Do contract terms that protect investment between people also protect it between profit-maximizing language-model agents? In the hold-up problem, a seller can adapt a unit to one buyer at a cost…
Recent progress in deep learning has substantially advanced automated grading of ophthalmologic pathologies, supported by large annotated datasets and improved representation learning. However, a…
Long-range detection of small drones is complicated by their visual similarity to birds and by the limited detail available from ground-based cameras. Combining visible and infrared observations…
Real-time 4D occupancy forecasting requires reliably extrapolating both ego motion and surrounding actor motion under strict latency budgets. Recent occupancy world models improve long-horizon…
The bottleneck of attention mechanisms, which are the fundamental building block of modern language models, is their quadratic complexity in terms of context size. There has thus been an increasing…
Recommendation systems that optimize for the average user can fail to capture the preferences of diverse demographic groups. We consider a dynamic recommendation system, where arriving users can…
Vision-centric autonomous driving models encode thousands of image tokens per frame, yet most depict sky, buildings, or empty road---content irrelevant to planning. Worse, these tokens dilute the…
Human preferences change over time: an established preference may remain valid over time, become uncertain as context shifts, or be explicitly revised. Effective personalization requires…
Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language model agents by sampling and selecting among multiple candidate trajectories, but common realizations assume that these trajectories can be executed in…
Automated red teaming trains an attacker large language model (LLM) to elicit harmful responses from a victim LLM, but reinforcement learning can collapse attackers onto a narrow set of prompts when…
End-to-end policies, from task-specific controllers to robot foundation models, learn complex behavior from raw observations but are not guaranteed to remain safe, so they are often wrapped in a…
Autonomous delivery robots increasingly share residential spaces with companion animals, yet navigation behavior is rarely designed with animal welfare in mind. This paper presents a pilot study…
Training acceleration methods for diffusion transformers, such as REPA and dispersive regularization, are commonly explained by additional supervision, spatial-structure priors, or improved feature…
Vision-language agents equipped with tools expose intermediate outputs for inspection and comparison with the model's reasoning, which may offer safety benefits over single-shot models. This paper…
Histopathology foundation models learn rich embedding representations, but their internal structure remains difficult to inspect. Concept-level interpretability is particularly relevant in…
Flapping-wing simulation must reconcile high-frequency wingbeat aerodynamics with the slower dynamics relevant to flight control and reinforcement learning. We present FlapSim, a modular open-source…
Reliable visual perception is essential for safe autonomous underwater exploration. Yet vision models pretrained on terrestrial images become less reliable underwater, where turbidity, backscatter,…
Fairness benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly English-born and American in their social categories; translated versions carry those categories into societies where they do…
Dynamic semantic maps have become an important intermediate representation for many computer vision applications. Efficient lossless compression of such maps is essential for reducing storage and…
Modern data analysis pipelines increasingly rely on large datasets assembled through retrieval, scraping, automated filtering, and post-hoc curation, where the observed sample is often a contaminated…
Voice-interactive large language models process both what a speaker says and how they say it, yet the two channels do not always agree. We ask whether that disagreement degrades speech emotion…
We study first-order regret guarantees for adversarial bandits with a fixed, known directed feedback graph. For strongly observable graphs, [ACBDK15] establishes a minimax regret of…
Training a large language model is compute-bound, and current recipes divide the work between optimizers by hand: orthogonalized momentum for attention and MLP matrices, Adam-style updates for the…
Continuous diffusion language models (CDLMs) and speculative drafters offer efficient language generation but are typically evaluated differently: CDLMs generate independently through iterative…