Clean-image prediction ($x$-prediction) and noise prediction yield equivalent population-optimal denoisers, yet can perform very differently in finite diffusion networks. For noisy input $Y_t$ with…
Per-point data-valuation scores -- Data Shapley, influence, leverage -- are routinely used to select training data: keep the points with the top $k$ scores. We argue that top-$k$ by a fixed,…
Synthetic data is an important data source in the AI era. This paper studies the generation of mixed-type tabular synthetic data in federated settings, where two key challenges arise: ensuring…
In AI-assisted service systems, the server can choose how much processing effort to spend on each job, which we call the service depth. Deeper reasoning improves output quality but occupies the…
A common measure of the quality of a voting rule is the social welfare of the alternatives it elects. Prior work shows that, when voter utilities are drawn from a neutral distribution, expected…
Test-time scaling has emerged as a key inference strategy for reasoning models, where a model generates a large number of candidate solutions in the hope of finding at least one correct solution.…
Learnable Representations (LRs) can fit parametric families of functions to diverse kinds of signals. These emergent neural-native data formats are gathering interest in the scientific community due…
The Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA) is widely used for high-dimensional Bayesian inference. Classical analyses in Wasserstein-2 distance predict an asymptotic bias and a mixing time that grow…
Equilibrium neural networks define their hidden state as the fixed point of a contraction, so their effective depth is set at evaluation time rather than by the architecture. Using them for fully…
The rise of Agentic AI systems has changed the landscape of artificial intelligence by enabling strong reasoning capabilities through specialized multi-agent interaction with structured…
Decision support has become sophisticated at exploring uncertainty, but much less so at representing the architecture of the decision itself. As a result, the decision space is often narrowed before…
Neural network (NN)-based transistor models have proven to be a promising solution to accelerate device modeling. Although these models demonstrated remarkable speedup in circuit simulations, they…
Generative AI imposes new metacognitive demands on knowledge workers as their work shifts from production to planning, evaluation, and orchestration. In a randomized, between-subjects experiment on…
Digital image transmission typically optimizes source coding, channel coding, and modulation separately, limiting how source representations adapt to channel impairments. We propose SemQAM, a joint…
Radar heart sounds capture cardiac mechanical activity without contact, while echocardiography characterizes ventricular and valvular function. Paired measurements connect these signals to structural…
Many problems in signal processing, machine learning, and neuroimaging provide several jointly observed measurements of one process, each mixing a component common to all of them with a component…
Trajectory tracking for compliant robots is challenging due to nonlinear dynamics and modeling uncertainties, often requiring learning-based methods to avoid explicit parameter identification.…
Policy gradients for autoregressive sequence models differentiate each token's log-probability while holding the conditioning history fixed. This discards information about how earlier decisions…
The Wave Optics Optimizer (WOO) incorporates optical diffraction and interference into numerical optimization and has shown competitive performance in benchmarks and engineering applications.…
Learning-to-rank (LTR) models can align rankings with undesignated signals when those signals appear as features or leak into training labels. We compare label-free genetic multi-criteria sorting…