Novelty detection is an important area of research in both statistics and machine learning. In this paper, we focus on the conditional novelty detection problem, where novelties arise from the…
We study fair division of uncertain items, where the utility of each item is a random variable whose realization is observed only after the allocation is determined. This uncertainty creates a…
We study the order-selection prophet inequality. A gambler knows the distributions of independent nonnegative random values, chooses the order in which to inspect them, and may irrevocably accept at…
Masked diffusion language models generate tokens in parallel, but their efficiency depends on which predictions are committed. Learned unmasking policies improve the speed--accuracy trade-off, yet…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face security, privacy, and copyright risks including content leakage, source reconstruction, unauthorized access, data poisoning, and prompt injection.…
Deep learning models for chest X-ray anomaly detection remain vulnerable to subtle distributional shifts (e.g., acquisition technique, patient-related factors, and preprocessing). Traditional error…
Object detection models rely on large-scale annotated datasets that require substantial manual annotation effort. The labeling costs further increase when annotation uncertainty is captured through…
Cervical cytology presents a fundamentally ambiguous diagnostic landscape, where equivocal categories such as Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance (ASC-US) occupy a morphological grey…
Deep neural networks deployed on smart glasses must adapt to changes in the distribution of incoming data while adhering to strict privacy and device constraints. We present No Frames, Just…
Automated optical inspection of precision components with tiny surface defects remains challenging when different regions of the same component exhibit different defect characteristics and,…
We study online fair division of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with frequency predictions: before any good arrives, the algorithm learns the multiset of each agent's values for the goods, but…
A scalar measurement can determine a robust decision without identifying the latent covariance or every decision risk. We study finite Gaussian projection experiments with a fixed…
Benade et al. (EC 2024) introduced a semi-random model for non-additive fair division in which each agent starts with an arbitrary base valuation over bundles of items and independently permutes the…
Generative AI interfaces can insert sponsored content at multiple points in an answer, where click-through rates (CTRs) depend on the advertiser-position pair. Under the cascade model, users read ads…
Physical wave processors are constrained by diffraction, but the bandwidth of the mathematical functions they implement need not be set by it. Here, we demonstrate continuous and multiplexed optical…
We introduce Foundation4D, a unified feed-forward model for geometry estimation, 3D detection, semantic occupancy, and Gaussian reconstruction from multi-camera driving video. A shared backbone uses…
Perimeter triage faces a latency/semantics trade-off: signature engines are fast and format-safe but blind to unseen attacks, while generative models are semantic but slow and produce unparseable…
Gold's theorem shows that no learner can identify an arbitrary language in a superfinite class from positive presentations alone. We prove a positive result of a different shape.
Learned priors are used to reconstruct regions that measurements barely reach, and to report uncertainty there. They can fail silently: the reported interval excludes the truth while every…
We study minimum-time escape of an omnidirectional evader from the forward conic field of view of a Reeds-Shepp pursuer with minimum turning radius $r$. For speed ratio $ν$ and cone half-angle…
The Neural Thickets hypothesis posits that pretrained language models lie in dense neighborhoods of task-specific experts in weight space, which random Gaussian perturbations can uncover. We…
We present TextSeal2, a distortion-free watermark for large language models that keeps its signal under speculative decoding: tokens that replace rejected drafts remain watermarked with the same…
A playable, programmable game world must maintain persistent state, enforce executable rules, and support extensible gameplay mechanics. Existing video world models can generate plausible combat, yet…
Building and scaling computer-using agents (CUAs) across desktop, mobile, and web environments requires reliable task-completion verification for data curation, evaluation, and reinforcement…