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Byzantine-Robust Optimization under $(L_0, L_1)$-Smoothness

arXiv:2603.12512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider distributed optimization under Byzantine attacks in the presence of $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness, a generalization of standard $L$-smoothness that captures functions with state-dependent gradient Lipschitz constants. We propose Byz-NSGDM, a normalized stochastic gradient descent method with…

Rethinking Attention: Polynomial Alternatives to Softmax in Transformers

arXiv:2410.18613v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper questions whether the strong performance of softmax attention in transformers stems from producing a probability distribution over inputs. Instead, we argue that softmax’s effectiveness lies in its implicit regularization of the Frobenius norm…

Learning Pore-scale Multiphase Flow from 4D Velocimetry

arXiv:2603.12516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiphase flow in porous media underpins subsurface energy and environmental technologies, including geological CO$_2$ storage and underground hydrogen storage, yet pore-scale dynamics in realistic three-dimensional materials remain difficult to characterize and predict. Here we introduce…

Accelerating Residual Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty Estimation

arXiv:2506.17564v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Residual Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a popular approach for adapting pretrained policies by learning a lightweight residual policy that provides corrective actions. While Residual RL is more sample-efficient than finetuning the entire base policy, existing…

Curriculum Sampling: A Two-Phase Curriculum for Efficient Training of Flow Matching

arXiv:2603.12517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Timestep sampling $p(t)$ is a central design choice in Flow Matching models, yet common practice increasingly favors static middle-biased distributions (e.g., Logit-Normal). We show that this choice induces a speed–quality trade-off: middle-biased sampling accelerates early…

When LLM Judge Scores Look Good but Best-of-N Decisions Fail

arXiv:2603.12520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are often used as judges to score candidate responses, then validated with a single global metric such as correlation with reference labels. This can be misleading when the real deployment task is…