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Mental health issues among youth vary significantly by region in Finland, with some areas reporting double the rates of depression compared to others, highlighting regional disparities in wellbeing.
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The Mental Health and Substance Services Leaders Network aims to enhance service integration and development in Finland, responding to systemic healthcare reforms.
uutiskirje.thl.fiA new law ensures that children and young adults under 23 in Finland will access mental health support within 28 to 30 days starting May 2025, enhancing treatment availability.
uutiskirje.thl.fiTHL promotes Finnish population health by gathering research data and offering solutions to improve well-being and reduce social inequalities.
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IPS employment coaching helps individuals with severe mental health disorders find jobs in open labor markets, with effective integration into psychiatric care since 2021.
uutiskirje.thl.fiDepression symptoms among youths are reported to be twice as common in certain regions compared to others in Finland, emphasizing the need for localized mental health support.
uutiskirje.thl.fiFinland's energy sector emissions decreased by 6% in 2024, but the land use sector remains a significant net source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The financial sector is shifting its approach to climate goals, indicating a significant change in priorities and strategies in response to evolving societal demands.
Financial TimesQuantum natural language processing can effectively inverse design metal-organic frameworks, achieving over 93% accuracy for target properties in initial studies.
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lmgame-Bench allows for reliable evaluation of LLMs in gaming by addressing challenges like perception and prompt sensitivity, enhancing model capability testing.
arxiv.orgLLMs exhibit fluid, input-sensitive personalities lacking stability, differing from human traits, suggesting new frameworks for human-AI interaction.
arxiv.orgInteractions with social chatbots can mimic emotional connection patterns, revealing risks of toxic relationships, necessitating ethical design and public education to protect users.
arxiv.orgA formal connection between large language models and Algorithmic Information Theory has been established, improving few-shot example selection for better performance.
arxiv.orgA multi-dimensional framework called DECASTE detects caste biases in large language models, revealing systemic bias against marginalized groups like Dalits and Shudras.
arxiv.orgKernel Divergence Score effectively measures dataset contamination in large language models, ensuring performance evaluations reflect generalization ability, not memorization.
arxiv.orgTango framework uses concurrent reinforcement learning to train LLM generator and verifier together, achieving state-of-the-art results in reasoning tasks, particularly in complex math problems.
arxiv.orgUniErase introduces a novel unlearning method for language models, achieving superior forgetting while maintaining performance, outperforming past methods significantly with minimal parameter changes.
arxiv.orgTest-time compute (TTC) enhances accuracy-energy efficiency in large language models, especially for complex reasoning tasks, offering a sustainable alternative to just model scaling.
arxiv.orgSmall language models can improve empathetic dialogue for PTSD support but gains are user-dependent and models face an empathy ceiling; TIDE dataset aids development of empathetic AI.
arxiv.orgThe o-[n] series models, particularly o3 and o4-mini, outperform GPT-[n] series in multimodal reasoning but struggle with complex visual tasks, highlighting areas for AGI improvement.
arxiv.orgMany question-answering benchmarks exhibit demographic biases and lack diversity among creators, necessitating transparent practices to ensure fairer large language models.
arxiv.orgA three-stage model for emotion-sensitive explainable AI adapts explanations based on users' emotional states to enhance understanding and support decision-making.
arxiv.orgBridge2AI's adaptive curriculum personalizes AI training in healthcare, integrating real-world projects to enhance interdisciplinary competencies with ethical considerations.
arxiv.orgRoleRAG introduces a unified retrieval-augmented generation framework using role-specific token optimization for efficient multi-task processing with a single LLM.
arxiv.orgPost-training language models (PoLMs) enhance LLMs by addressing reasoning capacities and ethical concerns, paving the way for improved domain-specific performance and adaptability.
arxiv.orgQuaff is a fine-tuning framework that reduces latency by 1.73x and memory by 30%, enabling efficient LLM deployment on consumer devices without sacrificing accuracy.
arxiv.orgA new benchmark for Post-training Quantization in LLMs identifies key strategies and trade-offs, enhancing model performance evaluation and deployment recommendations.
arxiv.orgDistance between infected and healthy individuals significantly affects disease transmission dynamics, as illustrated in a model correlating with COVID-19 patterns.
