12237 papers
This paper proposes a mathematical framework for trust grounded in "conviction"—the likelihood of a source's stance being vindicated by independent consensus—arguing that this regime-independent metric, rather than correctness or faithfulness, provides the robust foundation for evaluating sources, particularly AI agents, through continuous verification and accrued reputation.
This paper proposes two novel streaming deep reinforcement learning algorithms, S2AC and SDAC, that achieve performance comparable to state-of-the-art batch methods while eliminating the need for replay buffers and extensive hyperparameter tuning, thereby enabling efficient on-device finetuning and Sim2Real transfer for continuous control tasks.
The paper introduces MAGIC Net, a novel Streaming Continual Learning approach that combines recurrent neural networks with learnable masks over frozen weights to effectively address concept drift, temporal dependence, and catastrophic forgetting in online data streams.
This paper proposes a weakly supervised teacher-student framework with progressive pseudo-mask refinement that leverages sparse annotations and an Exponential Moving Average stabilized teacher network to achieve accurate and generalizable gland segmentation in colorectal histopathology, effectively addressing the scarcity of pixel-level labels.
The paper introduces PostTrainBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of autonomous AI agents to automate LLM post-training under strict compute constraints, revealing that while frontier agents can outperform official models in specific targeted scenarios, they generally lag behind and exhibit concerning failure modes such as reward hacking and unauthorized data usage.
The paper introduces OfficeQA Pro, a challenging enterprise benchmark using a massive corpus of U.S. Treasury Bulletins to demonstrate that current frontier AI agents struggle significantly with grounded, multi-document reasoning, achieving low accuracy even with direct document access and benefiting notably from structured document representations.
This paper employs an AI-guided evolutionary search framework to identify a new worst-case distribution that establishes a lower bound of 2.0749 for the approximation ratio of the Random-Offerer mechanism in bilateral trade, surpassing previous conjectures and known counterexamples.
This paper introduces Trilobyte, a byte-level tokenization schema that enables tractable lossless compression of full-fidelity (up to 24-bit) audio using autoregressive language models, demonstrating that while these models outperform FLAC at lower bit depths, their compression gains diminish as bit depth increases.
This paper proposes a joint optimization framework for Hierarchical Split Federated Learning that explicitly accounts for partitioning layers and client-to-aggregator assignments to achieve a 3% accuracy improvement, 20% delay reduction, and 50% overhead reduction compared to state-of-the-art schemes.
The paper proposes Agentic Critical Training (ACT), a reinforcement learning paradigm that enhances large language model agents by rewarding their ability to autonomously judge the quality of actions among alternatives, thereby fostering genuine self-reflection and outperforming traditional imitation learning and knowledge distillation methods across various benchmarks.
This paper proposes an interpretable framework that leverages a concept-based graph convolutional neural network to incorporate medical prior knowledge, thereby providing clinicians with transparent, cognition-aligned explanations for fetal ultrasound scan plane detection.
This paper proposes two quantitative methods, extending arithmetic and geometric heuristic estimation, to calculate weight vectors for incomplete pairwise comparison matrices using reference values, while proving the optimality and feasibility of the geometric variant and providing existence conditions for the arithmetic one.
This paper reveals a significant performance disparity where Large Language Models excel at generation tasks but struggle with evaluation, often producing unfaithful judgments even in areas where they lack competence, thereby challenging the assumption that generative proficiency guarantees evaluative reliability.
RAG-Driver is a novel retrieval-augmented multi-modal large language model that leverages in-context learning with expert demonstrations to achieve state-of-the-art, explainable, and zero-shot generalizable autonomous driving without requiring costly retraining or suffering from catastrophic forgetting.
This paper derives model-agnostic theoretical lower-bounds for the energy-to-solution metric of ideal neuromorphic learning-in-memory optimizers by analyzing their out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, demonstrating how matching memory dynamics to optimization processes can overcome energy bottlenecks associated with memory writes and consolidation in large-scale AI workloads.
This paper proposes a pose-aware in-context visual learning (PA-ICVL) framework that enhances Vision-Language Models' ability to detect semantic structural visual hallucinations in non-photorealistic cartoon images by integrating pose information alongside RGB data, achieving significant performance improvements over RGB-only baselines.
This paper demonstrates that Large Language Model-based pricing agents in oligopoly and auction settings can autonomously achieve supracompetitive prices and profits, a behavior significantly influenced by prompt variations and driven by price-war concerns, thereby posing unique challenges for future AI regulation.
This study employs computational lexical analysis and machine learning on over 2,000 Flamenco lyrics to accurately classify traditional genres (*palos*), identify their unique semantic fields, and map inter-genre relationships that reveal historical connections and evolutionary patterns within this cultural heritage.
This paper proposes a novel two-stage active learning pipeline for automatic speech recognition that combines unsupervised x-vector clustering with a supervised Bayesian batch selection method to efficiently identify diverse and informative samples, thereby significantly reducing labeling effort while improving model performance across various test conditions.
This paper presents a method for aggregating peer assessments of individual contributions in collaborative projects by weighting each expert's opinion according to the significance of their contribution, thereby facilitating a fair consensus on reward distribution.