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Tarique Rahman sworn in as Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Al Jazeera

Bangladesh is marking a historic new chapter as Tarique Rahman is sworn in as Prime Minister following a landslide electoral victory last week. It was the country's first election since the 2024 student-led protests led to the ouster of then-leader Sheikh Hasina. US and Iran reach'guiding principles' in Geneva nuclear talks Sheinbaum says Mexico declines Trump's'Board of Peace' invite Why Israel's annexation threatens Jordan'I've heard nothing but great things,' LeBron James says of Israel Video: Humanoid robots take centre stage at China's Lunar New Year show



WildfireSpreadTS: A dataset of multi-modal time series for wildfire spread prediction

Neural Information Processing Systems

We present a multi-temporal, multi-modal remote-sensing dataset for predicting how active wildfires will spread at a resolution of 24 hours. The dataset consists of 13 607 images across 607 fire events in the United States from January 2018 to October 2021. For each fire event, the dataset contains a full time series of daily observations, containing detected active fires and variables related to fuel, topography and weather conditions. The dataset is challenging due to: a) its inputs being multi-temporal, b) the high number of 23 multi-modal input channels, c) highly imbalanced labels and d) noisy labels, due to smoke, clouds, and inaccuracies in the active fire detection.





CRONOS: Enhancing Deep Learning with Scalable GPU Accelerated Convex Neural Networks

Neural Information Processing Systems

This significantly improves upon prior work, which has been restricted to downsam-pled versions of MNIST and CIFAR-10. Taking CRONOS as a primitive, we then develop a new algorithm called CRONOS-AM, which combines CRONOS with alternating minimization, to obtain an algorithm capable of training multi-layer networks with arbitrary architectures.


HaloScope: Harnessing Unlabeled LLM Generations for Hallucination Detection

Neural Information Processing Systems

The surge in applications of large language models (LLMs) has prompted concerns about the generation of misleading or fabricated information, known as hallucinations. Therefore, detecting hallucinations has become critical to maintaining trust in LLM-generated content. A primary challenge in learning a truthfulness classifier is the lack of a large amount of labeled truthful and hallucinated data. To address the challenge, we introduce HaloScope, a novel learning framework that leverages the unlabeled LLM generations in the wild for hallucination detection. Such unlabeled data arises freely upon deploying LLMs in the open world, and consists of both truthful and hallucinated information. To harness the unlabeled data, we present an automated membership estimation score for distinguishing between truthful and untruthful generations within unlabeled mixture data, thereby enabling the training of a binary truthfulness classifier on top. Importantly, our framework does not require extra data collection and human annotations, offering strong flexibility and practicality for real-world applications. Extensive experiments show that HaloScope can achieve superior hallucination detection performance, outperforming the competitive rivals by a significant margin.


DiffAttack: Evasion Attacks Against Diffusion-Based Adversarial Purification

Neural Information Processing Systems

Recent studies show that even advanced attacks cannot break such defenses effectively, since the purification process induces an extremely deep computational graph which poses the potential problem of vanishing/exploding gradient, high memory cost, and unbounded randomness.