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Predicting transmembrane protein topology from 3D structure using graph neural networks

Researchers have developed an approach for predicting the topology of transmembrane proteins using the SchNet graph neural network. The model was trained on DeepTMHMM data with 5-fold cross-validation, uses atom-level embeddings, and demonstrated potential for topology predictions without pretrained weights.

arXiv cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence) Original source ↗
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Training navigation models for microbots in under 10 minutes

Researchers have developed a framework for training navigation models for microbots in under 10 minutes instead of hours. A vectorized simulator with 10,000+ environments achieves 190,000 transitions per second. A 33.7% reduction in action variance and a +2.1% increase in obstacle clearance were achieved. Code and data are public.

Nature Machine Intelligence Original source ↗
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GenFocal: a framework for regional climate risk models from coarse projections

A research team writing in Nature Machine Intelligence presents GenFocal, an AI framework for generating detailed regional weather forecasts from coarse climate models. The tool does not require paired training data and increases the accuracy of forecasts for complex phenomena such as heat waves and tropical cyclones.

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Improved convergence in federated variational optimization

The paper improves theoretical guarantees for federated optimization of stochastic variational inequalities. The authors analyze the Local Extra SGD algorithm and propose a new algorithm, LIPPAX, with better convergence in regimes with a bounded Hessian and operator. No practical released product.

Apple Machine Learning Research Original source ↗
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Research: Voters struggle to navigate political deepfakes

A meta-analysis of 19 studies and a proprietary experiment with 411 Australian participants show: 75% of people correctly identify deepfakes, but 47% fail on authenticity — 29% label a real video as fake. Deepfakes reduce trust in newspapers and democratic institutions.

The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence Original source ↗
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In AI model development: AI agents propose, humans decide – an analysis by Fudan University

Fudan University studied the development of the Atria Dawn Preview model (744B parameters, MoE). AI agents were involved in 96.5% of tasks, but humans made the decisions in 85.5% of cases regarding method and 93.4% regarding goals. A third of AI-assisted tasks would not have been attempted at all without agents.

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Nvidia optimizes coding agents with SoL-Pi system, cutting token usage in half

Nvidia SoL-Pi automates optimization of the harness (control layer) of coding agents and reduces token usage by 50 percent versus Codex and 54 percent versus Claude Code, without loss of performance. A search over 152 directions across 535 environments generated 3000 runs; the method separates search from evaluation in order to prevent…

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Study: AI does not yet increase unemployment among new graduates

CESifo research (Fairlie, Wu) finds no evidence of a decline in employment of new graduates due to AI, in contrast to the Stanford study. The authors focused on recent graduates because the AI impact may first show up as a reduction in hiring. They mention an increase in AI spending and the use of the ChatGPT Enterprise product for…

Ars Technica (AI) Original source ↗
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Learning relationships between tasks in multi-task models

The authors propose a framework for learning cross-task relationships in multi-task models. Application to YouTube recommendation systems (Notifications, Homepage, Watch Next) shows improvements in accuracy and user satisfaction metrics.

arXiv cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence) Original source ↗
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CataOPD method for improving reasoning in Large Language Models

A research paper on arXiv presents the CataOPD method, combining reinforcement learning and real-time distillation, which improves LLMs' ability to solve complex tasks. The method achieves better results on out-of-distribution tests, and the code is publicly available.

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) Original source ↗
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Research on domain-adapted retrieval-augmented generation for compliance questions in financial services

A research preprint describes a pipeline for automated response to compliance questions using smaller language models. A LegalBERT-based retriever increased Recall@10 on the ObliQA benchmark from 0.256 to 0.774. RAFT-LoRA fine-tuning improved answer quality, but the models transfer poorly to other legal…

arXiv cs.CL (Computation and Language / NLP) Original source ↗
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Multimodal Pistis models with IDRL post-training

The technical report introduces the Pistis family of models (27B and 9B parameters) built on Qwen3.6/3.5. The new IDRL (Interleaved Distillation and Reinforcement Learning) approach combines distillation and reinforcement learning in a single training loop. Two special variants: Pistis-Thinking for multimodal reasoning…

arXiv cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence) Original source ↗
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Study on the Stability and Fidelity of Explanations in Knowledge Tracing

A study comparing Knowledge Tracing models XGBoost+TreeSHAP (AUC 0.777–0.786) with deep models DKT, SAKT, AKT, SimpleKT. On identical data, they achieved the same accuracy (0.697–0.720); the difference in accuracy stemmed from the available information, not from the model. TreeSHAP explanations were stable (Spearman…

arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) Original source ↗
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Benchmark of LLM argumentative behavior: defense against ad hominem attacks

The study benchmarks the ability of LLMs to respond to ad hominem attacks in dialogues. An analysis of a corpus of presidential debates shows that LLMs focus on logical defenses and cannot strategically employ ethical counterattacks. Safety fine-tuning limits their argumentative flexibility.

arXiv cs.CL (Computation and Language / NLP) Original source ↗