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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is highly sensitive to the quality of selected context, yet standard top-k retrieval often returns redundant or near-duplicate chunks that waste token budget and degrade downstream generation. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chao Peng , Bin Wang , Zhilei Long , Jinfang Sheng

Models based on recursive adaptive partitioning such as decision trees and their ensembles are popular for high-dimensional regression as they can potentially avoid the curse of dimensionality. Because empirical risk minimization (ERM) is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-11 Yan Shuo Tan , Jason M. Klusowski , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian

Motivated by modern applications such as computerized adaptive testing, sequential rank aggregation, and heterogeneous data source selection, we study the problem of active sequential estimation, which involves adaptively selecting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Xiaoou Li , Hongru Zhao

Throughput and per-packet delay can present strong trade-offs that are important in the cases of delay sensitive applications.We investigate such trade-offs using a random linear network coding scheme for one or more receivers in single hop…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Weifei Zeng , Chris T. K. Ng , Muriel Medard

We study a remote estimation setup with an autoregressive (AR) Markov process, a sensor, and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the process and sends encoded observations to the estimator as packets over an unreliable communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Manali Dutta , Rahul Singh , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Methods for distributed optimization have received significant attention in recent years owing to their wide applicability in various domains. A distributed optimization method typically consists of two key components: communication and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Albert S. Berahas , Raghu Bollapragada , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Ermin Wei

Scientists often express their understanding of the world through a computationally demanding simulation program. Analyzing the posterior distribution of the parameters given observations (the inverse problem) can be extremely challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Edward Meeds , Max Welling

A greedy omnidirectional relay scheme is developed, and the corresponding achievable rate region is obtained for the all-source all-cast problem. The discussions are first based on the general discrete memoryless channel model, and then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Liang-Liang Xie

We present an information-theoretic framework for sequential adaptive compressed sensing, Info-Greedy Sensing, where measurements are chosen to maximize the extracted information conditioned on the previous measurements. We show that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gabor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta , Yao Xie

Traditional approaches to variational inference rely on parametric families of variational distributions, with the choice of family playing a critical role in determining the accuracy of the resulting posterior approximation. Simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-27 Martin Jankowiak , Du Phan

This paper investigates the massive random access Gaussian channel with a focus on small payloads. For this problem, grant-based schemes have been regarded as inefficient due to the necessity of large feedbacks and the use of inefficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Gustavo Kasper Facenda , Danilo Silva

We study the potential employment of improper Gaussian signaling (IGS) in full-duplex cooperative settings with residual self-interference (RSI). IGS is recently shown to outperform traditional proper Gaussian signaling (PGS) in several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohamed Gaafar , Mohammad Galal Khafagy , Osama Amin , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we consider several efficient data structures for the problem of sampling from a dynamically changing discrete probability distribution, where some prior information is known on the distribution of the rates, in particular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Federico D'Ambrosio , Hans L. Bodlaender , Gerard T. Barkema

Given the proximity of many wireless users and their diversity in consuming local resources (e.g., data-plans, computation and even energy resources), device-to-device (D2D) resource sharing is a promising approach towards realizing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shuqin Gao , Costas Courcoubetis , Lingjie Duan

Modern large scale machine learning applications require stochastic optimization algorithms to be implemented on distributed computational architectures. A key bottleneck is the communication overhead for exchanging information, such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zijie Yan

Given the proximity of many wireless users and their diversity in consuming local resources (e.g., data-plans, computation and energy resources), device-to-device (D2D) resource sharing is a promising approach towards realizing a sharing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Shuqin Gao , Costas A. Courcoubetis , Lingjie Duan

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Pablo Serrano , Joerg Widmer

Probabilistic time series forecasting is crucial for quantifying future uncertainty, with significant applications in fields such as energy and finance. However, existing methods often rely on computationally expensive sampling or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lei Liu , Tengyuan Liu , Hongwei Zhao , Jiahui Huang , Ruibo Guo , Bin Li

The Autonomous System (AS)-level topology of the Internet that currently comprises 40k ASs, is growing at a rate of about 10% per year. In these conditions, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the inter-domain routing protocol of the Internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-18 David Coudert , Luc Hogie , Aurélien Lancin , Dimitri Papadimitriou , Stéphane Pérennes , Issam Tahiri

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo