arXiv:2505.15059v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulated tempering is a widely used strategy for sampling from multimodal distributions. In this paper, we consider simulated tempering combined with an arbitrary local Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler and present a new decomposition theorem…
arXiv:2302.08854v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study estimation and inference using data collected by reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. These algorithms adaptively experiment by interacting with individual units over multiple stages, updating their strategies based on past outcomes. Our goal is…
arXiv:2507.05689v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We establish a fundamental connection between optimal structure learning and optimal conditional independence testing by showing that the minimax optimal rate for structure learning problems is determined by the minimax rate for conditional independence testing…
arXiv:2404.09113v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Variational inference (VI) has emerged as a popular method for approximate inference for high-dimensional Bayesian models. In this paper, we propose a novel VI method that extends the naive mean field via entropic regularization, referred…
arXiv:2510.02420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aim of this note is to overview some of our work in Chernikov, Towsner’20 (arXiv:2010.00726) developing higher arity VC theory (VC$_n$ dimension), including a generalization of Haussler packing lemma, and an associated tame (slice-wise)…
Salesforce AI Research released CoDA-1.7B, a diffusion-based language model for code that generates by denoising whole sequences with bidirectional context, updating multiple tokens in parallel rather than left-to-right next-token prediction. The research team published both Base and Instruct checkpoints and…
Building robust AI agents differs fundamentally from traditional software development, as it centers on probabilistic model behavior rather than deterministic code execution. This guide provides a neutral overview of methodologies for designing AI agents that are both reliable and adaptable,…
For the last several years Netflix has been quietly banking episodes of a new show called Famous Last Words, interviews with famous people entering their twilight years. The catch is that episodes will only air after the subject passes away.…
Rebrands rarely get much love. That backlash can be especially strong if you’re giving a facelift to a decades-old piece of software beloved by nerds around the globe. So, it was no surprise that when Audacity revealed its new logo…
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