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Apple has removed Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, it doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archiv…

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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The dangerous symbolism of the Trump coins - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/07/the-dangerous-symbolism-of-the-trump-coins/

Sample-Efficient and Smooth Cross-Entropy Method Model Predictive Control Using Deterministic Samples
Markus Walker, Daniel Frisch, Uwe D. Hanebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05706

Sample-Efficient and Smooth Cross-Entropy Method Model Predictive Control Using Deterministic Samples
Cross-entropy method model predictive control (CEM--MPC) is a powerful gradient-free technique for nonlinear optimal control, but its performance is often limited by the reliance on random sampling. This conventional approach can lead to inefficient exploration of the solution space and non-smooth control inputs, requiring a large number of samples to achieve satisfactory results. To address these limitations, we propose deterministic sampling CEM (dsCEM), a novel framework that replaces the ra…

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p115#a251008p115

Rethinking Langevin Thompson Sampling from A Stochastic Approximation Perspective
Weixin Wang, Haoyang Zheng, Guang Lin, Wei Deng, Pan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05023 https:…

Rethinking Langevin Thompson Sampling from A Stochastic Approximation Perspective
Most existing approximate Thompson Sampling (TS) algorithms for multi-armed bandits use Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) or its variants in each round to sample from the posterior, relaxing the need for conjugacy assumptions between priors and reward distributions in vanilla TS. However, they often require approximating a different posterior distribution in different round of the bandit problem. This requires tricky, round-specific tuning of hyperparameters such as dynamic learning …

ConstraintLLM: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Industrial-Level Constraint Programming
Weichun Shi, Minghao Liu, Wanting Zhang, Langchen Shi, Fuqi Jia, Feifei Ma, Jian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05774

ConstraintLLM: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Industrial-Level Constraint Programming
Constraint programming (CP) is a crucial technology for solving real-world constraint optimization problems (COPs), with the advantages of rich modeling semantics and high solving efficiency. Using large language models (LLMs) to generate formal modeling automatically for COPs is becoming a promising approach, which aims to build trustworthy neuro-symbolic AI with the help of symbolic solvers. However, CP has received less attention compared to works based on operations research (OR) models. We…

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Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Reinforce-Style LLM Training
Wei Xiong, Chenlu Ye, Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Xinxing Xu, Christof Monz, Jiang Bian, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04996

Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Reinforce-Style LLM Training
Reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLMs) for reasoning tasks is often bottlenecked by unstable gradient estimates due to fixed and uniform sampling of responses across prompts. Prior work such as GVM-RAFT addresses this by dynamically allocating inference budget per prompt to minimize stochastic gradient variance under a budget constraint. Inspired by this insight, we propose Reinforce-Ada, an adaptive sampling framework for online RL post-training of LLMs that continuousl…

An Algorithmic Information-Theoretic Perspective on the Symbol Grounding Problem
Zhangchi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05153 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

An Algorithmic Information-Theoretic Perspective on the Symbol Grounding Problem
This paper provides a definitive, unifying framework for the Symbol Grounding Problem (SGP) by reformulating it within Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT). We demonstrate that the grounding of meaning is a process fundamentally constrained by information-theoretic limits, thereby unifying the Gödelian (self-reference) and No Free Lunch (statistical) perspectives. We model a symbolic system as a universal Turing machine and define grounding as an act of information compression. The argument pr…