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TIE often requires multiple acquisitions at different defocus distances, which","authors":["della Maggiora, Gabriel","Croquevielle, Luis Alberto","Horsley, Harry","Heinis, Thomas","Yakimovich, Artur"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04388","arxiv_id":"2406.04388","published":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"A Parametric Contextual Online Learning Theory of Brokerage","abstract":"We study the role of contextual information in the online learning problem of brokerage between traders. In this sequential problem, at each time step, two traders arrive with secret valuations about an asset they wish to trade. The learner (a broker) suggests a trading (or brokerage) price based on contextual data about the asset and the market conditions. 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The broad success of neural networks for modelling physical processes ","authors":["Babayan, Irina","Aliahmadi, Hazhir","van Anders, Greg"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19912","arxiv_id":"2410.19912","published":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"Risk-Aware Decision Making in Restless Bandits: Theory and Algorithms for Planning and Learning","abstract":"In restless bandits, a central agent is tasked with optimally distributing limited resources across several bandits (arms), with each arm being a Markov decision process. 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We consider two questions: first, that of the existence of the MLE (which occurs when the dataset is not linearly separated), and second, that of","authors":["Chardon, Hugo","Lerasle, Matthieu","Mourtada, Jaouad"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02137","arxiv_id":"2411.02137","published":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"Multi-View 3D Reconstruction using Knowledge Distillation","abstract":"Large Foundation Models like Dust3r can produce high quality outputs such as pointmaps, camera intrinsics, and depth estimation, given stereo-image pairs as input. However, the application of these outputs on tasks like Visual Localization requires a large amount of inference time and compute resources. 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This work presents Point-DeepONet, an operator-learning-based surrogate that integrates PointNet in","authors":["Park, Jangseop","Kang, Namwoo"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18362","arxiv_id":"2412.18362","published":"2026-02-20"},{"title":"GAI: Generative Agents for Innovation","abstract":"This study examines whether collective reasoning among generative agents can facilitate novel and coherent thinking that leads to innovation. To achieve this, it proposes GAI, a new LLM-empowered framework designed for reflection and interaction among multiple generative agents to replicate the process of innovation. 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