Ax Lance Fortnow 4/9/2026

How Does Machine Learning Manage Complexity?

Computational complexity analysis of ML model expressiveness for complex systems. Studies how ML manages complexity through probability on sampleable distributions.

Ax Sam Gunn 4/9/2026

How to sketch a learning algorithm

Data deletion scheme predicting model behavior after training data exclusion. Fast approximation for understanding data influence on learned models.

Ax Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao, Aochuan Chen, Shuai Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu 4/9/2026

Visual prompting reimagined: The power of the Activation Prompts

Activation Prompts improve visual prompting for vision model adaptation, closing performance gap between prompting and conventional fine-tuning.

Ax Basil Kyriacou, Mo Kordzanganeh, Maniraman Periyasamy, Alexey Melnikov 4/9/2026

Soft-Quantum Algorithms

Soft-quantum algorithms combining quantum operations with classical simulation for variational quantum circuits on few-qubit problems.

Ax Xiangming Gu, Soham De, Michalis Titsias, Larisa Markeeva, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c, Razvan Pascanu 4/9/2026

The Illusion of Stochasticity in LLMs

Demonstrates LLMs fail at reliable stochastic sampling required for agentic systems, identifying critical failure point in distribution sampling from inferred data.