What is the round complexity of Hessian-similar optimization when each round can contact at most $s$ of $m$ clients? Prior rates permit a free master or full participation and do not characterize…
Modern gradient boosting algorithms are based on Newton's method, which excels empirically but lacks global convergence guarantees. While recent work on Gradient-Regularized Newton (GRN) boosting…
World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising approach to learning generalist robot policies using rich spatiotemporal priors from pre-trained video diffusion models. A recent line of WAMs…
As LLMs expand their language coverage, evaluating how well they understand and represent diverse cultures becomes increasingly important. However, many benchmarks remain English-centric, with…
Developing analog and hybrid systems requires substantial domain knowledge that is hard to articulate in a formal specification; without additional effort, this domain knowledge is also inaccessible…
Principal-agent hypothesis testing studies statistical contracts in which a principal rewards an agent according to data the agent generates. Existing work focuses on the single-shot setting, where…
Human judgment calls made throughout the data science life cycle can change the conclusions drawn from data. Independent analysts often make different choices when given the same data, leading to…
Blind random search is a simple global optimization method that only requires the value of the loss function, without needing gradient information or an explicit loss model. However, its classical…
Given a random probability distribution \(F\), whose realizations are defined on \(\mathbb R^d\), and a kernel \(k\), our aim is to analyze the properties of the kernel mean embedding, \(μ_F\), of…
Random jump forests are introduced as a nonparametric tool for estimating conditional cumulative transition rates and occupation probabilities in multi-state models. The main idea is that a single…
Long-term environmental IoT/LPWAN deployments often aggregate heterogeneous data streams from diverse devices without systematic auditing of each variable's actual coverage prior to analysis-an…
Concentration inequalities for time series usually involve unknown quantities measuring dependence. This prevents their direct use as confidence bounds, or as criteria for learning algorithms.
Supervised contrastive learning and its balanced variants have demonstrated their effectiveness for representation learning under long-tailed distributions. However, although prior analyses suggest…
Hierarchical language generation separates continuous semantic modeling from discrete text realization, but its effectiveness depends on what the latent space compresses and how the discrete…
LLM memory is widely used in long-term conversation understanding. Agentic memory systems often use mutation, structural organization, learned retrieval strategies, or other complex operations.
This paper addresses the problem of creating immersive volumetric videos from sparse and low-resolution capture resources. Conventional dense multi-view reconstruction methods can produce…
Agent harnesses have become a central component of modern agentic systems, shaping how models use tools, manage context, and coordinate long-horizon interaction. Realizing the benefits of these…
Animals exhibit diverse shape-changing behaviors, from the undulatory swimming of eels to the arching movements of inchworms. Reproducing these biological shapes with modular soft robots offers a…
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…
Many recent open-weight language models use n-gram embedding tables to improve performance. These tables store learned representations of short token sequences, such as pairs or triples of…
Agentic reinforcement learning rewards a complete episode, yet the policy needs credit for every decision inside it. Counterfactual branching estimates this credit by re-running the episode after an…
Vision-language models (VLMs) can perform a broad range of tasks across diverse settings, yet their performance in agentic contexts remains poorly understood. Although online evaluations in…
Systems that aim to help a user engage with viewpoints other than their own have to decide how different those viewpoints should be. Viewpoints are mainly represented on a scalar scale, too coarse to…
Continual learning requires a model to keep acquiring new skills and knowledge without compromising its existing capabilities. Parametric methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting and loss of…