Bayesian networks for continuous variables often rely on restrictive assumptions: linear Gaussian models lack flexibility to capture nonlinear dependencies, while non-parametric approaches provide…
Iterative combinatorial auctions are used in spectrum allocation, transportation, and industrial procurement, but rounds are costly. We introduce FastCombo, a deep reinforcement learning approach to…
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow instructions and navigate to target locations. However, current VLN agents often suffer severe performance degradation in unseen…
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…
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…
Model selection and hyperparameter tuning pose a central challenge in off-policy evaluation (OPE) because errors of fitted Q-functions and occupancy-ratio estimates cannot be directly evaluated from…
Bayesian variants of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provide principled uncertainty estimation when fine-tuning large foundation models, but require specifying the prior over the low-rank weight updates.…
Designing building energy systems is a high-dimensional, mixed-integer search problem: when each design is evaluated by a year-long simulation, black-box optimizers typically need hundreds of…
Recent work in additive manufacturing and neural inverse design enables the creation of complex three-dimensional structures to manipulate physical fields, yet these designs must also adhere to…
We study the Bayesian fixed-confidence best-arm identification problem in which a learner can abstain from making a terminal recommendation. Subject to a target error probability $δ$ and an…
The Gaussian Mumford-Shah model segments an image into regions by minimizing a continuous multivariate Gaussian negative log-likelihood term plus a perimeter penalty. It is used for scalar- and…
We present an AI-assisted mathematical addendum to Strategic Trip Planning: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Cooperation (Amar, 2018). We reconstruct selected relationships between…
Outcome-predictive signals are often treated as promising optimization targets in reinforcement learning, but predictive validity and optimization utility are different claims. We expose this…
Retargeting human motion to humanoids requires preserving motion semantics while accounting for the robot's physical constraints. Kinematic pipelines prescribe a robot trajectory through geometric…
Estimating neural scaling laws involves an end-to-end pipeline: designing a scaling recipe, training models across scales, evaluating models on a target metric, and deploying an algorithm to fit a…
Within the broader landscape of artificial intelligence architectures, this paper introduces a compact, edge-centric neural framework that resolves the computational bottlenecks of modern…
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…
In reinforcement learning, one presumes the action set to be known ahead of time, and, thus, one must know if any state-action pairs are not permissible ahead of computations. In some applications,…
Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have recently gained popularity as an end-to-end approach to amortized Bayesian inference. Yet, their statistical behavior for semi-parametric targets, such as means…
Sparse variational Gaussian processes (SVGPs) are a widely used, principled approach to scalable Gaussian process modelling. Their success stems from their theoretically interpretable structure: they…
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…
The Wave Optics Optimizer (WOO) incorporates optical diffraction and interference into numerical optimization and has shown competitive performance in benchmarks and engineering applications.…