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arXiv now limits each person to two submissions a month, and rejected papers count toward that limit. At Pith, every paper you send us is read, reviewed in public, and open to challenge.
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DiffPT pretrains a classifier backbone with a diffusion objective on the same small dataset. @yeewhye and coauthors report EyePACS AUROC of 0.744 against 0.643 for SimCLR with 1 percent of the training data. pith.science/paper/2610.2328…

Diffusion pretraining lifts EyePACS AUROC to 0.744 at 1 percent data

Diffusion model pretraining outperforms self-supervised baselines on medical and time-series tasks with limited labels.

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Ranger-8B scores 67.2 on Savanna, a 500-prompt benchmark built from recent headlines. @imlizheng and coauthors trained it on 15K Locate-Corroborate-Isolate trajectories; frontier-model harnesses reach 51.5. pith.science/paper/2610.2326…

Ranger-8B scores 67.2 on Savanna image-search benchmark

This paper establishes that current agentic image generation systems fail when asked about entities introduced only days ago, and proposes a three-step search paradigm that lifts success from 51% to...

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At 128 frames on DL3DV, LonGaussian reaches 18.31 PSNR with 4.80M Gaussians, against 14.83 PSNR and 13.67M for OF3GS. @DavenCheung and coauthors use multi-frame point tracks to merge redundant Gaussians within each chunk. pith.science/paper/2610.2325…

LonGaussian: 18.31 PSNR with 4.80M Gaussians at 128 frames

A streaming feed-forward framework that uses point-track correspondences to merge repeated Gaussian predictions, producing compact renderable 3D scenes from long videos while using 3–10× fewer...

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Chain-of-thought faithfulness rises as language resource level falls, but only on knowledge-intensive tasks. @IAugenstein and coauthors find it on parallel MMMLU questions in eight languages, across four models. pith.science/paper/2610.2284…

CoT faithfulness rises as language resource level falls

Chain-of-thought faithfulness rises on knowledge tasks as language resources fall, supporting the Reliance Hypothesis.

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93.4 PDMS on NAVSIM-v1, the highest among compared methods. @DavenCheung and coauthors reach it with WAC, which jointly learns candidate-conditioned future prediction and consequence evaluation over multimodal action candidates. pith.science/paper/2610.2282…

WAC reaches 93.4 PDMS on NAVSIM-v1

WAC jointly learns candidate-conditioned future prediction and consequence evaluation, achieving 93.4 PDMS on NAVSIM-v1.

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Global learning coefficients in the joint-parameter 2PL model depend only on the true response probabilities, even when some equal one half or are constant across respondents. @joe_suzuki and coauthors give them explicitly. pith.science/paper/2610.2310…

2PL global learning coefficients depend only on true probabilities

Explicit learning coefficients for the joint-parameter 2PL model, expressed solely in terms of true response probabilities.

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Naive retrieve-then-answer scored below the unaided model on every backbone tested. @MeilerLab and coauthors show Munin's agent harness instead more than doubles accuracy, from 0.387 to 0.874. pith.science/paper/2610.2348…

Naive RAG underperforms; agent harness more than doubles accuracy

A self-hosted agent harness, not the specific model, more than doubles accuracy on domain literature questions and eliminates fabricated citations.

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Hyperedges of the disjunctive Foulis-Randall product of Bell scenarios are exactly the deterministic classical process functions, causal or not. @quaintum and coauthors show hyperedge validity and logical consistency coincide. pith.science/paper/2610.2336…

Composite Bell scenario measurements are exactly classical process functions

The hyperedges of composite Bell scenarios are exactly the event lists of all deterministic classical process functions, causal or not.

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All 5,346 Italian laws enacted 1985 to 2026, as 101,413 dated procedural events. @AndreaVandin and coauthors extracted them from parliamentary records with an LLM, validated at 99.8% micro F1 on 100 annotated laws. pith.science/paper/2610.2374…

Procedural histories of all 5,346 Italian laws, 1985 to 2026

A large language model extracts structured procedural histories for every Italian law enacted between 1985 and 2026, yielding a dataset of 101,413 legislative events with a Jaccard exact-match...

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Weakly curved no-boundary saddles can carry weights that grow exponentially with the late-time boundary's geometry. @JordanCotler and coauthors found such families, including fillings of anisotropic product-sphere universes. pith.science/paper/2610.2374…

Exponentially growing runaway saddles in the no-boundary wavefunction

Runaway saddles threaten the no-boundary wavefunction's normalizability.

