arXiv:2208.12113v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the absence of explicit or tractable likelihoods, Bayesians often resort to approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) for inference. Our work bridges ABC with deep neural implicit samplers based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and adversarial variational Bayes. Both ABC and GANs compare aspects of observed and fake data to simulate from posteriors and likelihoods, respectively. We develop a Bayesian GAN (B-GAN) sampler that directly targets the posterior by solving an adversarial optimization problem. […]

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arXiv:2601.15481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergency Department overcrowding is a critical issue that compromises patient safety and operational efficiency, necessitating accurate demand forecasting for effective resource allocation. This study evaluates and compares three distinct predictive models: Seasonal AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average with eXogenous regressors (SARIMAX), EXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for forecasting daily ED arrivals over a seven-day horizon. Utilizing data from an Australian tertiary referral hospital spanning January 2017 to December 2021, […]

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arXiv:2601.03273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in daily life, the urgent need for safer moderation systems, distinguishing between naive from harmful requests while upholding appropriate censorship boundaries, has never been greater. While existing LLMs can detect harmful or unsafe content, they often struggle with nuanced cases such as implicit offensiveness, subtle gender and racial biases, and jailbreak prompts, due to the subjective and context-dependent nature of these issues. Furthermore, their heavy […]

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arXiv:2602.15886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In some surgical operations targeting the spine, it is required to drill cavities in the vertebrae for the insertion of pedicle screws. A new mechanical architecture is proposed for this application. It is based on an augmented version of the full translational R-CUBE mechanism, with improved linkages to implement additional rotational motion. Using this concept, a mechanism presented with a 3T2R motion that is required for the manipulation of the surgical drill. It […]

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LLMs are eating specialty skills. There will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as the LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage. Will this lead to a greater recognition of the role of Expert Generalists? Or will the ability of LLMs to write lots of code mean they code around the silos rather than eliminating them? — Martin Fowler, tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat, via HN) Tags: […]

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Software development has undergone a significant transformation over the last 20 years, transitioning away from the traditional method of manual coding and moving toward AI-assisted programming and collaborative version control, or AI copilots that provide code snippet suggestions and significantly increase productivity. Agentic coding in 2026 is expected to be fully developed and available to all development environments, providing the basis for the next phase of advancement in AI-assisted software development. Traditional AI coding tools, which required significant […]

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arXiv:2602.07006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shoe print evidence recovered from crime scenes plays a key role in forensic investigations. By examining shoe prints, investigators can determine details of the footwear worn by suspects. However, establishing that a suspect’s shoes match the make and model of a crime scene print may not be sufficient. Typically, thousands of shoes of the same size, make, and model are manufactured, any of which could be responsible for the print. Accordingly, a popular […]

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The inability to communicate poses a major challenge to coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Prior work has explored correlating local policies via shared randomness, sometimes in the form of a correlation device, as a mechanism to assist in decentralized decision-making. In contrast, this work introduces the first framework for training MARL agents to exploit shared quantum entanglement as a coordination resource, which permits a larger class of communication-free correlated policies than shared randomness alone. This is motivated […]

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In the modern microservice environment, library dependencies for inter-system communication have become bloated, and conflicts and complications during build and operation have become problems. In particular, in the conventional communication architecture that depends on the MySQL database, the multi-layer dependencies included in texttt{libmysqlclient} restrict the flexibility of system design. In this study, a replication-protocol-compatible patch was applied to the lightweight MySQL client library Trilogy, and a loosely coupled, low-footprint IPC library connecting the control plane and the data […]

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