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Feature Lottery? A Bifurcation Theory of Concept Emergence

arXiv:2605.24057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks acquire structured representations at specific moments during training, yet identifying these transitions typically relies on retrospective, label-dependent metrics. We introduce a bifurcation theory of representation dynamics to detect these moments in real time.…

Differentiable Learning of Lifted Action Schemas for Classical Planning

arXiv:2605.13282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical planners can effectively solve very large deterministic MDPs represented in STRIPS or PDDL where states are sets of atoms over objects and relations, and lifted action schemas add or delete these atoms. This compact…

Adaptive Preconditioners Trigger Loss Spikes in Adam

arXiv:2506.04805v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Loss spikes commonly emerge during neural network training with the Adam optimizer across diverse architectures and scales, yet their underlying mechanism remains elusive. While previous explanations attribute these phenomena to sharper loss landscapes at lower…

Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning with Learnable Aggregation Weights

arXiv:2511.03529v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their private data. However, the presence of malicious (Byzantine) clients poses significant challenges to the robustness of FL, particularly when data distributions…