Neural architecture search (NAS) is challenging because of the vast, non-linear space of artificial neural network (ANN) topologies. Evolutionary methods can generate architectures, but their…
In stochastic multi-objective bandits, Pareto optimal arms may represent different trade-offs among objectives. Balanced sampling across them is important in practical settings such as online…
Neural scaling laws describe the predictable power-law dependence of model performance on training time, dataset size, and model scale, with the exponents quantifying how performance changes with…
We study minimax rates for conditional generative learning under integrated Wasserstein loss, with Hölder continuous conditional laws and an unrestricted covariate distribution. We evaluate…
Many decision-making tasks are inherently multi-objective. Interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms (iEMOAs) are particularly well-suited to help the decision-maker find their…
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.…
Dealing with climate change requires that all countries engage in costly efforts to reduce their emissions. Reaching this objective has so far been elusive because it is in the best interest of each…
Structured sparse learning is a leading paradigm for high-dimensional data modeling, as it enables rigorous integration of domain-validated structural priors into the learning process. Among these…
We develop a unified framework for assortment optimization and matching under multinomial logit (MNL) choice, yielding simple algorithms and analyses across a broad class of problems. The framework…
Besides domination-based algorithms such as the NSGA-II, the decomposition-based MOEA/D is one of the most popular and successful optimization heuristic for multi-objective problems. It decomposes…
In token-priced language model services, users can see the prompts they submit and the answers they receive, but may also pay for internal reasoning and candidate answers that are not shown in the…
The MOEA/D is one of the most successful multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. It operates by decomposing the optimization problem into single-objective subproblems, which are then solved in a…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to the unconstrained generalized variational inference problem regularized by an $α$-divergence. Under mild conditions, the minimizer is explicit up…
Source selection often favors similar data, yet marginal proximity need not identify the most useful pretraining source. We motivate a conditional alternative through domain-adaptation theory and a…
We develop a derivative-free temporal-difference (TD) framework for calibrating black-box simulators using one-step transitions from a target system and noisy simulator-generated continuation values.…
Lightning routing nodes lend their channel balance for a posted fee. Operators' tools move that fee with the balance around a hand-set level, and which part of the fee drives revenue is unclear.
We study welfare maximization in a contract model with $m$ principals who privately value a public project's success and $n$ agents whose costly effort is unobservable. Contracts induce truthful…
Embedding-based verification often calibrates a false-accept threshold from all impostor pairs among $m$ identities, although these pairs share identities. We characterize a worst-case limit: when…
Disseminating synthetic data in place of original ones is a promising way to enforce privacy while complying with open science principles, especially in the healthcare domain. To keep pace with the…
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…
Well-documented failure modes of machine learning (ML) systems, including bias, toxicity, hallucination, and leakage of sensitive information, has driven the rise of machine unlearning (MU). Most…
Conformal Risk Control (CRC) extends conformal prediction beyond the coverage setting to the control of general monotone loss functions, in a distribution-free and modelagnostic fashion. This makes…
Follow the regularized leader (FTRL) is a foundational algorithm in online learning whose regret properties have been extensively studied for decades. However, in stark contrast to mirror…