Critical fluctuations and conserved dynamics in a strange ferromagnetic metal

Jin Zhan, Yongjun Zhang, Jiawen Zhang +9

Meta Lattice: Model Space Redesign for Cost-Effective Industry-Scale Ads Recommendations

Liang Luo, Yuxin Chen, Zhengyu Zhang +39

CLAW: Composable Language-Annotated Whole-body Motion Generation

Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen, Masayoshi Tomizuka

Transformers Provably Learn Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Length Generalization

Yu Huang, Zixin Wen, Aarti Singh +2

Optimizing Photonic Nanostructures via Multi-fidelity Gaussian Processes

Jialin Song, Yury S. Tokpanov, Yuxin Chen +4

EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models

Jiahuan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Jun Yu +2

Addressing Training Bias via Automated Image Annotation

Zhujun Xiao, Yanzi Zhu, Yuxin Chen +3

Direct Acquisition Optimization for Low-Budget Active Learning

Zhuokai Zhao, Yibo Jiang, Yuxin Chen

Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2024 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared (STIR) Challenge

Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Soham Sinha +37

Learning Human-Compatible Representations for Case-Based Decision Support

Han Liu, Yizhou Tian, Chacha Chen +3

Transformers Meet In-Context Learning: A Universal Approximation Theory

Gen Li, Yuchen Jiao, Yu Huang +2

Minimax-Optimal Reward-Agnostic Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

Gen Li, Yuling Yan, Yuxin Chen +1

LoKA: Low-precision Kernel Applications for Recommendation Models At Scale

Liang Luo, Yinbin Ma, Quanyu Zhu +21

GTSinger: A Global Multi-Technique Singing Corpus with Realistic Music Scores for All Singing Tasks

Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan, Wenxiang Guo +15

A force-sensing surgical drill for real-time force feedback in robotic mastoidectomy

Yuxin Chen, Anna Goodridge, Manish Sahu +7

Teaching an Active Learner with Contrastive Examples

Chaoqi Wang, Adish Singla, Yuxin Chen

Hierarchical Deep Research with Local-Web RAG: Toward Automated System-Level Materials Discovery

Rui Ding, Rodrigo Pires Ferreira, Yuxin Chen +1

Deflated HeteroPCA: Overcoming the curse of ill-conditioning in heteroskedastic PCA

Yuchen Zhou, Yuxin Chen

AnnaAgent: Dynamic Evolution Agent System with Multi-Session Memory for Realistic Seeker Simulation

Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Lin Wu +6

Nailed It: Autonomous Roofing with a Nailgun-Equipped Octocopter

Matthew Romano, Yuxin Chen, Owen Marshall +1

Direct Regret Optimization in Bayesian Optimization

Fengxue Zhang, Yuxin Chen

Inference for Heteroskedastic PCA with Missing Data

Yuling Yan, Yuxin Chen, Jianqing Fan

Pessimistic Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning: Towards Optimal Sample Complexity

Laixi Shi, Gen Li, Yuting Wei +2

Preference-Based Batch and Sequential Teaching: Towards a Unified View of Models

Farnam Mansouri, Yuxin Chen, Ara Vartanian +2

Scaling Laws Revisited: Modeling the Role of Data Quality in Language Model Pretraining

Anirudh Subramanyam, Yuxin Chen, Robert L. Grossman

A Financial Service Chatbot based on Deep Bidirectional Transformers

Shi Yu, Yuxin Chen, Hussain Zaidi

Risky-Bench: Probing Agentic Safety Risks under Real-World Deployment

Jingnan Zheng, Yanzhen Luo, Jingjun Xu +8

Federated Natural Policy Gradient and Actor Critic Methods for Multi-task Reinforcement Learning

Tong Yang, Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei +2

DexH2R: Task-oriented Dexterous Manipulation from Human to Robots

Shuqi Zhao, Xinghao Zhu, Yuxin Chen +5

Before Thinking, Learn to Decide: Proactive Routing for Efficient Visual Reasoning

Yinan Zhou, Haokun Lin, Yichen Wu +7

Fast Global Convergence of Natural Policy Gradient Methods with Entropy Regularization

Shicong Cen, Chen Cheng, Yuxin Chen +2

CREATE: A Benchmark for Chinese Short Video Retrieval and Title Generation

Ziqi Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Zongyang Ma +5

Learning to Self-Verify Makes Language Models Better Reasoners

Yuxin Chen, Yu Wang, Yi Zhang +9

The Likelihood Ratio Test in High-Dimensional Logistic Regression Is Asymptotically a Rescaled Chi-Square

