GAP

Age gaps, swag gaps and Claude gaps – are they really such a big deal in relationships?

The internet is making everything into a ‘relationship gap’ by seizing on any difference between two dating humansIt started with the age gap. Can a 40-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman truly get along? That was once a question answered with a resounding “yes” by creepy English professors or moustached indie film-makers with a questionable grasp on the meaning of Lolita.

Gap-K%: Measuring Top-1 Prediction Gap for Detecting Pretraining Data

Announce Type: replace Abstract: The opacity of massive pretraining corpora in Large Language Models (LLMs) raises significant privacy and copyright concerns, making pretraining data detection a critical challenge. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically rely on token likelihoods, yet they often overlook the gap between the target token and the model's top-1 prediction, as well as local correlations between adjacent tokens. In this work, we propose Gap-K%, a novel pretraining data...

Diphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap | Donna Ah Chee

Diphtheria is a disease of poverty that has no place in modern Australia. When we talk about Closing the Gap, this is the gap | Donna Ah Chee

For those of us working in Aboriginal health, the outbreak doesn’t come as a surprise. We must invest in housing that keeps remote communities safeThe diphtheria outbreak should shock Australia. Not simply because a disease once considered virtually eradicated has returned, but because of where it is spreading and why.More than 220 cases have been recorded in 2026, primarily across the Northern Territory and northern Australia.

Uncovering Competency Gaps in Large Language Models and Their Benchmarks

arXiv:2512.20638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The evaluation of large language models relies heavily on standardized benchmarks. These benchmarks provide useful aggregated metrics, but can obscure (i) particular sub-areas where the models are weak ("model gaps") and (ii) imbalanced coverage in the benchmarks themselves ("benchmark gaps"). To automatically uncover both types of gaps, we propose a simple new method using concept activations from sparse autoencoders, to identify...

The Sim-to-Real Gap of Foundation Model Agents: A Unified MDP Perspective

arXiv:2606.07017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation model agents are increasingly deployed for real-world decision-making, but suffer from the sim-to-real gap. While robotics and classical control have mature frameworks to address this gap, the foundation model community is treating agent robustness as an entirely novel phenomenon. Our paper proposes formalizing the foundation model agent evaluation and training gap as a classical sim-to-real problem structured entirely around the...

'My daughter was left in a coma after horror gap year scooter crash in India'

'My daughter was left in a coma after horror gap year scooter crash in India' Olivia North, 21, from Aberystwyth suffered serious brain injuries in a scooter crash in Goa, India, during her gap year - she was left in a coma and cannot fly home A university student from Aberystwyth sustained severe brain injuries in a terrifying scooter accident during her gap year in India, just days before she was due to return home. Olivia North is believed to have struck a pothole and was left unable to...

Could Russia hit northern Europe if it gained control of Arctic’s Bear Gap?

Could Russia hit northern Europe if it gained control of Arctic’s Bear Gap? Norwegian defence minister warns Russia could pose a grave risk and must not be allowed to control the corridor. A strategically important stretch of Arctic Ocean, known as the Bear Gap, has become the latest focus of concerns about Russia’s military ambitions in the far north.

Glittering star cluster image reveals missing patch of stars: 'We were not looking for the gap, but we found it'

Glittering star cluster image reveals missing patch of stars: 'We were not looking for the gap, but we found it' The new view captures an irregularity in how stars are distributed within NGC 6397. A gorgeous new portrait of an ancient star cluster reveals an unexpected imperfection: a visible gap in the brightness of its stars. The stunning image, taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope, captures NGC 6397 — one of the closest globular clusters to Earth.

Reading, Not Thinking: Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap When Text Becomes Pixels in Multimodal LLMs

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematically diagnose this "modality gap" by evaluating seven MLLMs across seven benchmarks in five input modes, spanning both synthetically rendered text and realistic document images from arXiv PDFs to Wikipedia pages. We find that the gap is highly sensitive to rendering choices such as...