Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Harley Katz, Alexander P. Ji, O. Grace Telford, Peter Senchyna, | Summary: The first few cycles of JWST have identified an overabundance of UV-bright galaxies and a general excess of UV luminosity density at $zgtrsim10$ compared to expectations from most (pre-JWST) theoretical models. Moreover, some of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Joshua Engels, Logan Riggs, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising technique for decomposing language model activations into interpretable linear features. However, current SAEs fall short of completely explaining model performance, resulting in "dark matter": unexplained variance in activations. This work investigates dark […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]
Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Niayesh Afshordi, Abhay Ashtekar, Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Richard Brito | Summary: The gravitational physics landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by our ability to study strong-field regions, in particular black holes. Black Holes Inside and Out gathered world experts to discuss the status of the field and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Alexander Venner, Qier An, Chelsea X. Huang, Timothy D. Brandt, Robert A. Wittenmyer | Summary: As exoplanet surveys reach ever-higher sensitivities and durations, planets analogous to the solar system giant planets are increasingly within reach. HD 28185 is a Sun-like star known to host a $msin i=6 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Dujian Ding, , , | Summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing and hold immense potential for advancing Artificial Intelligence. However, the core architecture of most mainstream LLMs — the Transformer — has inherent limitations in computational depth, rendering them theoretically incapable […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yi Zhou | First 5 Authors: Yufeng Yang, Erin Tripp, Yifan Sun, Shaofeng Zou, Yi Zhou | Summary: Recent studies have shown that many nonconvex machine learning problems meet a so-called generalized-smooth condition that extends beyond traditional smooth nonconvex optimization. However, the existing algorithms designed for generalized-smooth nonconvex optimization encounter significant limitations in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiang Zhang, Kai Wan, Hua Sun, Shiqiang Wang, Mingyue Ji | Summary: Secure aggregation is concerned with the task of securely uploading the inputs of multiple users to an aggregation server without letting the server know the inputs beyond their summation. It finds broad applications in distributed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vahe Petrosian | First 5 Authors: Aditya Narendra, Maria Dainotti, Milind Sarkar, Aleksander Lenart, Malgorzata Bogdan | Summary: Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed at redshifts as high as 9.4, could serve as valuable probes for investigating the distant Universe. However, this necessitates an increase in the number of GRBs with determined redshifts, as […]