collaborators

10 papers

cs.CY2026

Two-sided receptivity to conversational AI agents in online dating: Bilingual survey data from Fledge.Love

Daria Leshchikova, Valentina V. Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev +1

Autonomous conversational agents and generative-AI features are being added to online dating platforms faster than public evidence about user attitudes can accumulate, and the scar…

cs.LG2026

Lipschitz-Regularized Critics Lead to Policy Robustness Against Transition Dynamics Uncertainty

Xulin Chen, Ruipeng Liu, Zhenyu Gan +1

Uncertainties in transition dynamics pose a critical challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), often resulting in performance degradation of trained policies when deployed on hardw…

cs.CY2026

Learning AI Without a STEM Background: Mixed-Methods Evidence from a Diverse, Mixed-Cohort AIED Program

Valentina Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Richard Johnson

Despite growing interest in AI education, most AIED initiatives remain narrowly targeted toward STEM-prepared students, limiting participation by non-STEM learners and adults seeki…

cs.LG2026

When Are Neural Interaction Discoveries Real? Identifiability, Recoverability, and a Pre-Fit Diagnostic

Valentina Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Michael Coppedge

When a neural time-series model reports that one variable modulates another's effect on a target, is the discovered interaction a property of the data or an artifact of model flexi…

stat.ML2026

Trajectory-Aware Node Contributions and the Limits of Static Controllability

Valentina Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Michael Coppedge

A recurring data mining task in complex networks is to determine how individual nodes contribute to system behavior. Existing approaches rely on either static-graph centralities or…

cs.LG2026

From Causal Discovery to Dynamic Causal Inference in Neural Time Series

Dmitry Zaytsev, Valentina Kuskova, Michael Coppedge

Time-varying causal models provide a powerful framework for studying dynamic scientific systems, yet most existing approaches assume that the underlying causal network is known a p…