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Improving Full Waveform Inversion in Large Model Era

arXiv:2603.00377v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a highly nonlinear and ill-posed problem that aims to recover subsurface velocity maps from surface-recorded seismic waveforms data. Existing data-driven FWI typically uses small models, as available datasets have limited…

Context Distillation as Latent Memory Management

arXiv:2605.28889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context distillation compresses contextual information into model parameters, yet existing methods often ignore how multiple distilled latent memories should be stored, retrieved, and safely activated in non-oracle settings. We formulate context distillation as a latent…

Turning Stale Gradients into Stable Gradients: Coherent Coordinate Descent with Implicit Landscape Smoothing for Lightweight Zeroth-Order Optimization

arXiv:2605.14373v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimization is pivotal for scenarios where backpropagation is unavailable, such as memory-constrained on-device learning and black-box optimization. However, existing methods face a stark trade-off: they are either sample-inefficient (e.g., standard finite differences) or…

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives

arXiv:2505.21627v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art large language models require specialized hardware and substantial energy to operate. As a consequence, cloud-based services that provide access to large language models have become very popular. In these services, the price users pay…

Spectral Guidance for Flexible and Efficient Control of Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.28900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Spectral Guidance, a framework for controlling diffusion models by leveraging the intrinsic geometry of the generative process. As data is progressively corrupted by noise, only a small number of features remain informative for…

Envy-Free Allocation of Indivisible Goods via Noisy Queries

arXiv:2602.06361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods (items) in which the agents’ valuations cannot be observed directly, but instead can only be accessed via noisy queries. In the two-agent setting with Gaussian noise…

Online Learning-to-Defer with Varying Experts

arXiv:2605.12340v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-to-Defer (L2D) methods route each query either to a predictive model or to external experts. While existing work studies this problem in batch settings, real-world deployments require handling streaming data, changing expert availability, and shifting…