A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
BS-VAE separates decoder variance and beta to improve VAE performance.
A new method for effective VAE training using calibrated decoders.
We prove that the evidence lower bound (ELBO) employed by variational auto-encoders (VAEs) admits non-trivial solutions having constant posterior variances under certain mild conditions, removing the need to learn variances in the encoder. The proof follows from an unexpected journey through an array of topics: the clo…
Variance-Calibrated Modulation (VCM) addresses the likelihood trap in LLMs by reshaping the probability distribution before truncation.
VAEs analyzed using harmonic analysis, showing how variance controls frequency content and robustness.
VCAE improves autoencoder quality on MNIST and CelebA.
Decoding strategies often exclude human-like tokens, creating a detectable gap in generated text.
NP-PROV separates mean and variance spaces to improve function uncertainty.
Optimizes latent space of VAEs using decoder uncertainty to generate valid objects.
FlexAE addresses bias-variance trade-off in RAEs by learning latent priors.
JEPA fails to improve language model performance when fine-tuning.
Study on sparse recovery with mixed-quality data, establishing sample-size conditions.
Gradient descent on LSE objectives implicitly performs EM, leading to collapse without volume control.
We introduce a recursive algorithm for performing compressed sensing on streaming data. The approach consists of a) recursive encoding, where we sample the input stream via overlapping windowing and make use of the previous measurement in obtaining the next one, and b) recursive decoding, where the signal estimate from…
As a technology to read brain states from measurable brain activities, brain decoding are widely applied in industries and medical sciences. In spite of high demands in these applications for a universal decoder that can be applied to all individuals simultaneously, large variation in brain activities across individual…
Power-SMC reduces inference latency for training-free LLM reasoning.
Novel low-rank neural decoder improves -ECoG neural decoding.
The paper introduces FMCI and hybrid decoding for hidden Markov models.
Reliable 4D aircraft trajectory prediction, whether in a real-time setting or for analysis of counterfactuals, is important to the efficiency of the aviation system. Toward this end, we first propose a highly generalizable efficient tree-based matching algorithm to construct image-like feature maps from high-fidelity m…
Study examines how decoding algorithms affect fairness in language generation models.
Deep learning aids ADMM-based decoding for binary linear codes.
We present RL-VAE, a graph-to-graph variational autoencoder that uses reinforcement learning to decode molecular graphs from latent embeddings. Methods have been described previously for graph-to-graph autoencoding, but these approaches require sophisticated decoders that increase the complexity of training and evaluat…
In this paper, we use reinforcement learning to find effective decoding strategies for binary linear codes. We start by reviewing several iterative decoding algorithms that involve a decision-making process at each step, including bit-flipping (BF) decoding, residual belief propagation, and anchor decoding. We then ill…
This paper analyzes speculative decoding, a method to speed up large language model inferences.
Finding optimal correction of errors in generic stabilizer codes is a computationally hard problem, even for simple noise models. While this task can be simplified for codes with some structure, such as topological stabilizer codes, developing good and efficient decoders still remains a challenge. In our work, we syste…
Improving the interpretability of brain decoding approaches is of primary interest in many neuroimaging studies. Despite extensive studies of this type, at present, there is no formal definition for interpretability of brain decoding models. As a consequence, there is no quantitative measure for evaluating the interpre…
Recent developments in the field of deep learning have motivated many researchers to apply these methods to problems in quantum information. Torlai and Melko first proposed a decoder for surface codes based on neural networks. Since then, many other researchers have applied neural networks to study a variety of problem…
We propose computationally efficient encoders and decoders for lossy compression using a Sparse Regression Code. The codebook is defined by a design matrix and codewords are structured linear combinations of columns of this matrix. The proposed encoding algorithm sequentially chooses columns of the design matrix to suc…
CARDS improves decoding efficiency and alignment quality for LLMs.
The paper develops a theory for speculative decoding acceptance criteria.
Inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose a novel iterative BP-CNN architecture for channel decoding under correlated noise. This architecture concatenates a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) with a standard belief-propagation (BP) decoder. The standard BP decoder is used to estimate the coded b…
This work proposes an efficient autoregressive model for text generation.
Proposes a secure communication method independent of eavesdropper's decoder.
KAN-PCA improves asset return analysis by capturing more variance than classical PCA during market crises.
Finding efficient decoders for quantum error correcting codes adapted to realistic experimental noise in fault-tolerant devices represents a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce several decoding algorithms complemented by deep neural decoders and apply them to analyze several fault-tolerant error correctio…
HAMD optimizes cubic portfolios without quadratization, achieving better results.
DD-VAE uses deterministic decoding for better latent code utilization in discrete data.
New method aligns brain data across individuals for better brain decoding.
Decoding, ie prediction from brain images or signals, calls for empirical evaluation of its predictive power. Such evaluation is achieved via cross-validation, a method also used to tune decoders' hyper-parameters. This paper is a review on cross-validation procedures for decoding in neuroimaging. It includes a didacti…
Deep learning techniques have revolutionized the field of machine learning and were recently successfully applied to various classification problems in noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG). However, these methods were so far only rarely evaluated for use in intracranial EEG. We employed convolutional neural network…
Constrained sequence codes have been widely used in modern communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy constraints imposed by the physical channel, hence enabling efficient and reliable transmission of coded symbols. Traditional encoding and decoding of constrained …
New insights into how encoder-decoder networks generate attention matrices.
Sparse superposition codes were recently introduced by Barron and Joseph for reliable communication over the AWGN channel at rates approaching the channel capacity. The codebook is defined in terms of a Gaussian design matrix, and codewords are sparse linear combinations of columns of the matrix. In this paper, we prop…
Despite rapid advances in machine learning tools, the majority of neural decoding approaches still use traditional methods. Modern machine learning tools, which are versatile and easy to use, have the potential to significantly improve decoding performance. This tutorial describes how to effectively apply these algorit…
New insights into encoder-decoder structures using information measures.
In this manuscript, we investigate deep invertible networks for EEG-based brain signal decoding and find them to generate realistic EEG signals as well as classify novel signals above chance. Further ideas for their regularization towards better decoding accuracies are discussed.
Entropy-based decoding improves DLM sampling efficiency.
New method uses Fisher-Rao metric for non-Gaussian decoders.