We study whether the coordinate dependence of the improved Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm (iSOMA) can be reduced while retaining its inexpensive leader-directed migration mechanism. We introduce…
Production scheduling requires realistic models that reflect operational constraints and efficient methods that balance competing goals. Putting these methods into use also requires data integration,…
Continual Graph Learning (CGL) aims to incrementally learn from graph-structured data while preserving knowledge acquired from previous tasks. A major challenge in this setting is catastrophic…
Vector Symbolic Algebras project data structures into a hyperdimensional vector space through the application of their vector algebras to randomly generated atomic vector symbols and fractional power…
We benchmark classical optimization of a fixed low-depth Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) ansatz across four cost-Hamiltonian families at $N=12$, $p=3$, and $D=6$. Ten optimizers are…
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…
Residual-based causal discovery assumes that each variable is generated from its parents and an independent noise source. It estimates this noise and tests its independence from candidate causes.
Retrieval-based in-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to predict tabular labels from similar examples, but it remains unclear whether LLM inference improves on direct voting…
Conflict-graph search can stagnate despite effective operators when interventions fail to address the conflicts blocking progress. A disruptive intervention may also require further search before its…
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…
Generating an image with a diffusion or flow-matching model typically involves integrating a velocity field for hundreds of sequential steps. That computation suits a GPU poorly and an analog…
Modern online platforms commonly rank ads and organic content separately before blending them into a feed displayed to the user, overlooking externalities: an item's click-through rate depends on its…
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…
Large language model (LLM)-based automatic heuristic design (AHD) iteratively proposes and refines heuristics, pairing design rationales with executable code. Task-specific evaluators assess…
Large language models are increasingly participating in complex real-world tasks in the form of algorithm-design agents, designing and refining algorithms. Many successful algorithm-design agents…
This paper introduces a hybrid joint-selective optimization (HJSO) framework for large-scale numerical problems in which a small subset of trainable quantities is of primary interest. We partition…
Stochastic cell updates are often used throughout the life of a neural cellular automaton (NCA), from backpropagation through time to final rollout. This leaves two questions entangled: does update…
Adam and its variants dominate neural network training, but a single run only reveals whether a configuration works well after most of its budget is spent, a poor fit for hyperparameter or…
Physical reservoir computing uses nonlinear dynamics and a trained linear readout to process information. Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonators combine geometric Duffing nonlinearity with fading…
Functional annotation of newly sequenced proteins remains a bottleneck in molecular biology: the number of sequences in public repositories grows far faster than the capacity for manual curation.…
Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) uses genetic programming to evolve utility functions for guided local search in large-scale vehicle routing problems (LSVRPs). Evaluating every GP…
Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) learns utility functions that guide local search for vehicle routing. Its evolving programs can have similar fitness while inducing different search…
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…