Computer Science
Molecular property models are commonly evaluated by holding out Bemis--Murcko scaffolds, yet a scaffold identifier is only one notion of chemical unfamiliarity. We introduce a label-free structural-frontier split that reserves the sparsest…
The accelerating shift toward low-carbon power systems, together with the widespread adoption of behind-the-meter technologies such as rooftop solar and electric vehicles, is placing new operational and analytical demands on electricity…
Persuasion techniques are powerful rhetorical devices used to sway public opinion in a wide range of media. We present a new corpus of persuasion techniques, focusing on Slavic languages. The corpus contains documents in Bulgarian, Polish,…
Scientific fraud is the instrument of doubt that malicious entities can use to establish controversy in science. Historically, it required the resources of a company: deep pockets, ghostwritten articles, and corrupt academics. Today,…
Large language models (LLMs) are shifting game generation from offline automation toward play-driven modification through natural language interaction. In this work, we present a play-driven game editing system that enables players to…
Large Language Model (LLM) services introduce a fundamental privacy challenge. Sensitive information may be inferred not only from explicit identifiers, such as names or phone numbers, but also from contextual associations among otherwise…
The action space poses a major challenge in robot learning, since it is often high-dimensional, can span long time horizons, and frequently admits multi-modal optimal solutions. A good choice of action representation and loss function can…
Rectilinear matching to the integer grid asks to assign each of $n$ points in $\mathbb R^2$ to a distinct point of $\mathbb Z^2$, minimizing total $\ell_1$ movement. The main difficulty is that the target set is infinite: one must first…
We study the modality gap in CLIP-style dual-encoder contrastive learning, where image and text embeddings remain misaligned despite being trained in a shared space. We argue that the gap is induced by a failure of the InfoNCE formulation…
We revisit Scheder's analysis of the original PPSZ algorithm. Keeping his regular and irregular estimates unchanged, we express them in common structural coordinates and replace only their final recombination by an explicit…
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made synthetic images remarkably realistic, posing security threats such as misinformation and fraud. It is significant to detect the synthetic image in the manner of…
We study the problem of optimal continual fine-tuning for a pre-trained Foundation Model deployed at a resource-limited device. At each time slot, a new batch of training data arrives, and the controller is faced with two options: either…
Incremental scene reconstruction is essential for real-world applications. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting shows strong potential, most existing approaches require offline conversion of the optimized Gaussians into an intermediate implicit…
In the (fully) dynamic edge connectivity problem, the goal is to maintain the edge connectivity $\lambda_G$ of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ that undergoes edge insertions and deletions. Our main result is a randomized algorithm for maintaining…
Few-shot spheroid segmentation must adapt to new cell lines, microscopes, and illumination conditions from only a small set of annotated images. While foundation few-shot segmenters can be accurate, their large opaque backbones make it…
Existing robotic perception is constrained by sensors that are either robot-mounted or permanently fixed in the environment, locking perception to a limited set of viewpoints. Yet as robots perform increasingly diverse tasks, the most…
In pre-LayerNorm looped transformers, LayerNorm inside the recurrent block acts as an implicit gain controller: by coupling the block's local Lipschitz constant inversely to the activation scale, it renders the recurrence Jacobian…
We obtain a Wei-type duality between the footprint bound and the dual footprint bound for the generalized Hamming weights of an evaluation code. This duality applies between the Andersen-Geil and Feng-Rao bounds as well. We also prove that…
Emotional intelligence enables humans to recognize emotions, infer their causes, reason about interventions, and modify their environment to achieve desired affective states. Despite recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), current…
Self-attention is a ubiquitous primitive in modern sequence models, yet its operator-level geometry is only partially understood. We view a token sequence as a vector field over the token-position graph and identify attention as a…