We study welfare maximization in a contract model with $m$ principals who privately value a public project's success and $n$ agents whose costly effort is unobservable. Contracts induce truthful…
Disseminating synthetic data in place of original ones is a promising way to enforce privacy while complying with open science principles, especially in the healthcare domain. To keep pace with the…
Agentic reinforcement learning rewards a complete episode, yet the policy needs credit for every decision inside it. Counterfactual branching estimates this credit by re-running the episode after an…
AI coding agents can now build small playable games in minutes, but the results usually look like programmer art: gray blockouts, colored geometric primitives, and flat semantic blobs. We present…
Projected quantum kernels (PQKs) have emerged as a notable approach to circumvent the hardness of machine learning tasks arising from the exponential dimensionality of the quantum Hilbert space.…
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn world models in latent space, enabling efficient planning but leaving their states opaque. We introduce Inside-JEPA, which places relational…
Chunking strategies for retrieval-augmented generation are almost always evaluated on a static snapshot, yet the documents underlying a knowledge base continue to change. Because chunks are embedded…
Deep neural networks often struggle to provide reliable confidence estimates, making post-hoc calibration essential for reliable decision-making. Existing post-hoc methods largely rely on score-based…
A digital twin (DT) for type 1 diabetes (T1D) can predict how an individual's blood glucose will respond to different insulin treatments without actually trying them. For each treatment, downstream…
Quantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and decides what to keep. Existing…
Object detection models rely on large-scale annotated datasets that require substantial manual annotation effort. The labeling costs further increase when annotation uncertainty is captured through…
Deep neural networks deployed on smart glasses must adapt to changes in the distribution of incoming data while adhering to strict privacy and device constraints. We present No Frames, Just…
Automated optical inspection of precision components with tiny surface defects remains challenging when different regions of the same component exhibit different defect characteristics and,…
Practical image generation requires both human preference alignment and few-step efficiency, yet combining reinforcement learning (RL) with distillation is often multi-stage and may erode RL gains We…
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate research ideas from scientific literature. Existing systems combine literature retrieval with search, generation, and refinement, making…
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces the number of acquired projections, but conventional sampling strategies are designed primarily for image reconstruction rather than for downstream…
Large language models pass most functional-correctness benchmarks, but passing tests says little about whether their code is readable, efficient or secure. Many techniques claim to improve these…
Organisations keep decades of financial records as scanned PDFs on shared drives, and AI agents can now reach those drives through Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Existing benchmarks do not…
Principal-agent hypothesis testing studies statistical contracts in which a principal rewards an agent according to data the agent generates. Existing work focuses on the single-shot setting, where…
Streaming federated learning (SFL) allows clients to train a shared model from continuously arriving data without retaining large local datasets. Such streams often exhibit temporal dependence, yet…
Recent advances in generative image editing enable complex transformations such as background replacement, object manipulation, and pose adjustment from natural language instructions. However,…
In the era of large models, stereo matching is developing towards generalizable foundation models trained on million-scale synthetic images. However, how model performance scales up with synthetic…