33 papers
Diagnosing Under-Development of Irreversible Processes in Video Generation
Jian Xu, Yanning Wu, Delu Zeng +2
Many physical attributes are \emph{irreversible}: ice melts but does not re-freeze, paper chars but does not un-burn. Do video generators respect this? We show the question is hard…
DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models
Shigui Li, Delu Zeng
The prevailing inference framework for diffusion models formulates generation fundamentally as a problem of numerical integration. This perspective casts the model as an exact esti…
Look Again Before You Abstain:Budgeted Conformal Evidence Acquisition for Reliable Vision-Language Model
Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, Yanning Wu +2
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) hallucinate: they assert visual details that the image does not support. A principled remedy is selective prediction with a distribution-free g…
Fixed-Protocol Amortized MPS Tomography with Conformalized Predictive Uncertainty
Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley +1
The paper introduces a fixed‑protocol amortized estimator for matrix‑product‑state quantum tomography that leverages an informative local Pauli measurement design and a gauge‑invar…
Entanglement as a Structural Complexity Axis: A PAC-Bayesian View of Generalization in Quantum Policies and Value Functions
Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley +1
Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are increasingly used as policies and value functions in quantum reinforcement learning, yet it remains unclear when and why quantum policies…
Active Quantum Kernel Acquisition for Gaussian Process Regression
Jian Xu, Artur Miroszewski, John Paisley +2
Quantum kernel estimation on near-term hardware is shot-budgeted: every entry of the kernel Gram matrix is a Bernoulli expectation that must be sampled with a finite number of circ…