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Accurate and Scalable Matrix Mechanisms via Divide and Conquer

arXiv:2604.00868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Matrix mechanisms are often used to provide unbiased differentially private query answers when publishing statistics or creating synthetic data. Recent work has developed matrix mechanisms, such as ResidualPlanner and Weighted Fourier Factorizations, that scale to…

Safe learning-based control via function-based uncertainty quantification

arXiv:2604.01173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification is essential when deploying learning-based control methods in safety-critical systems. This is commonly realized by constructing uncertainty tubes that enclose the unknown function of interest, e.g., the reward and constraint functions or the…

Learning to Play Blackjack: A Curriculum Learning Perspective

arXiv:2604.00076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle with efficiency and performance in complex environments. We propose a novel framework that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to dynamically generate a curriculum over available actions, enabling the…

Speeding Up Mixed-Integer Programming Solvers with Sparse Learning for Branching

arXiv:2604.00094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning is increasingly used to improve decisions within branch-and-bound algorithms for mixed-integer programming. Many existing approaches rely on deep learning, which often requires very large training datasets and substantial computational resources for both training…

Mousse: Rectifying the Geometry of Muon with Curvature-Aware Preconditioning

arXiv:2603.09697v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in spectral optimization, notably Muon, have demonstrated that constraining update steps to the Stiefel manifold can significantly accelerate training and improve generalization. However, Muon implicitly assumes an isotropic optimization landscape, enforcing a uniform…