arXiv:2606. 24903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Few-shot label acquisition lacks a label-free signal for when additional labels cease to improve accuracy: existing stopping criteria either require a held-out validation set (violating the few-shot premise) or rely on theoretically ungrounded heuristics, so we introduce the spectral saturation index $S(K)=\mathrm{erank}(\hat{\Sigma}_W^{(K)})/K$, the exponential spectral entropy of the pooled within-class covariance normalized by per-class support size $K$, which measures the exploration rate per label and falls below a fixed threshold $\tau=0.
arXiv:2606. 24903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deciding when to stop collecting labeled examples is a fundamental but undertheorized problem in applied machine learning.
arXiv:2606. 07596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning often introduces spurious correlations alongside task knowledge, causing systematic failures on underrepresented groups.
arXiv:2607. 02104v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as cheap, scalable judges that compare candidate outputs pairwise.
arXiv:2606. 01443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central difficulty in training Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) is preventing representation collapse.
arXiv:2607. 17136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic computer-use RL is reported in single runs, and those numbers mislead.
arXiv:2606. 09877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM wiki systems compile knowledge into pre-filled KV caches for efficient inference, but assume a static corpus -- an assumption that fails whenever the underlying information landscape evolves.
arXiv:2606. 04161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different predictors often excel on different inputs, so picking the best one per instance promises higher accuracy than committing to a single model.
arXiv:2608. 08103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smooth acyclicity constraints answer whether a weighted support is a DAG, whereas structure learning asks which support change should be made.
arXiv:2608. 16963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning analytics often treats unsupervised clusters of intelligent tutoring system (ITS) logs as learner types that should predict learning.
arXiv:2607. 12735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Companion work showed the grokking delay is causally the time to form task-structured representations, injectable via a contrastive prior.
arXiv:2607. 28685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-safety benchmarks measure different behaviors, and their scores get quoted interchangeably as an agent's safety.
arXiv:2605. 31191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on CIFAR-10.