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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…

Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

arXiv:2605.30056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved great successes by leveraging the multimodality and exploration capability of diffusion policies. Among these approaches, one representative branch focuses on the sampling-based policy optimization. This design enables…

When LLM Reward Design Fails: Diagnostic-Driven Refinement for Sparse Structured RL

arXiv:2605.28918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For sparse, structured reinforcement-learning tasks with semantic reward-function interfaces, LLM-generated reward shaping is better framed as debugging than one-shot generation. We study PPO-trained agents using MiniGrid as core evaluation and MuJoCo as boundary stress test.…

Wasserstein Contraction of Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference

arXiv:2605.30253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the contraction in Wasserstein distance of the coordinate ascent variational inference algorithm. This is shown to hold under a transport-information inequality at the fixed points and a functional smoothness condition. The results are…

Conf-Gen: Conformal Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Models

arXiv:2605.28920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) and its extension, conformal risk control (CRC), are established frameworks for quantifying uncertainty in supervised machine learning through formal guarantees. However, recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have been driven by unsupervised…