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• The results show that incorporating income fairness and exposure bias into the ranking process can lead to more equitable outcomes and better performance in terms of relevance and diversity. (ML: 0.98)👍👎
• The paper builds upon previous work by incorporating income fairness and exposure bias into the traditional learning-to-rank paradigm. (ML: 0.98)👍👎
• However, this approach can lead to unequal outcomes when combined with other factors such as exposure bias. (ML: 0.98)👍👎
• The proposed framework may not be effective in scenarios where the data is highly imbalanced or has a large number of irrelevant features. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• The paper proposes a new way to do this by combining income fairness with another concept called exposure bias, which is like making sure everyone gets a fair shot at getting noticed. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• Previous research on fairness-aware ranking has focused primarily on individual fairness, which ensures that similar individuals are treated similarly. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• The paper proposes a novel framework for fairness-aware ranking, which incorporates income fairness and exposure bias into the traditional learning-to-rank paradigm. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• The paper proposes a novel framework for fairness-aware ranking, which incorporates income fairness and exposure bias into the traditional learning-to-rank paradigm. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• That's where income fairness comes in - it ensures that everyone has an equal chance to get the job, regardless of their background. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• Imagine you're trying to rank a list of job candidates based on their qualifications. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• The proposed framework demonstrates improved fairness and performance compared to existing methods. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• But what if some candidates have more resources or connections than others? (ML: 0.96)👍👎
• Income fairness: The idea that individuals with similar abilities or characteristics should have equal opportunities to receive resources or rewards. (ML: 0.94)👍👎
• Exposure bias: A type of bias that occurs when certain groups are more likely to be exposed to a particular resource or opportunity, leading to unequal outcomes. (ML: 0.88)👍👎

Abstract
Ranking is central to information distribution in web search and recommendation. Nowadays, in ranking optimization, the fairness to item providers is viewed as a crucial factor alongside ranking relevance for users. There are currently numerous concepts of fairness and one widely recognized fairness concept is Exposure Fairness. However, it relies primarily on exposure determined solely by position, overlooking other factors that significantly influence income, such as time. To address this limitation, we propose to study ranking fairness when the provider utility is influenced by other contextual factors and is neither equal to nor proportional to item exposure. We give a formal definition of Income Fairness and develop a corresponding measurement metric. Simulated experiments show that existing-exposure-fairness-based ranking algorithms fail to optimize the proposed income fairness. Therefore, we propose the Dynamic-Income-Derivative-aware Ranking Fairness algorithm, which, based on the marginal income gain at the present timestep, uses Taylor-expansion-based gradients to simultaneously optimize effectiveness and income fairness. In both offline and online settings with diverse time-income functions, DIDRF consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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• Small language models may not be as effective as large language models in certain tasks. (ML: 0.99)👍👎
• The use of LLMs with tools may be limited by the availability of high-quality training data. (ML: 0.99)👍👎
• Researchers are exploring the potential of multimodal safety classification, which may have significant implications for industries that rely on text-based data. (ML: 0.98)👍👎
• Multimodal safety classification is a technique used to identify potential risks or hazards in text-based data. (ML: 0.98)👍👎
• The use of small language models is gaining traction as a valuable plug-in for large language models. (ML: 0.95)👍👎
• LLMs (Large Language Models) are artificial intelligence models that can process and generate human-like language. (ML: 0.94)👍👎
• The use of LLMs with tools and small language models is becoming increasingly prevalent in various applications. (ML: 0.94)👍👎
• There is a growing interest in multimodal safety classification, with the introduction of Llama Guard 4 by Meta AI. (ML: 0.89)👍👎
• LLMs with tools are becoming increasingly popular, and researchers are exploring their potential in various applications. (ML: 0.88)👍👎
• Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can perform tasks autonomously, often requiring human oversight or intervention. (ML: 0.83)👍👎

Abstract
We present Interfaze, a system that treats modern LLM applications as a problem of building and acting over context, not just picking the right monolithic model. Instead of a single transformer, we combine (i) a stack of heterogeneous DNNs paired with small language models as perception modules for OCR involving complex PDFs, charts and diagrams, and multilingual ASR with (ii) a context-construction layer that crawls, indexes, and parses external sources (web pages, code, PDFs) into compact structured state, and (iii) an action layer that can browse, retrieve, execute code in a sandbox, and drive a headless browser for dynamic web pages. A thin controller sits on top of this stack and exposes a single, OpenAI-style endpoint: it decides which small models and actions to run and always forwards the distilled context to a user-selected LLM that produces the final response. On this architecture, Interfaze-Beta achieves 83.6% on MMLU-Pro, 91.4% on MMLU, 81.3% on GPQA-Diamond, 57.8% on LiveCodeBench v5, and 90.0% on AIME-2025, along with strong multimodal scores on MMMU (val) (77.3%), AI2D (91.5%), ChartQA (90.9%), and Common Voice v16 (90.8%). We show that most queries are handled primarily by the small-model and tool stack, with the large LLM operating only on distilled context, yielding competitive accuracy while shifting the bulk of computation away from the most expensive and monolithic models.

