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Bridging Theory and Practice in Crafting Robust Spiking Reservoirs

arXiv:2604.06395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking reservoir computing provides an energy-efficient approach to temporal processing, but reliably tuning reservoirs to operate at the edge-of-chaos is challenging due to experimental uncertainty. This work bridges abstract notions of criticality and practical stability…

EvoFlows: Evolutionary Edit-Based Flow-Matching for Protein Engineering

arXiv:2603.11703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce EvoFlows, a variable-length protein sequence-to-sequence modeling approach designed for protein engineering. Existing protein language models are poorly suited for optimization tasks: autoregressive models require full sequence generation, masked language and discrete diffusion models…

Inference-Time Scaling of Diffusion Language Models via Trajectory Refinement

arXiv:2507.08390v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, matching their performance through large-scale training. However, inference-time control remains relatively underexplored. In this work, we study how to steer generation toward…

Tensor-Efficient High-Dimensional Q-learning

arXiv:2511.03595v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-dimensional reinforcement learning(RL) faces challenges with complex calculations and low sample efficiency in large state-action spaces. Q-learning algorithms struggle particularly with the curse of dimensionality, where the number of state-action pairs grows exponentially with problem…

Gaussian Approximation for Asynchronous Q-learning

arXiv:2604.07323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we derive rates of convergence in the high-dimensional central limit theorem for Polyak-Ruppert averaged iterates generated by the asynchronous Q-learning algorithm with a polynomial stepsize $k^{-omega},, omega in (1/2, 1]$. Assuming that…

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

arXiv:2604.06268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RL training of multi-turn LLM agents is inherently unstable, and reasoning quality directly determines task performance. Entropy is widely used to track reasoning stability. However, entropy only measures diversity within the same input, and cannot…