Program for Wednesday, September 25th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH: TALK VIEW

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Opportunistic Learning for Markov Decision Systems with Application to Smart Robots

Michael Neely

08:50-09:10

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback without Reward Inference

Qining Zhang, Lei Ying

09:10-09:30

Sharp information-theoretic thresholds for shuffled linear regression

Leon Lufkin, Yihong Wu, Jiaming Xu

09:30-09:50

Transform Method for Markov-Modulated Queues

Daniela Hurtado-Lange, Izzy Grosof

09:50-10:10

Caching or Pre-fetching? The Role of Hazard Rates

Andres Ferragut, Matias Carrasco, Fernando Paganini

08:30-08:50

Sequential Design of Experiments in Causal Systems

Zirui Yan, Ali Tajer

08:50-09:10

Robust Score-Based Quickest Change Detection

Sean Moushegian, Taposh Banerjee, Vahid Tarokh

09:10-09:30

Minimax Rate Optimal Algorithms For High-Dimensional Stochastic Linear Bandits

Jingyu Liu, Yanglei Song

09:30-09:50

Higher-criticism for multi-sensor sparse change-point detection

Tingnan Gong, Alon Kipnis, Yao Xie

08:30-08:50

Distributed Difference of Convex Optimization

Vivek Khatana, Murti Salapaka

08:50-09:10

Closing the Duality Gap on Integer Linear Programming

Scott Sirri

09:10-09:30

Optimal Regularization for a Data Source

Oscar Leong, Eliza O'Reilly, Yong Sheng Soh, Venkat Chandrasekaran

09:30-10:00

Sharply predicting optimization trajectories in high-dimensions: State evolutions beyond first-order

Ashwin Pananjady

10:00-10:20

On the scalability of large graph methods for kernel-based machine learnin

Yifan Sun

08:30-08:50

Nonlinear observers with online error bounds

Paulo Tabuada

08:50-09:10

Control with minimum data-transmission

Necmiye Ozay, Antoine Aspeel

09:10-09:30

Lyapunov-like converse result for strong forward invariance

Rafal Goebel

09:30-09:50

On topological entropy of switched cascade systems

Guosong Yang

08:30-08:50

Theoretical Guarantees of Data Augmented Last Layer Retraining Methods

Lalitha Sankar, Nathan Stromberg, Monica Welfert

08:50-09:10

Differential Privacy in the Large Composition Regime

Flavio Calmon

09:10-09:30

Optimal Redundancy in Exact Channel Synthesis

Sharang Sriramu, Aaron Wagner

09:30-09:50

The Power Method with Row Erasures

Nicholas Sacco, Viveck Cadambe, Bobak Nazer

09:50-10:10

Robust Distribution Estimation via Partial Optimal Transport

Ziv Goldfeld, Sloan Nietert, Rachel Cummings, Soroosh Shafiee

10:30-10:50

Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Yue Wu, Zhiqing Sun, Huizhuo Yuan, Kaixuan Ji, Yiming Yang, Quanquan Gu

10:50-11:10

Pluralistic Alignment Framework for Learning from Heterogeneous Preferences

Daiwei Chen, Yi Chen, Aniket Rege, Ramya Vinayak

11:10-11:30

Shaping opinions in social networks with shadow banning

Tauhid Zaman, Yen Shao Chen

11:30-11:50

Prelimit Coupling and Steady-State Convergence of Constant-stepsize Nonsmooth Contractive Stochastic

Yixuan Zhang, Lucy Huo, Yudong Chen, Qiaomin Xie

11:50-12:10

Beyond PCA: A Gram-Schmidt Approach to Feature Extraction

Bahram Yaghooti, Netanel Raviv, Bruno Sinopoli

10:30-10:50

Acceptance in Postselected Asymptotic Quantum State Discrimination

Saurabh Kumar Gupta, Abhishek K. Gupta

10:50-11:10

Solving the B-SAT Problem Using Quantum Computing: Smaller is Sometimes Better

Ahmad Bennakhi, Greg Byrd, Paul Franzon

11:10-11:30

Authenticated partial correction over AV-MACs: toward characterization and coding

Duncan Koepke, Michaela Schnell, Madelyn St.Pierre, Allison Beemer

11:30-11:50

Graph Codes for Dual-Parameter Barrier Channels

Yuval Ben-Hur, Saar Stern, Yoav Cohen, Yuval Cassuto

11:50-12:10

Quantum Margulis Codes

Michele Pacenti, Bane Vasic

10:30-10:50

Grid-forming control of renewable generation and hybrid ac/dc power systems

Dominic Gross

10:50-11:10

Equivalent-circuit Models for Grid-forming Inverters under Unbalanced Steady-State Operating

Nathan Baeckeland

11:10-11:30

Hierarchical Control of Distribution Grids with Application to Transmission-Distribution Fast Frequency

John Simpson-Porco

11:30-11:50

Sensitivity to Hopf Bifurcation in Grid-Following Inverters Using Normal Vector Methods

Sushobhan Chatterjee, Sijia Geng

11:50-12:10

Equivalent-circuit Modeling Framework to Facilitate Large-signal Stability Assessment of Inverter-based

