Program for Thursday, September 17th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH: TALK VIEW

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08:30-08:50

Informal and Privatized Transit: Incentives, Efficiency and Coordination

Devansh Jalota, Matthew Tsao

08:50-09:10

Water-filling is Universally Minimax Optimal

Siddhartha Banerjee

09:10-09:30

Preference Aggregation in the Age of AI

Thanh Nguyen

09:30-09:50

What Data Enables Optimal Decisions? A Study of Data Informativeness in Optimization Under

Amine Bennouna

08:30-08:50

An ODE-based method for resource allocation in a multi-agent systems

Swaroop Gopalam, Dhanushka Kudathanthirige, Philip Whiting

08:50-09:10

Prophet Inequalities with Cancellation Costs

Rad Niazadeh, Farbod Ekbatani, Pranav Nuti, Jan Vondrák

09:10-09:30

Efficient Concentration through Stein's Method: An Illustration in Abandonment Queues

Siva Theja Maguluri, Zedong Wang

08:30-08:50

Frechet Regression on Curved Manifolds

Cesar A. Uribe, Duc Toan Nguyen, Yamin Zhou

08:50-09:10

Localmax Dynamics for Attention Models

Henri Cimetière, Maria Teresa Chiri, Bahman Gharesifard

09:10-09:30

High Probability Bounds for Stochastic Optimization Algorithms

Feng Zhu, Robert Heath, Aritra Mitra

09:30-09:50

Verifiably Safe Decentralized Control via Event-Triggered Topology Switching

Amber He Wei, Shiyu Cheng, Andrew Clark, Bruno Sinopoli

08:30-08:50

In-Context Watermarks for Large Language Models

Yuheng Bu, Yepeng Liu, Xuandong Zhao, Dawn Song

08:50-09:10

Minimizing Convex Risk in Data Fusion via Symmetrization and Martingale Couplings

Vikram Krishnamurthy

09:10-09:30

Compromising Offline RLHF: An Efficient Preference Poisoning Approach

Chenye Yang, Weiyu Xu, Lifeng Lai

08:30-08:50

Beyond Photorealism: 3D Reconstruction and Generation with Multimodal and Physical Grounding

Lingjie Liu

08:50-09:10

Online World Modeling for Closed-Loop Planning Under Partial Observability

Tianmin Shu

09:10-09:30

Are Normalizing Flows Good Candidates for Interactive World Models?

Jiatao Gu

09:30-09:50

Toward Compositional Generalization in the Physical World

Xudong Wang

10:30-10:50

Why DDIM Hallucinates More Than DDPM: A Theoretical Analysis of Reverse Dynamics

Grigorios Chrysos, Samanyu Arora, Abhinav Harish

10:50-11:10

ECHO: Stackelberg Learning for Entropy Constrained Hierarchical Optimization in Tool Calling Agents

Srinivas Shakkottai

11:10-11:30

Faster Diffusion Language Models

Sujay Sanghavi

10:30-10:50

Constructing Reed–Solomon Codes with Sparse Parity Checks

Barron Han, Hikmet Yildiz, Babak Hassibi

10:50-11:10

Reed-Muller Codes for Joint Random and Stuck-At Error Correction

Ivana Djurdjevic, Robert Mateescu, Cyril Guyot

11:10-11:30

Secret key-distribution over networks with node-based adversarial errors

Reza Sayyari, Michael Langberg

11:30-11:50

Enhanced Feedback Mechanisms for Resource-Efficient Incremental Redundancy

Mustafa Cemil Coskun, Ahmed Elkelesh, Avijit Mandal, Homa Esfahanizadeh

10:30-10:50

Universal Parameter-Free First-Order Algorithms for Convex Optimization

Zhang Zhe

10:50-11:10

Another Look at Log-PCA for Probability Measures: A Dynamical Formulation and Statistical

Xiaohui Chen

10:30-10:50

Reasoning and learning to play against passive and reactive agents

Vijay Subramanian

10:50-11:10

Career Concerns and Social Learning in Principal-Agent Environments

Randall Berry, Pawan Poojary

11:10-11:30

Optimal Incentive Contracting for Sensing and Searching for Rewards on a Graph

Tyler Nardi, Shreyas Sundaram

11:30-11:50

The Price of Transparency in Information Design: Bayesian Persuasion, Signaling, and the Commitment

