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  • Interface lock-in in multimodal spatial reasoning1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Specializing a model on one spatial task (e.g., side detection) degrades performance on others (e.g., distance estimation), limiting general spatial intelligence.

    • ChronoReplay: One Answer Interface Is Not Enough for Streaming Spatial Intelligenceraises · addresses
  • Lack of unified evaluation for work agents1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Existing benchmarks do not reliably measure how agents execute complex, stateful, or open-ended digital work, making progress hard to track.

    • Work Agents: Systems, Capabilities, and Optimizationraises · addresses
  • Memory tax in long-horizon agents1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Dedicated memory systems often underperform naive retrieval, as reorganizing information can obscure evidence and reduce net value.

    • Memory Tax: Dissecting the Net Value of Agent Memoryraises · addresses
  • Credit assignment in diffusion language models1 paper raises it · 2 address it

    Iterative denoising in DLMs makes it hard to attribute rewards to individual tokens, limiting effective reinforcement learning.

    • DTCA: Denoising Token Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Modelsraises · addresses
    • Multiscale Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agentsaddresses
  • Grounded significance testing for temporal hypotheses1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Language models assert temporal patterns without rigorous statistical validation, risking incorrect conclusions in high-stakes domains like healthcare.

    • Testimony from Timelines: Evidence-Grounded Significance Testing of Temporal Clinical Hypothesesraises · addresses

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    The Dichotomy Between Pattern Recognition and Step-by-Step Reasoning

    Amrut Nadgir, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Balasubramanian

    We argue that pattern recognition and step-by-step reasoning are two ends of a spectrum. A large language model (LLM) learns to reason step-by-step when data is structured such that the next token depends on a small amount of preceding context. Inference in LLMs resembles pattern recognition when the next token depends on a large amount of preceding context. If the next token depends on only the $c$ most recent tokens, reasoning traces are paths on a De Bruijn graph whose nodes are $c$-length contexts and edges are next-token transitions between contexts. The set of reasoning traces of a task forms a directed acyclic subgraph of the De Bruijn graph. An LLM that has learned all edges of this subgraph can compose them to solve longer, unseen tasks, i.e., it reasons step-by-step. We prove that the number of edges is vanishingly small compared to the number of reasoning traces. Empirically, the number of training samples a transformer needs is a power law in the number of edges, so learning to reason step-by-step is sample efficient. We can induce De Bruijn structure in any task by maintaining a ``state'' that makes future reasoning independent of the past. The frequency of states in…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 6

    One Frame, Full Heartbeat: ECG-Free 4D Cardiac Cine MRI Synthesis via Radial-Decomposed Flow Matching

    Shiyi Wang, Ruochen Sun, Xiang Li, Peirong Liu, Fangxu Xing

    Cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) captures the cardiac cycle as a four-dimensional (4D) sequence, but standard acquisition requires electrocardiogram (ECG) gating and repeated breath holds. Visual realism alone does not establish accurate patient-specific ejection fraction (EF) or ventricular volumes. We present PhaseFlow3D, a generative framework that synthesizes a complete 4D cine sequence from a single end-diastolic (ED) three-dimensional (3D) volume without ECG. To capture asymmetric systolic and diastolic dynamics, it represents the cardiac cycle as a piecewise linear phase anchored at ED and end-systolic (ES) time points. At inference, a population-level canonical template supplies this phase without patient-specific temporal information. A phase-conditioned rectified flow model generates a cardiac motion trajectory in latent space. Radial Contraction Decomposition converts each latent state into a 3D displacement field, combining a physics-informed radial component for centripetal myocardial contraction with an image-conditioned residual for rotation and out-of-plane motion. Each frame is generated by directly warping the ED volume, bypassing variational…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    Q-PACE: Dynamic Precision Allocation for Quantization-Aware Training

    Alexandra Volkova, Matin Ansaripour, Erik Schultheis, Christoph H. Lampert, Dan Alistarh

    Quantization-aware training (QAT) leverages lower-precision arithmetic to reduce the cost of LLM deployment, but aggressive quantization degrades final model performance. A common remedy is mixed-precision training, in which high precision is assigned to some of the layers to maintain performance while keeping the cost constrained. This approach then requires precision assignments for model layers during training. We provide a new approach, called Q-PACE, consisting of a second-order sensitivity model that predicts the loss increase as a sum of quantization noise MSE weighted by per-layer curvature coefficients. During training, we periodically re-compute these coefficients using perturbations across layers, and re-assign precision. Pretraining and supervised fine-tuning experiments on LLMs of up to 4B parameters show that Q-PACE consistently improves over existing mixed-precision training recipes, and achieves comparable loss at substantially lower total memory budgets. We further find that quantization sensitivity is highly predictable by depth and layer type, and its stability during training allows for infrequent, cheap recalibration.

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    LayerRoPE: Dynamic Depth-wise Magnitude & Angular Superposition

    Shikhar Srivastava, Christopher Kanan

    As data propagates through a Transformer, the norm of its hidden states grows by orders of magnitude with depth, a phenomenon framed as 'curse of depth' and nearly universally treated as a pathology to be suppressed. We take the opposite view. Across 16 pre-trained LLMs from 9 families, spanning dense, mixture-of-experts and hybrid architectures and Pre-, Peri- and Post-Norm designs, we find that this growth reflects an emergent depth-positional encoding, carried by the only learned per-layer gain on the residual stream, the normalization weight $γ$: with depth, $γ$ grows in magnitude and rotates in direction, jointly encoding the layer index. We make this depth-conditioned encoding explicit with LayerRoPE, an implicit analog of RoPE along the depth axis, which replaces all layerwise $γ$ vectors with a single shared vector and depth-conditioned scalars, at a net reduction in parameters and $<0.02\%$ change in FLOPs. Across a model ladder scaled up to $100$B+ tokens, LayerRoPE consistently outperforms Pre-, Post- and Peri-Norm and Layer-Norm Scaling, reaching Pre-Norm's 1.3B loss with $3.4\times$ less compute; LayerRoPE is the only approach that shows strong convergence and…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    Context-aware Attention-based Gaussian Mixture Models for Vehicular Trajectory Prediction

    Arash Raftari, Babak Ebrahimi Soorchaei, Yaser P. Fallah

    Reliable and interpretable trajectory prediction is critical for cooperative and autonomous driving in complex and uncertain environments. This paper introduces a Context-Aware Attention-based Gaussian Mixture Model (CAA-GMM) for multimodal, uncertainty-aware motion forecasting. The proposed approach models future motion as a probabilistic mixture conditioned on both scene context and agent dynamics, capturing diverse behavioral modes with interpretable Gaussian components. A lightweight attention mechanism adaptively encodes inter-agent interactions and contextual salience, enabling efficient fusion of rasterized environment cues and motion history in dense traffic scenes. Comprehensive evaluations on the nuScenes and Argoverse 2 datasets demonstrate that CAA-GMM achieves competitive or superior accuracy compared with state-of-the-art raster-based baselines, while maintaining low computational complexity. Ablation analyses confirm the importance of the attention module for robust contextual reasoning and predictive precision. Furthermore, evaluations under imperfect communication and perception conditions highlight the framework's resilience to uncertainty, establishing CAA-GMM…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 6

    RDGSplat: Render-Dedicated Geometry for Novel View Synthesis

    Zhijie Zheng, Xinhao Xiang, Jiawei Zhang

    3D foundation models enable efficient novel view synthesis by carrying a Gaussian head on the representation they already use for reconstruction. However, the views they render fall short of the geometry they recover, because that geometry is estimated under a metric objective and never scored on how it renders. Recent methods alleviate this by updating the backbone weights, but they thereby discard the metric predictions the model was built for and must be repeated for every new backbone. To this end, we propose RDGSplat, a framework that decodes a second geometry dedicated to rendering from a frozen 3D foundation model, leaving its metric predictions intact. In particular, we devise Render-Dedicated Geometry Decoding, which duplicates the pretrained decoders and optimizes the duplicates under photometric supervision alone. Then, a Target-Pose Conditioned Adapter is introduced to reformulate the representation those decoders read, conditioned on the target camera pose rather than the target image. Extensive experiments show that RDGSplat improves novel view synthesis across three feed-forward backbones on four benchmarks, with every pretrained weight frozen. On RE10K, it raises…

