Learning to Understand: Identifying Interactions via the Möbius Transform
One of the key challenges in machine learning is to find interpretable representations of learned functions. The Möbius transform is essential for this purpose, as its coefficients correspond to unique importance scores for sets of input variables. This transform is closely related to widely used game-theoretic notions of importance like the Shapley and Bhanzaf value, but it also captures crucial higher-order interactions.
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At Google I/O 2025, the tech company announced a ton of new AI features, and one of the most interesting is a virtual clothing try-on tool. The Google Shopping "Try it on" feature lets users upload a photo of themselves and then virtually try on clothes, basically the IRL version of the Clueless closet millennials have been dreaming about since 1995. Or, as Mashable Shopping Reporter Haley Henschel put it, "Google's latest shopping feature makes Cher Horowitz's computerized closet a reality." Almost as soon as the feature was released, users started trying to "jailbreak" the tool, which is becoming a fun little tradition for tech writers every time a new AI model or tool is released. On Friday, The Atlantic reported that "Google's new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J.D. Vance breasts."
Explicit deepfakes are now a federal crime. Enforcing that may be a major problem.
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Anthropics new AI model resorted to blackmail during testing, but its also really good at coding
What started with Microsoft Build, continued with Google I/O, and ended with Anthropic Code with Claude, plus a big hardware interruption from OpenAI, the week has finally come to a close. AI announcements from the developer conferences jockeyed for news dominance this week, but OpenAI managed to make headlines without an event by announcing that it's going to start making AI devices with iPhone designer Jony Ives We'll get to that, plus all the major AI features from Google and Microsoft and details about Anthropic's new models. Take a look at the AI news of the week, then enjoy a well-deserved weekend. On Thursday, Anthropic introduced the next generation of its Claude models: Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is the bigger, more powerful model, while Sonnet 4 is smaller and nimbler. Anthropic said both models scored higher than their rivals on agentic AI benchmarks and said they're particularly good for coding and reasoning tasks.
BELM: Bidirectional Explicit Linear Multi-step Sampler for Exact Inversion in Diffusion Models Fangyikang Wang 1 Hubery Yin 2 Yuejiang Dong
The inversion of diffusion model sampling, which aims to find the corresponding initial noise of a sample, plays a critical role in various tasks. Recently, several heuristic exact inversion samplers have been proposed to address the inexact inversion issue in a training-free manner. However, the theoretical properties of these heuristic samplers remain unknown and they often exhibit mediocre sampling quality. In this paper, we introduce a generic formulation, Bidirectional Explicit Linear Multi-step (BELM) samplers, of the exact inversion samplers, which includes all previously proposed heuristic exact inversion samplers as special cases.
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