Historical document binarization remains challenging when faded ink, bleed-through, and background degradation exhibit wavelength-dependent behavior across visible and near-infrared observations.…
AI-assisted editing can produce loan documents that preserve familiar issuer layouts while changing the applicant's identity. We investigated whether experienced underwriters and loan processors…
Can a small change in wording move an AI model from refusing a sensitive request to acting on it? We test 15 models on the same request to increase the income shown on a pay stub.
Semi-implicit variational inference (SIVI) expands the representational capacity of variational families, but optimizing the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) remains challenging because the marginal score…
Before a new policy replaces a deployed one, we often want a certificate, computed from logged episodes, that it is better. We ask how many episodes such a certificate needs when the logging policy…
Uniform convergence asks how many random samples suffice for empirical averages to approximate expectations simultaneously over an entire class of functions. It is a central concept in probability…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Conditional generative models parameterized by triangular transport maps are widely used for conditional sampling, yet theoretical guarantees on the quality of the conditional measures they produce…
Large language models are trained to predict tokens from a finite vocabulary, each represented by a vector in a $d$-dimensional embedding space. Therefore, token prediction is a classification…
Hybrid forecasting systems combining machine learning and numerical weather prediction offer a promising route toward improved forecast skill while preserving physical consistency. In this study, we…
Neural architecture search (NAS) is expensive, but cross-task transfer can reduce costs by reusing knowledge from previous tasks. However, existing methods struggle with sparse search histories and…
Background-error covariance models are central to atmospheric data assimilation because they spread partial observational information across space, variables, and dynamically coupled scales. Ensemble…