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  • arXiv cs.DSOct 6

    Lower Bounds for Parallel Diffusion Sampling

    Yiwen Kou, Yimeng Wang

    Standard diffusion samplers generate samples through repeated evaluations of a learned score function. Parallel sampling methods seek to accelerate generation by trading additional evaluations for fewer sequential rounds. This raises the question of how much sequential dependence is unavoidable, even when many score queries can be made simultaneously. We establish the first polynomial parallel-round lower bounds for diffusion sampling with approximate scores. Specifically, we prove (1) a $\widetildeΩ(d^{1/3})$-round lower bound for sampling smooth, near-isotropic Gaussian mixtures in $R^d$, and (2) an $Ω(d)$-round lower bound for uniform sampling from anisotropic axis-aligned boxes contained in the unit ball. Both bounds hold for arbitrary randomized algorithms making polynomially many queries per round at arbitrary locations and noise levels, with inverse-polynomial score error and constant total variation accuracy. The linear bound is tight for our box family. Our constructions use fixed approximate score oracles that enforce sequential access to hidden information while satisfying the accuracy guarantee at every noise level.

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6

    Training Language Models To Be Coherent Decision-Makers

    Khurram Yamin, Xavier Fernandes, Paul Koch, Bryan Wilder, Eric Horvitz

    Reliable decision-making requires more than accurate prediction: a model must preserve its beliefs, apply the relevant utilities, and recognize when the information needed to justify an action is missing. We study whether language models can learn this decision procedure from supervised fine-tuning and generalize it across domains and differing natural-language expressions of the decision challenge. Across 20 datasets, we explore challenges of belief instability and decision-making errors by first eliciting probabilities of outcomes and then varying only the utilities and the framing of the decision problems, while holding the evidence fixed. We train models to preserve elicited beliefs while selecting the action that maximizes expected utility, and evaluate transfer to unseen application domains, held-out framings, and different classes of payoff structures. We further introduce incomplete-information settings in which required utilities are withheld and replaced with irrelevant text, testing whether models can distinguish missing decision-relevant information from merely additional context. We find that targeted fine-tuning substantially improves coherent decision-making and…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 6

    ToolRACER: A Robust Agentic Conversation Emulation Resource for Agent Training and Evaluation

    Arkajyoti Chakraborty, Aryan Tayal, Ishika Agarwal, Tanner Sorensen, Justin Chiu +3

    Task-oriented conversational agents remain fragile under real world conversation scenarios as they rarely follow a predictable script, especially when users exhibit non-cooperative behavior. Existing function-calling benchmarks often emphasize successful, cooperative interactions and underrepresent adversarial conversation trajectories, thereby limiting the training resources available for developing robust agents. We present ToolRACER, a synthetic data generation pipeline that coordinates user, assistant and tool emulation models to generate and validated multi-turn interactions between a user and an agent. Using \sysn, we construct ToolRACERBench a robust multi-turn conversation benchmark spanning six domains, ranging over 55 varied personas, generating a validated corpus of 5.6K conversation trajectories, with approximately 66\% of conversations containing failure-prone conversation scenarios. We inject adversarial behaviors, producing validated conversational interaction trajectories that capture realistic, robust scenarios. We evaluate models trained on ToolRACERBench against internal benchmarks, as well as on function calling benchmarks such as $τ^2$-bench, BFCLv3 and…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6