Pragya Sur, Yuxin Chen, Emmanuel J. Candès

Pixal3D: Pixel-Aligned 3D Generation from Images

Dong-Yang Li, Wang Zhao, Yuxin Chen +5

Risk Awareness Injection: Calibrating Vision-Language Models for Safety without Compromising Utility

Mengxuan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Gang Xu +3

On the Minimax Capacity Loss under Sub-Nyquist Universal Sampling

Yuxin Chen, Andrea Goldsmith, Yonina C. Eldar

External Large Foundation Model: How to Efficiently Serve Trillions of Parameters for Online Ads Recommendation

Mingfu Liang, Xi Liu, Rong Jin +104

How Far are VLMs from Visual Spatial Intelligence? A Benchmark-Driven Perspective

Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Hao Ju +15

Towards an Interpretable Data-driven Trigger System for High-throughput Physics Facilities

Chinmaya Mahesh, Kristin Dona, David W. Miller +1

Near-optimal Bayesian Active Learning with Correlated and Noisy Tests

Yuxin Chen, S. Hamed Hassani, Andreas Krause

REAR: Test-time Preference Realignment through Reward Decomposition

Fuxiang Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Chenran Li +6

Beyond Static Collision Handling: Adaptive Semantic ID Learning for Multimodal Recommendation at Industrial Scale

Yongsen Pan, Yuxin Chen, Zheng Hu +8

Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization in Networks with Gradient Tracking and Variance Reduction

Boyue Li, Shicong Cen, Yuxin Chen +1

Learning Representation for Bayesian Optimization with Collision-free Regularization

Fengxue Zhang, Brian Nord, Yuxin Chen

On the Emergence of Implicit Curriculum in RLVR Learning Dynamics

Yu Huang, Zixin Wen, Yuejie Chi +4

Transformers Implement Functional Gradient Descent to Learn Non-Linear Functions In Context

Xiang Cheng, Yuxin Chen, Suvrit Sra

Reward-agnostic Fine-tuning: Provable Statistical Benefits of Hybrid Reinforcement Learning

Gen Li, Wenhao Zhan, Jason D. Lee +2

Collective behaviour of large number of vortices in the plane

Yuxin Chen, Theodore Kolokolnikov, Daniel Zhirov

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are optimally adaptive to unknown low dimensionality

Zhihan Huang, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen

Provable diffusion-based posterior sampling for linear inverse problems via DDIM

Yuchen Jiao, Na Li, Changxiao Cai +2

Efficient Online Decision Tree Learning with Active Feature Acquisition

Arman Rahbar, Ziyu Ye, Yuxin Chen +1

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi +1

Spectral Compressed Sensing via Structured Matrix Completion

Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi

The Curious Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

Laixi Shi, Gen Li, Yuting Wei +3

Shannon Meets Nyquist: Capacity of Sampled Gaussian Channels

Yuxin Chen, Yonina C. Eldar, Andrea J. Goldsmith

Solving Random Quadratic Systems of Equations Is Nearly as Easy as Solving Linear Systems

Yuxin Chen, Emmanuel J. Candes

Stop Treating Collisions Equally: Qualification-Aware Semantic ID Learning for Recommendation at Industrial Scale

Zheng Hu, Yuxin Chen, Yongsen Pan +13

SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu +13

SkillRise introduces a reinforcement‑learning framework that lets large language model agents learn and reuse transferable skills across related tasks by curating a skill document…

The Teaching Dimension of Kernel Perceptron

Akash Kumar, Hanqi Zhang, Adish Singla +1

Beyond Semantic Search: Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval

Yuxin Yang, Yinan Zhou, Yuxin Chen +6

A Machine Learning Approach Capturing Hidden Parameters in Autonomous Thin-Film Deposition

Yuanlong Zheng, Connor Blake, Layla Mravac +3

Scalable Batch-Mode Deep Bayesian Active Learning via Equivalence Class Annealing

Renyu Zhang, Aly A. Khan, Robert L. Grossman +1

Disaggregated Multi-Tower: Topology-aware Modeling Technique for Efficient Large-Scale Recommendation

Liang Luo, Buyun Zhang, Michael Tsang +11

Are Ensemble Classifiers Powerful Enough for the Detection and Diagnosis of Intermediate-Severity Faults?

