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Illustration for: Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster

Research Models & Releases

Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster

Researchers propose Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion, a technique that replaces fixed noise schedules in discrete diffusion models with learnable forward processes. By parameterizing both marginal and posterior distributions rather than enforcing Markovian constraints, FLDD reduces the gap between target and model distributions, enabling faster few-step generation. This addresses a core efficiency bottleneck in discrete diffusion across domains like text and categorical data, potentially accelerating inference for a class of generative models that has gained traction as an alternative to continuous diffusion.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Concise and Logically Consistent Conformal Sets for Neuro-Symbolic Concept-Based Models

Concise and Logically Consistent Conformal Sets for Neuro-Symbolic Concept-Based Models

Researchers have extended conformal prediction, a statistical framework that guarantees coverage without distributional assumptions, to neuro-symbolic concept-based models that combine neural networks with logical reasoning. The work addresses a critical reliability gap in high-stakes deployments where these hybrid systems produce overconfident predictions despite their interpretability advantages. By formalizing three design principles (consistency, coverage, conciseness), the paper establishes formal guarantees for when stakeholders can trust model decisions, bridging the gap between symbolic reasoning's interpretability and statistical rigor in uncertainty quantification.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Dual-Rate Diffusion: Accelerating diffusion models with an interleaved heavy-light network

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Dual-Rate Diffusion: Accelerating diffusion models with an interleaved heavy-light network

Dual-Rate Diffusion addresses a critical bottleneck in generative AI: the computational expense of running diffusion models at inference time. By splitting workload between a sparse high-capacity encoder and a lightweight denoiser that reuses its features, the method achieves 2-4x speedup on ImageNet without quality loss. This efficiency gain matters for practitioners deploying diffusion models in latency-sensitive applications, and signals a broader shift toward hybrid architectures that trade off capacity and speed rather than accepting the full cost of monolithic networks.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: UTOPYA: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Physics-Informed Anomaly Detection and Time-Series Prediction

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UTOPYA: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Physics-Informed Anomaly Detection and Time-Series Prediction

UTOPYA demonstrates how physics-informed inductive biases can scale multimodal learning beyond standard deep learning. By combining eight sensor modalities through cross-modal attention and enforcing thermodynamic constraints during training, the framework tackles a real industrial bottleneck: anomaly detection in batch processes where labeled faults are scarce and sensor data is heterogeneous. The curriculum learning strategy that orders samples by physical difficulty signals a broader shift toward embedding domain knowledge into training procedures rather than relying on scale alone. For practitioners in process monitoring and time-series systems, this work bridges the gap between black-box neural networks and interpretable physics-based methods.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Scalable Environments Drive Generalizable Agents

Scalable Environments Drive Generalizable Agents

A position paper challenges the dominant scaling paradigm in agent development, arguing that current practices optimize for task breadth and trajectory volume within static environments, leaving systems fragile when interaction rules or dynamics shift. The authors propose that genuine generalization requires systematic exposure to fundamentally different executable rulesets, not just more data under fixed interfaces. This reframes a critical bottleneck in agent research: world-level distribution shift rather than task-level variation. The insight matters for anyone building production agents or evaluating whether scaling laws alone can deliver robust deployment.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: Canonical Regularisation of Wide Feature-Learning Neural Networks

Canonical Regularisation of Wide Feature-Learning Neural Networks

Researchers have identified a fundamental gap in how gradient flow training behaves across neural network regimes. While kernel-regime networks converge to a well-understood ridge solution that enables noise modeling, feature-learning networks (the backbone of modern deep learning) exhibit different regularization dynamics even as regularization vanishes. This finding challenges assumptions underlying current theoretical frameworks and suggests the inductive biases shaping practical deep networks differ more substantially from their theoretical cousins than previously recognized. The work matters because it exposes a blind spot in our understanding of why wide networks generalize.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Ringmaster LMO: Asynchronous Linear Minimization Oracle Momentum Method

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Ringmaster LMO: Asynchronous Linear Minimization Oracle Momentum Method

Ringmaster LMO addresses a critical bottleneck in distributed training: synchronous optimization methods like Muon force fast workers to idle while waiting for stragglers. This paper extends asynchronous training techniques to Linear Minimization Oracle methods, potentially unlocking Muon's efficiency gains across heterogeneous clusters without synchronization overhead. The work matters because matrix-structured optimizers are gaining traction as AdamW alternatives for large-scale pretraining, and removing synchronization barriers could reshape how teams scale training across commodity hardware with variable performance.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Research Tools & Code

Buffer-Parameterized Machine Learning Surrogate Models for Cross-Technology Signal Integrity Analysis and Optimization

Researchers have developed a machine learning surrogate model that generalizes across IC buffer technologies without retraining, addressing a persistent bottleneck in signal integrity simulation for PCB design. By parameterizing buffer characteristics as model inputs rather than fixed assumptions, the approach eliminates costly data generation cycles when switching between chip vendors or process nodes. This represents a practical application of transfer learning to hardware design automation, potentially accelerating time-to-market for complex interconnect optimization while reducing computational overhead in the EDA workflow.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Elastic-dLLM: Position Preserving Context Compression and Augmentation of Diffusion LLMs

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Elastic-dLLM: Position Preserving Context Compression and Augmentation of Diffusion LLMs

Diffusion-based language models face a fundamental efficiency bottleneck: they denoise large chunks of masked tokens in parallel, but waste computation reprocessing context and redundant token representations across steps. Researchers propose position-preserving mask compression to eliminate this waste while preserving the structural signals masks provide during generation. The work targets a critical pain point in making non-autoregressive decoding practical at scale, directly impacting inference cost for any dLLM deployment seeking to compete with standard transformer speed-ups.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: TRACE: Trajectory Correction from Cross-layer Evidence for Hallucination Reduction

TRACE: Trajectory Correction from Cross-layer Evidence for Hallucination Reduction

Researchers challenge the dominant paradigm in hallucination mitigation by showing that intermediate and final layers don't follow a simple truthfulness hierarchy. TRACE proposes a multi-directional intervention strategy that adapts based on where factual evidence actually resides across model depth, rather than applying uniform steering or layer contrasts. This shifts hallucination reduction from a one-size-fits-all correction problem to a layer-aware diagnostic one, with implications for how production systems should approach factuality in deployed models.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Research Tools & Code

FOL2NS: Generating Natural Sentences from First-Order Logic

Researchers have developed FOL2NS, a neurosymbolic system that bridges formal logic and natural language by generating synthetic first-order logic formulas and converting them to human-readable text. The framework tackles a persistent gap in NLP: most training corpora lack deeply nested logical structures with variable quantifier depths, limiting downstream performance in semantic parsing and theorem validation. By combining symbolic rule engines with fine-tuned language models, FOL2NS expands dataset diversity and coverage, addressing a bottleneck that affects reasoning-heavy applications across question answering and formal verification pipelines.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: Agentic AI for Robot Teams

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Agentic AI for Robot Teams

Johns Hopkins APL is demonstrating a scalable architecture for deploying LLM-based agents across heterogeneous robot teams, moving beyond single-agent autonomy toward coordinated multi-robot systems. The work bridges a critical gap in applied AI: translating language models into real-world coordination primitives that handle adaptability and task distribution across diverse hardware. Hardware demonstrations and documented failure modes offer practitioners concrete patterns for agentic robotics deployment, signaling that LLM-driven autonomy is transitioning from simulation to field-tested systems.

IEEE Spectrum - AI·May 18

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Illustration for: I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

A WIRED writer partnered with Claude to build a database application for cataloging user complaints, testing whether non-technical users can effectively leverage LLMs for practical software development. The experiment probes a critical question in AI democratization: whether natural language interfaces have genuinely lowered the barrier to entry for coding tasks, or whether domain knowledge remains essential. Success here would signal that LLM-assisted development is moving beyond toy projects into functional tooling, reshaping expectations around who can participate in software creation.

WIRED - AI·May 18

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Illustration for: OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments

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OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments

OpenAI and Dell are jointly enabling enterprise deployment of Codex, OpenAI's code generation model, into on-premise and hybrid cloud infrastructures. This move addresses a critical gap in the AI-for-enterprise market: most coding agents remain cloud-only, creating compliance and data sovereignty friction for regulated industries. By partnering with Dell's infrastructure expertise, OpenAI is effectively decoupling Codex from its SaaS constraints, allowing Fortune 500 firms to run AI-assisted development workflows without exfiltrating proprietary code. The shift signals growing demand for localized LLM deployment and positions both vendors to capture the hybrid-cloud segment, where traditional cloud-native AI tooling has struggled.

OpenAI·May 18

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Illustration for: Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem

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Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem

Data center opposition is becoming a material constraint on AI infrastructure expansion. Stratechery's analysis suggests that community resistance to new facilities, driven by legitimate environmental and land-use concerns, cannot be overcome through technical or rhetorical means alone. The practical path forward involves direct compensation to affected communities, effectively treating local opposition as a cost of deployment rather than a problem to be solved. This reframes the AI buildout economics: scaling compute capacity now requires factoring in what amounts to a local tax on infrastructure, which could reshape where and how quickly new facilities get built.

Stratechery·May 18

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Illustration for: Foundation Models for Credit Risk Prediction: A Game Changer?

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Foundation Models for Credit Risk Prediction: A Game Changer?

