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Temporal spike recognition plays a crucial role in various domains, including anomaly detection, keyword spotting and neuroscience. This paper presents a novel algorithm for efficient temporal spike pattern recognition on sparse event…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Vijay Shankaran Vivekanand , Rajkumar Kubendran

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

We investigate the temporal concatenation of sub-policies in Markov Decision Processes (MDP) with time-varying reward functions. We introduce General Dijkstra Search (GDS), and prove that globally optimal goal-reaching policies can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fangyuan Yu , Xin Su , Amir Abdullah

The spectacular successes of recurrent neural network models where key parameters are adjusted via backpropagation-based gradient descent have inspired much thought as to how biological neuronal networks might solve the corresponding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-18 Yuhan Helena Liu , Stephen Smith , Stefan Mihalas , Eric Shea-Brown , Uygar Sümbül

Large-scale data collection, from national censuses to IoT-enabled smart homes, routinely gathers dozens of attributes per individual. These multi-attribute datasets are crucial for analytics but pose significant privacy risks. Local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Ye Zheng , Yidan Hu

Recent progress in imitation learning has been enabled by policy architectures that scale to complex visuomotor tasks, multimodal distributions, and large datasets. However, these methods often rely on learning from large amount of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Amber Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

Instruction-guided image editing requires balancing target modification with non-target preservation. Recently, flow-based models have emerged as a strong and increasingly adopted backbone for instruction-guided image editing, thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhuohan Ouyang , Zhe Qian , Wenhuo Cui , Chaoqun Wang

This paper introduces a differential dynamic programming (DDP) based framework for polynomial trajectory generation for differentially flat systems. In particular, instead of using a linear equation with increasing size to represent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Kun Cao , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

We define a SDP framework based on the RLSTD algorithm and multivariate simplex B-splines. We introduce a local forget factor capable of preserving the continuity of the simplex splines. This local forget factor is integrated with the RLSTD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Willem Eerland , Coen de Visser , Erik-Jan van Kampen

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) have shown remarkable performance in unconditional image generation. However, due to the stochasticity of the generative process in DDPM, it is challenging to generate images with the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Jooyoung Choi , Sungwon Kim , Yonghyun Jeong , Youngjune Gwon , Sungroh Yoon

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been effective for post-training autoregressive (AR) language models, but extending these methods to diffusion language models (DLMs) is challenging due to intractable sequence-level likelihoods. Existing…

We present Locality-aware Parallel Decoding (LPD) to accelerate autoregressive image generation. Traditional autoregressive image generation relies on next-patch prediction, a memory-bound process that leads to high latency. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhuoyang Zhang , Luke J. Huang , Chengyue Wu , Shang Yang , Kelly Peng , Yao Lu , Song Han

Irregular multivariate time series impose a trade-off for long-horizon forecasting: discrete methods can distort temporal structure via re-gridding, while continuous-time models often require sequential solvers prone to drift. To bridge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zinuo You , Jin Zheng , John Cartlidge

Prompt engineering has proven to be a crucial step in leveraging pretrained large language models (LLMs) in solving various real-world tasks. Numerous solutions have been proposed that seek to automate prompt engineering by using the model…

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resulting model. Differential privacy (DP) offers formal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haichao Sha , Zihao Wang , Yuncheng Wu , Hong Chen , Wei Dong

Non-determinism and non-reproducibility present significant challenges in deep learning, leading to inconsistent results across runs and platforms. These issues stem from two origins: random number generation and floating-point computation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Peichen Xie , Xian Zhang , Shuo Chen

Recent years have seen the development of LLM-based code generation. Compared to generating code in a software project, incremental code edits are empirically observed to be more frequent. The emerging code editing approaches usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chenyan Liu , Yufan Cai , Yun Lin , Yuhuan Huang , Yunrui Pei , Bo Jiang , Ping Yang , Jin Song Dong , Hong Mei

The evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality process data. While self-alignment via endogenous rewards offers a solution, mining valid supervision faces three challenges: (1) Label…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanyu Chen , Jiyue Jiang , Dianzhi Yu , Zheng Wu , Jiahong Liu , Jiaming Han , Xiao Guo , Jinhu Qi , Yu Li , Yifei Zhang , Irwin King

This paper focuses on the alignment of flow matching models with human preferences. A promising way is fine-tuning by directly backpropagating reward gradients through the differentiable generation process of flow matching. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhanhao Liang , Tao Yang , Jie Wu , Chengjian Feng , Liang Zheng

High-fidelity generative video editing has seen significant quality improvements by leveraging pre-trained video foundation models. However, their computational cost is a major bottleneck, as they are often designed to inefficiently process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yehonathan Litman , Shikun Liu , Dario Seyb , Nicholas Milef , Yang Zhou , Carl Marshall , Shubham Tulsiani , Caleb Leak