Baihong Jin, Yingshui Tan, Yuxin Chen +2

Green AI Carbon Optimizer: Carbon-Efficient Training Location Recommendation and Global AI Energy Demand Forecasting

Yuxin Chen, Hao Gao, Chujie Zou

SleepNetZero: Zero-Burden Zero-Shot Reliable Sleep Staging With Neural Networks Based on Ballistocardiograms

Shuzhen Li, Yuxin Chen, Xuesong Chen +9

Language Representations Can be What Recommenders Need: Findings and Potentials

Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Yi Zhang +3

Understanding Multilingualism in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs: Routing Mechanism, Expert Specialization, and Layerwise Steering

Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai, Xiangtian Ji +4

AlphaAlign: Incentivizing Safety Alignment with Extremely Simplified Reinforcement Learning

Yi Zhang, An Zhang, XiuYu Zhang +4

Minimax-Optimal Multi-Agent RL in Markov Games With a Generative Model

Gen Li, Yuejie Chi, Yuting Wei +1

Pixel Level Data Augmentation for Semantic Image Segmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks

Shuangting Liu, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuxin Chen +3

Minimax Estimation of Linear Functions of Eigenvectors in the Face of Small Eigen-Gaps

Gen Li, Changxiao Cai, H. Vincent Poor +1

Tiny Brains, Giant Impact: Uncovering the Keystone Neurons of LLM with Just a Few Prompts

Xiangtian Ji, Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai +3

GenPT: Beyond Self-Report for Reliable LLM Psychometrics via Generative Projective Testing

Ming Wang, Shuang Wu, Bixuan Wang +7

Semantic Generative Tuning for Unified Multimodal Models

Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Ying Shan +1

EA-VTR: Event-Aware Video-Text Retrieval

Zongyang Ma, Ziqi Zhang, Yuxin Chen +8

Self-ReSET: Learning to Self-Recover from Unsafe Reasoning Trajectories

Dongcheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen +3

Near Optimal Bayesian Active Learning for Decision Making

Shervin Javdani, Yuxin Chen, Amin Karbasi +3

Landmark Ordinal Embedding

Nikhil Ghosh, Yuxin Chen, Yisong Yue

Blending Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robust Policy Improvement

Xuefeng Liu, Takuma Yoneda, Rick L. Stevens +2

Towards a unified framework for guided diffusion models

Yuchen Jiao, Yuxin Chen, Gen Li

Optimal training-conditional regret for online conformal prediction

Jiadong Liang, Zhimei Ren, Yuxin Chen

VitaBench 2.0: Evaluating Personalized and Proactive Agents in Long-Term User Interactions

Yuxin Chen, Yi Zhang, Zhengzhou Cai +11

Preference-Based Batch and Sequential Teaching

Farnam Mansouri, Yuxin Chen, Ara Vartanian +2

Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Is Feasible for Linearly Realizable MDPs with Limited Revisiting

Gen Li, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi +2

TEXEDO : Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation

Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen, Yuzhen Song +3

Channel-wise Topology Refinement Graph Convolution for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

Yuxin Chen, Ziqi Zhang, Chunfeng Yuan +3

LRSVRG-IMC: An SVRG-Based Algorithm for LowRank Inductive Matrix Completion

Shangrong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Hejun Wu

PIC 4th Challenge: Semantic-Assisted Multi-Feature Encoding and Multi-Head Decoding for Dense Video Captioning

Yifan Lu, Ziqi Zhang, Yuxin Chen +3

Generating Continuous Motion and Force Plans in Real-Time for Legged Mobile Manipulation

Parker Ewen, Jean-Pierre Sleiman, Yuxin Chen +3

Testing Human-Hand Segmentation on In-Distribution and Out-of-Distribution Data in Human-Robot Interactions Using a Deep Ensemble Model

Reza Jalayer, Yuxin Chen, Masoud Jalayer +2

Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2025 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared Challenge (STIRC2025)

Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Zijian Wu +32

The paper presents the 2025 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared Challenge (STIRC2025), evaluating point-tracking algorithms on infrared tattoo data from surgical videos for accuracy and i…

Teaching Multiple Concepts to a Forgetful Learner

Anette Hunziker, Yuxin Chen, Oisin Mac Aodha +5

Batched Stochastic Bayesian Optimization via Combinatorial Constraints Design

Kevin K. Yang, Yuxin Chen, Alycia Lee +1

Mean Flow Policy with Instantaneous Velocity Constraint for One-step Action Generation

Guojian Zhan, Letian Tao, Pengcheng Wang +6

Optimal Multi-Distribution Learning

Zihan Zhang, Wenhao Zhan, Yuxin Chen +2

Formal Models of Active Learning from Contrastive Examples

Farnam Mansouri, Hans U. Simon, Adish Singla +2

Near-Optimal Joint Object Matching via Convex Relaxation

Yuxin Chen, Leonidas J. Guibas, Qi-Xing Huang

SAGA: Open-World Mobile Manipulation via Structured Affordance Grounding

Kuan Fang, Yuxin Chen, Xinghao Zhu +3