On-policy distillation has been widely adopted for alleviating the distribution mismatch of off-policy distillation. Self-distillation further removes the need for an external teacher by using the…
We propose a new regression method named Direct Inference on Admissible Sets (Diona) that directly uses samples to estimate the state and its derivatives at a query point, along with their admissible…
We develop R2-GP, an R2D2-type prior for Gaussian process (GP) generalised additive models (GAMs) that calibrates explained variance ($R^2$) for Matérn covariance kernels. The function variance for…
A universal forecaster is trained once and applied everywhere, so it must serve tasks whose schemas, forecast horizons, and temporal resolutions all differ. The number of targets and covariates…
Margin bounds explain why weighted votes generalize after training error vanishes, but dependent observations require concentration arguments that keep the dependence model and failure budget…
Sequence models can generalise in fundamentally distinct ways: extrapolating structures seen in training, or using their prompt to adapt to novel tasks. The prevailing strategy determines how the…
We study the online fair division of indivisible goods. In the standard model, where assignments are irrevocable, no algorithm can guarantee any positive fraction of the maximin share (MMS).
Small Adam-trained shared-representation networks can reach equivalent selected mean readout measurements yet respond differently to the same further learning. We use state interventions to separate…
A reliable assessment of an optimizer robustness requires tracking controlled changes in parameters to identify sources of algorithmic weakness. Such an approach was applied to the problem of…
The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) remains a central concern in logistics research, as route optimisation under rigid capacity and fleet restrictions directly affects operational…
Diffusion vision-language models (DVLMs) process their entire input at every denoising step. Since visual tokens make up 89-97% of this input on the benchmarks we study, most of the decoding…
Reasoning LLMs often continue reasoning after reaching a correct answer, wasting computation and sometimes replacing it with an incorrect one. Deciding when to stop is a metareasoning problem: the…
AI-generated text detectors are increasingly deployed in consequential settings---peer review, education, admissions, journalism, and content moderation---where their outputs directly affect…
We propose a new framework for banner ad auctions, leveraging diffusion models to allow for multiple bidders to co-win a single banner ad opportunity, and in particular influence the ad shown on the…
LLM-guided evolutionary methods, such as AlphaEvolve, have emerged as powerful approaches for challenging computational optimization problems, such as circle packing. However, prior work typically…
Deploying a pretrained controller exposes it to conditions that are absent from its training data. Sensor drift, outright sensor failure and accumulating measurement noise all induce a distribution…
Convolutional EEG decoders are trained at a fixed width, usually set by their authors on other data. Growing methods add neurons during training where the loss could decrease the most, but whether…
Physical reservoir computing uses nonlinear dynamics and a trained linear readout to process information. Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonators combine geometric Duffing nonlinearity with fading…
Multimodal intelligence can be viewed as human-guided co-evolution between worlds and agents through interaction. However, scaling this process faces two bottlenecks: constructing heterogeneous,…
AI systems built around large models increasingly use experience and feedback to make persistent changes to models, prompts, memories, tools, and workflows. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) extends…
Deploying language agents in real applications demands more than the right answer: an agent must execute a multi-step business process correctly, follow domain-specific rules, and interact with a…
Language agents increasingly act through external tools and interactive environments, making the interface between the model and its executable capabilities part of the decision process. Model…
Can LLM agents carry a hard real-world problem from raw data to a system that holds its own against people? We study this in Hearthstone Battlegrounds, an eight-player auto-battler with stochastic…