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Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Your Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model
Anirud Aggarwal, Abhinav Shrivastava, Matthew Gwilliam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15682

Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Your Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model
Diffusion-based image generation models excel at producing high-quality synthetic content, but suffer from slow and computationally expensive inference. Prior work has attempted to mitigate this by caching and reusing features within diffusion transformers across inference steps. These methods, however, often rely on rigid heuristics that result in limited acceleration or poor generalization across architectures. We propose Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Diffusion models (ECAD), a genetic a…

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Measurement to Meaning: A Validity-Centered Framework for AI Evaluation
While the capabilities and utility of AI systems have advanced, rigorous norms for evaluating these systems have lagged. Grand claims, such as models achieving general reasoning capabilities, are supported with model performance on narrow benchmarks, like performance on graduate-level exam questions, which provide a limited and potentially misleading assessment. We provide a structured approach for reasoning about the types of evaluative claims that can be made given the available evidence. For…

Evolutionary model for energy trading in community microgrids using Hawk-Dove strategies
Viorica Rozina Chifu, Tudor Cioara, Cristina Bianca Pop, Ionut Anghel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06325

Evolutionary model for energy trading in community microgrids using Hawk-Dove strategies
This paper proposes a decentralized model of energy cooperation between microgrids, in which decisions are made locally, at the level of the microgrid community. Each microgrid is modeled as an autonomous agent that adopts a Hawk or Dove strategy, depending on the level of energy stored in the battery and its role in the energy trading process. The interactions between selling and buying microgrids are modeled through an evolutionary algorithm. An individual in the algorithm population is repre…

"What birds can teach us about repurposing waste"
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https://phys.org/news/2025-06-birds-r…

What birds can teach us about repurposing waste
Modern cities are evolution engines. Urban snails in the Netherlands and lizards in Los Angeles have developed lighter shells and larger scales to cope with the heat island effect, where temperatures can be several degrees above the surrounding area.

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
Greta Grassmann, Mattia Miotto, Francesca Alessandrini, Leonardo Bo', Giancarlo Ruocco, Edoardo Milanetti, Andrea Giansanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05549

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
The functionality of protein-protein complexes is closely tied to the strength of their interactions, making the evaluation of binding affinity a central focus in structural biology. However, the molecular determinants underlying binding affinity are still not fully understood. In particular, the entropic contributions, especially those arising from conformational dynamics, remain poorly characterized. In this study, we explore the relationship between protein motion and binding stability and i…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10573 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Measurement to Meaning: A Validity-Centered Framework for AI Evaluation
While the capabilities and utility of AI systems have advanced, rigorous norms for evaluating these systems have lagged. Grand claims, such as models achieving general reasoning capabilities, are supported with model performance on narrow benchmarks, like performance on graduate-level exam questions, which provide a limited and potentially misleading assessment. We provide a structured approach for reasoning about the types of evaluative claims that can be made given the available evidence. For…