arXiv:2606. 10543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing functional biological sequences requires navigating vast discrete spaces under strict evolutionary and biophysical constraints.
By Yogesh Verma, Dani Korpela, Harri L\"ahdesm\"aki, Vikas Garg
arXiv:2506. 03672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Combinatorial Optimization problems are widespread in domains such as logistics, manufacturing, and drug discovery, yet their NP-hard nature makes them computationally challenging.
By Sobihan Surendran (LPSM), Adeline Fermanian (LPSM), Sylvain Le Corff (LPSM)
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:2606. 02133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-monotonic sequence generation methods, such as masked diffusion models, provide a flexible alternative to left-to-right autoregressive modeling by allowing tokens to be generated in non-fixed and prescribed orders.
By Yangtian Zhang, Zhe Wang, Arthur Gretton, Rex Ying, David van Dijk, Michalis K. Titsias, Jiaxin Shi
arXiv:2602. 17162v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) typically rely on Masked Language Modeling (MLM) or Next-Token Prediction (NTP) to learn the "Laws of Nature".
By Ariel Larey, Elay Dahan, Amit Bleiweiss, Raizy Kellerman, Guy Leib, Omri Nayshool, Dan Ofer, Tal Zinger, Dan Dominissini, Gideon Rechavi, Nicole Bussola, Simon Lee, Shane O'Connell, Dung Hoang, Marissa Wirth, Alexander W. Charney, Nati Daniel, Yoli Shavit
arXiv:2606. 00934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network data are ubiquitous across the social sciences, biology, and information systems.
By Feifan Jiang, Yinan Bu, Shihao Wu, Gongjun Xu, Ji Zhu