arXiv:2607. 23751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The usefulness of a variational autoencoder (VAE) depends on two properties of its latent space that are hard to obtain together: high encoding capacity in the individual latent variables, and a low-dimensional, disentangled organization of those variables.
By Ye Shi
arXiv:2508. 20330v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering.
By Zohair Shafi, Serdar Kadioglu
arXiv:2607. 01275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) commonly assume a standard isotropic Gaussian prior over the latent space, an assumption that often fails to capture the true distribution of latent representations for complex datasets.
By Qijun Chen, Shaofan Li
arXiv:2605. 22876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing neural solvers for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems (MOCOPs) commonly adopt decomposition-based strategies that scalarize a MOCOP into multiple subproblems associated with distinct weight vectors.
By Xuan Wu, Jinbiao Chen, Yang Li, Lijie Wen, Chunguo Wu, Yuanshu Li, Yubin Xiao, Chunyan Miao, You Zhou, Di Wang
arXiv:2606. 09664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a central tool for sample-efficient design, and latent-space Bayesian optimization (LSBO) extends it to structured objects such as molecules and proteins.
By Tuan A. Vu, Harri L\"ahdesm\"aki, Julien Martinelli
arXiv:2603. 24567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Constrained optimization in high-dimensional black-box settings is difficult due to expensive evaluations, the lack of gradient information, and complex feasibility regions.
By Raju Chowdhury, Tanmay Sen, Biswabrata Pradhan
arXiv:2607. 11555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning neural set functions is pivotal to a wide range of important applications, including compound selection in AI-driven drug discovery and product recommendation.
By Yongquan Shi, Zijing Ou, Shiping Wang, Yatao Bian
arXiv:2602. 02241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem.
By Roman Dyachenko, Nikita Gushchin, Kirill Sokolov, Petr Mokrov, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
arXiv:2606. 07841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box variational inference (BBVI) is a methodology for posterior approximation that relies on stochastic optimization.
By Trevor Campbell, Jonathan H. Huggins, Kyurae Kim, Charles C. Margossian
arXiv:2607. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have emerged as scalable surrogates for physical simulation, yet they offer no guarantee that their outputs respect the conservation laws, boundary conditions, and nonlinear invariants that govern the underlying physics.
By Alaina Kolli, Theodoros Xenakis, Utkarsh Utkarsh, Pengfei Cai, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Alan Edelman, Christopher Vincent Rackauckas
arXiv:2607. 24516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While data curation for Vision Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly active, public practice for constructing pretraining mixtures remains largely heuristic: practitioners stack datasets that pass quality filters, set cross-domain ratios by intuition, and lack a principled, attributable criterion for admitting new data, while frontier recipes remain undisclosed.
By Jiahao Xie, Zhongbin Guo, Qianle Wang, Ruiqi Lu, Dongling Xiao, Wanxuan Sun, Cheng Yang
arXiv:2607. 22788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AC optimal power flow determines the minimum-cost generation dispatch under nonlinear power balance constraints and is solved thousands of times daily in electricity market operations.
By Zhilin Huang