arXiv AI

A Power Law in Logarithm's Clothing: On the Scalability of Graph-Based Vector Search

arXiv:2609. 02143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most vector databases rely on graph-based indexes, notably HNSW and Vamana, for approximate nearest neighbor search.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Practical Scaling Laws: Converting Compute into Performance in a Data-Constrained World

The paper introduces a new closed‑form scaling law that extends Chinchilla’s original formula to handle data‑constrained regimes. It decomposes loss into undercapacity, undertraining, and overfitting components, saturating between an irreducible loss and an uninformed baseline. The authors validate the model on diverse architectures and domains, achieving state‑of‑the‑art RMSE across multiple LLM scaling‑law grids and enabling cost‑aware training allocations.

By Christopher M. Bryant, Hao Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 15

One Spectrum, Two Resources: Data-Memory Scaling in Autoregressive Prediction

The paper investigates how much learned memory is required to leverage additional data in autoregressive prediction models. It introduces a predictive‑energy spectrum that jointly governs data and memory scaling, proving a minimax law that links the number of prediction blocks and the size of the learned state to this spectrum. The authors demonstrate that optimal bit allocation and masked query‑key attention mechanisms realize this law, and they provide experimental evidence across multiple pretrained‑model scales.

By Chiwun Yang, Xiaoyu Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

A Table-Free Index for Tapered Memoization Grids: Compact Out-of-Core Evaluation of Functions of Sorted Arguments

The paper presents a table‑free index for tapered memoization grids, enabling compact out‑of‑core evaluation of functions that depend on sorted arguments. By showing that the grid’s key set corresponds to multiset combinations, the authors derive a closed‑form O(d) ranking and unranking scheme that removes the need for large preprocessing tables and allows order‑free parallel construction. The resulting values‑only flat array uses significantly less memory than hash‑map memoization, offers faster query times once cache limits are exceeded, and remains operable with memory‑mapped storage beyond RAM.

By Tamal Maharaj
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Actively Learning Halfspaces without Synthetic Data

arXiv:2509. 20848v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the classic point location problem, one is given an arbitrary dataset $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points with query access to an unknown halfspace $f : \mathbb{R}^d \to \{0,1\}$, and the goal is to learn the label of every point in $X$.

By Hadley Black, Kasper Green Larsen, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha, Geelon So
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Compact Geometric Representations of Hierarchies

arXiv:2606. 18520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing geometric representations of data is a cornerstone of modern machine learning, typically achieved by training dual encoders which map queries and documents into a shared embedding space.

By Prashant Gokhale, Piotr Indyk, Yuhao Liu, Sandeep Silwal, Tony Chang Wang, Haike Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Multiscale Reward Hedging from Correct Demonstrations

arXiv:2608. 06825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from correct demonstrations is harder than supervised learning when many answers are correct: after predicting, the learner sees one valid answer but not whether its own answer was valid, nor any reward.

By Pahan Dewasurendra