7 accepted papers
Associative memory has long underpinned the design of sequential models. Beyond recall, humans reason by *projecting future states and selecting goal-directed actions*, a capability that modern language models increasingly require but do not natively encode. While prior work uses reinforcement learn…
In LLM alignment and many other ML applications, one often faces the *Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning* (MOFT) problem, *i.e.*, fine-tuning an existing model with datasets labeled w.r.t. different objectives simultaneously. To address the challenge, we propose a *Conditioned One-Shot* fine-tuning framewo
Computing the optimal transport distance between statistical distributions is a fundamental task in machine learning. One remarkable recent advancement is entropic regularization and the Sinkhorn algorithm, which utilizes only matrix scaling and guarantees an approximated solution with near-linear r…
Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to optimize multiple, possibly conflicting objectives with widespread applications. We introduce a novel interacting particle method for MOO inspired by molecular dynamics simulations. Our approach combines overdamped Langevin and birth-death dynamics, incorpo…
We focus on decentralized stochastic non-convex optimization, where $n$ agents work together to optimize a composite objective function which is a sum of a smooth term and a non-smooth convex term. To solve this problem, we propose two single-time scale algorithms: \texttt{Prox-DASA} and \texttt{Pro…
We propose a projection-free conditional gradient-type algorithm for smooth stochastic multi-level composition optimization, where the objective function is a nested composition of $T$ functions and the constraint set is a closed convex set. Our algorithm assumes access to noisy evaluations of the f…
Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) has been proposed as a continuous approximation to the ResNet architecture. Some commonly used regularization mechanisms in discrete neural networks (e.g., dropout, Gaussian noise) are missing in current Neural ODE networks. In this paper, we propos…