We study sender-receiver games in which players commit, before the state is drawn, to payments contingent on the subsequently verified state and the receiver's action. Payments may be transferred or…
Variational quantum algorithms turn choices of Hamiltonian, ansatz, and parameterization into a classical nonconvex optimization problem. We study how this objective function can be visualized and…
A reliable assessment of an optimizer robustness requires tracking controlled changes in parameters to identify sources of algorithmic weakness. Such an approach was applied to the problem of…
The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) remains a central concern in logistics research, as route optimisation under rigid capacity and fleet restrictions directly affects operational…
Learning can improve an individual's behavior, yet a population risks losing that experience whenever individuals die and are replaced. Inheriting learned preferences offers a way to preserve useful…
We revisit an established Quantum Control objective, characterize its exact local metric geometry, and reposition it as a rigorous benchmark for Search and Optimization. The trap-free topology of the…
Pseudo-random number generation often requires trade-offs among quality, power consumption, and bandwidth to produce unpredictable sequences of numbers. The brain, on the other hand, efficiently…
We study whether the coordinate dependence of the improved Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm (iSOMA) can be reduced while retaining its inexpensive leader-directed migration mechanism. We introduce…
Production scheduling requires realistic models that reflect operational constraints and efficient methods that balance competing goals. Putting these methods into use also requires data integration,…
We benchmark classical optimization of a fixed low-depth Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) ansatz across four cost-Hamiltonian families at $N=12$, $p=3$, and $D=6$. Ten optimizers are…
Claims that two training methods perform equally well often rest on a non-significant difference between two or three runs per method. We develop a protocol, with its power theory, for certifying…
We introduce two new methods for boundary detection in high-dimensional point cloud data, intended to work in situations with non-uniform density, high ambient dimension, and substantial noise. Our…
Often, \emph{eg} in healthcare and predictive maintenance, what matters is which of several competing causes will strike first, and with what probability: survival analysis with competing risks.…
Can algorithms be learned and evolved as models, rather than repeatedly redesigned as programs? We explore this question by introducing Algorithm Modelization, a new paradigm that turns iterative…
AI services are prone to moral hazard, as model providers can silently route requests to cheaper, lower-quality models, and the inherent stochasticity of model outputs makes this degradation hard to…
Tabular foundation models (TFMs) now outperform gradient-boosted trees in classification and regression. Yet in survival analysis, which predicts when an event occurs from censored data, often on…
We present a scalable framework for solving multi-step tasks through a decentralized market of self-interested agents. Prior theoretical work demonstrated that agents organized through sequential…
In Hebbian learning from examples, a Hopfield network retrieves archetypes seen only through noisy examples. We study it in the exponential Hopfield model: one softmax attention step with the…
Tabular foundation models based on prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) predict on a new data set in a single forward pass, but they cannot report which inputs their predictions depend on. We propose…
Sequence models can generalise in fundamentally distinct ways: extrapolating structures seen in training, or using their prompt to adapt to novel tasks. The prevailing strategy determines how the…
In this paper, we present a lightweight algorithm for modelling tabular data containing both continuous and discrete variables. The method uses empirical marginal distributions and a selected…
The Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) is a recurrent network that attends to inputs and makes predictions based on the synchronization between its neurons. On tasks spanning many domains, it displays…