Robot foundation models may generalize across tasks and embodiments, but their actions still depend on sensors that can fail. When the policy is frozen or inaccessible, can an external monitor…
In this paper, we introduce a model-based boosting approach for fitting structured additive distributional copula regression models for bivariate responses, with particular emphasis on jointly…
We present general upper and lower bounds on the optimal error exponent for the Active Simple Hypothesis Testing (ASHT) problem. ASHT has been extensively studied across diverse fields including…
Dimension-reduction methods such as PCA identify a subspace capturing most of the variation in the data, but not a distinguished basis within it. Selecting a basis in which the samples are sparsely…
The CODIACS Vanguard randomized trial compared a depression care intervention with usual care for patients with persistent depressive symptoms following acute coronary syndrome. We assess whether its…
Machine learning has permeated material optimization, providing high value. Nevertheless, its re- liance on a high number of samples limits its applicability to relatively explored material families.
Computer-model calibration is usually undertaken in service of prediction, yet neither Bayesian Kennedy-O'Hagan (KOH) calibration nor amortized simulation-based inference is built to control the…
Policy enforcement for LLM agents has shifted from single-turn content moderation to compound, application-specific policies evaluated over multi-turn transcripts and tool-call trajectories.…
Nepali-English code-switched conversational speech presents severe challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR), chiefly through script confusion (inappropriate mixing of Devanagari and Latin…
Content caching via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) becomes one of the solutions to maintain content delivery when terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable or disrupted. However, existing caching…
Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, operate in increasingly complex environments while expected to maintain high reliability. The black-box nature of many of…
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…
We study the computational complexity of clairvoyant strategy optimization against a known online learner in finite-horizon repeated games. In general-sum games with bounded payoffs, unless…
Semiparametric Bayesian networks (SPBNs) are flexible probabilistic graphical models for representing joint distributions of continuous variables through lower-dimensional conditional probability…
Dynamic creative optimization decides which creative of an ad to render for each request. Recent work places that choice before ad ranking, but relies on deterministic point predictors with no…
Dealing with climate change requires that all countries engage in costly efforts to reduce their emissions. Reaching this objective has so far been elusive because it is in the best interest of each…
Structured sparse learning is a leading paradigm for high-dimensional data modeling, as it enables rigorous integration of domain-validated structural priors into the learning process. Among these…
We develop a unified framework for assortment optimization and matching under multinomial logit (MNL) choice, yielding simple algorithms and analyses across a broad class of problems. The framework…
Besides domination-based algorithms such as the NSGA-II, the decomposition-based MOEA/D is one of the most popular and successful optimization heuristic for multi-objective problems. It decomposes…
The MOEA/D is one of the most successful multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. It operates by decomposing the optimization problem into single-objective subproblems, which are then solved in a…
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…
Follow the regularized leader (FTRL) is a foundational algorithm in online learning whose regret properties have been extensively studied for decades. However, in stark contrast to mirror…
Predicting surrounding vehicles' lane-change intentions enables autonomous vehicles to anticipate potential hazards and respond proactively rather than relying solely on reactive maneuvers. This…
A fundamental challenge in Bayesian network structure learning lies in efficiently approximating the posterior distribution of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). For large, high-dimensional datasets,…