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The Effect of Layer Ordering in Hybrid Architectures
John Cooper, Mingchen Ma, Jiaqi Mo +4
Hybrid attention is rapidly becoming the dominant architectural choice for frontier models. Despite their successes, such architectures complicate model design by introducing addit…
Robust Regression of General ReLUs with Queries
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Mingchen Ma
We study the task of agnostically learning general (as opposed to homogeneous) ReLUs under the Gaussian distribution with respect to the squared loss. In the passive learning setti…
Skilled AI Agents for Embedded and IoT Systems Development
Yiming Li, Yuhan Cheng, Mingchen Ma +6
Large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems have shown promise for automated software development, but applying them to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) embedded and Internet-of-Thi…
Expressivity-Efficiency Tradeoffs for Hybrid Sequence Models
John Cooper, Ilias Diakonikolas, Mingchen Ma +1
Hybrid sequence models--combining Transformer and state-space model layers--seek to gain the expressive versatility of attention as well as the computational efficiency of state-sp…
Learning Intersections of Two Margin Halfspaces under Factorizable Distributions
Ilias Diakonikolas, Mingchen Ma, Lisheng Ren +1
Learning intersections of halfspaces is a central problem in Computational Learning Theory. Even for just two halfspaces, it remains a major open question whether learning is possi…
ProGress: Structured Music Generation via Graph Diffusion and Hierarchical Music Analysis
Stephen Ni-Hahn, Chao Péter Yang, Mingchen Ma +3
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for music generation is undergoing rapid developments, with recent symbolic models leveraging sophisticated deep learning and diffusion model algorithm…
IoT-MCP: Bridging LLMs and IoT Systems Through Model Context Protocol
Ningyuan Yang, Guanliang Lyu, Mingchen Ma +7
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems faces significant challenges in hardware heterogeneity and control complexity. The Model Conte…
Statistical Query Hardness of Multiclass Linear Classification with Random Classification Noise
Ilias Diakonikolas, Mingchen Ma, Lisheng Ren +1
We study the task of Multiclass Linear Classification (MLC) in the distribution-free PAC model with Random Classification Noise (RCN). Specifically, the learner is given a set of l…
AutoCBT: An Autonomous Multi-agent Framework for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Psychological Counseling
Ancheng Xu, Di Yang, Renhao Li +13
Traditional in-person psychological counseling remains primarily niche, often chosen by individuals with psychological issues, while online automated counseling offers a potential…
Active Learning of General Halfspaces: Label Queries vs Membership Queries
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Mingchen Ma
We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution on in the presence of some form of query access. In th…
Active Learning with Simple Questions
Vasilis Kontonis, Mingchen Ma, Christos Tzamos
We consider an active learning setting where a learner is presented with a pool S of n unlabeled examples belonging to a domain X and asks queries to find the underlying labeling t…