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“Carefully managing electric vehicle demand could cut all U.S. electric bills by 10% annually, regardless of whether a customer owns an EV, according to new research from Brattle and ev. energy.”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/managed-e

Managed EV charging could generate $30B in annual savings by 2035: report
Carefully managing electric vehicle demand could cut all U.S. electric bills by 10% annually, regardless of whether a customer owns an EV, according to new research from ev.energy and The Brattle Group.

Dataset Distillation as Data Compression: A Rate-Utility Perspective
Youneng Bao, Yiping Liu, Zhuo Chen, Yongsheng Liang, Mu Li, Kede Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17221

Dataset Distillation as Data Compression: A Rate-Utility Perspective
Driven by the ``scale-is-everything'' paradigm, modern machine learning increasingly demands ever-larger datasets and models, yielding prohibitive computational and storage requirements. Dataset distillation mitigates this by compressing an original dataset into a small set of synthetic samples, while preserving its full utility. Yet, existing methods either maximize performance under fixed storage budgets or pursue suitable synthetic data representations for redundancy removal, without jointly…

Private Hyperparameter Tuning with Ex-Post Guarantee
Badih Ghazi, Pritish Kamath, Alexander Knop, Ravi Kumar, Pasin Manurangsi, Chiyuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15183 ht…

Private Hyperparameter Tuning with Ex-Post Guarantee
The conventional approach in differential privacy (DP) literature formulates the privacy-utility trade-off with a "privacy-first" perspective: for a predetermined level of privacy, a certain utility is achievable. However, practitioners often operate under a "utility-first" paradigm, prioritizing a desired level of utility and then determining the corresponding privacy cost. Wu et al. [2019] initiated a formal study of this "utility-first" perspective by introducing ex-post DP. They demonstra…

Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market.
And just to be sure, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy...
Climate anyone?
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Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

Relevance to Utility: Process-Supervised Rewrite for RAG
Jaeyoung Kim, Jongho Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Seoho Song, Young-In Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15577 https://

Relevance to Utility: Process-Supervised Rewrite for RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems often suffer from a gap between optimizing retrieval relevance and generative utility: retrieved documents may be topically relevant but still lack the content needed for effective reasoning during generation. While existing "bridge" modules attempt to rewrite the retrieved text for better generation, we show how they fail to capture true document utility. In this work, we propose R2U, with a key distinction of directly optimizing to maximize the probabili…

Bayesian preference elicitation for decision support in multiobjective optimization
Felix Huber, Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez, Raul Astudillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16999

Bayesian preference elicitation for decision support in multiobjective optimization
We present a novel approach to help decision-makers efficiently identify preferred solutions from the Pareto set of a multi-objective optimization problem. Our method uses a Bayesian model to estimate the decision-maker's utility function based on pairwise comparisons. Aided by this model, a principled elicitation strategy selects queries interactively to balance exploration and exploitation, guiding the discovery of high-utility solutions. The approach is flexible: it can be used interactively…

Balancing utility and cost in dynamic treatment regimes
Kai Chen, Zhang Yuqian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17360 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17360

Balancing utility and cost in dynamic treatment regimes
Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are personalized, adaptive strategies designed to guide the sequential allocation of treatments based on individual characteristics over time. Before each treatment assignment, covariate information is collected to refine treatment decisions and enhance their effectiveness. The more information we gather, the more precise our decisions can be. However, this also leads to higher costs during the data collection phase. In this work, we propose a balanced Q-learnin…

Southern California Gas Company (SCG),
San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E),
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E),
Southwest Gas Corporation (Southwest Gas)
(collectively, the Gas Utilities)
and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
⭐️invite customers to participate in a Public Forum,
also called a Public Participation Hearing (PPH).
These Public Forums are part of a formal rulemaking proceeding
Customer c…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: A church.
GAN: A church?
BLAKE: Place of religious assembly.
GAN: Must be ancient.
BLAKE: The Federation had them all destroyed at the beginning of the New Calendar.
GAN: There's no sign of Kasabi?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/220