDY Trump plunged into security scandal over Afghan shooter's asylum - after president blamed Biden Bryan Kohberger becomes nightmare prison diva... as he throws huge tantrum over BANANAS behind bars My wife was blindsided when I asked for a divorce. There was no foul play or'other woman' but this is why I did it... and the six subtle signs your partner is planning on leaving you too: RICHARD WARNER My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Americans are finally realizing why we don't eat turkey eggs Plastic surgeon reveals secrets of Tom Brady's changing face, including'unnatural' procedure... and truth about Ozempic use Lilibet's locks steal the show! Meghan's daughter is every inch the little Princess with her fiery red locks in a neat plait at Thanksgiving outing Kimberly Guilfoyle leaves little to the imagination in a figure-hugging sheer lace gown for Thanksgiving dinner in Athens in her role as US Ambassador - after admitting she's'husband hunting' Hollywood stars who REFUSE to celebrate Thanksgiving over animal cruelty and its'blood-soaked' history Californians were shaken by multiple earthquakes on Thanksgiving morning, raising concerns in the seismically active region. At least 13 tremors, starting around 4:30am PT (7:30am ET) and ranging from magnitude 1.0 to 3.7, were reported near The Geysers geothermal field in Northern California . The last earthquake, a small 1.1 magnitude, was detected at 5:47am PT (8:47am ET).
Through the telecom lens: Are all training samples important?
Bothe, Shruti, Saffar, Illyyne, Boisbunon, Aurelie, Farooq, Hasan, Forgeat, Julien, Chowdhury, Md Moin Uddin
The rise of AI in telecommunications, from optimizing Radio Access Networks to managing user experience, has sharply increased data volumes and training demands. Telecom data is often noisy, high-dimensional, costly to store, process, and label. Despite Ai's critical role, standard workflows still assume all training samples contribute equally. On the other hand, next generation systems require AI models that are accurate, efficient, and sustainable.The paper questions the assumptions of equal importance by focusing on applying and analyzing the roles of individual samples in telecom training and assessing whether the proposed model optimizes computation and energy use. we perform sample-level gradient analysis across epochs to identify patterns of influence and redundancy in model learning. Based on this, we propose a sample importance framework thats electively prioritizes impactful data and reduces computation without compromising accuracy. Experiments on three real-world telecom datasets show that our method [reserves performance while reducing data needs and computational overhead while advancing the goals of sustainable AI in telecommunications.
Model-Based Policy Adaptation for Closed-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Lin, Haohong, Zhang, Yunzhi, Ding, Wenhao, Wu, Jiajun, Zhao, Ding
End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving models have demonstrated strong performance in open-loop evaluations but often suffer from cascading errors and poor generalization in closed-loop settings. To address this gap, we propose Model-based Policy Adaptation (MPA), a general framework that enhances the robustness and safety of pretrained E2E driving agents during deployment. MPA first generates diverse counterfactual trajectories using a geometry-consistent simulation engine, exposing the agent to scenarios beyond the original dataset. Based on this generated data, MPA trains a diffusion-based policy adapter to refine the base policy's predictions and a multi-step Q value model to evaluate long-term outcomes. At inference time, the adapter proposes multiple trajectory candidates, and the Q value model selects the one with the highest expected utility. Experiments on the nuScenes benchmark using a photorealistic closed-loop simulator demonstrate that MPA significantly improves performance across in-domain, out-of-domain, and safety-critical scenarios. We further investigate how the scale of counterfactual data and inference-time guidance strategies affect overall effectiveness.
Going with the Speed of Sound: Pushing Neural Surrogates into Highly-turbulent Transonic Regimes
Paischer, Fabian, Cotteleer, Leo, Dreze, Yann, Kurle, Richard, Rubini, Dylan, Bleeker, Maurits, Kronlachner, Tobias, Brandstetter, Johannes
The widespread use of neural surrogates in automotive aerodynamics, enabled by datasets such as DrivAerML and DrivAerNet++, has primarily focused on bluff-body flows with large wakes. Extending these methods to aerospace, particularly in the transonic regime, remains challenging due to the high level of non-linearity of compressible flows and 3D effects such as wingtip vortices. Existing aerospace datasets predominantly focus on 2D airfoils, neglecting these critical 3D phenomena. To address this gap, we present a new dataset of CFD simulations for 3D wings in the transonic regime. The dataset comprises volumetric and surface-level fields for around $30,000$ samples with unique geometry and inflow conditions. This allows computation of lift and drag coefficients, providing a foundation for data-driven aerodynamic optimization of the drag-lift Pareto front. We evaluate several state-of-the-art neural surrogates on our dataset, including Transolver and AB-UPT, focusing on their out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization over geometry and inflow variations. AB-UPT demonstrates strong performance for transonic flowfields and reproduces physically consistent drag-lift Pareto fronts even for unseen wing configurations. Our results demonstrate that AB-UPT can approximate drag-lift Pareto fronts for unseen geometries, highlighting its potential as an efficient and effective tool for rapid aerodynamic design exploration. To facilitate future research, we open-source our dataset at https://huggingface.co/datasets/EmmiAI/Emmi-Wing.
DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research
Shao, Rulin, Asai, Akari, Shen, Shannon Zejiang, Ivison, Hamish, Kishore, Varsha, Zhuo, Jingming, Zhao, Xinran, Park, Molly, Finlayson, Samuel G., Sontag, David, Murray, Tyler, Min, Sewon, Dasigi, Pradeep, Soldaini, Luca, Brahman, Faeze, Yih, Wen-tau, Wu, Tongshuang, Zettlemoyer, Luke, Kim, Yoon, Hajishirzi, Hannaneh, Koh, Pang Wei
Deep research models perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research models are trained on easily verifiable short-form QA tasks via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), which does not extend to realistic long-form tasks. We address this with Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics (RLER), in which we construct and maintain rubrics that co-evolve with the policy model during training; this allows the rubrics to incorporate information that the model has newly explored and to provide discriminative, on-policy feedback. Using RLER, we develop Deep Research Tulu (DR Tulu-8B), the first open model that is directly trained for open-ended, long-form deep research. Across four long-form deep research benchmarks in science, healthcare and general domains, DR Tulu substantially outperforms existing open deep research models, and matches or exceeds proprietary deep research systems, while being significantly smaller and cheaper per query. To facilitate future research, we release all data, models, and code, including our new MCP-based agent infrastructure for deep research systems.
Modular, On-Site Solutions with Lightweight Anomaly Detection for Sustainable Nutrient Management in Agriculture
Cohen, Abigail R., Sun, Yuming, Qin, Zhihao, Muriki, Harsh S., Xiao, Zihao, Lee, Yeonju, Housley, Matthew, Sharkey, Andrew F., Ferrarezi, Rhuanito S., Li, Jing, Gan, Lu, Chen, Yongsheng
Efficient nutrient management is critical for crop growth and sustainable resource consumption (e.g., nitrogen, energy). Current approaches require lengthy analyses, preventing real-time optimization; similarly, imaging facilitates rapid phenotyping but can be computationally intensive, preventing deployment under resource constraints. This study proposes a flexible, tiered pipeline for anomaly detection and status estimation (fresh weight, dry mass, and tissue nutrients), including a comprehensive energy analysis of approaches that span the efficiency-accuracy spectrum. Using a nutrient depletion experiment with three treatments (T1-100%, T2-50%, and T3-25% fertilizer strength) and multispectral imaging (MSI), we developed a hierarchical pipeline using an autoencoder (AE) for early warning. Further, we compared two status estimation modules of different complexity for more detailed analysis: vegetation index (VI) features with machine learning (Random Forest, RF) and raw whole-image deep learning (Vision Transformer, ViT). Results demonstrated high-efficiency anomaly detection (73% net detection of T3 samples 9 days after transplanting) at substantially lower energy than embodied energy in wasted nitrogen. The state estimation modules show trade-offs, with ViT outperforming RF on phosphorus and calcium estimation (R2 0.61 vs. 0.58, 0.48 vs. 0.35) at higher energy cost. With our modular pipeline, this work opens opportunities for edge diagnostics and practical opportunities for agricultural sustainability.
