Who We Are, Where We Are: Mental Health at the Intersection of Person, Situation, and Large Language Models

This paper proposes an interpretable modeling approach that integrates person-level psychological traits with situational context features derived from social media data to predict dynamic mental well-being, demonstrating that theory-driven methods offer competitive performance and greater human-understandable insights compared to standard language model embeddings.

Nikita Soni, August Håkan Nilsson, Syeda Mahwish, Vasudha Varadarajan, H. Andrew Schwartz, Ryan L. Boyd2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Preventing Learning Stagnation in PPO by Scaling to 1 Million Parallel Environments

This paper identifies that learning stagnation in PPO arises from poor sample-based loss estimates due to excessive step sizes relative to gradient noise, proposing that scaling to over one million parallel environments effectively mitigates this issue and enables monotonic performance improvements up to one trillion transitions.

Michael Beukman, Khimya Khetarpal, Zeyu Zheng, Will Dabney, Jakob Foerster, Michael Dennis, Clare Lyle2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Agnostic learning in (almost) optimal time via Gaussian surface area

This paper improves the known bounds for agnostic learning of concept classes with bounded Gaussian surface area by demonstrating that a polynomial degree of O~(Γ2/ε2)\tilde{O}(\Gamma^2 / \varepsilon^2) suffices for ε\varepsilon-approximation, thereby yielding near-optimal complexity for learning polynomial threshold functions in the statistical query model.

Lucas Pesenti, Lucas Slot, Manuel Wiedmer2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Improved high-dimensional estimation with Langevin dynamics and stochastic weight averaging

This paper demonstrates that Langevin dynamics combined with stochastic weight averaging can achieve optimal sample complexity of ndk/2n \gtrsim d^{k^\star/2} for recovering a hidden direction in high-dimensional settings like tensor PCA and single-index models, effectively emulating landscape smoothing without explicit regularization.

Stanley Wei, Alex Damian, Jason D. Lee2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

DQE: A Semantic-Aware Evaluation Metric for Time Series Anomaly Detection

This paper proposes DQE, a novel semantic-aware evaluation metric for time series anomaly detection that addresses existing limitations in bias, consistency, and false alarm penalization by introducing a semantic-based partitioning strategy and aggregating scores across the full threshold spectrum to provide more stable, discriminative, and interpretable assessments.

Yuewei Li, Dalin Zhang, Huan Li, Xinyi Gong, Hongjun Chu, Zhaohui Song2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Ensemble Graph Neural Networks for Probabilistic Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting via Input Perturbations

This paper demonstrates that an ensemble of Graph Neural Networks for regional sea surface temperature forecasting, which introduces diversity through spatially coherent input perturbations like Perlin noise rather than model retraining, achieves well-calibrated probabilistic forecasts with improved uncertainty representation at no additional training cost.

Alejandro J. González-Santana, Giovanny A. Cuervo-Londoño, Javier Sánchez2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Efficient Vector Search in the Wild: One Model for Multi-K Queries

The paper introduces OMEGA, a K-generalizable learned top-K search method that leverages a base model trained on K=1 with trajectory-based features and a dynamic refinement procedure to achieve high accuracy and low latency for multi-K vector queries while significantly reducing preprocessing time compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Yifan Peng, Jiafei Fan, Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, Jianning Wang, Xiaojian Luo, Wenyuan Yu, Jingren Zhou, Haibo Chen2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Contrastive-to-Self-Supervised: A Two-Stage Framework for Script Similarity Learning

This paper proposes a two-stage framework that first trains a contrastive encoder on labeled invented alphabets and then uses teacher-student distillation to learn unsupervised, deformation-invariant embeddings for historically attested scripts, effectively bridging supervised discriminative learning with unsupervised discovery of latent cross-script similarities without requiring ground-truth evolutionary relationships.

Claire Roman, Philippe Meyer2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Topological descriptors of foot clearance gait dynamics improve differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism

This study demonstrates that integrating Topological Data Analysis with machine learning on foot clearance gait dynamics significantly improves the differential diagnosis between idiopathic Parkinson's disease and vascular Parkinsonism, achieving 83% accuracy and revealing sensitivity to levodopa-induced gait changes.

Jhonathan Barrios, Wolfram Erlhagen, Miguel F. Gago, Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG