Recent advances in penalty-based methods for stochastic bilevel optimization (SBO) have eliminated the need for second-order derivative oracles. However, for stochastic nonconvex-strongly convex bilevel problems, existing first-order methods typically rely on nested loops and/or large batch sizes for attaining $O(ε^{-6 …
Suppose Alice and Bob can transform one shared mixed state into another by local operations and classical communication, and can also recover the first state from the second. What can change in such a conversion? We give a complete classification of reversible conversions between two-qutrit states. We consider exact de …
Financial LLM agents are often evaluated by comparing their end-to-end returns with those of a baseline and testing the paired difference against zero. This measures whether deploying the agent changes realized performance, but it does not isolate event-selection skill. An agent that frequently changes positions from f …
Manual dense annotation remains a major obstacle to deploying semantic segmentation models in new driving environments. Active domain adaptation (ADA) seeks label-efficient transfer by annotating only a selected portion of the target domain. Existing ADA methods commonly implement this process through multiple rounds o …
Contact-rich manipulation depends on force sensing that is hard to infer from visual signals alone, both for collecting demonstrations and for training policies. Force-annotated data, however, remains hard to obtain at scale: real-robot collection ties every demonstration to physical hardware, physics simulators report …
Closed-loop driving simulation requires rendered observations to remain reliable as the ego vehicle and surrounding actors move beyond their recorded trajectories, exposing views absent from the source log. Existing data-driven simulators reconstruct dynamic actors from sparse observations, which can result in renderin …