On the Brittleness of Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Gaussian Process Hyperparameter Optimization
arXiv:2608. 13793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) has become an indispensable part of modern engineering design workflows.
arXiv:2604. 23099v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating generative AI models is increasingly resource-intensive due to slow inference, expensive raters, and a rapidly growing landscape of models and benchmarks.
arXiv:2608. 13793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) has become an indispensable part of modern engineering design workflows.
arXiv:2608. 13719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems can fail in rare and heterogeneous ways, making real-world failure discovery difficult under limited testing budgets.
arXiv:2606. 04314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As neural networks are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, testing is essential to evaluate and improve their reliability.
Using LLMs as judges has become standard practice for evaluating model outputs at scale. This is particularly common for subjective, open-ended tasks such as assessing helpfulness or alignment, where no single reference answer exists.
arXiv:2607. 23134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovering rare safety-critical failures in autonomous and cyber-physical systems is a fundamental challenge in verification and validation.
arXiv:2606. 13884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern decision systems increasingly rely on learned components whose outputs may be confident yet wrong, exposing downstream actions to costly errors.
arXiv:2602. 15327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning model performance improvements tend to arise from competition and application.
arXiv:2607. 08347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active testing provides a label--efficient approach to risk estimation by adaptively selecting which test points should be labelled.
arXiv:2606. 29784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable generative AI models critically rely on expert human annotations to evaluate output quality, yet these "gold" labels are expensive to collect and limited in quantity.
arXiv:2602. 16666v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed to execute important tasks.
arXiv:2608. 16564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning (ML) is a key technology driving innovation today, but ensuring ML safety remains a major challenge for safety-related applications.
Active testing provides a label--efficient approach to risk estimation by adaptively selecting which test points should be labelled. However, existing estimators fail to exploit the informative predictions of powerful black--box models, even though such predictions are increasingly available in settings where labels remain expensive.