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It is shown that extremal magnetic black hole solutions of N = 2 supergravity coupled to vector multiplets $X^\Lambda$ with a generic holomorphic prepotential $F(X^\Lambda)$ can be described as supersymmetric solitons which interpolate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Sergio Ferrara , Renata Kallosh , Andrew Strominger

Selecting the best data mixture is critical for successful Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of Multimodal Large Language Models. However, determining the optimal mixture weights across multiple domain-specific datasets remains a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Davide Berasi , Matteo Farina , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci

For the problem of maximizing a monotone, submodular function with respect to a cardinality constraint $k$ on a ground set of size $n$, we provide an algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art in both its empirical performance and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yixin Chen , Tonmoy Dey , Alan Kuhnle

We present a practical and powerful new framework for both unconstrained and constrained submodular function optimization based on discrete semidifferentials (sub- and super-differentials). The resulting algorithms, which repeatedly compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Rishabh Iyer , Stefanie Jegelka , Jeff Bilmes

In this paper, we present a novel maximum entropy formulation of the Differential Dynamic Programming algorithm and derive two variants using unimodal and multimodal value functions parameterizations. By combining the maximum entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Oswin So , Ziyi Wang , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This article presents a new high-order accurate algorithm for finding a particular solution to a linear, constant-coefficient partial differential equation (PDE) by means of a convolution of the volumetric source function with the Green's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Thomas G. Anderson , Hai Zhu , Shravan Veerapaneni

The goal of multi-objective optimisation is to identify a collection of points which describe the best possible trade-offs between the multiple objectives. In order to solve this vector-valued optimisation problem, practitioners often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Ben Tu , Nikolas Kantas , Robert M. Lee , Behrang Shafei

Learning to Optimize (L2O) enhances optimization efficiency with integrated neural networks. L2O paradigms achieve great outcomes, e.g., refitting optimizer, generating unseen solutions iteratively or directly. However, conventional L2O…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingjia Shi , Ruihan Lin , Xuxi Chen , Yuhao Zhou , Zezhen Ding , Pingzhi Li , Tong Wang , Kai Wang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiheng Zhang , Tianlong Chen

We consider a class of submodular maximization problems in which decision-makers have limited access to the objective function. We explore scenarios where the decision-maker can observe only pairwise information, i.e., can evaluate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Andrew Downie , Bahman Gharesifard , Stephen L. Smith

The calculation of exclusive observables beyond the one-loop level requires elaborate techniques for the computation of multi-leg two-loop integrals. We discuss how the large number of different integrals appearing in actual two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

Maximizing a monotone submodular function is a fundamental task in machine learning. In this paper, we study the deletion robust version of the problem under the classic matroids constraint. Here the goal is to extract a small size summary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We introduce Robust Multi-Objective Decoding (RMOD), a novel inference-time algorithm that robustly aligns Large Language Models (LLMs) to multiple human objectives (e.g., instruction-following, helpfulness, safety) by maximizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seongho Son , William Bankes , Sangwoong Yoon , Shyam Sundhar Ramesh , Xiaohang Tang , Ilija Bogunovic

Submodularity is one of the most important properties in combinatorial optimization, and $k$-submodularity is a generalization of submodularity. Maximization of a $k$-submodular function requires an exponential number of value oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Hiroki Oshima

This work proposes an efficient parallel algorithm for non-monotone submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint problem over the ground set of size $n$. Our algorithm improves the best approximation factor of the existing parallel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Tan D. Tran , Canh V. Pham , Dung T. K. Ha , Phuong N. H. Pham

While diffusion language models (DLMs) have achieved competitive performance in text generation, improving their reasoning ability with reinforcement learning remains an active research area. Here, we introduce d2, a reasoning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanghan Wang , Gilad Turok , Yair Schiff , Marianne Arriola , Volodymyr Kuleshov

We consider minimizing a sum of non-smooth objective functions with set constraints in a distributed manner. As to this problem, we propose a distributed algorithm with an exponential convergence rate for the first time. By the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Weijian Li , Xianlin Zeng , Shu Liang , Yiguang Hong

The Mixture of Experts architecture allows for outrageously large neural networks by scaling model parameter size independently from computational demand (FLOPs). However, current DNN frameworks cannot effectively support the dynamic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ferdinand Kossmann , Zhihao Jia , Alex Aiken

We introduce a new approximate solution technique for first-order Markov decision processes (FOMDPs). Representing the value function linearly w.r.t. a set of first-order basis functions, we compute suitable weights by casting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Scott Sanner , Craig Boutilier

Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) streamlines the automation of optimization algorithm design through meta-learning. It typically employs a bi-level structure: the meta-level policy undergoes meta-training to reduce the manual effort…

One way to reduce the time of conducting optimization studies is to evaluate designs in parallel rather than just one-at-a-time. For expensive-to-evaluate black-boxes, batch versions of Bayesian optimization have been proposed. They work by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Mickael Binois , Nicholson Collier , Jonathan Ozik