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Global legislative responses to misinformation are evolving, shifting from less free nations to robust laws in Western states, driven by perceived public health and national security impacts.
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The proposed ShotKV compression technique enhances LLM performance by 9%-18% during long-context generation even under high compression, addressing task-dependent degradations.
arxiv.orgEntropy minimization significantly enhances LLMs' performance on complex tasks without needing labeled data, revealing untapped reasoning abilities.
arxiv.orgEvidence suggests that large language models share similar feature spaces even with different representations, supporting the universality hypothesis and enabling transferability of interpretability techniques.
arxiv.orgCertainty-based Adaptive Reasoning (CAR) improves LLM performance by dynamically switching between short and long responses based on model confidence, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
arxiv.orgQ-gen generates customizable quantum circuits with high variability to optimize and automate classical data processing for future quantum computing applications.
arxiv.orgRePPL improves LLM hallucination detection by allocating clear uncertainty scores to input tokens, enhancing explainability and performance across QA datasets.
arxiv.orgEmotions, both prior and task-related, significantly influence retention and understanding of AI explanations, introducing potential biases in decision-making.
arxiv.orgUniversal scaling laws for hyperparameters in LLMs show optimal learning rates and batch sizes are power-law functions of model parameters and data size. This leads to a robust tool for optimizing performance.
arxiv.orgIdentifying successful applications of pre-trained models can uncover innovation opportunities in AI, despite the accompanying hype cycle surrounding them.
arxiv.orgUncertainty quantification shows fine-tuned LLMs retain more prior knowledge than anticipated, even during the overfitting regime, enhancing their reliability in predictions.
arxiv.orgA new hybrid quantum classical pipeline improves X-ray fracture diagnosis accuracy to 99% and reduces feature extraction time by 82%, combining PCA and quantum feature enrichment.
arxiv.orgRepurposed general-purpose LLMs encode EHR data effectively for clinical predictions, often surpassing specialized models in performance across diverse tasks.
arxiv.orgTargeted regularization is vital for lifelong knowledge editing in language models to reduce degradation and improve efficiency during edits.
arxiv.orgNeural Quantum Digital Twins can optimize quantum annealing by accurately simulating energy landscapes and identifying optimal annealing schedules, reducing errors.
arxiv.orgSelf-Evolving Curriculum improves RL fine-tuning of large language models, enhancing reasoning abilities significantly across various domains including mathematics and planning.
arxiv.orgMachine unlearning for large language models can effectively remove sensitive content while maintaining performance by using new metrics and improved methods for targeted and untargeted unlearning.
arxiv.orgLearning curves are often poorly behaved, with 14% exhibiting significant ill-behavior, challenging conventional assumptions and impacting model selection processes.
arxiv.orgThe Thinking Intervention paradigm enhances reasoning LLMs by improving task performance through controlled internal reasoning processes, achieving up to 40% better responses to unsafe prompts.
arxiv.orgReliability of machine learning interpretations is questionable; popular methods are often unstable and do not assure accuracy, highlighting the need for evaluation of interpretation stability.
arxiv.orgOptimal design of LLM-based search agents hinges on reward formulation, LLM characteristics, and search engine choice, impacting their performance in real-world applications.
arxiv.orgSelf-GIVE enhances large language models by enabling automatic associative thinking, improving performance in biomedical QA tasks while reducing token usage significantly.
arxiv.orgThere are significant regional disparities in alcohol-related illnesses and access to vocational rehabilitation in Finland, particularly pronounced in Eastern and Northern regions.
uutiskirje.thl.fiVLMs show high success in identifying real emergencies but misidentify up to 96% of safe situations as dangerous, indicating a significant overreaction problem and limitations in contextual understanding.
arxiv.orgEffective climate policies targeting ozone precursors have led to significant emission reductions, with hybrid strategies showing added benefits in various sectors.
arxiv.orgTempest exposes vulnerabilities in language models by revealing how minor compliance accumulates into safety violations during multi-turn interactions, achieving up to 100% success in breaching safeguards.
arxiv.orgProposed probabilistic modelling improves evaluation efficiency by ~50% in comparative LLM systems, enhancing uncertainty estimates and ranking accuracy.
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Russia has officially rejected a ceasefire in Ukraine, indicating a decisive stance against negotiations for peace.
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Japan's IHI is collaborating with Finland's Iceye to launch microsatellites, enhancing satellite capabilities and services.
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There are reported fire safety risks associated with ready-to-sell outdoor saunas in Finland.
yle.fiCountries are underreporting emissions of a potent climate super pollutant, leading to concerns about environmental accountability and the effectiveness of climate policies.
Inside Climate NewsLapland's tourism and industries are threatened by climate change, requiring adaptation and careful planning due to milder winters.
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www.goodnewsfinland.comGenerative AI exhibits traits of both general-purpose technologies and inventions of methods of invention, potentially enhancing productivity if it surpasses previous IT innovations' effects.
arxiv.orgEnergy models neglecting prosumers may overestimate battery storage needs by up to 200%. Including prosumer behavior results in more accurate capabilities for energy systems.
arxiv.orgExpanding retrieval access in AI models leads to safety devolution, where models behave unsafely and show increased bias with access to external sources.
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A new AI system improves data extraction from documents through a modular agent framework, utilizing reinforcement learning for self-correction, enhancing accuracy without human input.
arxiv.orgAutomated generation of context-based QA pairs enhances LLMs in knowledge-intensive tasks, improving reasoning and accuracy without heavy human labeling effort.
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The Pope is willing to host peace talks for Ukraine, signaling a potential diplomatic effort to resolve the ongoing conflict.
ReutersHousehold actions are crucial in addressing climate change, highlighting the significance of individual contributions to environmental efforts.
Phys.orgInvesting in solar energy is seen as a safer financial option compared to nuclear or hydrogen technologies due to lower risk factors.
Air Quality NewsLong-term unemployment in Finland may rise to 136,000 by the end of the year, nearing record levels last seen after the 1990s recession.
yle.fiOptimism about a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is reducing demand for gold as a safe-haven investment.
ReutersFinland's population grew by 5,561 from January to April 2025, primarily due to immigration exceeding emigration by 9,583 despite natural decline.
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Visual Safety Information Leakage (VSIL) challenges multimodal large language models' reliability, suggesting textual alignment can perform comparably to multimodal methods.
arxiv.orgSpecialised small language models can outperform general large models with as few as 100 labeled samples, although necessary samples vary by task and can increase due to performance variance.
arxiv.orgSafe Delta is a new method to fine-tune LLMs, preserving safety and utility when adapting to diverse datasets by managing parameter changes effectively.
arxiv.orgLarge language models exhibit superhuman diagnostic and reasoning skills, surpassing human physicians in clinical evaluations and urgent care scenarios.
arxiv.orgCurrent evaluation methods for agentic workflows are inadequate, highlighting the need for scalable, robust techniques. A dataset of 148 annotated traces has been developed to aid in research.
arxiv.orgA new energy equation improves LRM assessment by evaluating reasoning soundness and deriving confidence in answers, moving beyond simple correctness evaluation.
arxiv.orgCAIM, a new cognitive AI memory framework, enhances LLMs by improving context-aware long-term interactions, showing superior performance over existing models.
arxiv.orgRepresentation superposition significantly influences the scaling laws of large language models, suggesting potential for improved training strategies and architectures.
arxiv.orgA framework reveals that LLMs like ChatGPT exhibit ideological biases and problematic opinions, suggesting a need for ethical evaluation in AI development.
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United States is facilitating immediate ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine to help end ongoing fighting.
www.bbc.comRussia and Ukraine are set to begin ceasefire discussions immediately, indicating a potential shift towards resolving their conflict.
BBCRussia expresses willingness to collaborate with Ukraine on a memorandum for a potential peace agreement.
The Straits TimesRussia and Ukraine are set to begin immediate ceasefire talks, indicating a potential shift towards resolving ongoing conflict.
NBC NewsBiogas imports to Finland increased by 86% in 2024, reflecting a shift from natural gas to biogas, aiding in achieving carbon neutrality goals.
gasgrid.fiThe iterative programmatic planning (IPP) framework using large language models significantly improves grid-based task solving efficiency and reduces long-term costs.
arxiv.orgMoral framing significantly affects online fundraising, with negative framing driving donations while loyalty framing increases donation volume across categories.
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