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Local surrogates for quantum machine learning
Sreeraj Rajindran Nair, Christopher Ferrie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09425 https://arx…

Local surrogates for quantum machine learning
Surrogates have been proposed as classical simulations of the pretrained quantum learning models, which are capable of mimicking the input-output relation inherent in the quantum model. Quantum hardware within this framework is used for training and for generating the classical surrogates. Inference is relegated to the classical surrogate, hence alleviating the extra quantum computational cost once training is done. Taking inspiration from interpretable models, we introduce a local surrogation …

Adversarial Surrogate Risk Bounds for Binary Classification
Natalie S. Frank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09348 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Adversarial Surrogate Risk Bounds for Binary Classification
A central concern in classification is the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is one of the most popular techniques for training robust classifiers, which involves minimizing an adversarial surrogate risk. Recent work characterized when a minimizing sequence of an adversarial surrogate risk is also a minimizing sequence of the adversarial classification risk for binary classification -- a property known as adversarial consistency. However, thes…

Okay, I wrote a little bit about Sly, and about Janet and Prince, and the very first thing I ever blogged about, and how Sly maybe invented some not-small part of the world we live in. And also about the scariest live show I've ever been to. https://www.anildash.com/2025/06/09/sly-st

Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Die #Pflanzenkrankheit #Stolbur bedroht durch die Schilf-#Glasflügelzikade verstärkt Ernten in

Pflanzenkrankheit sorgt für massive Ernteausfälle
Erst die Zuckerrüben, nun auch Kartoffeln und anderes Gemüse: Eine Pflanzenkrankheit sorgt in Teilen Deutschlands für massive Probleme. Schuld an der Krankheit ist eine Zikaden-Art. Der Bauernverband ist in "großer Sorge".

Ach deswegen sah der Himmel gestern so komisch aus: Ruß aus Kanada, toll. #Stuttgart https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/trueber-himmel-in-bw-100.html

Wieso ist unser Himmel gerade so trüb? Was Waldbrände am anderen Ende der Welt damit zu tun haben
Die Menschen in BW kennen ihn schon: den vertrübten Himmel. Und dieser wird voraussichtlich noch bis Freitag anhalten - gepaart mit hohen Temperaturen, die noch länger bleiben.

Surrogate models to optimize plasma assisted atomic layer deposition in high aspect ratio features
Angel Yanguas-Gil, Jeffrey W. Elam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09313

Surrogate models to optimize plasma assisted atomic layer deposition in high aspect ratio features
In this work we explore surrogate models to optimize plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) in high aspect ratio features. In plasma-based processes such as PEALD and atomic layer etching, surface recombination can dominate the reactivity of plasma species with the surface, which can lead to unfeasibly long exposure times to achieve full conformality inside nanostructures like high aspect ratio vias. Using a synthetic dataset based on simulations of PEALD, we train artificial neural ne…

Data-Driven Performance Measures using Global Properties of Attractors for Black-Box Surrogate Models of Chaotic Systems
Luci Fumagalli, Kathy L\"udge, Jana de Wiljes, Heikki Haario, Lina Jaurigue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09546

Data-Driven Performance Measures using Global Properties of Attractors for Black-Box Surrogate Models of Chaotic Systems
In climate systems, physiological models, optics, and many more, surrogate models are developed to reconstruct chaotic dynamical systems. We introduce four data-driven measures using global attractor properties to evaluate the quality of the reconstruction of a given surrogate time series. The measures are robust against the initial position of the chaotic system as they are based on empirical approximations of the correlation integral and the probability density function, both of which are glo…

'Mouthpiece for the Kremlin': Rubio scorched for 'Russia Day' congratulations - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/trump-rubio-kremlin/

Die Familienreservierung bei der #Bahn soll wegfallen. Vielleicht hilft ja auch diesmal massenhafter Protest?
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbr

Trotz massiver Kritik: Bahn bleibt bei Familienreservierung hart
Die Deutsche Bahn bleibt dabei: Ab dem 15. Juni 2025 wird es keine Familienreservierung mehr geben. Die neue Preispolitik sorgt für breite Empörung bei Politikern und Fahrgast- und Sozialverbänden.

Meine neueste Theorie zum ungebrochenen Erfolg von Podcasts geht so:
Die eine Hälfte der Gesellschaft hat niemanden, der ihnen zuhört,
und die andere Hälfte hat Schwierigkeiten, einzuschlafen.