Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural-language optimization problems into solver programs, but reliably producing correct formulations and implementations remains challenging. Existing…
Neurosurgical navigation commonly presents magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as 2D slices, making it difficult to relate the anatomy in those slices to the cortical surface observed through the…
We present TwinStore, a source-available synthetic consumer platform for physical retail built on vision--language models. TwinStore turns a store into a digital twin---from 82 ready-made formats, a…
Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) are appealing Bayesian regression models, but their standard discrete-depth parameterization often becomes harder to optimize as depth grows. We argue that depth is…
PowerPoint presentations (PPTs) are a dominant medium for communication across diverse domains, yet high-quality PPT generation still depends heavily on labor-intensive human effort. Recent advances…
Real-image editing commonly relies on inversion and iterative sampling, while efficient one-step editors often stabilize a large update by estimating and averaging editing fields at multiple noise…
Large language models (LLMs) achieve high inference efficiency using optimized GPU kernels generated by just-in-time (JIT) compilation frameworks such as Triton. Triton compiles GPU kernels through…
Language models are aligned to avoid using protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, and gender to inform their responses. Therefore, they increasingly refuse or hedge when such attributes appear…
We study generative reward models (GenRMs) as online preference providers for policy optimization in creative writing. Across Qwen3 reward-model sizes from 0.6B to 14B, Thinking judges trained with…
This paper presents AgentDP, which aims to deploy pre-trained AI models on heterogeneous embedded devices by fully automating model optimization and adaptation (O&A) with Large Language Model (LLM)…
Large distribution shifts remain a primary obstacle for domain generalization and unsupervised adaptation. Although gradual domain adaptation alleviates this difficulty by introducing ordered…
We propose AgentDreamer, an agent-guided optimization framework that aligns text instructions with simulated motion through explicit 3D motion planning. Given a text instruction and scene geometry,…
Unsupervised federated learning with Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) offers a promising solution for label-free classification, yet its performance often degrades under severe non-IID shifts. A…
We provide new statistical insights into designing stochastic optimization methods. By modeling the gradient via a normal distribution, we argue that the stochastic gradient should be whitened using…
Cox processes provide a principled Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling event-based data through an underlying intensity function. However, existing inference methods for estimating the…
Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely used for expensive black-box optimization, yet observation noise makes each evaluation less informative and slows posterior learning. Standard BO learns from…
We study nonconvex--strongly-convex bilevel optimization with finite-sum objectives and fully first-order oracles. We propose Sampled Implicit Corrections for Bilevel Optimization (SICBO), which…
We study differentially private black-box evaluation of arbitrary high-dimensional functions. Given a dataset $S$ and query access to a function $f$---whose sensitivity may be unknown or…
In this work, we develop a zeroth-order (ZO) method that estimates the gradient with minimal bias and variance. Instead of the random directions often used in the ZO literature, we consider central…
The Mallows model is a well-established construct in preference modeling, describing random rankings through their Kendall-Tau distance from a reference permutation. Its compact parameterization and…
Evaluating the causal effect of new features is a central goal for online platforms. While recent literature addresses limited testing traffic via centralized portfolio optimization, this perspective…
Every day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and…