Large language models (LLMs) achieve high inference efficiency using optimized GPU kernels generated by just-in-time (JIT) compilation frameworks such as Triton. Triton compiles GPU kernels through…
Language models are aligned to avoid using protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, and gender to inform their responses. Therefore, they increasingly refuse or hedge when such attributes appear…
We study generative reward models (GenRMs) as online preference providers for policy optimization in creative writing. Across Qwen3 reward-model sizes from 0.6B to 14B, Thinking judges trained with…
This paper presents AgentDP, which aims to deploy pre-trained AI models on heterogeneous embedded devices by fully automating model optimization and adaptation (O&A) with Large Language Model (LLM)…
Large distribution shifts remain a primary obstacle for domain generalization and unsupervised adaptation. Although gradual domain adaptation alleviates this difficulty by introducing ordered…
We propose AgentDreamer, an agent-guided optimization framework that aligns text instructions with simulated motion through explicit 3D motion planning. Given a text instruction and scene geometry,…
Unsupervised federated learning with Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) offers a promising solution for label-free classification, yet its performance often degrades under severe non-IID shifts. A…
We provide new statistical insights into designing stochastic optimization methods. By modeling the gradient via a normal distribution, we argue that the stochastic gradient should be whitened using…
Cox processes provide a principled Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling event-based data through an underlying intensity function. However, existing inference methods for estimating the…
Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely used for expensive black-box optimization, yet observation noise makes each evaluation less informative and slows posterior learning. Standard BO learns from…
We study nonconvex--strongly-convex bilevel optimization with finite-sum objectives and fully first-order oracles. We propose Sampled Implicit Corrections for Bilevel Optimization (SICBO), which…
We study differentially private black-box evaluation of arbitrary high-dimensional functions. Given a dataset $S$ and query access to a function $f$---whose sensitivity may be unknown or…
In this work, we develop a zeroth-order (ZO) method that estimates the gradient with minimal bias and variance. Instead of the random directions often used in the ZO literature, we consider central…
The Mallows model is a well-established construct in preference modeling, describing random rankings through their Kendall-Tau distance from a reference permutation. Its compact parameterization and…
Evaluating the causal effect of new features is a central goal for online platforms. While recent literature addresses limited testing traffic via centralized portfolio optimization, this perspective…
Every day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and…
Recent advances in agentic heuristic design use AI agents and execution feedback to automate algorithm discovery for challenging optimization problems. In many practical settings, high-quality…
Quantum-inspired evolutionary optimization (QIEO) represents design variables as a set of qubits and searches a continuous, multi-dimensional landscape through rotation of the qubit's amplitude pair.…
Neurons in the visual system are selective for specific spatial and temporal stimulus features, described by their \emph{receptive field}. Estimating one means a coefficient per pixel per time bin…
Multi-task optimization (MTO) addresses a set of optimization tasks simultaneously, often suffering from inaccurate inter-task relationship estimation under limited evaluation budgets, leading to…
Human motion retargeting bridges the embodiment gap between humans and humanoid robots by converting human demonstrations into reference trajectories for whole-body control and loco-manipulation. For…
Frontier language models now score above 90% on popular knowledge benchmarks and are increasingly deployed as agents that carry out multi-hour professional work. Yet no existing benchmark tests…
Motion Diffusion Models (MDMs) can generate diverse and visually appealing human motion; yet, the resulting trajectories frequently violate physical constraints, limiting their downstream use in…