Typed decision models return a probability distribution over options supplied by the caller, and software tends to act on that number as if it were a guarantee. We measure what it licenses, comparing…
Two compass bearings near north can have an ordinary arithmetic mean pointing south: the difficulty is that angles live on a circle, not a straight line. Using real wind observations, diffusion-MRI…
We study score matching over finite-dimensional approximation spaces generated by gradients of eigenfunctions of the infinitesimal generator of a forward diffusion. We compare polynomial…
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…
Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) offers efficient learning and inference for resource-constrained systems, yet ownership verification of its models remains underexplored. We present the first…
Per-point data-valuation scores -- Data Shapley, influence, leverage -- are routinely used to select training data: keep the points with the top $k$ scores. We argue that top-$k$ by a fixed,…
We give an algorithm for computing an $\eps$-approximate fixed point of any $d$-dimensional nonexpansion with respect to the $\ell_\infty$ norm in time $\log(1/\eps)^{O(\log^2 d)}$. At its core, our…
Mobile manipulators must navigate safely in cluttered, partially unknown environments across logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Semi-static changes between robot visits can lead to…
We present an AI-assisted mathematical addendum to Strategic Trip Planning: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Cooperation (Amar, 2018). We reconstruct selected relationships between…
Recently, multi-node inertial measurement unit (multi-IMU) systems have shown promise for robust odometry in legged robots. Multi-IMU fusion can improve legged robot odometry but requires accurate…
Industries employ robots for repetitive tasks due to their high precision and performance, typically achieved through feedforward control actions based on an accurate robot description. However, an…
Policy gradients for autoregressive sequence models differentiate each token's log-probability while holding the conditioning history fixed. This discards information about how earlier decisions…
Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) typically stores only scalar mean estimates, which makes it poorly suited for tail-risk objectives such as conditional value-at-risk (CVaR). We introduce Categorical…
We introduce a conformal prediction framework for regression with Grassmann-valued responses. The proposed method constructs prediction regions in the form of metric balls directly on the Grassmann…
Causal foundation models (CFMs) show promising results for treatment-effect estimation, with unit-level estimates that are competitive on standard benchmarks. Many causal analyses, however, inform…
Text injection trains speech recognition models on unpaired text alongside paired audio. We feed the speech encoder synthetic input derived from text so the whole model learns from it.
Most analyses of neural representations focus on trained endpoints, leaving the process by which internal structure forms comparatively unmeasured. We instead treat representation formation itself as…
In reinforcement learning, one presumes the action set to be known ahead of time, and, thus, one must know if any state-action pairs are not permissible ahead of computations. In some applications,…
In the classical necklace splitting problem, beads of different colors lie on a line, and the goal is to divide them among $k$ agents using as few cuts as possible so that every agent receives the…
Car-following (CF) models is a fundamental component of microscopic traffic simulation and underpin the analysis of collective traffic dynamics, while its modeling becomes more challenging due to…
The Wave Optics Optimizer (WOO) incorporates optical diffraction and interference into numerical optimization and has shown competitive performance in benchmarks and engineering applications.…
Empirical averages are fundamental statistical primitives. On nonlinear spaces, their generalization, the Fréchet mean, generally lacks a closed-form solution, and its computation requires solving an…
Standard Bayesian experimental design (BED) methods assume the experimenter alone will act on the data, choosing the best action given their own beliefs and goals. In practice, data are often acted…