Learning task progress from robot demonstrations provides a practical way to construct dense shaping rewards for robotic reinforcement learning. A common approach uses normalized demonstration time…
Dropwise condensation is key to power and water systems. State-of-the-art condensation surfaces are often inhomogeneous, either patterned by design or random defects.
In multi-output structured prediction tasks, while only one ground truth label may be provided in the training data, multiple equally valid outputs may be possible, making reliable evaluation a…
Diffusion models evolve noisy states toward a learned data distribution, so their sampling behavior depends on the geometry of the representation in which denoising occurs. This dependence is…
Triple set prediction (TSP) is to recover missing relational triples in a knowledge graph by predicting the triple set instead of isolated links. Existing approaches predominantly rely on the…
Local-commerce and food-delivery marketplaces run large ads businesses: across hundreds of thousands of stores, merchants pay to be surfaced on browse and search surfaces, and a ranker decides which…
SNNs are attracting interest due to their potential for energy efficiency and event-driven processing. However, neuromorphic hardware is not yet mature enough to enable embedded deployment of complex…
We study turn-based deterministic zero-sum games with discounted and long-run average costs. For discounted costs, we establish exponential and superpolynomial iteration lower bounds for the simple…
Scientific inference often involves observations from multiple latent populations whose class memberships are uncertain and must be inferred from available data. While full Bayesian mixture modelling…
Quantifying uncertainty in time series forecasting is particularly demanding because sequential data exhibit temporal dependence and are prone to distributional changes. Conformal inference has…
As neuromorphic systems scale to thousands of near-memory cores, aging-induced permanent faults in neuron-update datapaths become an important obstacle to long-term deployment. Existing online…
Tabular foundation models are pretrained networks that predict risk from a table without fitting a model. Whether their risks are correct (calibrated) has been judged on real data, where true risk is…
As large language models (LLMs) reach users worldwide, personal counseling has emerged as one of their most consequential applications, sometimes in life-critical situations. Yet broader access does…
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate research ideas from scientific literature. Existing systems combine literature retrieval with search, generation, and refinement, making…
Compositional generalization remains a persistent limitation of transformer language models: even when a model learns to combine known facts correctly in-distribution (ID), the same compositional…
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces the number of acquired projections, but conventional sampling strategies are designed primarily for image reconstruction rather than for downstream…
World models let observers explore and interact with generated worlds. Recent work shows that when observers revisit a region, current models often fail to regenerate it consistently.
Large language models pass most functional-correctness benchmarks, but passing tests says little about whether their code is readable, efficient or secure. Many techniques claim to improve these…
Contextual embeddings represent chunks of a document with respect to the document's global context. These models are typically trained and evaluated under the assumption that a relevant document…
Chemical language models can struggle to generate new molecules when trained on small datasets, where a model may reproduce training examples rather than learn a useful generative distribution.…
Autonomous navigation in off-road terrain is commonly achieved using hierarchical control and planning architectures that rely on explicit cost maps and one-way information flow from a high-level…
AI co-scientists have expanded the use of large language models for generating scientific hypotheses and guiding experimental investigation. Here we investigate whether temporal patterns in the…