arXiv:2608. 01502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential subset search -- forward selection with floating backtracking and its descendants -- remains the quality reference in feature selection, but every member of the family sweeps the full pool of remaining candidate features at each step, which excludes it from very-high-dimensional problems; there, only individual-feature ranking remains practical, and it models feature interplay weakly or not at all.
arXiv:2608.20998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reservoir computing (RC) couples a fixed recurrent dynamical system with a trained lightweight readout, but this efficiency is partly lost during hyper...
arXiv:2607. 11146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the coupled objective J_K^WOR = E_{S ~ PL-WOR_K}[max_{i in S} R_i]: the expected maximum reward of a size-K Plackett-Luce draw without replacement, the law of Gumbel-Top-K / Stochastic Beam Search decoding.
arXiv:2608.24079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A shared search-and-recommendation index must score new items from features alone because search has no exploration slot. In a public log covering bo...
arXiv:2610.07615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active Feature Acquisition (AFA) is a classification problem in which an agent decides which costly features to acquire before predicting each sample's...
The paper presents a cost‑effective approach for industrial explainable‑recommendation systems by decoupling explanation generation from selection. Candidate explanations are pre‑generated using six prompt styles and two commodity LLMs, then a lightweight CPU‑resident selector (e.g., LambdaRank) chooses the best one at request time, achieving sub‑100 ms latency without GPUs. Experiments on a 2,958‑pair Google Local subset and a 300‑pair MovieLens‑1M split show that pairwise ranking methods outperform single‑action RL baselines, while KG‑path selectors achieve near‑perfect user satisfaction scores.
The paper investigates the trade‑off of using a shared search‑and‑recommendation index that scores new items purely from features, thereby keeping the index open to unseen items. Experiments on public logs show that a feature‑based tower can match warm‑item performance (Recall@20 0.9595 vs 0.9510) and a lexical baseline, while a full‑catalog check is inconclusive. The study also quantifies the cost of this openness on recommendation quality across several baselines, revealing that exact full‑softmax training improves recall but is impractical at catalog scale.
arXiv:2610.14028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data selection for LLM fine-tuning faces two facts about real training: data pools draw from many distinct domains, and evaluation spans diverse task...
The paper presents a cost‑effective approach for industrial explainable‑recommendation systems by decoupling explanation generation from selection. Explanations are pre‑generated using six prompt styles and two commodity LLMs, then a lightweight CPU‑resident selector (e.g., LambdaRank) chooses the best one at request time, achieving sub‑100 ms latency without GPUs. Experiments on a 2,958‑pair Google Local subset and a 300‑pair MovieLens‑1M split show that pairwise ranking outperforms single‑action RL methods, while KG‑path selectors achieve near‑perfect unique‑output rates, and the overall end‑to‑end build cost is around $15 on commodity hardware.
The paper introduces a "nominate-then-adjudicate" pipeline for tuning mixed‑integer programming (MIP) solvers, where a fixed portfolio of configurations is sampled once and reused across instances, eliminating per‑instance search at inference. A 20‑feature representation maps structurally different instances to the same vector, enabling a one‑pass, zero‑solve selection process that outperforms default settings and per‑instance baselines such as ISAC+. The approach demonstrates significant practical gains, with the adjudicator achieving 538 wins over the top nominee and improving win rates against defaults from 84.9% to 90.2%.
The paper introduces JoBS, a Bayesian optimization framework that co‑optimizes data and model configurations for large language model training without requiring full training runs at each iteration. JoBS first allocates part of the budget to train a scaling‑law‑inspired performance predictor using only a few training steps, then uses this predictor to guide subsequent BO iterations, thereby exploring many more configurations within the same budget. The authors analyze JoBS’s regret, derive optimal budget splits, and demonstrate that it outperforms both independent optimization and existing multi‑fidelity BO baselines across diverse downstream tasks.
arXiv:2607. 23602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllers based on sampling and latent world models assign a predicted terminal cost to each candidate action sequence, choose the minimum, execute its first action block, and replan.
arXiv:2607. 08979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the active learning problem of fixed-confidence top-$k$ identification from noisy pairwise comparisons.