arXiv Machine Learning

A Geometric Lens on Physics-Aligned Data Compression

arXiv:2606. 03279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In AI for Science, physics-informed losses are increasingly used to train learned compressors for scientific data, but their rate-distortion implications remain poorly understood.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

ScatterPrism: convergence for generative simulation and inverse problems in particle and nuclear physics

arXiv:2604. 01313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity simulations and complex inverse problems, such as detector modeling and unfolding, are computationally intensive bottlenecks across subatomic physics, yet essential for accurate physical interpretation.

By Zeyu Xia, Tyler Kim, Trevor Reed, Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Adam Szczepaniak
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

How Neural Losses Shape VAE Latents

arXiv:2606. 00635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern VAEs are rarely trained with the pointwise likelihood implied by the standard $\beta$-VAE objective.

By Giorgio Strano, Luca Cerovaz, Michele Mancusi, Tommaso Mencattini, Emanuele Rodol\`a
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

The Perception-Physics Paradox: Probing Scientific Alignment with TC-Bench

arXiv:2605. 24782v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than underlying structural invariants, making even perception-based out-of-distribution accuracy a poor proxy for scientific utility.

By Dingling Yao, Andrea Polesello, Adeel Pervez, Caroline Muller, Francesco Locatello