A recent study tracked hundreds of soccer fans until their favorite team reached the final of a tournament. Their stress levels skyrocketed, and their heart rates jumped too. You might think you are, but your body is going to have to be prepared to put in some work--especially if your favorite team makes it. Research shows that watching high-pressure matches can raise your heart rate, increase your stress levels, and put extra strain on your cardiovascular system. According to a recent study from researchers at Bielefeld University in Germany, fans' physiological stress increases by about 41 percent during a soccer final compared to a normal day.

A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA--an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish--may not lead to improvements in cognitive function. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish such as mackerel and sardines, is thought to improve cognitive function by supporting connections between brain cells. However, it has never been conclusively demonstrated that DHA taken as a dietary supplement actually reaches the brain or provides measurable benefits against dementia . Against this backdrop, a research team at the USC School of Medicine has published the results of a large, two-year clinical trial involving older adults at elevated risk of developing Alzheimer's disease . The study found that while high-dose DHA supplements do indeed reach the brain, they did not improve memory or cognitive function, nor did they slow brain atrophy.

Recent work has established a fundamental trilemma between Byzantine robustness, local differential privacy (LDP), and optimization error in distributed learning. We show that this trilemma does not universally extend to generalization error, but instead depends critically on the privacy regime. Specifically, in the high-noise regime (strong privacy), we prove that increasing privacy reduces the generalization error, i.e., there is no tension between robustness and privacy. In the low-noise regime (weaker privacy), however, the tension between robustness and privacy reappears and increasing privacy indeed degrades generalization. Our theory explains this surprising non-monotonic behavior of the generalization error via matching lower and upper bounds on the algorithmic stability of Byzantine-robust distributed learning under LDP constraints. We corroborate and further analyze these theoretical findings with empirical evaluations.

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Surface electromyography (sEMG) at the wrists could enable natural, keyboard-free text entry, yet the state-of-the-art emg2qwertybaseline still misrecognizes 51.8% of characters zero-shot on unseen users and 7.0% after user-specific fine-tuning. We trace much of these errors to mismatched cross-user signal statistics, fragile reliance on high-order feature dependencies, and the absence of architectural inductive biases aligned with the bilateral nature of typing. To address these issues, we introduce three simple modifications: (i) Rolling Time Normalization which adaptively aligns input distributions across users; (ii) Aggressive Channel Masking, which encourages reliance on low-order feature combinations more likely to generalize across users; and (iii) a Split-and-Share encoder that processes each hand independently with weight-shared streams to reflect the bilateral symmetry of the neuromuscular system. Combined with a five-fold reduction in spectral resolution (33 6 frequency bands), these components yield a compact Splitand-Share model, SplashNet-mini, which uses only the parameters and 0.6 the FLOPs of the baseline while reducing character error rate (CER) to 36.4% zero-shot and 5.9% after fine-tuning. An upscaled variant, SplashNet ( parameters, 1.15 FLOPs of the baseline), further lowers error to 35.7% and 5.5%, representing 31% and 21% relative improvements in the zero-shot and finetuned settings, respectively. SplashNet therefore establishes a new state-of-the-art without requiring additional data.

Emotion recognition from physiological signals has substantial potential for applications in mental health and emotion-aware systems.

How well do AI systems perform in algorithm engineering for hard optimization problems in domains such as package-delivery routing, crew scheduling, factory production planning, and power-grid balancing? We introduce ALE-Bench, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems on score-based algorithmic programming contests. Drawing on real tasks from the AtCoder Heuristic Contests, ALE-Bench presents optimization problems that are computationally hard and admit no known exact solution. Unlike short-duration, pass/fail coding benchmarks, ALE-Bench encourages iterative solution refinement over long time horizons. Our software framework supports interactive agent architectures that leverage test-run feedback and visualizations. Our evaluation of frontier LLMs revealed that while they demonstrate high performance on specific problems, a notable gap remains compared to humans in terms of consistency across problems and long-horizon problem-solving capabilities. This highlights the need for this benchmark to foster future AI advancements.

Recent studies have demonstrated that fine-tuning language models with brain data can improve their semantic understanding, although these findings have so far been limited to English. Interestingly, similar to the shared multilingual embedding space of pretrained multilingual language models, human studies provide strong evidence for a shared semantic system in bilingual individuals. Here, we investigate whether fine-tuning language models with bilingual brain data changes model representations in a way that improves them across multiple languages. To test this, we fine-tune monolingual and multilingual language models using brain activity recorded while bilingual participants read stories in English and Chinese. We then evaluate how well these representations generalize to the bilingual participants' first language, their second language, and several other languages that the participants are not fluent in. We assess the fine-tuned language models on brain encoding performance and downstream NLP tasks. Our results show that bilingual brain-informed fine-tuned language models outperform their vanilla (pretrained) counterparts in both brain encoding performance and most downstream NLP tasks across multiple languages. These findings suggest that brain-informed fine-tuning improves multilingual understanding in language models, offering a bridge between cognitive neuroscience and NLP research. We make our code publicly available.

Decoding visual signals holds an appealing potential to unravel the complexities of cognition and perception. While recent reconstruction tasks leverage powerful generative models to produce high-fidelity images from neural recordings, they often pay limited attention to the underlying neural representations and rely heavily on pretrained priors. As a result, they provide little insight into how individual voxels encode and differentiate semantic content or how these representations vary across subjects. To mitigate this gap, we present an insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding (iMIND) model, which employs a novel dual-decoding framework-both biometric and semantic decoding-to offer neural interpretability in a data-driven manner and deepen our understanding of brain-based visual functionalities. Our iMIND model operates through three core steps: establishing a shared neural representation space across subjects using a ViT-based masked autoencoder, disentangling neural features into complementary subject-specific and object-specific components, and performing dual decoding to support both biometric and semantic classification tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that iMIND achieves state-of-the-art decoding performance with minimal scalability limitations. Furthermore, iMIND empirically generates voxel-object activation fingerprints that reveal object-specific neural patterns and enable investigation of subject-specific variations in attention to identical stimuli. These findings provide a foundation for more interpretable and generalizable subject-invariant neural decoding, advancing our understanding of the voxel semantic selectivity as well as the neural vision processing dynamics.