AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Gate-Zero Growth: A Geometric Framework for Function-Preserving Continual Learning

Researchers propose 'gate-zero growth,' a geometric framework for continual learning that minimizes forgetting in Transformers.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Public Preferences and Regulatory Options

A study across seven countries reveals that citizens generally prefer safety and public governance over innovation and private regulation for AI.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points: A Longitudinal Multimodal Study of Human-AI Interaction

A longitudinal study examines how memory-augmented AI agents form relational bonds with humans through self-disclosure and turning points.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Auditing Fairness-Privacy Trade-offs: Subpopulation-Level Effects of Fairness-Enhancing Algorithms

Research on the trade-offs between fairness-enhancing algorithms and privacy leakage at the subpopulation level in ML models.

Cybersecurity arXiv cs.AI

Bad Memory: Evaluating Prompt Injection Risks from Memory in Agentic Systems

Evaluation of prompt injection risks in agentic systems that use persistent memory, showing that planted payloads can affect future sessions.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Angular Gaussian Supervised Contrastive Learning for Long-Tailed Electrocardiogram Arrhythmia Diagnosis

Introduction of AG-SCL, a contrastive learning framework to improve arrhythmia diagnosis in ECGs with long-tailed label distributions.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Minikotlin

Minikotlin is a project likely focused on a minimal implementation or subset of the Kotlin language.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud

Manufact (YC S25) is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to develop their MCP cloud.

Other Hacker News

After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch

A user shares their positive experience with the Pebble Time 2 smartwatch, suggesting it remains a superior choice compared to modern alternatives.

Software Engineering The Verge

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

The Verge reports that Windows 11 struggles to perform adequately on laptops with only 8GB of RAM, highlighting ongoing memory inefficiency.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Multi-Scale ViT Inference with Habitat-Fit Priors and kNN Retrieval for Multi-Species Plant Identification

Researchers developed a plant identification pipeline using DINOv2 ViT-L/14 and FAISS kNN retrieval, achieving third place in the PlantCLEF 2026 challenge.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

VTM-Nav: Hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory for Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation

VTM-Nav introduces a hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory framework for training-free, cross-episode object-goal navigation in indoor environments.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Controlled Reformulation Testing for Logical Consistency in Large Language Models

CRTBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate the logical consistency of LLMs across controlled reformulations of the same question.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

SafeRelBench: A Spatial-Relation-Aware Benchmark for Process-Level Safety in VLM-Driven Embodied Agents

SafeRelBench is a spatial-relation-aware benchmark for evaluating process-level safety in VLM-driven embodied agents in household settings.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models

Research shows that distilling reasoning from LLMs using answer-conditioned chains of thought leads to 'backward rationalization' and degrades verifiable reasoning accuracy.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A Modern Multimodal Assistant on a 6 GB 2011 GPU: Stage-Validated, All-GPU CUDA Inference for Fermi

A technical report demonstrates running the MiniCPM-V-4.6 multimodal assistant entirely on a 2011 NVIDIA Fermi GPU through optimized CUDA kernels and 8-bit quantization.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

Apple is reportedly sending legal letters to former employees who joined OpenAI, potentially signaling a legal battle over talent acquisition and trade secrets.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts

Trump Media is launching a paid API for Truth Social to provide Wall Street firms with fast access to market-moving posts.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Decision Making Needs Uncertainty Quantification [Lecture Notes]

A set of lecture notes exploring the theoretical link between decision-making objectives, uncertainty representation, and optimal agent performance.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ConFlow: Constraints-Guided Learning with Flow Matching for Motion Generation

ConFlow introduces a constraint-guided flow matching framework for robot motion generation that integrates constraints directly into the training objective.