Memory-efficient subspace optimization has emerged as a practical approach to reducing the memory cost of LLM training while preserving optimization performance. Previous algorithms typically rely on the leading singular subspace of stochastic gradients, yet the gradient noise may dominate the subspace in later trainin...
Sifan Yang, Hongyi Tao, Dingzhi Yu et al.· 0 citations
Reward model overoptimization in RLHF is usually described as reward hacking. We recast it as rent-seeking: the policy, a firm, earns reward from a regulator, the proxy reward model, that true quality does not back. The lens turns overoptimization into measurable quantities, namely rent, a capture index and deadweight...
Zixiao Wang, Xingbo Du, Duzhen Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Although multivariate time series forecasting has broad application prospects, effectively incorporating exogenous variables remains challenging. Prevailing discrete-time architectures often impose rigid temporal alignment across heterogeneous variables, which may limit their ability to capture continuously evolving ex...
LLMs absorb vast knowledge from training data, yet their inherently probabilistic nature offers no guarantee that this knowledge will surface in their outputs. To bridge this gap, Knowledge Extraction Enhancement (KEE) techniques such as activation steering, decoding adjustments, and prompting modify inference, potenti...
Minsuh Joo, Youna Kim, Choonghyun Park et al.· 0 citations
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Transformer-based tabular foundation models (TFMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on small to medium-sized tabular prediction tasks while processing diverse inputs through a shared stack of layers. Recent layerwise analyses identify strong predictive performance in early TFM representations and substantial overla...
Wen-Wen Gong, Hao-Tian Gu, Zhen Yang et al.· 0 citations
Spatio-temporal forecasting is fundamental to many real-world systems, yet deployment environments are inherently varying: temporal distributions may evolve, spatial domains may change, and observation availability may shift from training conditions. Existing models are often tightly coupled to their training environme...
Shengnan Guo, Jinjun Cheng, Xiaowei Mao et al.· 0 citations
We study finite stochastic partial monitoring (PM) games with side information, a paradigm of sequential learning with partial feedback. On each round $t \in [T]$, both player and environment observe a context and player chooses an action and environment simultaneously chooses an outcome. The player neither observes th...
Kapilan Balagopalan, Hao Qin, Kwang-Sung Jun et al.· 0 citations
Negative guidance of diffusion models generates samples that avoid an undesired condition, specified either by reference samples or by a conditional score alongside an unconditional model. Existing methods inject repulsive terms derived from local information at each sample, so the resulting sampler does not target an...
Reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of learning a policy that can outperform what is shown in the data. However, in practice, such systems suffer from instability and hyperparameter sensitivity. In contrast, supervised learning provides a stable and scalable training objective, but is fundamentally limited by...
Population health stratification frameworks, such as the Italian DM77, organize patients by clinical need and care pathways but offer limited guidance on which care changes to prioritize under constrained resources. We present PROMETHEUS (Proactive Resource Optimization through Multi-treatment Effect-based Targeting in...
Rocco Zaccagnino, M. Girolamo, Alberto Lombardi et al.· 0 citations
A non-asymptotic convergence analysis for scale-preserving $\alpha$-stable generative dynamics, covering both compactly supported and power-law targets, identifies tail-index matching as a principled mechanism behind the ability of stable generative models to capture extreme events.
In in-context Mealy-machine execution, where a simulator supplies intermediate targets and exact counterfactuals for hidden-state interventions,Looped transformers compute by applying one block repeatedly, so they can run for more loops than they were trained with.
Pei-Long Zhou, Hong-Tao Zhang, Yu-Long Huang et al.· 0 citations
A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.
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