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Empirical Likelihood for Nonsmooth Functionals

arXiv:2603.27743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empirical likelihood is an attractive inferential framework that respects natural parameter boundaries, but existing approaches typically require smoothness of the functional and miscalibrate substantially when these assumptions are violated. For the optimal-value functional central to…

On the Hardness of Reinforcement Learning with Transition Look-Ahead

arXiv:2510.19372v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study reinforcement learning (RL) with transition look-ahead, where the agent may observe which states would be visited upon playing any sequence of $ell$ actions before deciding its course of action. While such predictive information…

Noise in Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Models, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

arXiv:2603.09645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic Quantum Machine Learning (PQML) is an emerging method to implement scalable, energy-efficient quantum information processing by combining photonic quantum computing technologies with machine learning techniques. The features of photonic technologies offer several benefits: room-temperature…

Gaussian Joint Embeddings For Self-Supervised Representation Learning

arXiv:2603.26799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised representation learning often relies on deterministic predictive architectures to align context and target views in latent space. While effective in many settings, such methods are limited in genuinely multi-modal inverse problems, where squared-loss prediction…

MemGuard-Alpha: Detecting and Filtering Memorization-Contaminated Signals in LLM-Based Financial Forecasting via Membership Inference and Cross-Model Disagreement

arXiv:2603.26797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate financial alpha signals, yet growing evidence shows that LLMs memorize historical financial data from their training corpora, producing spurious predictive accuracy that collapses out-of-sample. This memorization-induced…