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Accelerated Aggregated D-Optimal Designs for Estimating Main Effects in Black-Box Models
Chih-Yu Chang, Ming-Chung Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08465 https://

Accelerated Aggregated D-Optimal Designs for Estimating Main Effects in Black-Box Models
Recent advances in supervised learning have driven growing interest in explaining black-box models, particularly by estimating the effects of input variables on model predictions. However, existing approaches often face key limitations, including poor scalability, sensitivity to out-of-distribution sampling, and instability under correlated features. To address these issues, we propose A2D2E, an $\textbf{E}$stimator based on $\textbf{A}$ccelerated $\textbf{A}$ggregated $\textbf{D}$-Optimal $\te…

Heptapod: Language Modeling on Visual Signals
Yongxin Zhu, Jiawei Chen, Yuanzhe Chen, Zhuo Chen, Dongya Jia, Jian Cong, Xiaobin Zhuang, Yuping Wang, Yuxuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06673

Heptapod: Language Modeling on Visual Signals
We introduce Heptapod, an image autoregressive model that adheres to the foundational principles of language modeling. Heptapod employs \textbf{causal attention}, \textbf{eliminates reliance on CFG}, and \textbf{eschews the trend of semantic tokenizers}. Our key innovation is \textit{next 2D distribution prediction}: a causal Transformer with reconstruction-focused visual tokenizer, learns to predict the distribution over the entire 2D spatial grid of images at each timestep. This learning obje…

The lattices $\textbf m\times\textbf 2$ and $\textbf m\times\textbf 3$ are not Schur positive
David G. L. Wang, K. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03116 https://

The lattices $\textbf m\times\textbf 2$ and $\textbf m\times\textbf 3$ are not Schur positive
We prove that the lattices $\textbf m\times\textbf 2$ and $\textbf m\times\textbf 3$ are not Schur positive for $m\ge 8$. This confirms a conjecture of Li, Qiu, Yang, and Zhang, as an extension of counterexamples to a comment of Stanley on the universal Schur positivity of distributive lattices. Our main tools include Pieri's rules, and Wang and Wang's combinatorial formula for computing any Schur coefficient of the chromatic symmetric function of a graph in terms of special ribbon tabloids. We…

Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case (Steve Thompson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/boasberg-ruling-whistleblower-testify/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p131#a251208p131

THE MILITARY OFFICER CORPS DEFIED TRUMP ON SEPTEMBER 30th; IT WILL NOT ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO A DICTATORSHIP; IT WILL OPPOSE IT WITH THEIR LIVES AND SACRED HONOR https://thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/the-military-officer-corps-defied

THE MILITARY OFFICER CORPS DEFIED TRUMP ON SEPTEMBER 30th; IT WILL NOT ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO A DICTATORSHIP; IT WILL OPPOSE IT WITH THEIR LIVES AND SACRED HONOR
THE THREE PRECEDENTS WHERE THE U,S ARMY DEFIED A SITTING PRESIDENT AND AGGRESSIVELY ACTED TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. WE DISCUSS THE FIRST EXAMPLE TODAY. BUT FIRST A SIDEBAR.

Here's a thoughtful critique of One Battle After Another, which I still enjoyed and recommend - and would quibble with some of the points here - but I agree the first act could've been handled better to avoid perpetuating quite so much the fetishization the film intends to condemn. https://

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!

UCLA's new head football coach, Bob Chesney, isn't just charismatic & thoughtful... he's CRAZY MEDIA-SKILLED.
Check out the nuance. Gold #UCLA pin... but blue & red (=purple) for #JamesMadison.
Already love this guy.
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Judge James E. Boasberg said he wants to hear from former Justice Dept. attorney Erez Reuveni
in an inquiry over whether Trump administration officials should be referred for prosecution
for disobeying a court order that temporarily barred two airplanes carrying Venezuelan detainees from proceeding to El Salvador.

In a confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,
revived after a months-long delay for appeals,
Chief U.S. District Jud…

Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia has scheduled the former Justice Department attorney to appear in court on Dec. 15.

Learning Global Representation from Queries for Vectorized HD Map Construction
Shoumeng Qiu, Xinrun Li, Yang Long, Xiangyang Xue, Varun Ojha, Jian Pu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06969

Learning Global Representation from Queries for Vectorized HD Map Construction
The online construction of vectorized high-definition (HD) maps is a cornerstone of modern autonomous driving systems. State-of-the-art approaches, particularly those based on the DETR framework, formulate this as an instance detection problem. However, their reliance on independent, learnable object queries results in a predominantly local query perspective, neglecting the inherent global representation within HD maps. In this work, we propose \textbf{MapGR} (\textbf{G}lobal \textbf{R}epresent…