Leveraging AI for Productive and Trustworthy HPC Software: Challenges and Research Directions
Teranishi, Keita, Menon, Harshitha, Godoy, William F., Balaprakash, Prasanna, Bau, David, Ben-Nun, Tal, Bhatele, Abhinav, Franchetti, Franz, Franusich, Michael, Gamblin, Todd, Georgakoudis, Giorgis, Goldstein, Tom, Guha, Arjun, Hahn, Steven, Iancu, Costin, Jin, Zheming, Jones, Terry, Low, Tze Meng, Mankad, Het, Miniskar, Narasinga Rao, Monil, Mohammad Alaul Haque, Nichols, Daniel, Parasyris, Konstantinos, Pophale, Swaroop, Valero-Lara, Pedro, Vetter, Jeffrey S., Williams, Samuel, Young, Aaron
We discuss the challenges and propose research directions for using AI to revolutionize the development of high-performance computing (HPC) software. AI technologies, in particular large language models, have transformed every aspect of software development. For its part, HPC software is recognized as a highly specialized scientific field of its own. We discuss the challenges associated with leveraging state-of-the-art AI technologies to develop such a unique and niche class of software and outline our research directions in the two US Department of Energy--funded projects for advancing HPC Software via AI: Ellora and Durban.
SAM Guided Semantic and Motion Changed Region Mining for Remote Sensing Change Captioning
Wang, Futian, Wang, Mengqi, Wang, Xiao, Wang, Haowen, Tang, Jin
Remote sensing change captioning is an emerging and popular research task that aims to describe, in natural language, the content of interest that has changed between two remote sensing images captured at different times. Existing methods typically employ CNNs/Transformers to extract visual representations from the given images or incorporate auxiliary tasks to enhance the final results, with weak region awareness and limited temporal alignment. To address these issues, this paper explores the use of the SAM (Segment Anything Model) foundation model to extract region-level representations and inject region-of-interest knowledge into the captioning framework. Specifically, we employ a CNN/Transformer model to extract global-level vision features, leverage the SAM foundation model to delineate semantic- and motion-level change regions, and utilize a specially constructed knowledge graph to provide information about objects of interest. These heterogeneous sources of information are then fused via cross-attention, and a Transformer decoder is used to generate the final natural language description of the observed changes. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple widely used benchmark datasets. The source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/SAM_ChangeCaptioning
SUPN: Shallow Universal Polynomial Networks
Morrow, Zachary, Penwarden, Michael, Chen, Brian, Javeed, Aurya, Narayan, Akil, Jakeman, John D.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) and Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) are popular methods for function approximation due to their flexibility and expressivity. However, they typically require a large number of trainable parameters to produce a suitable approximation. Beyond making the resulting network less transparent, overparameterization creates a large optimization space, likely producing local minima in training that have quite different generalization errors. In this case, network initialization can have an outsize impact on the model's out-of-sample accuracy. For these reasons, we propose shallow universal polynomial networks (SUPNs). These networks replace all but the last hidden layer with a single layer of polynomials with learnable coefficients, leveraging the strengths of DNNs and polynomials to achieve sufficient expressivity with far fewer parameters. We prove that SUPNs converge at the same rate as the best polynomial approximation of the same degree, and we derive explicit formulas for quasi-optimal SUPN parameters. We complement theory with an extensive suite of numerical experiments involving SUPNs, DNNs, KANs, and polynomial projection in one, two, and ten dimensions, consisting of over 13,000 trained models. On the target functions we numerically studied, for a given number of trainable parameters, the approximation error and variability are often lower for SUPNs than for DNNs and KANs by an order of magnitude. In our examples, SUPNs even outperform polynomial projection on non-smooth functions.
TSGM: Regular and Irregular Time-series Generation using Score-based Generative Models
Lim, Haksoo, Lee, Jaehoon, Park, Sewon, Kim, Minjung, Park, Noseong
Abstract--Score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated unparalleled sampling quality and diversity in numerous fields, such as image generation, voice synthesis, and tabular data synthesis, etc. Inspired by those outstanding results, we apply SGMs to synthesize time-series by learning its conditional score function. T o this end, we present a conditional score network for time-series synthesis, deriving a denoising score matching loss tailored for our purposes. In particular, our presented denoising score matching loss is the conditional denoising score matching loss for time-series synthesis. In addition, our framework is such flexible that both regular and irregular time-series can be synthesized with minimal changes to our model design. Finally, we obtain exceptional synthesis performance on various time-series datasets, achieving state-of-the-art sampling diversity and quality. Time-series frequently occurs in our daily lives, e.g., stock data, climate data, and so on. Especially, time-series forecasting and classification are popular research topics in the field of machine learning [1], [2]. In many cases, however, time-series samples are incomplete and/or the number of samples is insufficient, in which case training machine learning models cannot be fulfilled in a robust way. To overcome the limitation, time-series synthesis has been studied actively recently [3], [4]. These synthesis models have been designed in various ways, including variational autoencoders (V AEs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) [5]-[7].