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Disparate Impact in Synthetic Data Generation
Research

Disparate Impact in Synthetic Data Generation

We revisit the fairness notion of disparate impact for synthetic data generation (SDG), that assesses whether the utility of generated records is the same acros…

MiniPIC: Flexible Position-Independent Caching in <100LOC
Research

MiniPIC: Flexible Position-Independent Caching in <100LOC

Retrieval-augmented and agentic workloads repeatedly prefill recurring predictable structured inputs (which we call "spans") such as documents and code files. Y…

Learning-Augmented Approximation for Unrelated-Machines Makespan Scheduling
Research

Learning-Augmented Approximation for Unrelated-Machines Makespan Scheduling

Recently, Antoniadis et al. (ICLR 2025) proposed a framework for incorporating predictions to approximate NP-hard selection problems. Despite its simplicity, th…

MemRefine: LLM-Guided Compression for Long-Term Agent Memory
Research

MemRefine: LLM-Guided Compression for Long-Term Agent Memory

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly expected to operate over long-term interactions, where information from past dialogues must be preserved and …

Modern analog computing for solving differential and matrix equations
Research

Modern analog computing for solving differential and matrix equations

In recent years, driven by the computational demands of data-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence and scientific computing, analog computing h…

Layer-Resolved Optimal Transport for Hallucination Detection in NMT and Abstractive Summarization
Research

Layer-Resolved Optimal Transport for Hallucination Detection in NMT and Abstractive Summarization

Optimal transport (OT) has been shown to detect hallucinations in neural machine translation (NMT) by measuring the geometric distance between cross-attention d…

LLM-as-an-Investigator: Evidence-First Reasoning for Robust Interactive Problem Diagnosis
Research

LLM-as-an-Investigator: Evidence-First Reasoning for Robust Interactive Problem Diagnosis

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as interactive assistants for technical problem solving. However, when users provide incomplete descriptions …

Distributional Loss for Robust Classification
Research

Distributional Loss for Robust Classification

This paper proposes a novel loss concept for supervised classification tasks. Rather than enforcing a direct mapping from each input sample to a single assigned…

Different Layers, Different Manifolds: Module-Wise Weight-Space Geometry in Transformer Optimization
Research

Different Layers, Different Manifolds: Module-Wise Weight-Space Geometry in Transformer Optimization

Weight-space geometry plays a central role in neural network optimization, yet manifold constraints are often applied uniformly across all weight matrices. In t…

Once-for-All: Scalable Simultaneous Forecasting via Equilibrium State Estimation
Research

Once-for-All: Scalable Simultaneous Forecasting via Equilibrium State Estimation

We introduce Equilibrium State Estimation (ESE), a novel paradigm for simultaneous prediction, where multiple interacting systems require separate yet coordinat…

Simultaneous Latent Budget Trees for Stratified Classification
Research

Simultaneous Latent Budget Trees for Stratified Classification

In the era of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, there is a renewed focus on single trees for their ease of interpretation. This paper introduces Simultaneous…

DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing
Research

DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing

Recent diffusion editors perform diverse instruction-based edits while conditioning on the source image at every denoising step. Yet persistent source-image con…

OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions
Research

OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions

Fine-grained understanding of operating room (OR) activity could enable workflow-aware assistance, yet remains difficult due to clutter, occlusions, and limited…

From Passive Generation to Investigation: A Proactive Scientific Peer Review Agent
Research

From Passive Generation to Investigation: A Proactive Scientific Peer Review Agent

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific peer review. However, existing approaches often struggle to generate in-depth reviews s…

IterCAD: An Iterative Multimodal Agent for Visually-Grounded CAD Generation and Editing
Research

IterCAD: An Iterative Multimodal Agent for Visually-Grounded CAD Generation and Editing

Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismat…

MoVerse: Real-Time Video World Modeling with Panoramic Gaussian Scaffold
Research

MoVerse: Real-Time Video World Modeling with Panoramic Gaussian Scaffold

We present MoVerse, a real-time video world model that creates an interactively navigable scene from a single narrow-field-of-view image. This setting is challe…

SmartFont: Dynamic Condition Allocation for Few-Shot Font Generation
Research

SmartFont: Dynamic Condition Allocation for Few-Shot Font Generation

Few-shot font generation simultaneously requires global structural completeness and fine-grained local style fidelity. Existing methods usually either rely on g…

Person Identification from Contextual Motion
Research

Person Identification from Contextual Motion

We consider the problem of identifying people based on their motion styles. We present a generative model describing the action instance creation process and de…

Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification
Research

Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification

Speculative decoding speeds up LLM inference by using a draft model to generate tokens, with an acceptance-rejection scheme that ensures that the output matches…

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models
Research

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models

Diffusion models have seen wide adoption for 3D molecular generation, yet they offer no principled signal of when a generated molecule is likely to be of low qu…

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents
Research

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying…

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages
Research

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities in general domains, yet their performance remains limited in specialized se…

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch
Research

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch

Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational o…

Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Research

Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a distribution-agnostic robust trajectory-optimization framework based on chance-constrained reinforcement learning. The uncertainty is repr…

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning
Research

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but…

Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks
Research

Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks

Shielded reinforcement learning is typically presented as a runtime safety mechanism that compiles temporal-logic specifications into automata restricting an ag…

Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches
Research

Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches

We study generative modeling of Bach-style symbolic piano music using a shared MIDI corpus and three model families: autoregressive LSTMs with attention, latent…

Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State
Research

Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State

Geometry is invariant to viewpoint, which makes any collection of images a redundant encoding of a single 3D state. Existing feed-forward reconstruction models …

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks
Research

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks

Positional encodings (PEs) enhance the power of graph neural networks (GNNs), both theoretically and empirically. Two of the most popular families of PEs - spec…

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation
Research

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspecti…