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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.  In...
A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in...
When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including...
arXiv:2604.05136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps constitute a neuro-symbolic paradigm for modeling complex dynamic systems, widely adopted for their inherent interpretability and recurrent inference capabilities. However, the standard FCM formulation, characterized by scalar...
arXiv:2604.05142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, in which the traits of AI systems are shaped by the success of earlier AIs in designing and propagating their...
arXiv:2604.05157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) leverage large language models to execute GUI operations on desktop environments, yet they generate actions without evaluating action quality, leading to irreversible errors that cascade through subsequent steps. We propose...
arXiv:2604.05162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are pivotal for next-generation smart radio environments, yet their practical deployment is severely bottlenecked by the intractable computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation. To...
arXiv:2604.05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has a potential to engineer smart radio environments for next-generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. However, the prohibitive computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI) estimation and the...
arXiv:2604.06227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate short-term forecasting of agricultural commodity prices is critical for food security planning and smallholder income stabilisation in developing economies, yet machine-learning-ready datasets for this purpose remain scarce in South Asia....
arXiv:2604.06228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce probabilistic language tries (PLTs), a unified representation that makes explicit the prefix structure implicitly defined by any generative model over sequences. By assigning to each outgoing edge the conditional probability of the...
arXiv:2604.06253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual code generation is critical in enterprise environments where multiple programming languages coexist. However, fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) individually for each language is computationally prohibitive. This paper investigates...
arXiv:2604.06256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training dynamics during grokking concentrate along a small number of dominant update directions -- the spectral edge -- which reliably distinguishes grokking from non-grokking regimes. We show that standard mechanistic interpretability tools (head...
arXiv:2604.06260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling investigates whether a fixed diffusion language model (DLM) can generate better outputs when given more inference compute, without additional training. However, naive best-of-$K$ sampling is fundamentally limited because it...
arXiv:2604.06171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communications networks now form the backbone of our digital world, with fast and reliable connectivity. However, even with appropriate redundancy and failover mechanisms, it is difficult to guarantee "five 9s" (99.999 %) reliability, requiring rapid...
arXiv:2604.06192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work uses entropy-based signals at multiple representation levels to study reasoning in large language models, but the field remains largely empirical. A central unresolved puzzle is why internal entropy dynamics, defined under the predictive...
arXiv:2604.06193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression is underdiagnosed in primary care, yet timely identification remains critical. Recorded clinical encounters, increasingly common with digital scribing technologies, present an opportunity to detect depression from naturalistic dialogue. We...
arXiv:2604.06195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models often produce unsupported claims. We frame this as a misclassification error at the output boundary, where internally generated completions are emitted as if they were grounded in evidence. This motivates a composite intervention...
arXiv:2604.06196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three-way logical question answering (QA) assigns $True/False/Unknown$ to a hypothesis $H$ given a premise set $S$. While modern large language models (LLMs) can be accurate on isolated examples, we identify two recurring failure modes in 3-way logic...
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable  As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the...
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