News / #acquisition Tag Acquisition 155 articles archived under #acquisition · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Boundary Variance Inflation Causes Acquisition Bias in Gaussian Processes arXiv:2606.07561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaussian processes with stationary kernels on bounded domains exhibit inflated posterior variance near the boundary. Despite being a long-recognized artifact in geostatistics and a source of over-exploration in Bayesian… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago SRT: Super-Resolution for Time Series via Disentangled Rectified Flow arXiv:2606.07605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained time series data with high temporal resolution is critical for accurate analytics across a wide range of applications. However, the acquisition of such data is often limited by cost and feasibility. This problem can be… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Evaluating the Impact of Task Granularity on Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning arXiv:2606.08013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting, the abrupt loss of previously acquired knowledge upon learning new information, remains the central challenge in Continual Learning. This project investigates whether the order in which a model learns… 17 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Bending Spoons Files to Go Public Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons, which has acquired a string of aging U.S. internet businesses including AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote and Vimeo, filed to go public in the U.S. to give it the funds to pursue more acquisitions. The company’s IPO paperwork shows Bending Spoons’… 34 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 2mo ago Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics Google's deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom's earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I'm looking for at WWDC. 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago $\alpha$-PFN: Fast Entropy Search via In-Context Learning arXiv:2606.07134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information-theoretic acquisition functions such as Entropy Search (ES) offer a principled exploration-exploitation framework for Bayesian optimization (BO). However, their practical implementation relies on complicated and slow… 8 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Reid Hoffman to Depart Microsoft Board LinkedIn cofounder and investor Reid Hoffman will leave his seat on Microsoft’s board of directors at the end of this year, Microsoft said in a filing Friday. Hoffman has served as a Microsoft director since 2017, when Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. Since then he’s been a pivotal… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Catastrophic Forgetting as Accessibility Collapse: A Three-Level Framework for Knowledge Persistence in Continual Learning arXiv:2606.06032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting is commonly interpreted as the irreversible erasure of previously acquired knowledge during sequential learning. In this work, we investigate an alternative perspective: that forgetting may arise not from… 36 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2mo ago EvoDS: Self-Evolving Autonomous Data Science Agent with Skill Learning and Context Management Abstract EvoDS introduces a self-evolving autonomous data science agent that enhances its capabilities through skill acquisition and adaptive context management via reinforcement learning. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Recent progress in Large Language Model (LLM)… 38 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Nvidia Buys Enterprise Model-Maker Kumo AI for at Least $400 Million Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal. The acquisition, first revealed by an Nvidia executive in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, should expand Nvidia’s… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Exact equivariance, kept through training, buys zero-shot generalisation across the symmetry group arXiv:2606.03003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A latent world model built from an equivariant encoder $E$ and an equivariant predictor $f$ inherits a provable symmetry of its training loss: when the world's dynamics genuinely carries a group $G$ acting on latents by an… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Foundation-Preserving Adaptation via Generalized Rayleigh-Quotient Optimization arXiv:2606.00132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While finetuning effectively adapts foundation models to specialized downstream tasks, it can degrade nontarget capabilities acquired during pretraining. Existing forgetting aware methods typically seek safer updates through… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago CA-BED: Conversation-Aware Bayesian Experimental Design arXiv:2606.01182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at static reasoning tasks, yet their performance often degrades in interactive scenarios where information must be actively acquired through questioning. A key challenge lies in selecting… 8 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Salesforce Acquires Contentful in Latest Move to Boost AI Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts to make its customer data more easily accessible to AI agents. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce paid between $1 billion and $1.5… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Functional MRI Time Series Generation via Wavelet-Based Image Transform and Spectral Flow Matching for Brain Disorder Identification arXiv:2605.30387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides non-invasive access to dynamic brain activity by measuring blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals over time. However, the resource-intensive nature of fMRI acquisition… 24 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Active Timepoint Selection for Learning Measure-Valued Trajectories arXiv:2605.30625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inferring continuous probability paths from sparse snapshots is a fundamental challenge in domains like single-cell biology, where high-fidelity data acquisition is often destructive and constrained by prohibitive sequencing costs.… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Learning Robust and Task-Invariant Functional Representation from fMRI through Siamese Self-Supervised Learning arXiv:2605.28990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful tool for investigating human brain function. However, the high cost of data acquisition and the inherent subjectivity of psychiatric rating scales often lead to datasets… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago EviLink: Multi-Path Schema Linking with Uncertainty-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Large-Scale Text-to-SQL arXiv:2605.29670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Schema linking is a difficult and important step in large-scale Text-to-SQL, where systems must identify a compact yet sufficient schema context from large and ambiguous databases. Existing methods often treat schema linking as… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue arXiv:2605.29715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user's evolving and implicit needs across multi-turn interactions while leveraging the strong reasoning capacity of large… 5 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools. 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Neural Bayesian Sequential Routing arXiv:2605.26147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human decision-making is sequential and uncertainty-aware, yet standard neural networks often rely on static, dense forward computation with limited visibility into evidence acquisition, uncertainty evolution, or when computation… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago LLM-AutoSciLab: Closed-Loop Scientific Discovery via Active Experimentation with LLMs arXiv:2605.24043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery is a closed-loop process in which hypotheses guide data acquisition and observations refine the hypothesis space. Yet most approaches reduce discovery to supervised learning over fixed datasets, where limited… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago STREAM: A Data-Centric Framework for Mining High-Value Task-Oriented Dialogues from Streaming Media arXiv:2605.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models for vertical domains are bottlenecked by the scarcity of complex, domain-specific task-oriented dialogues. Existing data acquisition pipelines face a persistent trilemma: expert annotation is expensive,… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Dynamic Mixture of Latent Memories for Self-Evolving Agents arXiv:2605.21951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving self-evolution in intelligent agents requires the continual accumulation of new knowledge across changing task sequences without forgetting previously acquired abilities. Existing approaches either internalize knowledge… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks arXiv:2605.20529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In what ways might statistical signals in linguistic input assist with the acquisition of syntax? Here we hypothesize a mechanism called collocational bootstrapping, in which regularities in word co-occurrence patterns can provide… 38 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago James Murdoch Buys New York Magazine and Vox Podcasts Vox Media is splitting in two and James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is buying the half that owns New York magazine, Vox.com and the Vox podcast network, Vox announced. The rest of Vox, including websites Popsugar, SB Nation, The Dodo and The Verge, will become… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions arXiv:2605.19718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CHILDES is a paramount resource for language acquisition studies -- yet computational tools for analyzing its syntactic structure remain limited. Leveraging the recent release of the UD-English-CHILDES treebank with gold-standard… 12 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago SpaceX to Acquire Cursor 30 Days After IPO SpaceX and Cursor expect to proceed with their planned acquisition 30 days after SpaceX begins trading publicly, according to someone familiar with the matter. SpaceX is expected to go public in mid-June in the largest IPO in U.S. history. The Elon Musk-founded rockets-and-AI… 36 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2mo ago Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI Article URL: https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995 Points: 242 # Comments: 67 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago PIMSM: Physics-Informed Multi-Scale Mamba for Stable Neural Representations under Distribution Shift arXiv:2605.16351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific foundation models are expected to reuse representations under changes in dataset, acquisition protocol, and deployment domain, yet many sequence backbones treat scientific temporal structure as an unconstrained pattern… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Lost or Hidden? A Concept-Level Forgetting in Supervised Continual Learning arXiv:2605.16374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning studies how models can adapt to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Although a broad spectrum of methods has been proposed to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, the field remains predominantly… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago DeepArrhythmia: Segment-Contextualized ECG Arrhythmia Classification via Selective Evidence Acquisition arXiv:2605.16441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Beat-level Electrocardiography (ECG) arrhythmia detection aims to assign an arrhythmia class to each beat in a recording, yet many existing systems treat beats as isolated local instances. This is limiting because beat labels often… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago Language Acquisition Device in Large Language Models arXiv:2605.16758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) remain substantially less data-efficient than humans. Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic languages has been proposed to close this gap, with prior work emphasizing highly expressive formal languages… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2mo ago LLMs for automatic annotation of Mandarin narrative transcripts arXiv:2605.17205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linguistic annotation of transcribed speech is essential for research in language acquisition, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, yet remains labor-intensive and time-consuming. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown… 32 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Analog Devices in Talks to Buy AI Power Chip Startup for $1.5 Billion Chipmaker Analog Devices is in advanced talks to buy startup Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion, in a deal that reflects demand for technology that can manage the intense energy needs of AI chips, according to people familiar with the discussion. The acquisition of the… 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Musk Loses in Court; Uber Buys More of Delivery Hero Elon Musk’s big week isn’t starting out too well. Firstly, the all-important test launch of Starship got delayed by a day. Meanwhile, news broke that a worker died on Friday at SpaceX’s Starbase complex in Texas, where the rocket will launch. Separately, Musk on Monday lost the… 10 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Anthropic Buys Developer Tools Startup Stainless Anthropic announced on Monday that it has acquired developer tools startup Stainless, confirming an earlier report from The Information. The model maker did not disclose any terms of the deal, but The Information had previously reported it was in talks to acquire Stainless for… 29 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition. 29 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2mo ago Anthropic acquires Stainless Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281 Points: 200 # Comments: 132 9 r/MachineLearning community 2mo ago Reviving PapersWithCode (by Hugging Face) [P] Hi, Niels here from the open-source team at Hugging Face. Like many others, I was a huge fan of paperswithcode. Sadly, that website is no longer maintained after its acquisition by Meta. Hence, I've been working on reviving it. I obviously use AI agents to parse papers at scale… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Shapley Neuron Values for Continual Learning: Which Neurons Matter Most? arXiv:2605.15877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning enables neural networks to learn tasks sequentially without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. However, neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks degrades performance on… 33 r/LocalLLaMA community 2mo ago Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 on four Nvidia RTX A4000 (16GB each) with Llama.cpp and MTP enabled Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 on four Nvidia RTX A4000 (16GB each) with Llama.cpp and MTP enabled My setup is heterogenous, I originally acquired my server (Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tower Gen 2) to run OpenShift/K8s clusters (because I work on that), and later on I started purchasing one by one… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago Shein Buys Everlane Everlane, a San Francisco-based startup that soared during the last decade’s e-commerce boom, will sell itself to Shein, a Chinese discount e-retail giant. The deal values Everlane at $100 million, a far cry from the valuations that it once received at its height. Everlane was… 38 The Information — AI news-outlet 2mo ago OpenAI Buys AI Voice Startup Weights OpenAI bought Weights.GG, a small startup that made an AI voice-cloning tool called Replay, in January, according to a person familiar with the acquisition. A half dozen employees joined OpenAI, which bought the startup’s intellectual property but does not plan to integrate the… 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Unsupervised learning of acquisition variability in structural connectomes via hybrid latent space modeling arXiv:2605.13933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acquisition differences across sites, scanners, and protocols in dMRI introduce variability that complicates structural connectome analysis. This motivates deep learning models that can represent high-dimensional connectomes in a… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago MoRe: Modular Representations for Principled Continual Representation Learning on Squantial Data arXiv:2605.14364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning requires models to adapt to new data while preserving previously acquired knowledge. At its core, this challenge can be viewed as principled one-step adaptation: incorporating new information with minimal… 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 3mo ago The SpaceXAI Exodus: More Than 50 Recent Exits as Meta, Thinking Machines Hire Staff Call it the SpaceXAI exodus. More than 50 researchers and engineers working on xAI’s Grok models have left the AI lab since SpaceX acquired it in February, through layoffs, firings and voluntary departures, according to several people with knowledge of the moves. These… 22 r/MachineLearning community 3mo ago OpenAI's deployment company move says more about the AI gap than any benchmark[D] OpenAI launched a deployment company with $4B initial investment, 19 partner organizations, and acquired Tomoro (UK-based AI consultancy, ~150 engineers). The pitch: embed "Forward Deployed Engineers" into enterprises to help them actually use AI. This is basically the Palantir… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago On Predicting the Post-training Potential of Pre-trained LLMs arXiv:2605.11978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on downstream tasks is fundamentally constrained by the capabilities acquired during pre-training. However, traditional benchmarks like MMLU often fail to reflect a base model's… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition arXiv:2605.12047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Is child-directed language (CDL) optimized to support language learning, and which aspects of linguistic development does it facilitate? We investigate this question using neural language models trained on CDL versus adult-directed… 6 Page 3 of 4 · 155 articles ← Newer Older →