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Learning to Play Blackjack: A Curriculum Learning Perspective

arXiv:2604.00076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle with efficiency and performance in complex environments. We propose a novel framework that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to dynamically generate a curriculum over available actions, enabling the…

Speeding Up Mixed-Integer Programming Solvers with Sparse Learning for Branching

arXiv:2604.00094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning is increasingly used to improve decisions within branch-and-bound algorithms for mixed-integer programming. Many existing approaches rely on deep learning, which often requires very large training datasets and substantial computational resources for both training…

Perspective: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning

arXiv:2604.00069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming molecular and materials science, but its growing computational and data demands raise critical sustainability challenges. In this Perspective, we examine resource considerations across the AI-driven discovery pipeline–from quantum-mechanical (QM) data generation…

Evolution Strategies for Deep RL pretraining

arXiv:2604.00066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Deep Reinforcement Learning has proven highly effective for complex decision-making problems, it demands significant computational resources and careful parameter adjustment in order to develop successful strategies. Evolution strategies offer a more straightforward, derivative-free approach…

D4C: Data-Free Quantization for Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training Models

arXiv:2511.15411v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-Free Quantization (DFQ) offers a practical solution for model compression without requiring access to real data, making it particularly attractive in privacy-sensitive scenarios. While DFQ has shown promise for unimodal models, its extension to Vision-Language…

The No-Clash Teaching Dimension is Bounded by VC Dimension

arXiv:2603.23561v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the realm of machine learning theory, to prevent unnatural coding schemes between teacher and learner, No-Clash Teaching Dimension was introduced as provably optimal complexity measure for collusion-free teaching. However, whether No-Clash Teaching Dimension is…