Human-robot collaboration requires partners to coordinate interdependent contributions toward a shared goal. Joint Action theory provides concepts for understanding this coordination, but how these…
Narrative-driven recommendation allows users to express multifaceted needs through free-form text where stated preferences naturally qualify and condition one another. Existing methods typically…
We propose a test of whether two interventions induce the same outcome distribution when outcomes are structured and high-dimensional, such as images, text and graphs. We represent the interventional…
Autonomous vehicles in enclosed spaces such as tunnels and mines rely on range maps that smoke, dust and fog make inaccurate. Conformal prediction calibrates a keepout around the mapped walls that…
Accurate forecasting of global total electron content (TEC) is important for space weather monitoring and the reliable operation of satellite communication and navigation systems. We propose a…
Spacecraft-mounted robotic manipulators can support long-term operability of orbiting assets by conducting tasks such as on-orbit assembly, repair, upgrade, and refueling. In this context, the…
Real-to-Sim-to-Real (Real2Sim2Real) enables structured world representations for planning, interpretability, and safe execution. Most existing approaches rely on passive perception, which creates…
Humanoid dexterous hands are a core component of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to translate high-level intent into rich and adaptive physical interaction. However, existing designs remain…
The Sinkhorn divergence, a debiased form of entropic optimal transport, has been widely used in various scientific disciplines due to its computational and statistical tractability. Unlike the…
Nonparametric inference often requires characterizing an unknown function, such as a cumulative distribution function (CDF), across its entire domain rather than a specific point. We develop…
Shapley-value-based explanations are widely used for feature attribution in machine learning. However, in computer vision, a feature may reduce the target-class score when added to the complete…
Neural architecture search (NAS) is challenging because of the vast, non-linear space of artificial neural network (ANN) topologies. Evolutionary methods can generate architectures, but their…
In stochastic multi-objective bandits, Pareto optimal arms may represent different trade-offs among objectives. Balanced sampling across them is important in practical settings such as online…
In token-priced language model services, users can see the prompts they submit and the answers they receive, but may also pay for internal reasoning and candidate answers that are not shown in the…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to the unconstrained generalized variational inference problem regularized by an $α$-divergence. Under mild conditions, the minimizer is explicit up…
Problem definition: Subscription box services often ask customers for ratings before choosing what to send. Responses are scarce, and longer questionnaires and finer scales lower completion.
Organisms must constantly weigh exploiting the resources they know against exploring for better ones. When foragers compete, the best behavior for each forager also depends on what its competitors do.
Black-box optimization (BBO) arises in many scientific and engineering problems where objective evaluations are expensive and limited. Recent large language model (LLM) agents offer a new way to…
Frameworks that use large language models for scientific discovery typically rely on a fixed, human-designed algorithm that decides what the model sees at each step, leaving the model only the role…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer low-energy sequence modeling through sparse, event-driven computation. However, interactions among spike encoding, neuronal dynamics, and information propagation…
Clinical scalp electroencephalography (EEG) offers a noninvasive window into neural dynamics of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, discriminative deep models often lack anatomically indexed…
Self-evolving vision-language models train on questions they generate from unlabeled images. Since these questions have no gold answers, prior methods label them by majority vote over sampled answers…
As constellations of satellite grow in size, and become more costly, they are increasingly funded by multiple stakeholders who expect access to the constellation's resources that is commensurate with…
In applications such as air-quality monitoring, inexpensive sensor readings can help predict pollutant concentrations measured by a separate reference instrument. We study how to adapt conformal…