Foundation models pretrained on diverse datasets are beginning to disrupt credit risk prediction, a domain long dominated by gradient-boosting ensembles paired with SHAP explainers. This research explores whether the transfer-learning paradigm that revolutionized NLP and computer vision can outperform financial services' entrenched quasi-standards for default probability estimation. The outcome matters for practitioners: if foundation models prove superior, risk teams will face pressure to retool validation frameworks, explainability workflows, and regulatory compliance strategies around a fundamentally different model class.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: iPOE: Interpretable Prompt Optimization via Explanations

iPOE: Interpretable Prompt Optimization via Explanations

Researchers propose iPOE, a method that treats prompt optimization as an interpretability problem rather than pure search. By extracting explanations from model decisions and converting them into structured guidelines, the approach mirrors how human annotation workflows are designed for consistency. This bridges a gap in current prompt engineering: most optimization techniques yield better prompts without revealing why changes matter. The work suggests that transparency during optimization could yield more robust, generalizable instructions across tasks, potentially shifting how practitioners approach LLM tuning from black-box search toward explainable iteration.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking

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How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking

Researchers have created BanglaMedVQA, the first medical visual question-answering benchmark for Bangla, addressing a critical gap in multilingual AI evaluation. The work benchmarks current foundation models and LVLMs against clinically validated medical imagery, revealing performance limitations consistent with English-language MedVQA findings. This dataset matters because it exposes how dramatically capability degrades outside high-resource languages, even for specialized domains like medicine where accuracy is safety-critical. For model developers, it signals that claims of general-purpose reasoning remain largely confined to English-centric training distributions.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: Symmetry-Compatible Principle for Optimizer Design: Embeddings, LM Heads, SwiGLU MLPs, and MoE Routers

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Symmetry-Compatible Principle for Optimizer Design: Embeddings, LM Heads, SwiGLU MLPs, and MoE Routers

Researchers propose a foundational principle for optimizer design that aligns gradient updates with the inherent symmetries of neural network architectures. The work unifies several recent methods (Muon, Scion, stochastic spectral descent, polar gradient) under a single geometric framework, showing how equivariance-respecting optimizers can outperform coordinate-wise approaches like Adam across embeddings, language model heads, and mixture-of-experts routers. This addresses a long-standing gap between how modern networks are structured and how they are trained, with implications for scaling efficiency and convergence properties across foundation models.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World

Researchers applied NLP and geolocation techniques to analyze 60,000 German news articles spanning 25 years to uncover systematic bias in disaster coverage. The work demonstrates how computational text analysis can quantify media attention inequality, revealing that Southern and Western Europe receive disproportionate landslide reporting relative to actual geological risk. This methodology extends beyond journalism studies into a broader pattern of using language models and data pipelines to audit information ecosystems for geographic and demographic skew, with implications for how AI systems trained on news corpora inherit these same biases.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: A Data-Efficient Path to Multilingual LLMs: Language Expansion via Post-training PARAM$Δ$ Integration into Upcycled MoE

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A Data-Efficient Path to Multilingual LLMs: Language Expansion via Post-training PARAM$Δ$ Integration into Upcycled MoE

Researchers propose PARAM-Delta, a technique that converts dense language models into mixture-of-experts architectures to solve a persistent bottleneck in multilingual LLM expansion. The core innovation sidesteps the traditional trade-off between preserving original model capabilities and acquiring new language proficiency by assigning specialized experts to different languages, then grafting alignment knowledge via parameter deltas rather than full retraining. This addresses a real pain point for labs scaling models to underrepresented languages without the computational and data costs of continued pre-training followed by alignment, potentially lowering barriers for broader language coverage in frontier models.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Tools & Code Research

pyforce-1.0.0: Python Framework for data-driven model Order Reduction of multi-physiCs problEms

PyForce 1.0.0 represents a significant refactor of a reduced-order modeling framework for multi-physics nuclear engineering simulations, migrating from FEniCS to PyVista as its computational backbone. The shift signals growing adoption of data-driven dimensionality reduction techniques in high-stakes scientific computing, where ML-accelerated surrogate models compress complex reactor dynamics into tractable inference pipelines. This maturation of open-source ROM tooling matters for practitioners building physics-informed ML systems that must balance accuracy, speed, and interpretability in safety-critical domains.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: The Expressive Power of Low Precision Softmax Transformers with (Summarized) Chain-of-Thought

The Expressive Power of Low Precision Softmax Transformers with (Summarized) Chain-of-Thought

