Safe autonomous navigation of UASs requires tactical deconfliction to address conflicts that strategic coordination cannot prevent. This task is challenging under partial observability, when sensor…
Groundwater in Ghana's Densu River Basin remains a key domestic water source, but multi-metal contamination threatens children's health. Previous deterministic hazard index assessments provide…
In the classical necklace splitting problem, beads of different colors lie on a line, and the goal is to divide them among $k$ agents using as few cuts as possible so that every agent receives the…
Bidimensional data integration across multiple cohorts (i.e., sample groups) and views (i.e., sources or modalities) is crucial in biomedical research to derive holistic insights from heterogeneous…
Alarms in industrial systems and scientific instruments often demand immediate diagnosis despite scarce incident data. To guide intervention, an explanation must trace how changes in the…
The neighborhood topology of particle swarm optimization (PSO) determines information propagation and regulates the exploration-exploitation balance. However, existing evaluation methods based on…
Motivated by the notion of features from machine learning, we study the complexity of representing data that allows for evaluation with a given family of functions. Concretely, we consider a…
Deep latent variable models (DLVMs) underpin many modern analysis pipelines, for example in single-cell genomics, yet their prior distributions have received markedly little attention. The VampPrior…
Bayesian Causal Forests (BCF) estimate heterogeneous treatment effects with a separate ensemble of treatment trees. The prior on the leaf values of the treatment trees determines whether sampling…
This paper considers the Bayesian top-$k$ identification problem, wherein a decision maker is tasked with selecting $k$ items from a pool of items of unknown quality. To assess the items, the…
Architectural and structural design optimization in parametric software affords about a thousand evaluations of an expensive model for problems with tens of variables, a regime for which most…
In multi-group learning, a single predictor must control its excess risk simultaneously over overlapping groups. Tosh and Hsu (2022) obtained $1/\sqrt{n}$ slow rates via a reduction to online…
We study federated spectral estimation when a large matrix is horizontally partitioned across servers that cannot share raw data. We propose FLICKER, a target-specific gradient-based power iteration…
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) learns from pairwise preferences through a logistic objective whose score-difference parameterization follows the Bradley--Terry model. We study how failure of…
Exact demographic parity requires the same prediction distribution across sensitive groups. In regression, this can be too restrictive and reduce predictive accuracy.
We study the problem of non-stationary bandits without knowledge of the environmental changes. We propose Detection Augmented Learning (DAL) a black-box paradigm that comprises three modular…
Exploiting temporal information in datasets with high temporal dependencies (such as spoken keyword recognition) by spiking models is still an open problem. Promising frameworks include Time-To-First…
Under the quantifier $\exists A\,\forall D$, where the realizable distribution and its marginal are unknown, we determine the finite-class sample-complexity exponent for strict replicability: two…
Web platforms organize collective work, including content review and community maintenance, that imposes heterogeneous effort costs on participants. Fairly distributing these burdens while leaving as…
Networks of repeated neural modules with delayed neighbour coupling need stability guarantees for every number of modules, but delay-dependent criteria certify one network at a time and grow with its…
Robotic foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, which motivates cheap offline proxies for model capability. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH)…
Video foundation models have advanced rapidly in understanding and generating visual sequences, while video world models seek to capture the underlying dynamics of the world they depict. Despite…
We present OpenTac, a novel sensor and a full-stack ecosystem for tactile skins that are highly customizable, scalable, and readily deployed in downstream robot control and learning applications. Our…
Monocular models recover 3D geometry from a single image in one pass, but most assume a pinhole camera and produce distorted geometry on the wide-angle imagery produced by fisheye and panoramic…