8 accepted papers
We introduce Kolmogorov–Arnold Neural Operator (KANO), a dual‑domain neural operator jointly parameterized by both spectral and spatial bases with intrinsic symbolic interpretability. We theoretically demonstrate that KANO overcomes the pure-spectral bottleneck of Fourier Neural Operator (FNO): KANO…
Differential privacy (DP) imposes fundamental trade-offs between privacy and statistical fidelity in synthetic data generation. While access to public data has been shown to improve these trade-offs empirically, existing approaches exploit public data only indirectly, through pre-processing (e.g., u…
In high-stakes domains like healthcare, users often expect that sharing personal information with machine learning systems will yield tangible benefits, such as more accurate diagnoses and clearer explanations of contributing factors. However, the validity of this assumption remains largely unexplor…
With the increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in education, concerns about inherent biases in these models have gained prominence. We evaluate LLMs for bias in the personalized educational setting, specifically focusing on the models’ roles as “teachers.” We reveal significant biases…
Soft optical sensors are an exciting sensing technology for capturing the deformation of soft structures as they can easily fabricated and integrated. However, one key challenge is their scalability, as each fiber requires a sensor, and to achieve large area, or multi-fiber sensing requires many opt
We consider the problem of producing fair probabilistic classifiers for multi-class classification tasks. We formulate this problem in terms of ``projecting'' a pre-trained (and potentially unfair) classifier onto the set of models that satisfy target group-fairness requirements. The new, projected…
We investigate the fairness concerns of training a machine learning model using data with missing values. Even though there are a number of fairness intervention methods in the literature, most of them require a complete training set as input. In practice, data can have missing values, and data miss…
As error/failure rates in supercomputers are projected to grow, computationally intensive scientific applications that lever-age large-scale parallelization will suffer from the increased error rate. In this work, we apply "coded computing" to protein folding simulations in an error-prone environmen…