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• The paper proposes a two-axis characterization of physically grounded intelligence - thermodynamic epiplexity per joule (learning/representation efficiency) and empowerment per joule (control efficiency). (ML: 0.93)👍👎
• Epiplexity: A measure of the amount of information gained by a system, taking into account the constraints and limitations imposed by the environment. (ML: 0.90)👍👎
• The paper provides a framework for evaluating the efficiency of physically grounded intelligence in terms of thermodynamic epiplexity per joule and empowerment per joule. (ML: 0.90)👍👎
• The key message is that any comparison requires explicit conventions - accounting boundary, coarse-graining/noise model, horizon, and reset/closed-cycle assumptions. (ML: 0.89)👍👎
• Thermodynamic epiplexity per joule (learning/representation efficiency): Measures how efficiently energy is converted into retained structure information. (ML: 0.88)👍👎
• Empowerment per joule (control efficiency): Measures the energetic efficiency of available control-channel information under the stated cost model. (ML: 0.84)👍👎
• The paper assumes that the accounting boundary, coarse-graining/noise model, horizon, and reset/closed-cycle assumptions are explicitly specified. (ML: 0.83)👍👎
• Quantum computing does not provide a route to 'beat' the fundamental information-theoretic or thermodynamic limits discussed in this paper; rather, it changes the physical implementation pathway by which a given information gain is achieved. (ML: 0.69)👍👎
• Quantum computing does not provide a route to 'beat' the fundamental information-theoretic or thermodynamic limits discussed in this paper; rather, it changes the physical implementation pathway by which a given information gain is achieved. (ML: 0.69)👍👎
• An explicit closed-cycle thermodynamic limit for epiplexity acquisition is derived, alongside an open-boundary decoupling construction clarifying the role of boundary closure. (ML: 0.44)👍👎

Abstract
Modern AI systems achieve remarkable capabilities at the cost of substantial energy consumption. To connect intelligence to physical efficiency, we propose two complementary bits-per-joule metrics under explicit accounting conventions: (1) Thermodynamic Epiplexity per Joule -- bits of structural information about a theoretical environment-instance variable newly encoded in an agent's internal state per unit measured energy within a stated boundary -- and (2) Empowerment per Joule -- the embodied sensorimotor channel capacity (control information) per expected energetic cost over a fixed horizon. These provide two axes of physical intelligence: recognition (model-building) vs.control (action influence). Drawing on stochastic thermodynamics, we show how a Landauer-scale closed-cycle benchmark for epiplexity acquisition follows as a corollary of a standard thermodynamic-learning inequality under explicit subsystem assumptions, and we clarify how Landauer-scaled costs act as closed-cycle benchmarks under explicit reset/reuse and boundary-closure assumptions; conversely, we give a simple decoupling construction showing that without such assumptions -- and without charging for externally prepared low-entropy resources (e.g.fresh memory) crossing the boundary -- information gain and in-boundary dissipation need not be tightly linked. For empirical settings where the latent structure variable is unavailable, we align the operational notion of epiplexity with compute-bounded MDL epiplexity and recommend reporting MDL-epiplexity / compression-gain surrogates as companions. Finally, we propose a unified efficiency framework that reports both metrics together with a minimal checklist of boundary/energy accounting, coarse-graining/noise, horizon/reset, and cost conventions to reduce ambiguity and support consistent bits-per-joule comparisons, and we sketch connections to energy-adjusted scaling analyses.

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• The researchers identified six themes that emerged from the participants' feedback: (1) personalization, (2) interaction capabilities, (3) feedback mechanisms, (4) affective computing, (5) debriefing and reflection, and (6) accessibility. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• **Standardized patients**: Human actors who are trained to portray specific medical conditions or scenarios, used in medical education to assess student clinical skills. (ML: 0.97)👍👎
• The system aims to address the limitations of traditional standardized patients, such as lack of personalization and limited interaction capabilities. (ML: 0.96)👍👎
• The researchers also emphasized the importance of incorporating affective computing features, such as personality and emotional profiles, to create more realistic and engaging interactions with patients. (ML: 0.95)👍👎
• The study's findings suggest that an AI-powered simulated patient system should be designed to provide personalized learning experiences, interactive scenarios, and immediate feedback mechanisms. (ML: 0.94)👍👎
• The study highlights the potential benefits of using AI-powered simulated patient systems in medical education, including improved student engagement, increased personalized learning experiences, and enhanced clinical skills development. (ML: 0.94)👍👎
• A total of 11 clinical-year medical students from two anonymized medical schools participated in the study. (ML: 0.93)👍👎
• Participants were asked to share their thoughts on what features they would like to see in an AI-powered simulated patient system. (ML: 0.93)👍👎
• Researchers conducted a study to design an AI-powered simulated patient system that can provide personalized and interactive learning experiences for medical students. (ML: 0.92)👍👎
• **AI-powered simulated patient system**: A computer-based system that uses artificial intelligence to simulate a real patient, allowing for interactive and personalized learning experiences. (ML: 0.86)👍👎

Abstract
Standardized patients (SPs) play a central role in clinical communication training but are costly, difficult to scale, and inconsistent. Large language model (LLM) based AI standardized patients (AI-SPs) promise flexible, on-demand practice, yet learners often report that they talk like a patient but feel different. We interviewed 12 clinical-year medical students and conducted three co-design workshops to examine how learners experience constraints of SP encounters and what they expect from AI-SPs. We identified six learner-centered needs, translated them into AI-SP design requirements, and synthesized a conceptual workflow. Our findings position AI-SPs as tools for deliberate practice and show that instructional usability, rather than conversational realism alone, drives learner trust, engagement, and educational value.

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