arXiv:2608. 09266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical world models commonly learn from multimodal recordings synchronized onto a fixed-rate grid.
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The paper investigates how to evaluate bounded model updates for ICU prediction models using the MIMIC‑IV database. After auditing the data for recording artifacts and cleaning it, the authors compare a bounded update that retrains only treatment‑context and fusion parameters with full fine‑tuning across two model families and two targets, finding that bounded updates are non‑inferior or superior in most cases but depend on target, model family, and learning‑rate tuning. The study also shows that audits should precede update evaluation and that the update boundary should be chosen per target.
arXiv:2607. 21922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical irregular multivariate time series are shaped not only by physiological dynamics but also by the measurement process that determines when and what to observe.
arXiv:2608. 03628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive conformal prediction can recover clinically important heartbeat classes missed by a point classifier, but delayed feedback makes its decisions sensitive to event order.
The paper introduces instruction duplication, a simple inference‑time control that repeats the procedural instruction without retraining or decoding changes. Across seven instruction‑tuned models and 16,800 scheduled generations, duplicating the instruction improves deterministic All‑8 diagnostic‑response success from 90.22% to 93.17% and reduces failures by 30.2%. In downstream Answer Engineering scenarios, duplication further boosts success rates, demonstrating its practical impact on systems that rely on the generated trajectory.
arXiv:2607. 10466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Survival models can model time-to-event outcomes using partially observed data.
The paper investigates the reliability of language‑model judges used as measurement instruments on shared endpoints. Through two preregistered audits of 52,988 requests, the authors found that repeat rankings and byte‑identical replays fell far short of required thresholds, revealing significant instability. They identify three mechanisms—label‑to‑meaning bias, candidate gaps below the noise floor, and input permutation noise—that explain the gap, and propose a snapshot‑identity ladder, design rules, and a reporting checklist to mitigate such failures.