9 accepted papers
Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) are improving rapidly, yet current Video Question Answering (VideoQA) benchmarks often admit single-cue shortcuts, under-testing reasoning that must integrate evidence across time. We introduce HERBench, a benchmark designed to make multi-evidence integration
Federated learning (FL) is a leading approach for iterative learning using possibly private data available at edge devices. The federated operation gives rise to challenges in privacy leakage, which accumulates in learning, and communication latency. These limitations are often individually mitigate…
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning (ML) paradigm used to train models across multiple nodes (i.e., clients) holding local data sets, without explicitly exchanging the data. It has attracted a growing interest in recent years due to its advantages in terms of privacy consideratio…
We consider a distributed learning problem in a communication network, consisting of N distributed nodes and a central parameter server (PS). The computation is made by the PS and is based on received data from the nodes which transmit over a multiple access channel (MAC). The objective function is…
We consider an extension to the restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problem with unknown arm dynamics, where an unknown exogenous global Markov process governs the rewards distribution of each arm. Under each global state, the rewards process of each arm evolves according to an unknown Markovian rule…
The Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly affected lives of people around the world. Today, isolation policy is mostly enforced by identifying infected individuals based on symptoms when these appear or by testing people and quarantining those who have been in close contact with inf…
The problem of searching for L anomalous processes among M processes is considered. At each time, the decision maker can observe a subset of K processes (i.e., multiple plays). The measurement drawn when observing a process follows one of two different distributions, depending whether the process is…
An active inference problem of detecting an anomalous process among M heterogeneous processes is considered. At each time, a subset of processes can be probed. The objective is to design a sequential probing strategy that dynamically determines which processes to observe at each time and when to ter…
The problem of least squares regression of a d-dimensional unknown parameter is considered. A stochastic gradient descent based algorithm with weighted iterate-averaging that uses a single pass over the data is studied and its convergence rate is analyzed. We first consider a bounded constraint set…