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However, existing TTA methods, such as Test-time Prompt Tuning, often design adaptation strategies in isolation from the models' training characteristics, wh","authors":["Li, Aodi","Zhuang, Liansheng","Long, Xiao","Li, Houqiang","Wang, Shafei"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18864","arxiv_id":"2501.18864","published":"2026-03-06"},{"title":"Path Planning for Masked Diffusion Model Sampling","abstract":"Any order generation of discrete data using masked diffusion models (MDMs) offers a compelling alternative to traditional autoregressive models, especially in domains that lack a natural causal ordering of data. 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This result highlig","authors":["Na, Sanghoon","Yang, Haizhao"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05360","arxiv_id":"2502.05360","published":"2026-03-06"},{"title":"Generalization Bounds for Markov Algorithms through Entropy Flow Computations","abstract":"Many learning algorithms can be represented as Markov processes, and understanding their generalization error is a central topic in learning theory. For specific continuous-time noisy algorithms, a prominent analysis technique relies on information-theoretic tools and the so-called ``entropy flow'' method. This technique is compatible with a broad range of assumptions and leverages the convergence properties ","authors":["Dupuis, Benjamin","Haddouche, Maxime","Deligiannidis, George","Simsekli, Umut"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07584","arxiv_id":"2502.07584","published":"2026-03-06"},{"title":"Sink equilibria and the attractors of learning in games","abstract":"Characterizing the limit behavior -- that is, the attractors -- of learning dynamics is one of the most fundamental open questions in game theory. In recent work on this front, it was conjectured that the attractors of the replicator dynamic are in one-to-one correspondence with the sink equilibria of the game -- the sink strongly connected components of a game's preference graph -- and it was established that th","authors":["Biggar, Oliver","Papadimitriou, Christos"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07975","arxiv_id":"2502.07975","published":"2026-03-06"},{"title":"Double Momentum and Error Feedback for Clipping with Fast Rates and Differential Privacy","abstract":"Strong Differential Privacy (DP) and Optimization guarantees are two desirable properties for a method in Federated Learning (FL). However, existing algorithms do not achieve both properties at once: they either have optimal DP guarantees but rely on restrictive assumptions such as bounded gradients/bounded data heterogeneity, or they ensure strong optimization performance but lack DP guarantees. To address this gap ","authors":["Islamov, Rustem","Horvath, Samuel","Lucchi, Aurelien","Richtarik, Peter","Gorbunov, Eduard"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11682","arxiv_id":"2502.11682","published":"2026-03-06"},{"title":"MedFuncta: A Unified Framework for Learning Efficient Medical Neural Fields","abstract":"Research in medical imaging primarily focuses on discrete data representations that poorly scale with grid resolution and fail to capture the often continuous nature of the underlying signal. Neural Fields (NFs) offer a powerful alternative by modeling data as continuous functions. 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