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Second-Order, First-Class: A Composable Stack for Curvature-Aware Training

arXiv:2603.25976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Second-order methods promise improved stability and faster convergence, yet they remain underused due to implementation overhead, tuning brittleness, and the lack of composable APIs. We introduce Somax, a composable Optax-native stack that treats curvature-aware training…

Cascading Bandits With Feedback

arXiv:2511.10938v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motivated by the challenges of edge inference, we study a variant of the cascade bandit model in which each arm corresponds to an inference model with an associated accuracy and error probability. We analyse four…

ReflexSplit: Single Image Reflection Separation via Layer Fusion-Separation

arXiv:2601.17468v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single Image Reflection Separation (SIRS) disentangles mixed images into transmission and reflection layers. Existing methods suffer from transmission-reflection confusion under nonlinear mixing, particularly in deep decoder layers, due to implicit fusion mechanisms and inadequate multi-scale…

EngineAD: A Real-World Vehicle Engine Anomaly Detection Dataset

arXiv:2603.25955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The progress of Anomaly Detection (AD) in safety-critical domains, such as transportation, is severely constrained by the lack of large-scale, real-world benchmarks. To address this, we introduce EngineAD, a novel, multivariate dataset comprising high-resolution sensor…

On the Objective and Feature Weights of Minkowski Weighted k-Means

arXiv:2603.25958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Minkowski weighted k-means (mwk-means) algorithm extends classical k-means by incorporating feature weights and a Minkowski distance. Despite its empirical success, its theoretical properties remain insufficiently understood. We show that the mwk-means objective can be…

Second-Order, First-Class: A Composable Stack for Curvature-Aware Training

arXiv:2603.25976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Second-order methods promise improved stability and faster convergence, yet they remain underused due to implementation overhead, tuning brittleness, and the lack of composable APIs. We introduce Somax, a composable Optax-native stack that treats curvature-aware training…