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A theoretical guarantee for SyncRank

arXiv:2509.22766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the SyncRank algorithm for recovering a global ranking from noisy pairwise comparisons. By adopting a complex-valued data model where the true ranking is encoded in the phases…

Warm Starts Accelerate Conditional Diffusion

arXiv:2507.09212v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models like diffusion and flow-matching create high-fidelity samples by progressively refining noise. The refinement process is notoriously slow, often requiring hundreds of function evaluations. We introduce Warm-Start Diffusion (WSD), a method that uses a…

Statistical Inference for Gradient Boosting Regression

arXiv:2509.23127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient boosting is widely popular due to its flexibility and predictive accuracy. However, statistical inference and uncertainty quantification for gradient boosting remain challenging and under-explored. We propose a unified framework for statistical inference in gradient…

Fidel-TS: A High-Fidelity Benchmark for Multimodal Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2509.24789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evaluation of time series forecasting models is hindered by a critical lack of high-quality benchmarks, leading to a potential illusion of progress. Existing datasets suffer from issues ranging from pre-training data contamination in the…

A Generative Model for Controllable Feature Heterophily in Graphs

arXiv:2509.23230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a principled generative framework for graph signals that enables explicit control of feature heterophily, a key property underlying the effectiveness of graph learning methods. Our model combines a Lipschitz graphon-based random graph generator…

A Unified Information-Theoretic Framework for Meta-Learning Generalization

arXiv:2501.15559v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, information-theoretic generalization bounds have gained increasing attention for analyzing the generalization capabilities of meta-learning algorithms. However, existing results are confined to two-step bounds, failing to provide a sharper characterization of the meta-generalization…

Flow Matching for Robust Simulation-Based Inference under Model Misspecification

arXiv:2509.23385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based inference (SBI) is transforming experimental sciences by enabling parameter estimation in complex non-linear models from simulated data. A persistent challenge, however, is model misspecification: simulators are only approximations of reality, and mismatches between simulated…