Sairaj Dhople

10:30-10:50

Minimum Data-Rate for Emulating a Linear Feedback System

Guilherme S. Vicinansa, Girish Nair

10:50-11:10

A sufficient condition for 2-contraction of a feedback interconnection

Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot, Francesco Bullo

11:10-11:30

Remote robust state estimation problem

Alexander Pogromsky, Alexey Matveev

11:30-11:50

Reachability Analysis of Dynamical Systems: A Mixed Monotone Contracting Approach

Saber Jafarpour

10:30-10:50

SPIR with Colluding and Non-Replicated Servers from a Noisy Channel

Amirhossein Shekofteh, Rémi A. Chou

10:50-11:10

Strategies for Rate Optimization in Joint Sensing and Communication over Channels with Memory

Siva Aditya Gooty, Hessam Mahdavifar

11:10-11:30

Contraction Coefficients of Product Symmetric Channels

Dongmin Lee, Anuran Makur

11:30-11:50

Finite-Length Coding Bounds via Guesswork

Alexander Mariona, Ken Duffy, Muriel Médard

11:50-12:10

Higher-order Interpretations of Deepcode, a Learned Feedback Code

Yingyao Zhou, Natasha Devroye, Gyorgy Turan, Milos Zefran

14:30-14:50

Feedback-based quantum algorithms: Extensions to real-time feedback

Alicia Magann, Helen Durand, Mohan Sarovar

14:50-15:10

Specialized Numerical Optimization Algorithms for QIS

Jeffrey Larson

15:10-15:30

Transform Arbitrary Good Quantum LDPC Codes into Good Geometrically Local Codes in Any Dimension

Xingjian Li, Ting-Chun Lin, Min-Hsiu Hsieh

15:30-15:50

CANOE: The Classically Assisted Non-Orthogonal Eigensolver

Matthew Otten, Preetham Tikkireddi

15:50-16:10

New methods for quantum circuit synthesis with symmetry-respecting gates

Iman Marvian

16:10-16:30

On Non-Local Coset Guessing Quantum Games

Michael Schleppy, Emina Soljanin

14:30-14:50

Weyl Calculus and Exactly Solvable Schrödinger Bridges with Quadratic State Cost

Alexis Teter, Wenqing Wang, Abhishek Halder

14:50-15:10

Stochastic interpolants: A unifying framework for flows and diffusions

Nicholas Boffi

15:10-15:30

A Fisher-Rao gradient flow for entropy-regularised Markov decision processes in Polish spaces

B. Kerimkulov, J.-M. Leahy, D. Siska, L. Szpruch, Y. Zhang

15:30-15:50

Nonlinear Filtering with Brenier Optimal Transport Maps

Mohammad Al-Jarrah, Niyizhen Jin, Bamdad Hosseini, Amirhossein Taghvaei

15:50-16:10

Scalable computations for nonlinear balanced truncation model reduction

Boris Kramer, Nick Corbin, Jeff Borggaard, Serkan Gugercin

16:10-16:30

Harmonic Path Integral Diffusion

Hamidreza Behjoo, Michael Chertkov

14:30-14:50

Solving Markov Decision Processes via Reward Balancing

Mustafin Arsenii, Aleksei Pakharev, Alex Olshevsky, Yannis Paschalidis

14:50-15:10

Markov Chain Variance Estimation: A Stochastic Approximation Approach

Shubhada Agrawal, Prashanth L.A., Siva Theja Maguluri

15:10-15:30

Toward Parameter-free Decentralized Optimization

Gesualdo Scutari

15:30-15:50

Localized spectral representations for reinforcement learning in networked MDPs

Zhaolin Ren, Runyu Zhang, Na Li

15:50-16:10

Classification with a Network of Partially Informative Agents: Enabling Wise Crowds from Individually Myopic

Tong Yao, Shreyas Sundaram

14:30-14:50

Generalized Barrier Functions: Integral Conditions & Recurrent Relaxations

Yue Shen, Hussein Sibai, Enrique Mallada

14:50-15:10

Adaptive Online Model Update Algorithm for Predictive Control in Networked Systems

Vivek Khatana, Chin-Yao Chang, Wenbo Wang

15:10-15:30

Optimal Infinite-Horizon Mixed $H_2 / H_\infty$ Control

Vikrant Malik, Taylan Kargin, Joudi Hajar, Babak Hassibi

15:30-15:50

A synthesis approach for distributed H2 control problems with communication delays

Yuanji Zou, Nicola Elia

14:30-14:50

A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Cyber Deception with Sludging

A. Kumar, S. Brahma, B. Geng, C. A. Kamhoua, P. K. Varshney

14:50-15:10

Privacy-Utility Tradeoff Based on $\alpha$-lift

Mohammad Amin Zarrabian, Parastoo Sadeghi

15:10-15:30

A New Framework for Designing Polynomial Codes for Private Information Retrieval

Fatemeh Kazemi, Ningze Wang, Alex Sprintson, Rafael Oliveira

15:30-15:50

Distributed Matrix Multiplication: Download Rate, Randomness and Privacy Trade-Offs

Amirhosein Morteza, Remi Chou

15:50-16:10

Influence Chain Recovery and Application in Distributed Fact-Checking

Alireza Sharbafchi, Behrouz Touri, Soheil Mohajer