AI News Archive: May 12, 2026 — Part 18
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- One-Step Generative Modeling via Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Diffusion models and flow-based methods have shown impressive generative capability, especially for images, but their sampling is expensive because it requires many iterative updates. We introduce W-Flow, a framework for training a generator that transforms samples from a simple reference distributi...
- Posterior Contraction Rates for Sparse Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Anisotropic Besov Spaces
We study posterior contraction rates for sparse Bayesian Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) over anisotropic Besov spaces, providing a statistical foundation of KANs from a Bayesian point of view. We show that sparse Bayesian KANs equipped with spike-and-slab-type sparsity priors attain the near-mini...
- Learning U-Statistics with Active Inference
$U$-statistics play a central role in statistical inference. In many modern applications, however, acquiring the labels required for $U$-statistics is costly. Motivated by recent advances in active inference, we develop an active inference framework for $U$-statistics that selectively queries inform...
- Exact Stiefel Optimization for Probabilistic PLS: Closed-Form Updates, Error Bounds, and Calibrated Uncertainty
Probabilistic partial least squares (PPLS) is a central likelihood-based model for two-view learning when one needs both interpretable latent factors and calibrated uncertainty. Building on the identifiable parameterization of Bouhaddani et al.\ (2018), existing fitting pipelines still face two prac...
- Adaptive Calibration in Non-Stationary Environments
Making calibrated online predictions is a central challenge in modern AI systems. Much of the existing literature focuses on fully adversarial environments where outcomes may be arbitrary, leading to conservative algorithms that can perform suboptimally in more benign settings, such as when outcomes...
- A Barrier-Metric First-Order Method for Linearly Constrained Bilevel Optimization
We study bilevel optimization with a fixed polyhedral lower feasible set. Such problems are challenging for two reasons: active-set changes can make the upper objective nonsmooth, and existing hypergradient methods typically require lower-Hessian inversions or equivalent linear solves, which are com...
- Spatial Adapter: Structured Spatial Decomposition and Closed-Form Covariance for Frozen Predictors
We present the Spatial Adapter, a parameter-efficient post-hoc layer that equips any frozen first-stage predictor with a structured spatial representation of its residual field and an induced closed-form spatial covariance. The adapter operates as a cascade second stage on residuals, jointly learnin...
- Causal Algorithmic Recourse: Foundations and Methods
The trustworthiness of AI decision-making systems is increasingly important. A key feature of such systems is the ability to provide recommendations for how an individual may reverse a negative decision, a problem known as algorithmic recourse. Existing approaches treat recourse outcomes as counterf...
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- Open Vibe
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- Jotform Claude App
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- display.dev
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- Free AI SEO Auditor
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- knooth
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- Whirr
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- Hopper
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- Synci
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- Khaos Brain
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- Auvylo
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- MoonSlide
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- Self-becoming
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- Charios
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- Typoscale
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- QuantRankAI
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- ViralPrompts.in
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- TILCAT PhotoEdit Studio
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- StudyFlow — Lessons into study plans.
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Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity. Get the consensus.
- News Whisper
AI audio summaries for Indian news
- Content Repurposing Engine
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- ShieldSYNC
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- GEO Audit
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- LeafMarker
Visual UI feedback for Claude Code, Cursor & Codex
- Resumiq
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AI roasts your situationship 0–100. Brutally.
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