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PRISM: Position-encoded Regressive Inverse Spectral Model for Multilayer Thin-Film Design

arXiv:2605.26502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The inverse problem of multilayer thin-film optical coatings design represents a complex combinatorial-continuous optimization challenge. We present PRISM (Position-encoded Regressive Inverse Spectral Model), a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer that streamlines this process by jointly predicting…

Learning Randomized Reductions

arXiv:2412.18134v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Randomized self-reductions (RSRs) express $f(x)$ using $f$ evaluated at random correlated points, enabling self-correcting programs, instance-hiding protocols, and applications in complexity theory and cryptography. Yet discovering RSRs has required manual expert derivation for over 40…

Calibrated Preference Learning: The Case of Label Ranking

arXiv:2605.30447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calibration, the alignment of predicted probabilities with true outcome frequencies, is essential for reliable decision-making. While extensively studied for classification and regression, calibration has not been formally addressed for probabilistic label ranking, where the goal…

Scaling Multi-Agent Environment Co-Design with Diffusion Models

arXiv:2511.03100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The agent-environment co-design paradigm jointly optimises agent policies and environment configurations in search of improved system performance. With application domains ranging from warehouse logistics to windfarm management, co-design promises to fundamentally change how we deploy…

NumLeak: Public Numeric Benchmarks as Latent Labels in Foundation Models

arXiv:2605.30393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public numeric benchmarks appear in pretraining, so an evaluation that conditions on a date may be measuring memorized recall rather than out-of-sample skill. We introduce NumLeak, a measurement framework that combines API-boundary probes on production…

Bounded Behavioral Indistinguishability for Black-Box LLM Distillation

arXiv:2605.30448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box LLM distillation is usually evaluated as an output-matching problem: a student is considered successful when its responses are semantically similar to, or task-consistent with, those of a teacher. However, output similarity does not imply…

Plain Transformers are Surprisingly Powerful Link Predictors

arXiv:2602.01553v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Link prediction is a core challenge in graph machine learning, demanding models that capture rich and complex topological dependencies. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the standard solution, state-of-the-art pipelines often rely on explicit structural…

VeriGate: Verifier-Gated Step-Level Supervision for GRPO

arXiv:2605.30451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is an effective recipe for training reasoning models with verifier-based outcome rewards, but its supervision is sparse: when all sampled trajectories for a prompt receive the same verifier reward, the…

Mollified Value Learning

arXiv:2602.23280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) learns goal-reaching behaviors from static datasets, but accurate value estimation remains challenging under limited state-action coverage. Existing physics-informed approaches address this by imposing pointwise distance-like geometric constraints derived from Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman…