Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENThe BRRY analysis of the INW generator is optimalYakov ShalunovOctober 31, 2026 49 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5DerandomizationPseudorandom GeneratorsBranching Programs
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENRevisiting the xor lemma and exponential correlation bounds for polynomialsEmanuele ViolaOctober 31, 2026 65 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5XOR LemmaHardness AmplificationCircuit Complexity
Formal & Physical Sciences Science — General & HistoryENPseudorandom bits for low degree modular polynomialsTejas NareddyOctober 31, 2026 31 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Pseudorandom GeneratorsModular PolynomialsDerandomization
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENHow to construct random stringsRahul SanthanamOctober 31, 2026 44 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Pseudorandom GeneratorsDerandomizationComplexity Theory
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENHitting-set generators for low-degree F2-polynomials with almost optimal densityTal YankovitzOctober 31, 2026 49 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Hitting Set GeneratorLow-Degree PolynomialsDerandomization
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENExtractors for samplable sourcesRonen ShaltielOctober 31, 2026 69 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Randomness ExtractorsDerandomizationComplexity Theory
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENTrading time, space, and alternations: General plasticity for algorithms from hardness of range...Zeyong LiOctober 30, 2026 40 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Complexity TheoryDerandomizationRange Avoidance
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENPseudorandomness against AM circuits and new oracle separationsAndrew HuangOctober 30, 2026 42 min★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 3/5
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENHow Haar Is It to Look Random?Makrand SinhaOctober 30, 2026 63 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Haar RandomnessQuantum ComputingPseudorandomness
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENDerandomizing Matrix Concentration Inequalities from Free ProbabilityRobert WangOctober 14, 2026 46 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Random MatrixFree ProbabilityDerandomization
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENEvaluating factuality in long-form generationMohit IyyerOctober 10, 2026 46 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5FactualityLLM EvaluationHallucination
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENSequential Statistical Methods for Reliable Machine LearningJeremias SulamOctober 5, 2026 46 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Sequential InferenceMachine Learning ReliabilityE-Values
Applied Sciences & Engineering AI — Models & ResearchENLabOS: The AI-XR Co-Scientist That Sees and Works With HumansKuang Xu (presenting on behalf of the LabOS collaboration)October 5, 2026 31 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5AI Co-ScientistXRScientific Verification
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENGrounding Diffusion Models: The Path to Reliable Synthesis Without HallucinationGrigorios ChrysosOctober 5, 2026 42 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsHallucinationStochasticity
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENWeak Poincaré Inequalities and Mixing from Non-Worst-Case InitializationsAmit RajaramanSeptember 26, 2026 44 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Markov ChainsPoincaré InequalitiesSampling
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENLarge scale consequences of non-negative Ollivier-Ricci curvatureTom Hutchcroft (Caltech/Princeton)September 26, 2026 59 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Ollivier-Ricci CurvatureRandom WalksGraph Theory
Formal & Physical Sciences PhysicsENAldous' spectral gap phenomenon for the KMP modelFederico Sau (University of Milan)September 26, 2026 63 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Spectral GapKMP ModelRandom Walks
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSampling from spherical spin glasses: diffusions and simulated annealingBrice HuangAugust 8, 2026 50 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Spin GlassesSamplingDiffusion Models
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENA computational phase transition for learning-to-sample from Ising modelsThuy-Duong (June) VuongAugust 8, 2026 43 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Learning-to-SampleIsing ModelsComputational Phase Transition
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENWhat Really Separates Autoregression and Diffusion? A Synthesis and Path BeyondJiaxin ShiAugust 7, 2026 44 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Autoregressive ModelsDiffusion ModelsMasked Diffusion
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENScore-Based Generative Modeling without Diffusion: Langevin MCMC All the WaySaeed SaremiAugust 7, 2026 52 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Score-Based Generative ModelsLangevin MCMCEmpirical Bayes
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENHow abundant are good interpolators?Ahmed El AlaouiAugust 7, 2026 44 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5InterpolationGeneralizationLarge Deviations
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENSigned Rectified Flow: Negativity-Controlled GenerationQiang LiuAugust 6, 2026 45 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Signed MeasuresRectified FlowGenerative Modeling
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENRare event analysis via stochastic optimal controlCarles Domingo-EnrichAugust 6, 2026 48 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Rare EventsStochastic Optimal ControlCommittor
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENHow to Build a Modern Diffusion Language ModelVolodymyr KuleshovAugust 6, 2026 48 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsLanguage ModelsGenerative AI
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENFunctional Stochastic LocalizationKevin TianAugust 6, 2026 42 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Stochastic LocalizationDiffusion ModelsSampling Algorithms
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENDo we need diffusion in robotics?Max SimchowitzAugust 6, 2026 48 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5DiffusionRoboticsImitation Learning
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENDiffusion in RL and robotics: how expressive policies changed how we use continuous actionsSergey LevineAugust 6, 2026 48 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsReinforcement LearningRobotics
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENCompositional Reasoning with Diffusion ModelsYilun Du (Harvard University)August 6, 2026 47 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsEnergy-Based ModelsReasoning
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENWindowed thinning and query complexity for the bouncy particle and Zigzag samplersJianfeng LuAugust 5, 2026 47 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5SamplingLog-ConcavePDMP
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENUnderstanding and enhancing diffusion model: a quantification of its generalizability, and a...Molei TaoAugust 5, 2026 49 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsGeneralizationTest-Time Scaling
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENTalk by Kirill Neklyudov (University of Montreal)Kirill NeklyudovAugust 5, 2026 44 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Generative ModelsProbabilistic SetsProtein Design
Formal & Physical Sciences Computing & CybersecurityENSampling from the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model up to β<1/2Holden LeeAugust 5, 2026 46 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Sherrington-Kirkpatrick ModelSamplingDiffusion Models
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENOptimal Inference Schedules for Masked Diffusion ModelsJerry LiAugust 5, 2026 39 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Masked Diffusion ModelsInference ParallelizationInformation Theory
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENNormalizing Flow MapsJoey BoseAugust 5, 2026 49 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Generative ModelingNormalizing FlowsFlow Matching
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — News & ApplicationsENInference-Time Algorithms: A Theoretical Lens on Tractability and Error PropagationAndrej RisteskiAugust 5, 2026 46 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Inference-Time AlgorithmsError PropagationDiffusion Models
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENGlobal selection, local completion: a probabilistic anatomy of diffusion U-NetZahra KadkhodaieAugust 5, 2026 49 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Diffusion ModelsU-NetGenerative Modeling
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENA new class of algorithms for trajectory inferenceAram-Alexandre PooladianAugust 5, 2026 42 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Trajectory InferenceProbability SplinesGenerative Modeling
Formal & Physical Sciences PhysicsENStochastic dynamics as a proof techniqueAndrea MontanariAugust 4, 2026 62 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Graph ConvergenceIsing ModelStochastic Dynamics
Formal & Physical Sciences AI — Models & ResearchENFinite-particles rates for drifting modelsKrishna BalasubramanianAugust 4, 2026 47 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Drifting ModelsGenerative ModelingWasserstein Gradient Flow