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most citedDecision-Focused Learning: Foundations, State of the Art, Benchmark and Future Opportunities

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cs.CL2025

SpecDiff-2: Scaling Diffusion Drafter Alignment For Faster Speculative Decoding

Jameson Sandler, Jacob K. Christopher, Thomas Hartvigsen +1

Speculative decoding has become the standard approach for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference. It exploits a lossless draft-then-verify procedure to circumvent the la…

cs.CL2025

The Disparate Impacts of Speculative Decoding

Jameson Sandler, Ahmet Üstün, Marco Romanelli +2

The practice of speculative decoding, whereby inference is probabilistically supported by a smaller, cheaper, ``drafter'' model, has become a standard technique for systematically…

q-bio.BM2025

Constrained Diffusion for Protein Design with Hard Structural Constraints

Jacob K. Christopher, Austin Seamann, Jingyi Cui +2

Diffusion models offer a powerful means of capturing the manifold of realistic protein structures, enabling rapid design for protein engineering tasks. However, existing approaches…

cs.LG2025

Chance-constrained Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Constraint-aware Generation

Jinhao Liang, Yixuan Sun, Anirban Samaddar +2

Generative models excel at synthesizing high-fidelity samples from complex data distributions, but they often violate hard constraints arising from physical laws or task specificat…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Solve Optimization Problems Constrained with Partial Differential Equations

Yusuf Guven, Vincenzo Di Vito, Ferdinando Fioretto

Partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization arises in many scientific and engineering domains, such as energy systems, fluid dynamics and material design. In these…

cs.RO2025

Discrete-Guided Diffusion for Scalable and Safe Multi-Robot Motion Planning

Jinhao Liang, Sven Koenig, Ferdinando Fioretto

Multi-Robot Motion Planning (MRMP) involves generating collision-free trajectories for multiple robots operating in a shared continuous workspace. While discrete multi-agent path f…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

SoK: Data Minimization in Machine Learning

Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanović, Kimberly Mai +4

Data minimization (DM) describes the principle of collecting only the data strictly necessary for a given task. It is a foundational principle across major data protection regulati…

math.OC2025

Stability-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow--A Gaussian Process-Based Approach

Vincenzo Di Vito, Kaarthik Sundar, Ferdinando Fioretto +1

The Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem is a core task in power system operations, aimed at determining cost-effective generation dispatch while satisfying physi…

math.OC2025

Learning to Solve Constrained Bilevel Control Co-Design Problems

James Kotary, Himanshu Sharma, Ethan King +3

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast appr…

cs.CR2025

Beyond Jailbreaking: Auditing Contextual Privacy in LLM Agents

Saswat Das, Jameson Sandler, Ferdinando Fioretto

LLM agents have begun to appear as personal assistants, customer service bots, and clinical aides. While these applications deliver substantial operational benefits, they also requ…

cs.LG2025

Neuro-Symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation

Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Cardei, Jinhao Liang +1

Despite the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models, their integration into safety-critical or scientifically rigorous applications remains hindered by the need to e…

cs.CL2025

Constrained Discrete Diffusion

Michael Cardei, Jacob K Christopher, Thomas Hartvigsen +2

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly g…

cs.LG2025

Global-Decision-Focused Neural ODEs for Proactive Grid Resilience Management

Shuyi Chen, Ferdinando Fioretto, Feng Qiu +1

Extreme hazard events such as wildfires and hurricanes increasingly threaten power systems, causing widespread outages and disrupting critical services. Recently, predict-then-opti…

cs.LG2025

Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models

Stefano Zampini, Jacob K. Christopher, Luca Oneto +2

Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g.,…

cs.LG2025

Gen-DFL: Decision-Focused Generative Learning for Robust Decision Making

Prince Zizhuang Wang, Shuyi Chen, Jinhao Liang +2

Decision-focused learning (DFL) integrates predictive models with downstream optimization, directly training machine learning models to minimize decision errors. While DFL has been…

cs.RO2025

Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K Christopher, Sven Koenig +1

Recent advances in diffusion models hold significant potential in robotics, enabling the generation of diverse and smooth trajectories directly from raw representations of the envi…