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…
Bayesian mixtures, and Solomonoff induction in particular, provide an idealized model of prediction learned by minimizing population log loss, and they underlie universal agents such as AIXI. An…
The neighborhood topology of particle swarm optimization (PSO) determines information propagation and regulates the exploration-exploitation balance. However, existing evaluation methods based on…
We investigate k-submodular cover problem with a matroid constraint on an n-element ground set V , which seeks k disjoint subsets of V with minimal cost, where their union is an independent set for…
Generalized circuits are a fundamental tool for establishing PPAD-hardness and membership of approximate equilibrium problems. Despite their importance, the complexity of finding approximate…
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…
The goal of this paper is to distill insight around the trade-offs present on Bayesian equilibria of transaction fee mechanism (TFM) design under $n$ multiple concurrent proposers (MCP). We…
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…
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.
The block generalized-power method pairs threshold-based support selection with inexpensive Stiefel updates, but the standard block formulation conflates two nonequivalent objectives and leaves…
There is growing evidence that the performance of a neural network depends largely on a small subset of its weights, which are typically identified by training a dense network and pruning it…
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…
Game theory identifies when a strategic action should be accepted, but not how long a live, language-based counterpart will continue to accept it. We entered the GLEE competition in its final week…
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is widely used for offline Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. However, recent works have shown that DPO can be easily manipulated by adversarial…
We consider online monitoring of an AI system that produces a sequence of decisions. At each round, the system outputs a proposed decision together with a confidence score estimating the…
Auditing whether a text-to-image (T2I) model was fine-tuned on a particular image collection is difficult: a model can absorb collection-level visual characteristics without reproducing training…
Feed-forward models accurately estimate camera motion and 3D geometry from short video windows. However, computational and memory costs prevent direct inference on sequences containing thousands of…
Tasks such as quadrotor dynamic-gate racing require agents to anticipate external motion while maintaining precise high-frequency control. World-model-based reinforcement learning provides a natural…
Institutions that deploy large language models in regulated settings often need technical evidence of responsible AI practices before approving a deployment. COMPL-AI provides a technical…
\emph{Continuous-space} attacks find prompts that trigger malicious behaviors, such as overthinking, in black-box LLMs by sampling or optimizing over a low-dimensional Gaussian latent space and…
Understanding catastrophic forgetting, in which learning new tasks degrades performance on previously learned tasks, remains a fundamental challenge in continual learning (CL). Existing theoretical…