General Coded Computing in a Probabilistic Straggler Regime

This paper theoretically demonstrates that in distributed computing systems with probabilistic stragglers, the approximation errors of Berrut Approximate Coded Computing (BACC) and Learning Theoretic Coded Computing (LeTCC) schemes converge to zero at specific rates despite the average number of stragglers scaling with the total server count, a finding validated through experiments on various functions including deep neural networks.

Parsa Moradi, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Controllable Sequence Editing for Biological and Clinical Trajectories

This paper introduces CLEF, a controllable sequence editing framework that learns temporal concepts to precisely target the timing and scope of interventions in longitudinal data, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines in generating accurate and realistic counterfactual trajectories for biological and clinical applications.

Michelle M. Li, Kevin Li, Yasha Ektefaie, Ying Jin, Yepeng Huang, Shvat Messica, Tianxi Cai, Marinka Zitnik2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Mitigating Unintended Memorization with LoRA in Federated Learning for LLMs

This paper demonstrates that integrating Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) into Federated Learning for Large Language Models significantly reduces unintended memorization of sensitive training data across diverse model sizes and domains, while maintaining performance and offering compatibility with other privacy-preserving techniques.

Thierry Bossy, Julien Vignoud, Tahseen Rabbani, Juan R. Troncoso Pastoriza, Martin Jaggi2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Active Advantage-Aligned Online Reinforcement Learning with Offline Data

This paper introduces A3RL, a novel framework that integrates offline and online reinforcement learning through a confidence-aware active advantage-aligned sampling strategy to dynamically prioritize high-value data, thereby overcoming challenges like catastrophic forgetting and improving sample efficiency to outperform existing methods.

Xuefeng Liu, Hung T. C. Le, Siyu Chen, Rick Stevens, Zhuoran Yang, Matthew R. Walter, Yuxin Chen2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Language in the Flow of Time: Time-Series-Paired Texts Weaved into a Unified Temporal Narrative

This paper introduces Texts as Time Series (TaTS), a novel framework that leverages the periodic alignment between paired texts and time series data to enhance multimodal forecasting and imputation performance in existing numerical-only models without requiring architectural changes.

Zihao Li, Xiao Lin, Zhining Liu, Jiaru Zou, Ziwei Wu, Lecheng Zheng, Dongqi Fu, Yada Zhu, Hendrik Hamann, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

IMPACT: Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories via Vision-Language Models

The paper proposes IMPACT, a novel motion planning framework that leverages Vision-Language Models to infer environment semantics and generate anisotropic cost maps, enabling a contact-aware A* planner to safely navigate cluttered environments by distinguishing between acceptable and dangerous object contacts.

Yiyang Ling, Karan Owalekar, Oluwatobiloba Adesanya, Erdem Bıyık, Daniel Seita2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG