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Strategically Deceptive Model Deployment in Performative Prediction

arXiv:2506.09044v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Learning systems are increasingly deployed in decision-making settings that shape user behavior and, in turn, the data on which future decisions are based. Performative Prediction (PP) formalizes this feedback loop by modeling how deployed…

Efficient LLM Reasoning via Variational Posterior Guidance with Efficiency Awareness

arXiv:2605.11019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although large language models rely on chain-of-thought for complex reasoning, the overthinking phenomenon severely degrades inference efficiency. Existing reinforcement learning methods compress reasoning chains by designing elaborate reward functions, which renders high-quality samples extremely sparse…

Taking the Road Less Scheduled with Adaptive Polyak Steps

arXiv:2511.07767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Schedule-Free SGD, proposed in [Defazio et al., 2024], achieves optimal convergence rates without requiring the training horizon in advance, by replacing learning rate schedules with a principled form of iterate averaging. However, the method still…

BLOCK-EM: Preventing Emergent Misalignment via Latent Blocking

arXiv:2602.00767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Emergent misalignment can arise when a language model is fine-tuned on a narrowly scoped supervised objective: the model learns the target behavior, yet also develops undesirable out-of-domain behaviors. We investigate a mechanistic approach to preventing…

Shapley Value Approximation Based on k-Additive Games

arXiv:2502.04763v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Shapley value is the prevalent solution for fair division problems in which a payout is to be divided among multiple agents. By adopting a game-theoretic view, the idea of fair division and the Shapley…

Probabilistic Modeling of Latent Agentic Substructures in Deep Neural Networks

arXiv:2509.06701v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a theory of intelligent agency grounded in probabilistic modeling for neural models. Agents are represented as outcome distributions with epistemic utility given by log score, and compositions are defined through weighted logarithmic pooling…