    SpecGuard: Proving a Task Is Broken Before the Agent Cheats

    Param Biyani, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

    As autonomous coding agents get increasingly deployed, the risk that accidental or adversarially injected misspecifications in tasks lead to dangerous agent behavior is critical to address. Prior work has shown that agents given such tasks rarely flag the conflict and instead cheat, editing tests or hard-coding expected outputs, and the actions taken to cheat can cause real damage, such as deleting a security defense to make a corrupted test pass. It remains unclear whether such conflicts can be established with independently verifiable evidence before the agent acts. We present SpecGuard, which detects and formally certifies these conflicts between task intent and tests. Given only the task description and codebase, SpecGuard autoformalizes the intended behaviour into a Lean 4 specification. The tests are formalized independently, and the Lean kernel checks whether any implementation could satisfy both formalizations, producing a machine-checked certificate when none can. On conflicted SWE-bench tasks, SpecGuard detects up to 72.8% of conflicts and formally certifies up to 51.1%, with a nearly five-fold lower conflict miss rate than model-based judgment. SpecGuard provides a…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 6

    sk-bench: A Native-First Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Slovak

    Marek Šuppa, Ivan Vykopal, Andrej Ridzik, Kristián Sopkovič, Natália Kňažeková +7

    Multilingual LLM benchmarks omit Slovak, a morphologically rich West Slavic language of five million speakers, or cover it only by machine translation. We present sk-bench, a native-first Slovak benchmark with 30 datasets (33 scored task variants) across ten skill categories. Eleven resources are introduced or first packaged for generative-LLM evaluation, including IFEval-SK with Slovak-adapted instruction checkers and native Chiby/SKJ1 resources for Slovak grammar and morphology. We evaluate 55 open- and closed-weights models under one harness. The best open model trails proprietary APIs by 12.6 points. Model rankings are similar for native and translated closed-form data ($ρ\geq0.98$), though translation separates the strongest models less well. By contrast, human-authored and LLM-generated QA questions rank models differently ($ρ=0.72$). For Qwen3-14B, continued Slovak pretraining lowers the overall score by 13.9 points. A small instruction set restores three quarters of that loss. Test-time reasoning improves scores by 8.5 to 12.5 points for models of 9B and above. Together, these findings suggest four design lessons for other under-resourced languages: use native data where…

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  • arXiv hep-latOct 6

    Sampling SU(N) gauge theory on a 2D lattice from independent plaquettes via holonomies and corner reweighting

    Javad Komijani

    In the Wilson formulation of lattice gauge theory, the fundamental degrees of freedom are group-valued link variables, while the action is a sum over the trace of the plaquettes, the smallest Wilson loops. For generative sampling methods such as normalizing flows, this poses a challenge: the distribution of an individual plaquette is easy to model, but mapping sampled plaquettes to the links is the obstruction. We explore a statistical way around this in two dimensions for the $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ gauge theory with the Wilson plaquette action. The action can be written in terms of holonomy variables, which determine the links once a consistency condition at the four corners of an extended lattice is satisfied. Using a boundary condition that only affects the holonomies, we trade this consistency condition for a conditional sampling problem, which reduces to sampling $X,Y\in\mathrm{SU}(N)$ given the group commutator $Z=XYX^\dagger Y^\dagger$, where $Z\in\mathrm{SU}(N)$ depends on the four corners. Plaquettes are sampled independently, and the resulting configurations carry weights due to the additional conditional sampling. We obtain the density of $Z$, which determines these weights,…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6▲ 6

    Frozen Models, Evolving Expertise: Model-Agnostic Learning from Deployment Experience for Multimodal Medical AI

