LLM evolutionary search is currently evaluated by counting proposals (candidate programs). We demonstrate this metric hides the true cost of search, and redo the comparison using tokens.
Freshness shapes an LLM decision at the moment it is made; the action it commits to is latent, carried out later, in a changing world. We therefore introduce a timestamp theory of decision validity…
Online motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) typically decode continuous EEG using fixed-length sliding windows that may be misaligned with neural events. Existing window…
Conflict-graph search can stagnate despite effective operators when interventions fail to address the conflicts blocking progress. A disruptive intervention may also require further search before its…
We argue that tacit knowing is better modelled as an operating regime of a memory than as a kind of content. Our substrate is VaCoAl, an algebro-deterministic XOR-and-shift hyperdimensional memory…
Safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial prompts that bypass their safety training. Existing automated red-teaming methods either require privileged access…
Efficient neural architecture search (NAS) requires accurate performance estimation under limited evaluation budgets. Existing zero-cost proxies (ZCPs) provide fast training-free signals, but each…
Language models are frequently aligned to human preferences via imperfect evaluators whose errors can be exploited during optimization. We train policies to search for comparisons on which an…
Conversational assistants are becoming the place where people ask what to buy, and sponsored content is moving into their answers. Several advertisers then compete for one sponsored slot, and all of…
We propose a new framework for banner ad auctions, leveraging diffusion models to allow for multiple bidders to co-win a single banner ad opportunity, and in particular influence the ad shown on the…
Generating an image with a diffusion or flow-matching model typically involves integrating a velocity field for hundreds of sequential steps. That computation suits a GPU poorly and an analog…
Many machine learning approaches are two-level: an expert selects a class of methods, within this class the choice of key components is critical and usually manual. This paper addresses the automatic…
EliteTable is a self-improving program-search algorithm guided by large language models (LLMs) that uses a fixed-capacity table of high-scoring solutions to guide new proposals, edits of existing…
Time series forecasting models are typically compared on pointwise error, which scores a prediction in isolation from the decision it is produced for, and a lower forecast error does not imply a…
When multiple agents share a cost budget, a common Lagrange multiplier can enforce the aggregate constraint but does not determine how its penalty should be allocated across agents. Uniform penalties…
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved to be a strong alternative to manual network design, but applying it to 3D medical image segmentation is limited by two well-known costs, large annotation…
The electric autonomous dial-a-ride problem (EADARP) extends the classical dial-a-ride problem by incorporating battery and charging constraints for electric vehicles. In practice, travel-time…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated algorithm design. However the computational cost of evaluating the generated algorithms can be excessive.
Hybrid quantum classical neural networks integrate parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with established deep learning architectures, but their performance depends strongly on the choice of quantum…
Intrinsic explainability remains a challenging problem, particularly in contexts where multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) require dynamic re-training within an optimization environment. This paper…
Large language model (LLM)-driven evolutionary search is a powerful paradigm for automated program and algorithm discovery, yet existing systems are largely memoryless: each run explores from…
Dynamic resource assignment, the real-time allocation of task streams to heterogeneous processing nodes, is the backbone of modern computing infrastructure. While learning-based schedulers excel in…
Despite many studies about causes and remedies of plasticity loss in Reinforcement Learning (RL) under continual task changes, no RL method has yet consistently achieved a good balance between…