Precision mental health requires treatment decisions that account for heterogeneous symptoms reflecting multiple clinical domains. However, existing methods for estimating individualized treatment effects (ITE) rely on a single summary outcome or a specific set of observed symptoms or measures, which are sensitive to symptom selection and limit generalizability to unmeasured yet clinically relevant domains. We propose DRIFT, a new maximin framework for estimating robust ITEs from high-dimensional item-level data by leveraging latent factor representations and adversarial learning. DRIFT […]

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arXiv:2603.18640v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) is the computational workhorse of modern Bayesian software libraries, yet its qualitative and quantitative convergence guarantees were established only recently. A significant gap remains in the theoretical comparison of its two main variants: NUTS-mul and NUTS-BPS, which use multinomial sampling and biased progressive sampling, respectively, for index selection. In this paper, we address this gap in three contributions. First, we derive the first necessary conditions for geometric ergodicity for […]

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Predicting extreme events in high-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems remains a fundamental challenge, as such events are rare, intermittent, and arise from transient dynamical mechanisms that are difficult to infer from limited observations. Accordingly, real-time forecasting calls for precursors that encode the mechanisms driving extremes, rather than relying solely on statistical associations. We propose a fully data-driven framework for long-lead prediction of extreme events that constructs interpretable, mechanism-aware precursors by explicitly tracking transient instabilities preceding event onset. The approach […]

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Temperature is a crucial hyperparameter in large language models (LLMs), controlling the trade-off between exploration and exploitation during text generation. High temperatures encourage diverse but noisy outputs, while low temperatures produce focused outputs but may cause premature convergence. Yet static or heuristic temperature schedules fail to adapt to the dynamic demands of reinforcement learning (RL) throughout training, often limiting policy improvement. We propose Temperature Adaptive Meta Policy Optimization (TAMPO), a new framework that recasts temperature control as a […]

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Detecting machine failures promptly is of utmost importance in industry for maintaining efficiency and minimizing downtime. This paper introduces a failure detection algorithm based on quantum computing and a statistical change-point detection approach. Our method leverages the potential of projected quantum feature maps to enhance the precision of anomaly detection in machine monitoring systems. We empirically validate our approach on benchmark multi-dimensional time series datasets as well as on a real-world dataset comprising IoT sensor readings from operational […]

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Need advice!!! I had a very nice discussion with the founder of a well funded startup company. The problem mentioned to me got me excited and over the weekend I spend time just drafting the problem into the MDP as they would like to move to pure RL. The following week I had an interview with a guy who works as a consultant at the same company and the interview was okay. I gave good answers but got […]

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In software engineering, code without tests rarely makes it to production. In data systems, the bar is often much lower: “as long as the table isn’t empty, it’s probably fine.” But this assumption is expensive. Data bugs rarely crash services. Instead, they quietly produce broken dashboards, misleading metrics, incorrect business decisions, and long debugging sessions after trust is already lost. The problem isn’t that teams don’t care about quality, it’s that data failures rarely look like failures. They look like slightly […]

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arXiv:2601.03271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we propose an enhancement to the Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm tailored for natural language text. The approach involves preprocessing the search pattern to identify its statistically least frequent character, referred to as the “anchor.” During the search, verification is first performed at this high-entropy position, allowing the algorithm to quickly discard non-matching windows. This fail-fast strategy reduces unnecessary comparisons, improving overall efficiency. Our implementation shows that incorporating basic linguistic statistics into classical […]

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arXiv:2602.10229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) equips Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong reasoning capabilities, it requires models to verbalize every intermediate step in text tokens, constraining the model thoughts to the discrete vocabulary space. Recently, reasoning in continuous latent space has emerged as a promising alternative, enabling more robust inference and flexible computation beyond discrete token constraints. However, current latent paradigms often suffer from feature collapse and instability, stemming from distribution mismatches when recurrently […]

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