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Chinese fishing 'militia' formations signal rising gray-zone pressure on Taiwan

FOX News

China's People's Armed Forces Maritime Militia deployed thousands of fishing vessels in coordinated formations that could disrupt global shipping lanes, analysts warn.


The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos

WIRED

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the conflict is stranding cargo and threatening inflation. After years of chaos in the global supply chain, Ryan Petersen, CEO of the logistics company Flexport, felt 2026 might offer some modicum of order. The pandemic was firmly in the rearview mirror. Red Sea shipping channels--which had been closed due to the Gaza crisis--were finally opening. The Supreme Court struck down many of Donald Trump's tariffs, and some Flexport customers were hoping for refunds.



A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Optimization Framework for Large-scale Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problems Yi Ma

Neural Information Processing Systems

To address this problem, existing methods partition the overall DPDP into fixed-size sub-problems by caching online generated orders and solve each sub-problem, or on this basis to utilize the predicted future orders to optimize each sub-problem further. However, the solution quality and efficiency of these methods are unsatisfactory, especially when the problem scale is very large.


VastTrack: Vast Category Visual Object Tracking

Neural Information Processing Systems

V astTrack consists of a few attractive properties: (1) V ast Object Category . In particular, it covers targets from 2,115 categories, significantly surpassing object classes of existing popular benchmarks ( e.g ., GOT -10k with 563 classes and LaSOT with 70 categories). Through providing such vast object classes, we expect to learn more general object tracking.






Benchmarking Robustness to Adversarial Image Obfuscations

Neural Information Processing Systems

Advances in in computer vision have lead to classifiers that nearly match human performance in many applications. However, while the human visual system is remarkably versatile in extracting semantic meaning out of even degraded and heavily obfuscated images, today's visual classifiers significantly lag behind in emulating the same robustness, and often yield incorrect outputs in the presence of natural and adversarial degradations.