arXiv:2605. 15995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning latent representations from complex data is central to modern machine learning, spanning temporal, multimodal, and partially observed systems.
By Gwenol\'e Quellec
HALO introduces a hyperspherical VAE to constrain continuous latent representations to a fixed‑radius shell, stabilizing numerical fluctuations. It then employs a masked autoregressive model that balances parallel decoding with temporal correlation learning, reducing inference steps and improving stability. Experiments show HALO achieves state‑of‑the‑art generation performance with significantly better inference efficiency compared to existing baselines.
By Chunyi Hou, Xiangfei Qiu, Hanyin Cheng, Yutong Li, Bin Yang
arXiv:2606. 02138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Out of distribution (OOD) events in multivariate time series forecasting are rare but often dominate real world risk, making average case forecasting insufficient for reliable deployment.
By Xudong Zhang, Jierui Lei, Jiacheng Li, Lingdong Shen, Jian Cui, Haina Tang
arXiv:2606. 03184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial forecasting is difficult due to low signal-to-noise ratios, latent factors, heavy tails, regime shifts, and jumps.
By Jiaze Sun, Kelvin J. L. Koa, Ruiyang Ni, Yize Liu, Haonan Chen, Ke-Wei Huang
arXiv:2606. 02664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent state-space models are widely used to study partially observed dynamical systems, yet most formulations assume that process variability is independent of latent-state position.
By Imani Beckett
arXiv:2512. 11415v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We show that nonequilibrium dynamics can play a constructive role in unsupervised machine learning by inducing the spontaneous emergence of latent-state cycles.
By Marco Baiesi, Alberto Rosso
arXiv:2606. 20560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM reasoning transparency is a critical affordance for understanding model decisions, mitigating misuse and misalignment, and debugging surprising model behaviors.
By Joshua Engels, Callum McDougall, Bilal Chughtai, Janos Kramar, Senthoran Rajamanoharan, Cindy Wu, Arthur Conmy, Asic Q Chen, Jean Tarbouriech, Min Ma, Brendan O'Donoghue, Jo\~ao Gabriel Lopes de Oliveira, Rohin Shah, Neel Nanda
The paper studies when joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) can recover underlying causal states from high‑dimensional observations. It introduces a latent variable model where observations arise from causal states with action‑conditioned dynamics, and proposes an information‑theoretic objective that maximizes conditional likelihood while preserving state entropy. The authors prove identifiability conditions—particularly sufficient action‑induced variation—and instantiate the objective as an action‑modulated Gaussian additive‑noise model (A‑JEPA), demonstrating theoretical and empirical success in synthetic and visual benchmarks.
By Yuhang Liu, Zhuo Huang, Javen Qinfeng Shi
arXiv:2607. 00196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many scientific systems exhibit uncertainty from stochastic forcing, unresolved degrees of freedom, or imperfect observations, making reliable surrogate forecasting fundamentally distributional rather than pointwise.
By Bharat Srikishan, Javier E. Santos, Nikhil Muralidhar, Charles D. Young
arXiv:2511. 05963v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers replace recurrence with a memory that grows with sequence length and self-attention that enables ad-hoc lookups over past tokens.
By Jayden Teoh, Manan Tomar, Kwangjun Ahn, Edward S. Hu, Tim Pearce, Pratyusha Sharma, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Riashat Islam, Alex Lamb, John Langford
arXiv:2606. 09936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models are now built on substantially different computational substrates.
By Bhavith Chandra Challagundla, Sanskar Pandey, Param Thakkar, Rishikesh Mallagundla, Yugandhar Reddy Gogireddy, Wenhao Lu, Hindol Roy Choudhury, Shravani Challagundla, Mohamed Deraz Nasr, Spursh Deshpande
arXiv:2606. 27681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models in partially observed environments rely on latent representations that summarize interaction history, but in many modern LLM-based architectures predictive performance fails to reflect representation quality due to history bypass, rendering the latent state unidentifiable.
By Xiang Gao, Kaiwen Dong, Yuguang Yao, Padmaja Jonnalagedda, Kamalika Das