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Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society

arXiv:2606.04075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant post-training paradigm, enabling large language models (LLMs) to learn from rewards. We observe that societal regulations are structurally similar to reward functions. They define measurable outcomes, thresholds, and…

You Only Train Once: Differentiable Subset Selection for Omics Data

arXiv:2512.17678v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling. However, most existing feature selection approaches either operate as multi-stage pipelines or rely on post…

Stein Kernelized Molecular Dynamics for Active Learning of Interatomic Potentials

arXiv:2606.04100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient and accurate atomistic simulations but depend critically on the quality and diversity of the training data. We introduce Stein kernelized molecular dynamics (SKMD), an enhanced sampling method that…

Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation

arXiv:2602.02405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model’s ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or the existence of a stronger model able to solve the…

Bayesian learning for the stochastic shortest path problem

arXiv:2606.04845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential decision-making problems are often modelled as a Markov decision process (MDP). We focus on the stochastic shortest path (SSP) problem, which is an infinite-horizon undiscounted MDP with absorbing terminal states. We develop a Bayesian…

The Perception-Physics Paradox: Probing Scientific Alignment with TC-Bench

arXiv:2605.24782v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than underlying structural invariants, making even perception-based out-of-distribution accuracy a poor proxy for scientific utility.…