Training a diffusion model involves two sources of randomness for each data sample: the timestep and the Gaussian noise realization. The timestep has been studied extensively through scheduling and weighting, whereas the impact of the noise realization at a given timestep is still underexplored. In this work, we examin...
Haokai Zhao, Da Xing, Hanqun Cao et al.· 0 citations
Forward-Forward (FF) training lets each layer learn from a local goodness criterion. In cumulative-goodness variants, later layers can inherit a task that earlier layers have partly separated. We formalize this as layer free-riding: under the softplus FF criterion, the class-discrimination gradient reaching block $d$ d...
The Trojan Hippo Bench is introduced, a dynamic evaluation framework for persistent memory attacks and memory-layer defenses, comprising an OpenEvolve-based adaptive red-teaming benchmark that stress-tests defenses and memory backends against continuously refined attacks, and a capability-aware security-utility analysi...
Debeshee Das, Julien Piet, D. Kaviani et al.· 12 citations· ⚡1
GRAVITY (Generation-time Relational Anchoring Via Injected Topological MemorY), a host-independent auxiliary memory layer, is introduced and shows that generation-time structure is a portable complement to existing memory retrieval, while its interaction with host evidence depends on the benchmark and host.
AI chatbots recognized most psychiatric emergencies but still missed clinically important cases and frequently over-triaged less urgent presentations, and further evaluations should examine how triage performance changes when clinically relevant information must be elicited through conversation.
V. Weilnhammer, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield et al.· 2 citations
The theoretical analysis of SFS reveals that SFS exhibits behavior closer to IRRI than to Line, and these results suggest that a simpler method, IRRI, may achieve a similar refinement process without relying on the complex correction mechanism of SFS.
Results show that proxy-based empirical gain achieves strong ranking agreement with proxy-defined realized utility and substantially outperforms row-count and token-count baselines in the tested setting, while the prototype provides a controlled sanity check of the valuation pipeline and its sensitivity to duplication-...
Ming-Hui Xu, Qi-Meng Luo, Kun Li et al.· arXiv.org· 1 citation
Deep reinforcement learning for quantum circuit optimization faces three bottlenecks: replay buffers that overlook temporal difference (TD) target reliability, curriculum-based architecture search requiring a full quantum-classical evaluation after every edit, and the discard of noiseless trajectories when retraining u...
A novel amortized optimization method for predicting optimal transport (OT) plans across multiple pairs of measures by leveraging Kantorovich potentials derived from sliced OT, which enables efficient solutions to repeated OT problems across different measure pairs by reusing information learned from prior instances to...
The findings show that the collective dynamics of LLM populations arise from interactions among model-specific behavior, network structure, population composition, and local social information, and that the choice of LLM substantially affects the resulting dynamics.
Erica Cau, Andrea Failla, Giulio Rossetti· 0 citations
This work establishes the first score query lower bounds for diffusion sampling, and proves that for $d$-dimensional distributions, given access to score estimates with polynomial accuracy $\varepsilon=d^{-O(1)}$ (in any $L^p$ sense), any sampling algorithm requires $\widetilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{d})$ adaptive score queries...
Chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation transfers reasoning behaviors from a strong teacher to a smaller student, but prior work reports a capacity gap: distillation may fail when the teacher-student capability mismatch is large. We revisit the capacity gap from a practical perspective by re-examining commonly used experim...
T. Kajitsuka, Ukyo Honda, Sho Takase· arXiv.org· 2 citations
Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.
Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.