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Evaluating AI Investment Strategies

arXiv:2606.08791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of auditing a black-box algorithmic decision-maker from observable inputs and outputs alone. Our main result is an exact decomposition: under precisely characterized conditions, the cumulative emph{regret} of a dynamic policy equals…

VATS: Exploiting Implicit Authority in Error-Path Injection via Systematic Mutation

arXiv:2606.07992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes tool-calling for autonomous agents, it introduces a critical, unexamined attack surface: the error-handling loop. We hypothesize that tool error messages possess implicit authority, triggering corrective reasoning modes that…

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509.12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.e., correctly predicted depth-matches into training) awareness and Distance-to-training-distribution awareness to the existing output…

Rethinking Local Learning: A Cheaper and Faster Recipe for LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2605.04913v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM post-training typically propagates task gradients through the full depth of the model. Although this end-to-end structure is simple and general, it couples task adaptation to full-depth activation storage, long-range backward dependencies and direct task-gradient…

From A to B to A: Palindromic Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Data

arXiv:2606.08843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a voice conversion (VC) framework that utilizes K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) retrieval over WavLM representations to align non-parallel source and target speech, constructing synthetic training pairs for supervised learning. The retrieved segments serve as…

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605.18643v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner. Existing dynamic MoE methods usually rely on pre-training from…