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It is often important to incorporating covariate information in the design of clinical trials. In literature, there are many designs of using stratification and covariate-adaptive randomization to balance on certain known covariate.…
In the past, continual learning (CL) was mostly concerned with the problem of catastrophic forgetting in neural networks, that arises when incrementally learning a sequence of tasks. Current CL methods function within the confines of…
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We consider adaptive decision-making problems where an agent optimizes a cumulative performance objective by repeatedly choosing among a finite set of options. Compared to the classical prediction-with-expert-advice set-up, we consider…
Stochastic compositional optimization (SCO) has attracted considerable attention because of its broad applicability to important real-world problems. However, existing works on SCO assume that the projection within a solution update is…
Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce factoid hallucinations - plausible yet incorrect answers. A common mitigation strategy is model alignment, which improves factual accuracy by training on curated (factual, non-factual) pairs.…
Reinforcement learning has emerged as a paradigm for post-training large language models, boosting their reasoning capabilities. Such approaches compute an advantage value for each sample, reflecting better or worse performance than…
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Chemical laboratory automation has long been constrained by rigid workflows and poor adaptability to the long-tail distribution of experimental tasks. While most automated platforms perform well on a narrow set of standardized procedures,…
While current emotional support dialogue systems typically rely on expert-defined scalar rewards for alignment, these signals suffer from severe information sparsity. They cannot explain why a response failed or how to adapt to dynamic user…
Self-optimizing control (SOC) aims to maintain near-optimal process operation by judiciously selecting controlled variables (CVs). In this series of work, the generalized global SOC (g2SOC) approach is proposed, which extends the concept of…
We develop a novel iterative algorithm for locally optimal experimental design under constraints, like budget or performance constraints. It is an adaptive discretization algorithm. In every iteration, a discretized version of the…