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Learning Time-Series Representations by Hierarchical Uniformity-Tolerance Latent Balancing

arXiv · · Research Time-Series

The paper introduces TimeHUT, a new method for learning time-series representations using hierarchical uniformity-tolerance balancing of contrastive representations. TimeHUT employs a hierarchical setup to learn both instance-wise and temporal information, along with a temperature scheduler to balance uniformity and tolerance. The method was evaluated on UCR, UAE, Yahoo, and KPI datasets, demonstrating superior performance in classification tasks and competitive results in anomaly detection.

ALARB: An Arabic Legal Argument Reasoning Benchmark

arXiv · · NLP LLM

Researchers introduce ALARB, a new benchmark for evaluating reasoning in Arabic LLMs using 13K Saudi commercial court cases. The benchmark includes tasks like verdict prediction, reasoning chain completion, and identification of relevant regulations. Instruction-tuning a 12B parameter model on ALARB achieves performance comparable to GPT-4o in verdict prediction and generation.