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MCD: Marginal Contrastive Discrimination for conditional density estimation

arXiv:2206.01592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider the problem of conditional density estimation, which is a major topic of interest in the fields of statistical and machine learning. Our method, called Marginal Contrastive Discrimination, MCD, reformulates the conditional density function…

Can Optimal Transport Improve Federated Inverse Reinforcement Learning?

arXiv:2601.00309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotics and multi-agent systems, fleets of autonomous agents often operate in subtly different environments while pursuing a common high-level objective. Directly pooling their data to learn a shared reward function is typically impractical due…

Mitigating optimistic bias in entropic risk estimation and optimization

arXiv:2409.19926v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The entropic risk measure is widely used in high-stakes decision-making across economics, management science, finance, and safety-critical control systems because it captures tail risks associated with uncertain losses. However, when data are limited, the empirical…

Quantum King-Ring Domination in Chess: A QAOA Approach

arXiv:2601.00318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is extensively benchmarked on synthetic random instances such as MaxCut, TSP, and SAT problems, but these lack semantic structure and human interpretability, offering limited insight into performance on real-world…

Smart Fault Detection in Nanosatellite Electrical Power System

arXiv:2601.00335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a new detection method of faults at Nanosatellites’ electrical power without an Attitude Determination Control Subsystem (ADCS) at the LEO orbit. Each part of this system is at risk of fault due…

Designing an Optimal Sensor Network via Minimizing Information Loss

arXiv:2512.05940v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimal experimental design is a classic topic in statistics, with many well-studied problems, applications, and solutions. The design problem we study is the placement of sensors to monitor spatiotemporal processes, explicitly accounting for the temporal…

Real-Time Human Detection for Aerial Captured Video Sequences via Deep Models

arXiv:2601.00391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human detection in videos plays an important role in various real-life applications. Most traditional approaches depend on utilizing handcrafted features, which are problem-dependent and optimal for specific tasks. Moreover, they are highly susceptible to dynamical…