Weakness Mining

Chris Bowen says he has made it ‘crystal clear’ to BHP and other big polluters they must cut emissions onsite

Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves

arXiv:2606.09498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of LLM-based agents is jointly shaped by their base models and the harnesses that mediate their interaction with the environment. Because different models exhibit distinct behaviors, effective harness design is inherently model-specific. Yet agent harnesses are still largely engineered by human experts, a paradigm that scales poorly as modern LLMs become increasingly diverse and rapidly evolving.

Australian housing market stalls in May

National home values flatline in May for the first time since January 2025 Mon 1 Jun 2026 at 4:57am In short: Australia's housing market stalled in May, with national home values flat after months of slowing growth. The weakness was led by Sydney and Melbourne, where values fell 0.9 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively, according to Cotality data. While the Reserve Bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its June 15-16 meeting, buyers remain highly sensitive to any signs...

Australia's first-quarter economic growth misses estimates on severe weather, weak demand

Australia's economy expanded less than expected in the first quarter, as subdued household spending, a pullback in government consumption and severe weather disruptions to mining and exports weighed on growth. The country's GDP expanded 2.5% in the first three months this year, compared to a year earlier, missing economists' expectations for a 2.6% growth, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, Australia's GDP grew 0.3% compared with...

A Semantically Consistent Dataset for Data-Efficient Query-Based Universal Sound Separation

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Query-based universal sound separation is fundamental to intelligent auditory systems, aiming to isolate specific sources from mixtures. Despite recent advances, existing methods continue to suffer from residual interference in complex acoustic scenes. This performance limitation stems largely from a data bottleneck: in-the-wild datasets contain weak labels and severe co-occurrence of events.

Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

ROGLE: Robust Global-Local Alignment with Automated Region Supervision for Text-Based Person Search

Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-Based Person Search (TBPS) aims to retrieve pedestrian images using natural language queries. However, existing TBPS models, especially those based on CLIP, struggle with fine-grained understanding due to global representational bias and semantic sparsity inherited from training on short captions. This results in weak fine-grained alignment, exacerbated by the scarcity of region-level annotations.

Deep Interest Mining for Intent-Enriched Semantic IDs in Multimodal Generative Recommendation

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic IDs (SIDs) provide the discrete item vocabulary used by generative recommendation, but their quality depends on what item evidence is preserved before quantization. In product recommendation, surface metadata often misses latent usage intent, visual evidence may be only weakly reflected in text, and downstream policy learning provides sparse feedback about whether a generated SID corresponds to a semantically useful item. We introduce...

Life and death in the outback: Why Australians are still dying in the bush

Life and death in the outback: Why Australians are still dying in the bush Sun 31 May 2026 at 6:20am It's the road trip Kelly Townsend has been dreading. Driving into the desert to try to find the place her son and ex-husband died. "I'm feeling a bit anxious and overwhelmed," she says.