Sandbox LAND prices differ based on unit of account, affecting investment returns.
problem Investment returns vary based on how prices are denominated.
method Analyzed over 71,000 transactions to compare different units of account.
result Users are willing to pay more in SAND and less in wETH for transactions.
MiniHack simplifies creation of complex RL environments.
problem Limited availability of challenging RL benchmarks.
method Develops a sandbox framework for easy RL environment design.
result MiniHack enables rapid creation of diverse RL testbeds.
LLM sandbox and persona dynamics create unethical reality gaps that shift risk to users.
problem Ethical issues arise from LLMs generating reality gaps that shift risk to uninformed users.
method Analyzes the ethical implications of LLM sandbox and persona dynamics, comparing them to financial regulation and compliance.
result Active generation of reality gaps is unethical as it shifts epistemic risk to users.
CantorNet tests geometric and topological complexity in neural networks.
problem Understanding self-similar patterns in neural networks.
method Inspired by Cantor set, CantorNet introduces novel complexity measures.
result CantorNet's decision boundaries are analytically known and can be arbitrarily ragged.
Study shows how specialized attention circuits emerge during transformer training.
problem Understanding the mechanisms of transformer training dynamics at large scales.
method Controlled sparse modular addition task; monitoring token evolution via visual sandbox.
result Specialized attention circuits (clustering heads) naturally emerge during training.
We introduce TextWorld, a sandbox learning environment for the training and evaluation of RL agents on text-based games. TextWorld is a Python library that handles interactive play-through of text games, as well as backend functions like state tracking and reward assignment. It comes with a curated list of games whose …
In recent years numerous advanced malware, aka advanced persistent threats (APT) are allegedly developed by nation-states. The task of attributing an APT to a specific nation-state is extremely challenging for several reasons. Each nation-state has usually more than a single cyber unit that develops such advanced malwa…
This paper presents a novel deep learning based method for automatic malware signature generation and classification. The method uses a deep belief network (DBN), implemented with a deep stack of denoising autoencoders, generating an invariant compact representation of the malware behavior. While conventional signature…
Introduces TT-NF for more compact neural field representations.
problem Finding more compact and easy-to-fit neural field representations.
method Tensor Train parameterization trained with backpropagation.
result Low-rank compression improves downstream task quality metrics.
fastml guards against data leakage in automated machine learning.
problem Data leakage during preprocessing before resampling inflates apparent performance.
method fastml uses guarded resampling to re-estimate preprocessing inside each resample.
result Guarded resampling reduces apparent performance compared to global preprocessing.
New research shows semantic data matching can degrade SSDL performance.
problem The limits of semantic data set matching in semi-supervised learning.
method Demonstrated through simulations and a new dissimilarity measure.
result Semantic data matching can degrade SSDL performance under non-IID data.
This work uses adversarial learning to detect and correct feature shifts in various datasets.
problem Detecting and correcting feature shifts in real-world datasets.
method Adversarial learning applied to multiple discriminators to detect and correct feature shifts.
result Mainstream classifiers can effectively localize and correct feature shifts, outperforming existing techniques.
Malware allegedly developed by nation-states, also known as advanced persistent threats (APT), are becoming more common. The task of attributing an APT to a specific nation-state or classifying it to the correct APT family is challenging for several reasons. First, each nation-state has more than a single cyber unit th…
FSL-Net detects and localizes feature shifts in large, high-dimensional datasets.
problem Feature shifts between data sources lead to erroneous features in various applications.
method FSL-Net is a neural network trained on multiple datasets to localize feature shifts.
result FSL-Net accurately localizes feature shifts from unseen datasets without re-training.
The paper develops a new method to interpret deep neural networks using Cohen's f2.
problem Interpreting variable effects in deep neural networks is challenging due to their complexity and lack of statistical inferences.
method The paper adapts Fisher's variable permutation algorithm and applies statistical tests to Apley's accumulated local effect plots.
result The method provides a way to quantify and statistically assess the influence of variables in deep neural networks.
This study examines how sequential correlations affect in-context learning in sequence models.
problem Understanding how in-context learning works with sequentially correlated data.
method Extended linear regression model to sequentially correlated data, tested on transformer architectures.
result Sequential correlations alter the effective context length and attention architecture effectiveness.
CausalMix generates synthetic data with causal controls for mixed-type tables.
problem Synthetic data for causal inference with mixed-type and multimodal tabular data.
method CausalMix combines Gaussian latent priors with data-type-specific decoders for control over overlap, confounding, and treatment effect heterogeneity.
result CausalMix achieves state-of-the-art distributional metrics and stable causal control.
Self-taught optimizer improves code generation using language models.
problem Improving code generation using language models.
method Recursive self-improvement of a scaffolding program that generates code.
result Improved scaffolding program generates programs with significantly better performance.
This paper investigates a paradigm for offering artificial intelligence as a service (AI-aaS) on software-defined infrastructures (SDIs). The increasing complexity of networking and computing infrastructures is already driving the introduction of automation in networking and cloud computing management systems. Here we …
HyperFast instantly classifies tabular data in one pass.
problem Computational burden and time-consuming hyperparameter tuning for deep learning models.
method Meta-trained hypernetwork for instant classification.
result Significantly faster than competing methods with competitive performance.
A benchmarking framework for studying data geometry.
problem Generalization and approximation error bounds in deep learning.
method Repurposing and extending dSprites and COIL-20 with additional transformation dimensions and dense, axis-aligned sampling.
result Near-ground-truth accuracy in curvature, reach, and volume estimation.