We study how offline data can help online learning in stochastic linear bandits. We focus on partially covered offline data, where only $k$ of the $d$ feature directions are poorly covered. Existing analyses of algorithms based on phased elimination and optimism give regret bounds of order $\widetilde O(\sqrt{dkT})$ in...
Kushagra Chandak, В. І. Ткачук, Xiao-Qi Tan et al.· 0 citations
Accurate daily precipitation forecasts are important for weather-sensitive decisions. Although recent Weather Foundation Models (WFMs) have achieved significant progress, they are trained on reanalysis data, which exhibit regional and intensity-dependent biases. Since retraining WFMs on observation-based targets is cos...
Guo-Wen Li, Yang Liu, Meng-Xuan Chen et al.· 0 citations
Matching repair after utility changes can reuse valid observations, but new evaluations must respect matching capacity and may return out of order. We study announced invalidations with bounded, possibly reward-dependent reporting delays and pending evaluations that do not occupy future matching capacity. Residualload...
He Sun, Junyuan Mao, Wenhao Jiang et al.· 0 citations
Minimax optimization is fundamental to adversarial learning yet suffers from severe stability challenges, often manifesting as persistent limit cycles or divergence. This paper investigates these instabilities through the lens of continuous-time dynamical systems. By modeling training dynamics as a second-order Ordinar...
Tianjiao Luo, Jianfei Chen, Jun Zhu· 0 citations
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Tabular foundation models (TFMs) based on prior-data fitted networks typically use sampled hard query labels, leaving avoidable sampling variability in pretraining. A key observation is that intermediate generator states can reveal label uncertainty beyond a sampled outcome. We propose Generator-state-Informed Supervis...
Zhang-Yang Peng, Jing-Ze Shi, Tong-Yi Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Federated Direct Preference Optimization (FedDPO) enables privacy-preserving alignment of language models across distributed agents without centralizing sensitive preference data. However, existing FedDPO analysis assumes all clients converge to a single shared policy, which is fundamentally at odds with the heterogene...
Accurate estimation of reservoir properties from seismic data remains challenging when well-log labels are sparse but three-dimensional seismic observations are abundant. We present CoGameReg, a cooperative-game-based semi-supervised regression framework that uses contribution-weighted predictions of heterogeneous regr...
Non-autoregressive multi-step forecasting (NAF) enables time series foundation models to predict an entire future horizon in a single forward pass. Despite its strong sequence modeling capabilities, RWKV-7 exhibits long-horizon degradation in our NAF experiments. In this setup, future patches are represented as missing...
Qingwen Lin, Boyan Xu, Shifeng Xie et al.· 0 citations
Bayesian fine-tuning experiments with LLMs and vision-language models support the proposed state-dependent heavy-tailed oracle model and show that RA-LMC matches or outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
M. Şahin, Ege C. Kaya, Arda Fazla et al.· 0 citations
In maximum entropy and behavior-constrained reinforcement learning (RL), the optimal policy is given by a Boltzmann distribution. Generating samples from this distribution can be challenging, as it is often complex and multimodal. While flow policies trained with flow matching provide a powerful framework for represent...
Denis Blessing, Onur Celik, Gerhard Neumann· 0 citations
Reasoning post-training draws on offline demonstrations and policy-generated rollouts, yet conventional supervised fine-tuning (SFT) followed by reinforcement learning (RL) separates their objectives and limits continued reuse of collected responses. We propose \textbf{Cross-Behavior Policy Optimization} (CBPO), which...
Du Cheng, Jun-Yu Lu, Jing-Fan Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Outcome-supervised group-relative policy optimization (GRPO) assigns the same advantage to every token in an LLM agent trajectory, leaving useful and unhelpful decisions undifferentiated. Hindsight credit assignment (HCA) can refine this feedback, but its estimates rely on trajectories containing informative alternativ...
Debajoy Mukherjee, Jeremy Carleton, Sushil Vemuri et al.· 0 citations
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 27, 2026
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.