Apple Silicon is among the most widely used platforms for local LLM inference, yet nearly all inference optimizations are designed and validated on server-class NVIDIA GPUs under batched serving…
Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective approach for combinatorial optimization, but most existing methods focus on problems such as the Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP) in which all…
Policy enforcement for LLM agents has shifted from single-turn content moderation to compound, application-specific policies evaluated over multi-turn transcripts and tool-call trajectories.…
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential to automate heuristic design for NP-hard combinatorial optimization (CO) tasks without human intervention. Recent methods predominantly…
While reasoning traces improve model capability, they also provide supervision signals for downstream distillation. Initial efforts to mitigate this issue rely on decoding-time interventions, but…
Existing agricultural advisories to farmers suffer from several limitations: (a) remain largely expert-driven, (b) do not adequately account for in-season weather, and (c) do not scale to individual…
PowerPoint presentations (PPTs) are a dominant medium for communication across diverse domains, yet high-quality PPT generation still depends heavily on labor-intensive human effort. Recent advances…
Real-image editing commonly relies on inversion and iterative sampling, while efficient one-step editors often stabilize a large update by estimating and averaging editing fields at multiple noise…
Content caching via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) becomes one of the solutions to maintain content delivery when terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable or disrupted. However, existing caching…
We study generative reward models (GenRMs) as online preference providers for policy optimization in creative writing. Across Qwen3 reward-model sizes from 0.6B to 14B, Thinking judges trained with…
Language 3D Gaussian Splatting enables open-vocabulary scene understanding by associating Gaussian primitives with language features. These semantic attributes increase model storage, while most…
Reliable uncertainty estimation is important across visual recognition tasks, providing information about the confidence and reliability of model predictions. Many uncertainty estimation methods…
Thyroid ultrasound supports the assessment of nodule malignancy, but classification predictions often lack evidence linked to familiar clinical descriptions. Radiomics provides explicitly defined…
Backpropagation remains the dominant training paradigm, using backward gradients and local updates that can suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients in deep networks. Although the Forward-Forward…
Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by employing a compact draft model to propose candidate tokens that are verified in parallel by a target model. Conventional training…
While agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for training small language models (SLMs), existing frameworks are predominantly tool-centric and struggle with…
Interactive video world models predict how an environment evolves under user actions, but most existing systems assume one controlled agent and one task-specific action interface. We study…
The goal of this paper is to distill insight around the trade-offs present on Bayesian equilibria of transaction fee mechanism (TFM) design under $n$ multiple concurrent proposers (MCP). We…
Exact demographic parity requires the same prediction distribution across sensitive groups. In regression, this can be too restrictive and reduce predictive accuracy.
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is widely used for offline Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. However, recent works have shown that DPO can be easily manipulated by adversarial…
We study the optimal design of a self-financing event, a problem that requires balancing the recruitment of costly, positive-value participants with revenue-generating agents who may impose negative…
Recent advances in agentic heuristic design use AI agents and execution feedback to automate algorithm discovery for challenging optimization problems. In many practical settings, high-quality…
Relay and reseller APIs have become a common way to access large language models (LLMs), yet users cannot directly verify whether they receive the models they request and pay for. This opacity…