As AI models grow in size and usage, their energy demands increase dramatically, raising sustainability and economic concerns. Neuromorphic hardware, inspired by the energy efficiency of the brain,…
Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms underlying self-referential cognition and baseline self-consciousness remains a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience. In this work, we…
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…
Language-model agents are increasingly deployed to act on behalf of people in settings where individual decisions shape shared outcomes. We examine whether five production models adapt their…
AI services are prone to moral hazard, as model providers can silently route requests to cheaper, lower-quality models, and the inherent stochasticity of model outputs makes this degradation hard to…
Indivisible resources allocated in advance may need to be reallocated when capacity reductions make existing assignments infeasible, yet monetary compensation is often impractical or undesirable. We…
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…
An agentic market is a decentralized serving-time market where AI agents bid to claim each user prompt. An agent's bid is based on its expected value for the prompt, which is the expectation of the…
Assigning routine tasks to cheaper large language model (LLM) providers can reduce generation cost, but switching providers may require processing accumulated context again. Keeping dependent tasks…
Deep reinforcement learning agents in partially observable competitive games must act on beliefs about an unseen opponent's intent. We study a spatial opponent model: a transformer trained with…
Conversational assistants are becoming the place where people ask what to buy, and sponsored content is moving into their answers. Several advertisers then compete for one sponsored slot, and all of…
Many machine learning approaches are two-level: an expert selects a class of methods, within this class the choice of key components is critical and usually manual. This paper addresses the automatic…
Spatial public goods models show that prescribed movement toward richer locations can generate spatial patterns. We ask how such patterns emerge when agents learn where to move and how learning rates…
Calibrated uncertainty quantification is essential to ensuring AI agents are trustworthy and reliable. However, when agents seek to maximize user engagement or revenue, confidence reports may be…
When multiple agents share a cost budget, a common Lagrange multiplier can enforce the aggregate constraint but does not determine how its penalty should be allocated across agents. Uniform penalties…
The electric autonomous dial-a-ride problem (EADARP) extends the classical dial-a-ride problem by incorporating battery and charging constraints for electric vehicles. In practice, travel-time…
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…
Dynamic resource assignment, the real-time allocation of task streams to heterogeneous processing nodes, is the backbone of modern computing infrastructure. While learning-based schedulers excel in…
Despite many studies about causes and remedies of plasticity loss in Reinforcement Learning (RL) under continual task changes, no RL method has yet consistently achieved a good balance between…
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,…
Constrained Reinforcement Learning has recently gained increasing attention in the field of Safe Autonomous Driving, where the general mechanism is to maximize the expected reward while keeping the…
As large language models advance, AI agents are moving beyond isolated, domain-specific tasks toward long-horizon, cross-domain workflows. This transition exposes two challenges: increasing harness…
Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on near-term hardware remains hampered by two compounding difficulties: the exponential vanishing of gradient variance known as the barren plateau, and the…