    Yexiao He, Yucheng Tang, Pengfei Guo, Yufan He, Andriy Myronenko +4

    Large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) are usually frozen after deployment, so they do not learn from the cases they solve. This is especially concerning in medicine, where new clinical evidence, updated guidelines, and new therapies can change established practice. Fine-tuning can update the model, but it requires access to model weights and additional training. Parameter-free methods avoid training, but they may overfit a fixed validation set, lack reliable domain knowledge, or lose visual details by saving experience only as text. To address these limitations, we present a model-agnostic framework that allows frozen LLMs and VLMs to learn from deployment experience through three forms of external expertise: a Skill that guides reasoning and tool use, a Knowledge Memory that stores reliable facts supported by earlier cases or trusted external evidence, and a Multimodal Knowledge Base that keeps visual examples and guides the model to relate each retrieved case to the current image. Instead of relying on a fixed validation set, a validation strategy keeps an update only if it helps on new cases without degrading performance on earlier ones. Across six…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    Noise Your Prompt: Noising Conditioning Tokens in Continuous Diffusion Language Models

    Justin Jung

    We revisit a standard accepted practice in the continuous diffusion language model literature of fixing conditioning prompt tokens clean during training. We make a very simple modification: also noise the conditioning prompt tokens during training. We demonstrate that under this modified training objective, we achieve better generalization in combinatorial reasoning tasks such as Sudoku and N-Queens, with the largest gains on harder variants ($3.73\% \to 24.65\%$ solve rate on Sudoku Hard), and increased diversity of generated solutions ($50.60\% \to 73.79\%$ coverage on 10x10 N-Queens). We also show measurable improvements to natural language generation quality in modest dataset regimes with Gigaword summarization, but notably demonstrate that gains do not transfer to all natural language tasks (e.g open ended dialogue generation). Our method is a single line change to the training objective, requires no additional inference costs by default, and provides the flexibility of classifier-free guidance inspired guided sampling. Our \href{https://github.com/LateralIntelligence/noise-your-prompt}{code} is publicly available.

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6

    DIVA: Dual-Space Intent-Aware Visual Attenuation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Kaixi Feng, Guoheng Sun, Ziyao Wang, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen +1

    Vision-language-action (VLA) policies typically feed dense visual patch tokens into a language-action backbone, preserving scene context but offering no explicit mechanism to regulate how strongly different visual tokens influence policy computation. We introduce DIVA, a Dual-Space Intent-Aware Visual Attenuation module with an anchor-then-attenuate design. DIVA combines high-level task intent with low-level visual evidence to estimate patch-wise relevance anchors, then applies them in two complementary spaces: it reweights projected visual tokens before backbone entry and persistently attenuates low-relevance visual states within the backbone. DIVA preserves the full visual token sequence and requires no external grounding supervision. On LIBERO, DIVA improves OpenVLA-OFT from 96.6% to 98.0% average success and raises its zero-shot LIBERO-Plus score from 69.6 to 72.6. Real-world experiments further show consistent gains under task-irrelevant visual perturbations, supporting the robustness of intent-aware visual attenuation beyond simulation.

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6

    Finding Blind Spots in AppWorld and WorkArena Task Verifiers

    Richard Abrich

    Execution-based task verifiers decide whether an agent succeeded. We audit shipped AppWorld and WorkArena verifiers with source-informed mutation tests. The main audit never modifies a shipped checker. In AppWorld, duplicating a non-idempotent write creates an extra record while preserving every checked field value. The verifier accepts all three task variants from two of five eligible generators: 6/15 constructed effects. A cardinality patch applied to checker copies after the census makes all six cells fail while preserving valid controls. In WorkArena, we prospectively rerun 23 extra-field candidates selected for earlier checker-PASS outcomes. Independent Table API readback confirms nondefault persisted values in 21, while all 23 receive PASS. Two requested strings are aliases of stored defaults. The 21 confirmed wrong effects span three form templates. These selected cases confirm wrong effects under the audit's protocol; they do not estimate a population rate. No other construction produces an independently confirmed false accept. Other checker-PASS cases are effect-correct degeneracies. We report zero-PASS families separately because retained evidence differs. In fixed…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    A Cognitive-Aware QML-CRL Framework for Detecting Affinity and Romance-Investment Fraud

    Bibhas Adhikari, Ramya Srinivasan

    We present a hybrid quantum-classical framework that detects affinity and romance-investment fraud by modelling the cognitive biases in a manipulative conversation. In our proposed framework, cognitive biases central to this fraud class are carried by dedicated qubits in a structured parameterized quantum circuit, together with a frame qubit makes the encoding sensitive to the temporal order of manipulative reframing, and a narrative qubit that aggregates co-occurrence through a trainable entanglement layer. The circuit parameters are trained jointly with a classical reinforcement-learning agent that decides, turn by turn, whether to flag the conversation, modeled as an optimal stopping problem. We evaluate the model's performance on synthetic conversations that include hard negatives, legitimate but urgent, and legitimate but pushy sales conversations.

