MarkTune is introduced, a theoretically grounded on-policy fine-tuning framework that uses the GaussMark detection statistic as a reward while preserving generation quality through cross-entropy on high-quality human text or KL divergence to a stronger oracle model.
Yi-Zhou Zhao, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Adam Block· 0 citations
An adversarial game in which the discriminator tightens this bound and the generator maximizes it is formulated, and it is shown that, under balanced class priors, the population game is equivalent to minimizing total variation between the data and generator distributions.
Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, Ali Bereyhi, Morteza Noshad et al.· 0 citations
Reliable value estimation serves as the cornerstone of reinforcement learning (RL) by evaluating long-term returns and guiding policy improvement, significantly influencing the convergence speed and final performance. Existing works improve the reliability of value function estimation via multi-critic ensembles and dis...
Shan Zhong, Shutong Ding, He Diao et al.· 0 citations
This work shows that, when there is a quadratic gap in computational resources between attacker and defender, every learnable classification task admits either a transferable attack or an adversarial defense, and proves a stronger result that implies this failure.
Greg Gluch, S. Goldwasser, Anastasiia Struss· 1 citation
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Predicting post-intervention distributions from observational data is central to many scientific and decision-making problems, but remains challenging due to causal ambiguity, restrictive modeling assumptions, and the lack of amortization across tasks. We introduce ACTIVA, a transformer-based conditional variational au...
Andreas Sauter, Saber Salehkaleybar, Frank van Harmelen et al.· 0 citations
Compact appliance classifiers can support local electricity-load monitoring where memory and computation are constrained. We evaluate adaptive sparse evolutionary training and warm-start compression using synthetic aggregate windows derived from household appliance recordings. A completed convolutional network study tr...
Tool-using language model agents rely on environmental facts to decide whether an action is permitted. When a tool response omits a safety-relevant fact, an agent may carry out a prohibited action even though the user request is benign and every returned statement is true. We introduce \bench{}, an executable benchmark...
Qijin Zhang, Hanzhen Wang, Yuehan Zhao et al.· 0 citations
Accuracy on medical examinations is common evidence offered for the clinical use of language models, yet a health system that intends to run an open model on its own hardware needs to know considerably more: whether the model recognizes when it is likely to be wrong, whether medical fine-tuning improves this ability, w...
Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana, Unai Zulaika, Ruben Sanchez-Corcuera et al.· 0 citations
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for video anomaly detection, but dense frame-level inference makes them impractical for real-time deployment. Existing acceleration commonly relies on uniform sampling, which ignores content dynamics and can either waste computation on static segments or miss lo...
Khaled Waleed Dawoud, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Khan Muhammad et al.· 0 citations
When a user says "Keep it short", how short should the LLM's response be? More generally, users and applications require different levels of instruction adherence, but prompting does not reliably provide fine-grained control over them. We therefore study "steerable language models" that provide fine-grained numerical c...
Thanh Q. Tran, John Russell Himawan, Arun Verma et al.· 0 citations
Automated agentic-system design is typically evaluated on static task suites with immediate scalar rewards. Deployed systems face persistent shift, delayed dependent feedback, correlated component failures, and costly architecture changes. We formalize meta-agent architecture search as sequential incumbent replacement...
Looped and depth-grown language models reuse computations across depth and have attracted interest for their reasoning capabilities. Building on prior suggestive evidence of improved in-context-learning (ICL), we investigate how such reuse favors ICL, including how it shapes the acquisition, retention, and mechanisms o...
Ferdinand Kapl, Kaitlin Maile, Stefan Bauer et al.· 0 citations