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Disrespect Others, Respect the Climate? Applying Social Dynamics with Inequality to Forest Climate Models
Luke Wisniewski, Thomas Zdyrski, Feng Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17252

Disrespect Others, Respect the Climate? Applying Social Dynamics with Inequality to Forest Climate Models
Understanding the role of human behavior in shaping environmental outcomes is crucial for addressing global challenges such as climate change. Environmental systems are influenced not only by natural factors like temperature, but also by human decisions regarding mitigation efforts, which are often based on forecasts or predictions about future environmental conditions. Over time, different outcomes can emerge, including scenarios where the environment deteriorates despite efforts to mitigate, …

HumanPCR: Probing MLLM Capabilities in Diverse Human-Centric Scenes
Keliang Li, Hongze Shen, Hao Shi, Ruibing Hou, Hong Chang, Jie Huang, Chenghao Jia, Wen Wang, Yiling Wu, Dongmei Jiang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13692

HumanPCR: Probing MLLM Capabilities in Diverse Human-Centric Scenes
The aspiration for artificial general intelligence, fueled by the rapid progress of multimodal models, demands human-comparable performance across diverse environments. We propose HumanPCR, an evaluation suite for probing MLLMs' capacity about human-related visual contexts across three hierarchical levels: Perception, Comprehension, and Reasoning (denoted by Human-P, Human-C, and Human-R, respectively). Human-P and Human-C feature over 6,000 human-verified multiple choice questions, assessing m…

Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment: Evidence from Brazil
Carlos G\'oes, Otavio Concei\c{c}\~ao, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03855

Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment: Evidence from Brazil
What is the environmental impact of exports? Focusing on 2000-20, this paper combines customs, administrative, and census microdata to estimate employment elasticities with respect to exports. The findings show that municipalities that faced increased exports experienced faster growth in formal employment. The elasticities were 0.25 on impact, peaked at 0.4, and remained positive and significant even 10 years after the shock, pointing to a long and protracted labor market adjustment. In the lon…

Non-Stationary Bandit Convex Optimization: An Optimal Algorithm with Two-Point Feedback
Chang He, Bo Jiang, Shuzhong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04654 https://

Non-Stationary Bandit Convex Optimization: An Optimal Algorithm with Two-Point Feedback
This paper studies bandit convex optimization in non-stationary environments with two-point feedback, using dynamic regret as the performance measure. We propose an algorithm based on bandit mirror descent that extends naturally to non-Euclidean settings. Let $T$ be the total number of iterations and $\mathcal{P}_{T,p}$ the path variation with respect to the $\ell_p$-norm. In Euclidean space, our algorithm matches the optimal regret bound $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{dT(1+\mathcal{P}_{T,2})})$, improving…

Stability Analysis of An Integrated Multistage Stochastic Programming and Markov Decision Process Problem
Zhiyao Yang, Zhiping Chen, Huifu Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22194 ht…

Stability Analysis of An Integrated Multistage Stochastic Programming and Markov Decision Process Problem
In this paper, we consider an integrated MSP-MDP framework which captures features of Markov decision process (MDP) and multistage stochastic programming (MSP). The integrated framework allows one to study a dynamic decision-making process that involves both transition of system states and dynamic change of the stochastic environment affected respectively by potential endogenous uncertainties and exogenous uncertainties. The integrated model differs from classical MDP models by taking into acco…