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 6

    Breaking the Space Barrier and its Application to Language Model Inference

    Arip Asadulaev

    Language models are more and more often asked for structured output: JSON that follows a schema, or a tool call with typed arguments. A small machine, an automaton, enforces the format by forbidding the tokens that would break it. We observe that this machine has a rare property: from any of its states, each token leads along exactly one path. Graphs in which only a few paths join any two points are a classical object of complexity theory, and our theoretical result settles an open question about them: one can decide whether such a graph connects two points while verifying that it really has few paths, with very little memory. Precisely, the problem lies in the classes ReachUL, LOGDCFL, C=L and SC2, and needs only O(log2 n/ log log n) space, below the classical O(log2 n) of Savitch's theorem. The constructions behind the proofs become an inference engine: text the format forces is written without running the model, the mask is recomputed on the GPU without any table, recursive formats use a small stack, every output stays valid under a token limit, and independent fields are decoded in parallel and verified. On one 16 GB Apple M2 Pro with Qwen3.5-2B and 4B, against MLX with…

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  • arXiv cs.CROct 6

    SwarmReconGuard: Black-Box Detection of Distributed Collective Reconnaissance by Individually Benign-Looking Agent Populations

    Vahid Tavakkoli, Kabeh Mohsenzadegan, Kyandoghere Kyamakya

    Autonomous and agentic clients can distribute reconnaissance across many identities so that each request remains valid, low-rate, and benign-looking while the population collectively acquires broad system knowledge. We formalize this threat as Distributed Collective Reconnaissance (DCR) and present SwarmReconGuard, a reproducible black-box benchmark in which the defender observes only service-boundary telemetry. The Docker-isolated study evaluates 11 benign and attack behaviors across 10-10,000 virtual identities, comprising 440 test runs and 3,666,300 requests, with complete telemetry integrity. We compare semantic, Gaussian, conditional, graph, kernel, hybrid, and CUSUM-based detectors. Gaussian likelihood-ratio detection achieves 100$\%$ detection with 0$\%$ observed false positives on known attacks but only 3$\%$ on unseen policies. CUSUM yields 36.1$\%$ overall detection at 1.25$\%$ false positives, while hybrid CUSUM reaches 85.7$\%$ detection with 0$\%$ observed false positives at 10,000 identities. Results expose a major policy-generalization gap and motivate exposure-aware, scale-aware defenses.

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 6

    Directional Evidence Guided Search-Space Reduction for Exact DAG Learning

    Upala Junaida Islam, Abdelmonem Elrefaey, Rong Pan

    Learning a directed acyclic graph (DAG) from observational data is a challenging combinatorial problem due to the exponential growth in the number of candidate parent-set configurations. Existing exact score-based methods often require computationally intensive combinatorial search, whereas constraint-based methods can become unreliable or computationally demanding as graph size and conditioning-set complexity increase. We develop a non-parametric hybrid framework, referred to as DECO (Directional Evidence-guided Configuration Optimization), that extracts dependency and directional evidence from observation data to construct admissible parent sets prior to exact optimization. It reduces the optimization search space by eliminating empirically unsupported parent configurations while preserving flexibility for all plausible edge orientations. Theoretical analysis establishes an exponential reduction in the admissible parent-set configuration space and quantifies how bounded edge-level omission affects the probability of retaining the true parent structure. Experiments on benchmark Bayesian networks and synthetic discrete and continuous DAGs demonstrate substantial search-space…

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