Researchers have closed a long-standing gap between transformer expressivity theory and practice by proving that standard softmax attention with low-precision activations can simulate arbitrary computation when depth and width scale logarithmically with context. The work sidesteps prior unrealistic assumptions about parameter magnitudes and precision by constructing ternary hardmax intermediates that execute chain-of-thought reasoning before converting to softmax equivalents. This result matters because it grounds theoretical understanding of transformer capabilities in architectures that actually exist, potentially informing both scaling laws and mechanistic interpretability efforts.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: Equilibrium Selection in Multi-Agent Policy Gradients via Opponent-Aware Basin Entry

Equilibrium Selection in Multi-Agent Policy Gradients via Opponent-Aware Basin Entry

Researchers have identified how multi-agent reinforcement learning systems select between multiple stable equilibria, a foundational problem in cooperative AI. The work decomposes policy-gradient updates into components that reveal peer-learning as the primary equilibrium-selection lever. Under specific alignment conditions, this mechanism biases convergence toward externally-preferred outcomes like payoff-dominant solutions. The finding matters for multi-agent coordination in games and distributed systems, where which equilibrium emerges can determine real-world performance and safety properties.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: LLM-Guided Communication for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

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LLM-Guided Communication for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose LMAC, a framework that harnesses LLM reasoning to automatically design communication protocols for multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. The approach addresses a fundamental MARL bottleneck: agents operating under partial observability often exchange information inefficiently, leaving knowledge gaps that degrade coordination. LMAC iteratively optimizes protocols using a state-awareness metric, enabling agents to reconstruct shared environmental state more uniformly and accurately. This work bridges two previously separate domains, suggesting LLMs can serve as meta-designers for agent interaction patterns rather than just task executors. For practitioners building cooperative multi-agent systems, the implication is significant: LLM-guided protocol design could reduce manual engineering overhead while improving emergent team performance.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference

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KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference

KVDrive addresses a critical bottleneck in long-context LLM inference by treating KV cache management as a systems problem rather than a pure algorithmic one. The approach spans GPU memory, host DRAM, and SSD storage, jointly optimizing placement and scheduling to reduce the transfer overhead that dominates decoding latency as context length and batch size scale. This shifts the conversation from pursuing ever-higher sparsity to practical multi-tier orchestration, directly impacting production deployments where memory bandwidth has become the limiting factor for serving longer contexts at scale.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: Wasserstein bounds for denoising diffusion probabilistic models via the Föllmer process

Wasserstein bounds for denoising diffusion probabilistic models via the Föllmer process

Researchers have derived optimal sampling error bounds for diffusion models using Wasserstein distance metrics, closing theoretical gaps that have persisted across the field. The work establishes that standard Lipschitz conditions on score functions guarantee both sharp convergence rates and transportation cost inequalities, unifying previously scattered results. This matters because it provides practitioners with rigorous guarantees on diffusion model quality while validating design choices like cosine variance schedules that are already widely deployed in production systems.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Improving Spatio-Temporal Residual Error Propagation by Mitigating Over-Squashing

Teger addresses a critical bottleneck in probabilistic time-series forecasting: residual errors in recurrent models compound over prediction horizons, yet existing architectures fail to capture both spatial correlations across network nodes and temporal dependencies in error structure. This work introduces a graph rewiring mechanism that accounts for curvature to jointly model error covariance, directly improving uncertainty quantification in multivariate forecasting. The advance matters for practitioners building reliable long-horizon predictions in domains like energy, finance, and logistics, where underestimated error bounds lead to costly failures.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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Illustration for: PPAI: Enabling Personalized LLM Agent Interoperability for Collaborative Edge Intelligence

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PPAI: Enabling Personalized LLM Agent Interoperability for Collaborative Edge Intelligence

Researchers have introduced PPAI, a system enabling edge-deployed LLM agents to collaborate across peer networks by matching queries to specialized remote agents. The work addresses a critical infrastructure gap as personalized model deployment proliferates: how to route tasks efficiently when agent capabilities are heterogeneous and availability constantly shifts. The query-agent scoring mechanism tackles load balancing and capability matching at scale, positioning this as foundational infrastructure for federated AI deployments where no single agent owns all expertise.

arXiv cs.CL·May 18

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Illustration for: The MixCount Dataset: Bridging the Data Gap for Open-Vocabulary Object Counting

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The MixCount Dataset: Bridging the Data Gap for Open-Vocabulary Object Counting

Computer vision models have long struggled with counting multiple object types in single images, a capability critical for industrial automation and logistics. MixCount addresses this by introducing a large-scale dataset and benchmark specifically designed to expose and measure these failure modes. The key innovation is an automated synthesis pipeline that sidesteps the prohibitive annotation costs plaguing real-world counting datasets while maintaining diversity and photorealism. This work signals growing recognition that dataset quality and diversity, not just model scale, remain bottlenecks in vision tasks where real-world deployment demands robustness across mixed scenarios.

arXiv cs.LG·May 18

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