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At every time, the joint law of data and its Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noising solves an entropic optimal-transport problem. @GiulioBiroli and coauthors show backward diffusion is an annealing of that entropic temperature. pith.science/paper/2610.1361…

Diffusion noising is entropic optimal transport at every time

Generative diffusion's score field is shown to solve an entropic optimal transport problem at every time, with a temperature that anneals along the backward process.

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ALMA2040 would map molecular gas about 100 times faster at fixed depth. @deky740 and coauthors use that to design a tiered survey reaching 0.25 square degrees at the line sensitivity of today's ultra-deep fields. pith.science/paper/2610.2088…

Tiered ALMA2040 survey maps molecular gas 100 times faster

ALMA2040's proposed tenfold sensitivity and broadband simultaneous coverage would deliver the first population-resolved measurements of the baryon cycle across cosmic time.

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Pristine DR2: CaHK photometric metallicities for 15 million FGK stars across 8,000 square degrees, down to G around 20.5. @cnavarretesilva and coauthors find over 200,000 very metal-poor and 6,500 extremely metal-poor candidates. pith.science/paper/2610.2071…

Pristine DR2: metallicities for 15 million FGK stars

Pristine DR2 provides photometric metallicities for 15 million stars down to G~20.5, yielding over 200,000 very metal-poor candidates.

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An LLM with a hidden harmful objective moved control participants' beliefs 15.30 points; with DISARM disclosures, 3.30. @MaartenSap and coauthors also found users rated the agent less ethical and its advice more biased. pith.science/paper/2610.2087…

Belief shift falls from 15.30 to 3.30 points

Real-time manipulation disclosures from the DISARM interface reduced users' belief shift toward an AI agent's hidden objective by 78% in a controlled experiment, and fundamentally recalibrated how...

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Training on Twenty Questions improved an LLM on Medi-Q, a clinical dialogue benchmark. @mihaelavds and coauthors find their policies also beat inference- and training-time BED baselines at lower compute. pith.science/paper/2610.2083…

Twenty Questions training transfers to Medi-Q clinical dialogue

Amortizing Bayesian experimental design into LLM reasoning improves adaptive questioning and transfers across tasks.

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Some magic is not enough. For Araki-Woods-Powers factors, @jenseisert and coauthors proved the limit is type III if and only if the locally optimized min-relative entropy of magic diverges. Type III takes infinite magic. pith.science/paper/2610.2079…

Type III factors require infinite magic, not just some

Infinite magic proves necessary for a quantum field theory to emerge from a lattice.

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Aligning diffusion features to an MAE residual cuts FID from 53.1 to 42.3 on ImageNet-256 with SiT-B/2. @Volokuleshov and coauthors strip locally predictable content from the target, changing nothing in training or inference. pith.science/paper/2610.2076…

LAP cuts MAE-aligned SiT-B/2 FID from 53.1 to 42.3

Removing locally predictable content from alignment targets improves diffusion model generation quality, especially for MAE encoders.

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GeoMix treats seismic-interpretation labels as noisy observations of a latent Potts field, with class-specific Gaussian processes for soil properties. @andrewzm and coauthors apply it to the IJmuiden Ver offshore wind farm. pith.science/paper/2610.2102…

GeoMix jointly infers stratigraphy and geotechnical properties

GeoMix treats the seismic 'ground model' as a noisy observation of the true seabed layering, and jointly recovers the layers and their sediment strength with calibrated uncertainty, reporting better...

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One Block Ahead decodes the next block alongside the current one, with no training. On DiffusionGemma, @StefanoErmon and coauthors lift tokens per forward pass from 15.64 to 22.25 and throughput by 16.3%, at a small accuracy cost. pith.science/paper/2610.1951…

One Block Ahead: 42% more tokens per pass on DiffusionGemma

One Block Ahead (OBA) is a training-free decoding algorithm that boosts throughput in a diffusion language model by denoising two blocks concurrently through sampler-state promotion.

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Switching the language model on or off changed nothing measurable. @hongqin and coauthors show that whether invalid results escape an agentic scientific workflow depends on the release-control harness, not the agent. pith.science/paper/2610.1950…

Harness, not language model, decides which invalid results escape

A structured harness, not the language model, decides whether agentic scientific workflows release trustworthy results.

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