When does experience memory help a closed-loop LLM driving agent? Published gains cannot say, because the two factors we find to matter most, which warmup experiences the pool contains and what any…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generate robot actions from visual observations and language instructions, but effective manipulation also requires anticipating how the environment will change.…
Real-world audio typically contains concurrent sound events, yet standard self-supervised methods treat each clip as an isolated training unit without explicitly modeling mixture--constituent…
Looped transformers reuse a shared block of layers to increase computational depth without increasing the number of trainable parameters. They are trained with backpropagation through time (BPTT).
Agents that run for a long time have a memory problem, and it is not the one most systems optimize for. Storing every trace and retrieving the nearest neighbors works early and quietly stops working…
Fairness in conformal prediction is often pursued through Mondrian calibration, which provides finite-sample coverage guarantees separately across groups. These guarantees, however, are coarse:…
Margin bounds explain why weighted votes generalize after training error vanishes, but dependent observations require concentration arguments that keep the dependence model and failure budget…
Tabular foundation models based on prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) predict on a new data set in a single forward pass, but they cannot report which inputs their predictions depend on. We propose…
Weight perturbation (WP) estimates learning directions from random parameter perturbations and a scalar change in loss, without backpropagating derivatives. We examine how batch size, training…
Muon replaces a matrix gradient by an approximate polar factor and has shown strong empirical performance in neural-network training. The Isotropic Curvature Model (ICM) provides a curvature-based…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have increasingly incorporated rich neuronal dynamics to enhance temporal processing. However, richer dynamics do not necessarily enable neurons to adapt how…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Intrinsic explainability remains a challenging problem, particularly in contexts where multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) require dynamic re-training within an optimization environment. This paper…
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in language-conditioned manipulation, yet success under nominal evaluation does not necessarily translate into robust closed-loop…
Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) uses genetic programming to evolve utility functions for guided local search in large-scale vehicle routing problems (LSVRPs). Evaluating every GP…
Genetic Programming Guided Local Search (GPGLS) learns utility functions that guide local search for vehicle routing. Its evolving programs can have similar fitness while inducing different search…