In decentralized federated learning, heterogeneous clients may develop complementary expertise, yet each query is typically evaluated only by the client where it arrives. To exploit this distributed…
Inference-time sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) decoding can improve the reasoning accuracy of masked diffusion language models (diffusion LLMs) without post-training by resampling a population of…
Cox processes provide a principled Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling event-based data through an underlying intensity function. However, existing inference methods for estimating the…
In the classical principal-agent setting, the principal delegates some task to the agent, who receives a payment conditioned on the outcome of the task, which in turn benefits the principal. To align…
In modern commerce, firms and platforms typically use customer features from different sources to personalize prices: some features are verified using seller records or third-party data, while others…
We consider two linked problems for ranked choice elections: building a compact summary of a preference profile $P$, and generating synthetic profiles that resemble $P$ in key ways. We introduce a…
Claims that two training methods perform equally well often rest on a non-significant difference between two or three runs per method. We develop a protocol, with its power theory, for certifying…
Can algorithms be learned and evolved as models, rather than repeatedly redesigned as programs? We explore this question by introducing Algorithm Modelization, a new paradigm that turns iterative…
The linear representation hypothesis holds that pretrained vision models encode generative factors as linearly decodable directions in feature space, and comes with a standard methodology: train a…
We present a scalable framework for solving multi-step tasks through a decentralized market of self-interested agents. Prior theoretical work demonstrated that agents organized through sequential…
We study the \emph{voter model with opinion graph}, a generalization of the standard (pull) voter model that adds a notion of bounded confidence. In this process, we consider a finite set $A$ of $n$…
The Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) is a recurrent network that attends to inputs and makes predictions based on the synchronization between its neurons. On tasks spanning many domains, it displays…
We investigate the growth trajectory of online platforms operating as market makers in two-sided matching markets. Their expansion, often referred to as the ``chicken-and-egg dilemma'' in the…
Online motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) typically decode continuous EEG using fixed-length sliding windows that may be misaligned with neural events. Existing window…
Regularization-based continual learning protects each parameter in proportion to an estimate of its importance, yet these estimates come from finite samples and heuristics and are used as if they…
We study temporal fair division with indivisible goods that arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. In contrast to the usual online model, we assume that valuations and future arrivals…
Intrinsic explainability remains a challenging problem, particularly in contexts where multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) require dynamic re-training within an optimization environment. This paper…
The Three-Dimensional Trailer Loading Problem (3D-TLP) involves determining the optimal placement and orientation of heterogeneous items within the confined space of a trailer while maximizing volume…
This work evaluates the direct transfer of a co-evolved communication protocol from a 2D simulation to a 3D physical environment, without retraining the network weights. Two e-puck-type robots,…
Neural networks are typically adapted by computing gradients and updating model parameters. We investigate whether task-specific adaptation can instead emerge from a meta-learned self-organising…
AI-driven scientific discovery accelerates research by autonomously developing solutions and designs. Large language model (LLM) agents support this process through iterative generation and…