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Natural gradient descent with momentum

arXiv:2604.15554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of approximating a function by an element of a nonlinear manifold which admits a differentiable parametrization, typical examples being neural networks with differentiable activation functions or tensor networks. Natural gradient descent…

Sentiment Analysis of German Sign Language Fairy Tales

arXiv:2604.16138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a dataset and a model for sentiment analysis of German sign language (DGS) fairy tales. First, we perform sentiment analysis for three levels of valence (negative, neutral, positive) on German fairy tales text…

Power to the Clients: Federated Learning in a Dictatorship Setting

arXiv:2510.22149v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for decentralized model training, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without exchanging their local data. However, the decentralized nature of FL also introduces…

Learning Affine-Equivariant Proximal Operators

arXiv:2604.15556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proximal operators are fundamental across many applications in signal processing and machine learning, including solving ill-posed inverse problems. Recent work has introduced Learned Proximal Networks (LPNs), providing parametric functions that compute exact proximals for data-driven…

FSPO: Few-Shot Optimization of Synthetic Preferences Personalizes to Real Users

arXiv:2502.19312v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective personalization of LLMs is critical for a broad range of user-interfacing applications such as virtual assistants and content curation. Inspired by the strong in-context capabilities of LLMs, we propose few-shot preference optimization (FSPO), an…

Dynamic Tool Dependency Retrieval for Lightweight Function Calling

arXiv:2512.17052v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Function calling agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) select external tools to automate complex tasks. On-device agents typically use a retrieval module to select relevant tools, improving performance and reducing context length. However, existing…