Quanyan Zhu

10:30-10:50

PivotRL: High Accuracy Agentic Post-Training at Low Compute Cost

Jiantao Jiao

10:50-11:10

Learnable Chernoff Baselines for Provable Inference-Time Alignment

Yuchen Liang

13:30-13:50

Reconfiguration and Real-Time Control of Networked Microgrids Under Load Uncertainty

H. Moring, B.K. Poolla, H. Nagarajan, J.L. Mathieu, A. Bernstein, D.M. Fobes

13:50-14:10

A Graph Neural Network Foundation Model for AC Optimal Power Flow

Baosen Zhang

14:10-14:30

Regret-Optimal Safe Adaptive Control under Chance Constraints: Application to Thermostatically Controlled

Spencer Hutchinson, Nanfei Jiang, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Mahnoosh Alizadeh

13:30-13:50

Real vs. Complex Spectral Bases for Neural Operators: The Role of Green's Function Alignment.

Jason Sulskis, Sathya Ravi

13:50-14:10

Fisher Simplicity in KANs and MLPs

Ami Tavory, Meir Feder

14:10-14:30

Draining Fictitious Knots: Restoring Distance-Awareness Guarantees for High-Dimensional Spline

Masoud Ataei, Mohammad Javad Khojasteh, Vikas Dhiman

14:30-14:50

Observability conditions for neural state-space models with eigenvalues and their roots of unity

Andrew Gracyk

14:50-15:10

From Sequence to Signature: Infinite-Order Signature Kernels for Biological Sequence Learning

C. Siebenschuh, K. Hippe, B. Hsu, A. Ramanathana, I. Foster, R. Stevens

15:10-15:30

Deep Reinforcement Learning for MSense: Learned Destroy–Repair Policies for Diversity-Aware and Heterogeneous Mobile Sensor

Daniel Mutembesa, Filipe Miguel Gonçalves de Almeida, Engineer Bainomugisha

13:30-13:50

On data-driven control of linear systems with quantized data

Zhenghao Li, Guosong Yang

13:50-14:10

From Echo States to Dominant Manifolds: A Systems-Theoretic View of Reservoir Computing

Anastasia Bizyaeva

14:10-14:30

On Controllability of Diffeomorphisms

Xudong Chen

14:30-14:50

A Proximal Descent Method for Nonconvex Policy Optimization

Yang Zheng

14:50-15:10

On the Inductive Bias for Learning in Nonlinear Control: Trade-offs and Guarantees

Enrique Mallada

15:10-15:30

Constrained Dynamic Grasping under Limited Visual Feedback

Jingjin Yu

13:30-13:50

AI-Native Open RAN: A Roadmap from xApps and rApps to Autonomous Network Agents

Fatemeh Afghah

13:50-14:10

$\alpha$-Mutual Information for the Gaussian Noise Channel

Martina Cardone, Mohammad Milanian, Alex Dytso

14:10-14:30

Interpreting End-to-End Learned CSI Feedback for Massive MIMO

Natasha Devroye

14:30-14:50

Near-Field RIS-Assisted In-Cabin 3D Localization and Harmonic-Aware Vital Sign Estimation

Jafar Norolahi, Alireza Vahid

14:50-15:10

A demonstration of information leakage via phase contamination

Sameer Raju Dhole, Amin Fathima Sadique, Aria Nosratinia

15:10-15:30

Analysis and Optimization of Age of Information in Large-Scale Random Access Networks

Yueqi Chen, Siqi Fan, I-Hong Hou, Igor Kadota

13:30-13:50

Mean-shift interacting particle systems for sampling and quantization

Youssef Marzouk

13:50-14:10

Feedback Based Sampling using L2 Gradient Flows

Karthik Elamvazhuthi

14:10-14:30

Path-Integral Diffusion: From Generative AI and Interacting Agents to Quantum Measurements

Michael Chertkov

14:30-14:50

Nonlinearity and Interaction in Schrödinger Bridges

Abhishek Halder

14:50-15:10

Hard-Constrained Sampling in Diffusion and Flow-Matching Models for Safe Control and Beyond

Navid Azizan

08:00-08:30 Coffee Break

10:10-10:40 Coffee Break

13:00-13:30 Coffee Break