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Vladimir Putin will expand his war in Ukraine
by attacking another European country,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has predicted,
and accused Russia of recent drone incursions
that he said were an attempt to test Nato’s defences.
Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York,
the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict.
“Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine.
He will open up some other …

Zelensky unveils new composition of Ukraine's Security Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/zelensky-unveils-new-composition-of.html

UniAPL: A Unified Adversarial Preference Learning Framework for Instruct-Following
FaQiang Qian, WeiKun Zhang, Ziliang Wang, Kang An, Xuhui Zheng, Liangjian Wen, Mengya Gao, Yong Dai, Yichao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25148

UniAPL: A Unified Adversarial Preference Learning Framework for Instruct-Following
Shaping powerful LLMs to be beneficial and safe is central to AI alignment. We argue that post-training alignment is fundamentally a unified Preference Learning problem, involving two modalities: demonstrated preferences (e.g., Supervised Fine-Tuning, SFT) and comparative preferences (e.g., Reinforcement Learning, RL).The standard sequential pipeline-SFT followed by RL-is flawed due to a critical distributional mismatch: SFT uses static expert data, but as the policy evolves, its generation dis…

Russia launches huge attack on Ukraine following Trump-Zelensky meeting (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5459189-russia-attacks-ukraine-energy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p59#a250819p59

US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees, fueling uncertainty ahead of Trump-Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/us-officials-provide-contradictory-statements.html

Third round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks set for July 23, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/third-round-of-ukrainerussia-peace.html

Breaking: 'Ukraine is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back' — Trump says following meeting with Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/breaking-ukraine-is-in-a.html

Robust and Adaptive Spectral Method for Representation Multi-Task Learning with Contamination
Yian Huang, Yang Feng, Zhiliang Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06575 https://

Robust and Adaptive Spectral Method for Representation Multi-Task Learning with Contamination
Representation-based multi-task learning (MTL) improves efficiency by learning a shared structure across tasks, but its practical application is often hindered by contamination, outliers, or adversarial tasks. Most existing methods and theories assume a clean or near-clean setting, failing when contamination is significant. This paper tackles representation MTL with an unknown and potentially large contamination proportion, while also allowing for heterogeneity among inlier tasks. We introduce …

eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion
Daria Tikhonovich, Nikita Zelinskiy, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Mayya Spirina, Andrei Semenov, Andrey V. Savchenko, Sergei Kuliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06450

eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion
Since their introduction, Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have become common baselines for sequential recommendations, surpassing earlier neural and non-neural methods. A number of following publications have shown that the effectiveness of these models can be improved by, for example, slightly updating the architecture of the Transformer layers, using better training objectives, and employing improved loss functions. However, the additivity of these modular improvements …

Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukraine-hungary-spat-highlights-tensions.html