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:2606. 09856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning typically focuses on deductive tasks such as mathematics and coding where correctness is verifiable.
By Liyi Zhang, Akshay K. Jagadish, Brenden M. Lake, Thomas L. Griffiths
arXiv:2606. 15458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational inference (VI) is a core engine of modern AI, enabling scalable approximate Bayesian learning and uncertainty-aware training of large probabilistic and generative models.
By Yuda Shao, Zhiling Gu, Shan Yu
arXiv:2412. 08951v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable algorithms of posterior approximation allow Bayesian nonparametrics such as Dirichlet process mixture to scale up to larger dataset at fractional cost.
By Kart-Leong Lim, Xudong Jiang
arXiv:2607. 24583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large scale Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP) learner such as Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI) can handle datasets with large class number and large training size at fractional cost.
By Kart-Leong Lim
arXiv:2605. 04638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is an important technique for ensuring the trustworthiness of LLMs, given their tendency to hallucinate.
By Mingda Li, Rundong Lv, Xinyu Li, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu
arXiv:2601. 07944v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Since the turn of the century, approximate Bayesian inference has steadily evolved as new computational techniques have been incorporated to handle increasingly complex, large-scale predictive problems.
By Roy Shivam Ram Shreshtth, Arnab Hazra, Gourab Mukherjee
arXiv:2606. 27171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work addresses the problem of variance in stochastic gradient estimation for machine learning optimization.
By Jonne Pohjankukka, Jukka Heikkonen
arXiv:2605. 31278v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable evaluation of agentic systems requires unbiased estimates with valid uncertainty, but standard practice navigates between costly human annotation and biased LLM-as-judge proxies.
By Gr\'egoire Martinon, Ibrahim Merad, Mohammed Raki
arXiv:2603. 16436v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CE) explain model decisions by identifying input modifications that lead to different predictions.
By Yikai Gu, Lele Cao, Bo Zhao, Lei Lei, Lei You
arXiv:2406. 14340v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization method, as well as adaptive methods such as the Adam optimizer fail to converge if the learning rates do not converge to zero (particularly, in the situation of constant learning rates).
By Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen, Adrian Riekert
arXiv:2510. 19698v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can propose rules in natural language, sidestepping the need for a predefined predicate space in traditional rule learning.
By Yang Yang, Hua XU, Zhangyi Hu, Yutao Yue