Adaptive Lipschitz-Free Conditional Gradient Methods for Stochastic Composite Nonconvex Optimization

This paper introduces ALFCG, the first adaptive, projection-free framework for stochastic composite nonconvex optimization that eliminates the need for global smoothness constants or line search by using self-normalized accumulators to estimate local smoothness, achieving optimal iteration complexity up to logarithmic factors while outperforming state-of-the-art baselines.

Ganzhao Yuan2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Talk Freely, Execute Strictly: Schema-Gated Agentic AI for Flexible and Reproducible Scientific Workflows

This paper proposes a schema-gated agentic AI architecture that resolves the trade-off between conversational flexibility and execution determinism in scientific workflows by enforcing machine-checkable specifications as mandatory execution boundaries, a solution validated through multi-model LLM scoring of 20 existing systems.

Joel Strickland, Arjun Vijeta, Chris Moores, Oliwia Bodek, Bogdan Nenchev, Thomas Whitehead, Charles Phillips, Karl Tassenberg, Gareth Conduit, Ben Pellegrini2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Efficient, Property-Aligned Fan-Out Retrieval via RL-Compiled Diffusion

The paper proposes R4T, a three-stage framework that leverages reinforcement learning to synthesize objective-aligned training data for a lightweight diffusion retriever, enabling efficient, high-quality set-valued retrieval that optimizes complex properties like diversity and coverage while significantly reducing inference latency compared to RL-based baselines.

Pengcheng Jiang, Judith Yue Li, Moonkyung Ryu, R. Lily Hu, Kun Su, Zhong Yi Wan, Liam Hebert, Hao Peng, Jiawei Han, Dima Kuzmin, Craig Boutilier2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

U6G XL-MIMO Radiomap Prediction: Multi-Config Dataset and Beam Map Approach

This paper addresses the challenges of XL-MIMO radiomap prediction in the upper 6 GHz band by introducing a comprehensive multi-configuration dataset, a systematic benchmark framework, and a novel physics-informed "beam map" approach that significantly improves generalization to unseen array configurations and environments by decoupling deterministic radiation patterns from learned multipath propagation.

Xiaojie Li, Yu Han, Zhizheng Lu, Shi Jin, Chao-Kai Wen2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Adapter-Augmented Bandits for Online Multi-Constrained Multi-Modal Inference Scheduling

This paper proposes M-CMAB, a multi-adapter-enhanced contextual multi-armed bandit framework that optimizes online multi-modal large language model inference scheduling under heterogeneous, time-varying constraints by combining a frozen-backbone predictor with lightweight adapters, a primal-dual constraint handler, and a two-phase scheduler to maximize rewards while respecting irreversible multi-dimensional budgets.

Xianzhi Zhang, Yue Xu, Yinlin Zhu, Di Wu, Yipeng Zhou, Miao Hu, Guocong Quan2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

CLoPA: Continual Low Parameter Adaptation of Interactive Segmentation for Medical Image Annotation

The paper proposes CLoPA, a continual low-parameter adaptation strategy that efficiently tunes a small fraction of the nnInteractive model on incoming annotation data, rapidly achieving expert-level performance across diverse medical imaging tasks without requiring new parameters or altering the inference pipeline.

Parhom Esmaeili, Chayanin Tangwiriyasakul, Eli Gibson, Sebastien Ourselin, M. Jorge Cardoso2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Certified and accurate computation of function space norms of deep neural networks

This paper presents a framework for the certified and accurate computation of deep neural network function space norms (including LpL^p, W1,pW^{1,p}, and W2,pW^{2,p}) by combining interval arithmetic, adaptive refinement, and quadrature to derive guaranteed global bounds from local certificates, thereby enabling reliable error control for PDE applications like PINNs.

Johannes Gründler, Moritz Maibaum, Philipp Petersen2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Toward Generative Quantum Utility via Correlation-Complexity Map

This paper introduces a Correlation-Complexity Map, comprising Quantum Correlation-Likeness and Classical Correlation-Complexity indicators, to identify real-world data distributions suitable for IQP-based quantum generative models, demonstrating that such models can achieve competitive performance with fewer resources on complex turbulence data when guided by this diagnostic framework.

Chen-Yu Liu, Leonardo Placidi, Eric Brunner, Enrico Rinaldi2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Artificial Intelligence for Detecting Fetal Orofacial Clefts and Advancing Medical Education

This paper presents an artificial intelligence system trained on over 45,000 ultrasound images that achieves diagnostic accuracy comparable to senior radiologists for fetal orofacial clefts, significantly enhances junior radiologists' performance when used as a copilot, and accelerates clinical expertise development for rare conditions.

Yuanji Zhang, Yuhao Huang, Haoran Dou, Xiliang Zhu, Chen Ling, Zhong Yang, Lianying Liang, Jiuping Li, Siying Liang, Rui Li, Yan Cao, Yuhan Zhang, Jiewei Lai, Yongsong Zhou, Hongyu Zheng, Xinru Gao, Cheng Yu, Liling Shi, Mengqin Yuan, Honglong Li, Xiaoqiong Huang, Chaoyu Chen, Jialin Zhang, Wenxiong Pan, Alejandro F. Frangi, Guangzhi He, Xin Yang, Yi Xiong, Linliang Yin, Xuedong Deng, Dong Ni2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Hierarchical Industrial Demand Forecasting with Temporal and Uncertainty Explanations

This paper introduces a novel interpretability method for large hierarchical probabilistic time-series forecasting that addresses structural and uncertainty challenges, successfully explaining state-of-the-art industrial models to enhance stakeholder trust and decision-making through real-world case studies and semi-synthetic evaluations.

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Shangqing Xu, Xinjie Tong, Xingyu Zhou, James Peters, Joseph Czyzyk, B. Aditya Prakash2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Causal Interpretation of Neural Network Computations with Contribution Decomposition

This paper introduces CODEC, a method that utilizes sparse autoencoders to decompose neural network computations into sparse, causal motifs of hidden-neuron contributions, thereby revealing how nonlinear processes evolve across layers and enabling greater interpretability and control of both artificial and biological neural systems.

Joshua Brendan Melander, Zaki Alaoui, Shenghua Liu, Surya Ganguli, Stephen A. Baccus2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG