Artificial intelligence has advanced through scale, data, and computation, yet remains bounded by its representational framework. We ask what makes intelligence open-ended.
Enthymemes are arguments that leave a premise or conclusion unstated, and they are a common persuasion device on social media. Because readers must fill in the missing part themselves, they often…
Fine-tuning has become a common way to customize text-to-image models, leading to community collections of over 100K lightweight adapters. Adapters sharing a base model can be merged with continuous…
AI-assisted editing can produce loan documents that preserve familiar issuer layouts while changing the applicant's identity. We investigated whether experienced underwriters and loan processors…
Understanding how university students perceive the development of their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) skills over time can clarify how GenAI use relates to learning and academic…
Bayesian variants of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provide principled uncertainty estimation when fine-tuning large foundation models, but require specifying the prior over the low-rank weight updates.…
We develop a derivative-free temporal-difference (TD) framework for calibrating black-box simulators using one-step transitions from a target system and noisy simulator-generated continuation values.…
Designing building energy systems is a high-dimensional, mixed-integer search problem: when each design is evaluated by a year-long simulation, black-box optimizers typically need hundreds of…
Process reward models (PRMs) provide fine-grained supervision for multi-step reasoning, yet obtaining reliable process labels remains a central bottleneck. Existing approaches typically rely on human…
Foundation models provide powerful representations for unstructured data, such as text and images, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) makes their adaptation to downstream tasks increasingly…
The research focuses on the thermal interface design of the HAKUTO Rover Flight Model (FM) and its evaluation using the final thermal vacuum experiment. Initially, an analytical thermal model was…
In large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems, reported confidence increasingly determines the allocation of scarce downstream attention, computation, and decision influence. This makes…
Do preferences Large Language Models (LLMs) express in standard elicitation tasks predict their strategic behaviour? LLM agents interacting with humans and other AI systems face potentially…
The neighborhood topology of particle swarm optimization (PSO) determines information propagation and regulates the exploration-exploitation balance. However, existing evaluation methods based on…
We study regret minimization in finite-horizon episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). While minimax-optimal algorithms are known, tractable approaches to instance-dependent optimality are still…
We study the problem of non-stationary bandits without knowledge of the environmental changes. We propose Detection Augmented Learning (DAL) a black-box paradigm that comprises three modular…
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is now a standard approach to parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large neural networks. Its low-rank factorization is inherently non-identifiable, making LoRA a singular…
Large language models are trained to predict tokens from a finite vocabulary, each represented by a vector in a $d$-dimensional embedding space. Therefore, token prediction is a classification…
Offline maximum entropy reinforcement learning seeks to estimate the optimal soft action-value function \(Q^*\) from a fixed dataset without further interaction with the environment. Although \(Q^*\)…
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is widely used for offline Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. However, recent works have shown that DPO can be easily manipulated by adversarial…
Robotic foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, which motivates cheap offline proxies for model capability. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH)…
Wrong automatic routing of an IT support ticket can cost more than human triage. We evaluate cost-aware abstention as an offline, cost-conditional readiness assessment: select a routing policy on…
Tool-using language model agents rely on environmental facts to decide whether an action is permitted. When a tool response omits a safety-relevant fact, an agent may carry out a prohibited action…