arXiv:2601.05270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems struggle with a fundamental architectural tension: vector indices are optimized for query latency but poorly handle continuous knowledge updates, while data lakes excel at versioning but introduce query latency penalties. We introduce LiveVectorLake, a dual-tier temporal knowledge base architecture that enables real-time semantic search on current knowledge while maintaining complete version history for compliance, auditability, and point-in-time retrieval. The system introduces three core architectural contributions: (1) Content-addressable chunk-level […]

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arXiv:2602.22298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI weather forecasting models predict conventional atmospheric variables but cannot distinguish between cloud microphysical species critical for aviation safety. We introduce AviaSafe, a hierarchical, physics-informed neural forecaster that produces global, six-hourly predictions of these four hydrometeor species for lead times up to 7 days. Our approach addresses the unique challenges of cloud prediction: extreme sparsity, discontinuous distributions, and complex microphysical interactions between species. We integrate the Icing Condition (IC) index from aviation […]

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arXiv:2602.05786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tree-boosting is a widely used machine learning technique for tabular data. However, its out-of-sample accuracy is critically dependent on multiple hyperparameters. In this article, we empirically compare several popular methods for hyperparameter optimization for tree-boosting including random grid search, the tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE), Gaussian-process-based Bayesian optimization (GP-BO), Hyperband, the sequential model-based algorithm configuration (SMAC) method, and deterministic full grid search using $59$ regression and classification data sets. We find that the SMAC […]

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arXiv:2603.02248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table-text retrieval aims to retrieve relevant tables and text to support open-domain question answering. Existing studies use either early or late fusion, but face limitations. Early fusion pre-aligns a table row with its associated passages, forming “stars,” which often include irrelevant contexts and miss query-dependent relationships. Late fusion retrieves individual nodes, dynamically aligning them, but it risks missing relevant contexts. Both approaches also struggle with advanced reasoning tasks, such as column-wise aggregation and […]

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arXiv:2604.16962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating trajectories for synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-equipped aircraft poses significant challenges due to terrain constraints, and the need for straight-flight segments to ensure high-quality imaging. Related works usually focus on trajectory optimization for predefined straight-flight segments that do not adapt to the target visibility, which depends on the 3D terrain and aircraft orientation. In addition, this assumption does not scale well for the multi-target problem, where multiple straight-flight segments that maximize target visibility […]

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arXiv:2601.07957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maize disease classification plays a vital role in mitigating yield losses and ensuring food security. However, the deployment of traditional disease detection models in resource-constrained environments, such as those using smartphones and drones, faces challenges due to high computational costs. To address these challenges, we propose LWMSCNN-SE, a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) that integrates multi-scale feature extraction, depthwise separable convolutions, and squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) attention mechanisms. This novel combination enables the model to […]

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arXiv:2604.07369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional prompting – the use of specific emotional diction in prompt engineering – has shown increasing promise in improving large language model (LLM) performance, truthfulness, and responsibility. However these studies have been limited to single types of positive emotional stimuli and have not considered varying degrees of emotion intensity in their analyses. In this paper, we explore the effects of four distinct emotions – joy, encouragement, anger, and insecurity – in emotional prompting […]

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arXiv:2603.03469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalization in generative modeling is defined as the ability to learn an underlying distribution from a finite dataset and produce novel samples, with evaluation largely driven by held-out performance and perceived sample quality. In practice, training is often stopped at the minimum of the test loss, taken as an operational indicator of generalization. We challenge this viewpoint by identifying a phase of biased generalization during training, in which the model continues to decrease […]

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arXiv:2603.24392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Privacy and algorithmic fairness have become two central issues in modern machine learning. Although each has separately emerged as a rapidly growing research area, their joint effect remains comparatively under-explored. In this paper, we systematically study the joint impact of differential privacy and fairness on classification in a federated setting, where data are distributed across multiple servers. Targeting demographic disparity constrained classification under federated differential privacy, we propose a two-step algorithm, namely FDP-Fair. […]

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