arXiv:2604.07532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are vulnerable to intelligent attackers who exploit the homogeneous treatment of traffic events in existing trust models. These attackers accumulate reputation by reporting correctly on low-priority events and then inject false data during safety-critical situations – a strategy that current approaches cannot detect because they ignore event severity and location criticality in trust calculations. This paper addresses this gap through three contributions. First, it introduces event-aware and location-aware […]

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We develop a method for training neural networks on Boolean data in which the values at all nodes are strictly $pm 1$, and the resulting models are typically equivalent to networks whose nonzero weights are also $pm 1$. The method replaces loss minimization with a nonconvex constraint formulation. Each node implements a Boolean threshold function (BTF), and training is expressed through a divide-and-concur decomposition into two complementary constraints: one enforces local BTF consistency between inputs, weights, and output; […]

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arXiv:2601.18930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We are interested in enabling autonomous agents to learn and reason about systems with hidden states, such as furniture with hidden locking mechanisms. We cast this problem as learning the parameters of a discrete Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). The agent begins with knowledge of the POMDP’s actions and observation spaces, but not its state space, transitions, or observation models. These properties must be constructed from action-observation sequences. Spectral approaches to learning […]

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arXiv:2603.20155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is currently difficult to distill discrete diffusion models. In contrast, continuous diffusion literature has many distillation approaches methods that can reduce sampling steps to a handful. Our method, Discrete Moment Matching Distillation (D-MMD), leverages ideas that have been highly successful in the continuous domain. Whereas previous discrete distillation methods collapse, D-MMD maintains high quality and diversity (given sufficient sampling steps). This is demonstrated on both text and image datasets. Moreover, the newly […]

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While diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, their learning dynamics remain poorly understood. We address this issue first by empirically showing that standard diffusion models trained on natural images exhibit a distributional simplicity bias, learning simple, pair-wise input statistics before specializing to higher-order correlations. We reproduce this behaviour in simple denoisers trained on a minimal data model, the mixed cumulant model, where we precisely control both pair-wise and higher-order correlations of the inputs. […]

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arXiv:2601.17058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data preparation aims to denoise raw datasets, uncover cross-dataset relationships, and extract valuable insights from them, which is essential for a wide range of data-centric applications. Driven by (i) rising demands for application-ready data (e.g., for analytics, visualization, decision-making), (ii) increasingly powerful LLM techniques, and (iii) the emergence of infrastructures that facilitate flexible agent construction (e.g., using Databricks Unity Catalog), LLM-enhanced methods are rapidly becoming a transformative and potentially dominant paradigm for data […]

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The inability to communicate poses a major challenge to coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Prior work has explored correlating local policies via shared randomness, sometimes in the form of a correlation device, as a mechanism to assist in decentralized decision-making. In contrast, this work introduces the first framework for training MARL agents to exploit shared quantum entanglement as a coordination resource, which permits a larger class of communication-free correlated policies than shared randomness alone. This is motivated […]

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