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Adaptive Pluralistic Alignment: A pipeline for dynamic artificial democracy
Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prevailing alignment methods target a fixed set of preferences and therefore risk forcing value lock-in as societal norms evolve over time. We introduce Adaptive Pluralistic Alignment (APA), a modular pipeline for updating pluralistically aligned AI systems to track evolving values and avoid value lock-in without repeating costly pretraining or large-scale data collection. APA has three stages: (1) learning compact personalized reward models via low-rank...
Two former Syrian officials accused of torture during al-Assad era go on trial in Austria
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Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee, ruling it an unconstitutional tax
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Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee, ruling it an unconstitutional tax
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 14-20 includes Paul McCartney, Paula Abdul and Ice Cube
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DSAA: Dual-Stage Attribute Activation for Fine-grained Open Vocabulary Detection
arXiv:2605.18023v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) models break the limitations of closed-set detection, enabling the identification of unseen categories through natural language prompts. However, they exhibit notable limitations in fine-grained detection tasks involving attributes like color, material, and texture. We attribute this performance bottleneck in OVD models to a core issue: when category signals dominate, OVD models tend to marginalize...
Have People Over!
The nation’s welcome mats have been doing a lot less welcoming lately. Although Americans have been spending much more time at home in recent years—an hour and 39 minutes more a day in 2022 than in 2003—they aren’t inviting other people in. The percentage of people who hosted or attended a social event on an average day has fallen by 50 percent over the past couple of decades.