As agentic AI moves from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, orchestration, data, governance, and clear business objectives are becoming critical for scaling, says chief operating officer at NiCE Arun Chandra. As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains uneven, with many organizations still working through isolated pilots. For Arun Chandra, chief operating officer at NiCE, the first step is moving beyond experimentation for its own sake. "Everybody's trying to figure out what can we do with this technology?" he says. But scaling requires a clearer connection to business strategy: Organizations need to define whether they are trying to increase revenue, reduce costs, or pursue another strategic or financial objective.

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Machine learning algorithms and their training datasets have grown substantially in both size and complexity over the past decade. This increased model complexity has made it challenging to interpret and predict their behavior in unobserved scenarios. Hence, many applications that involve societal decisions still rely on simple, interpretable models like linear regression, often after feature engineering. Examples of such applications include predicting national housing prices, estimating wages across industries, forecasting loan amounts across banks, predicting life insurance premiums across groups, and projecting energy consumption across communities [CGKMN24]. A shared safety and sometimes legal concern across the above applications is the potential for wildly different model qualities for different distributions, i.e., outputting a notably worse model for some source data distributions [Dat14; BS16; HPS16; VVB18; SBFVV19; BHJKR21; CGNSG23; Cho16; KLMR18; ADW19; CGKMN24; SVWZ24].

Classical hypothesis testing frameworks break down in contemporary settings in which null hypotheses are increasingly abstract, the same data are used to both generate and test hypotheses, and minimal assumptions about the underlying data are made. In this work, we propose a new framework for conducting valid hypothesis tests in broad contexts. We propose to add and subtract external noise generated from a symmetric shift-family to our data, $X$, to partition it into two pieces, $X^{(1)}$ and $X^{(2)}$. We provide a generic strategy for orthogonalizing $X^{(2)}$ against $X^{(1)}$ under the null hypothesis $H_0$, then show that testing whether the orthogonalization was successful provides a valid test of $H_0$ under mild assumptions. Remarkably, this framework extends naturally to the post-selection inference setting: we simply select a hypothesis on $X^{(1)}$, then perform orthogonalization under the selected null. As our approach neither requires pre-specification of the selection mechanism, nor is restricted to a small class of data-generating distributions, it dramatically expands the settings for which valid post-selection inference can be conducted. We showcase the flexibility of our proposal in several case studies involving challenging pre-specified null hypotheses and post-selection inference scenarios.

We characterize weakly regularized continual classification in homogeneous models as sequential projections onto task margin sets. This result generalizes prior analyses restricted to either stationary (single-task) deep models or continual linear models. We show that global convergence generally fails, even for simple models linear in data but nonlinear in parameters. Nevertheless, by leveraging results from nonconvex projection theory, we identify regularity properties of homogeneous deep networks that guarantee local linear convergence under random and cyclic task sequences. Finally, we extend our analysis to continual regression, unifying the framework for homogeneous models.

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Rank aggregation combines information from ordered lists ranking items by preference. Classical parametric models for such data, including the Mallows and Plackett-Luce models, assume the orders concentrate around one or more complete consensus rankings. Recent work relaxes the total-order assumption by allowing the consensus structure to be a partial order (poset), allowing for incomparabilities in preferences. However, in many applications preference data exhibit group structure. We introduce hierarchical partial order (HPO) models, which extend poset-based models to accommodate grouped data through a hierarchy of latent posets. This framework, which parallels mixture model extensions of the Mallows and Plackett-Luce models, enables principled sharing of information across groups while preserving partial-order structure. We show that the Plackett-Luce model and its hierarchical variants are special cases of HPO-models. We develop a hierarchical clustering extension (HCPO) for unsupervised clustering in settings where group labels are unknown. Bayesian inference for the latent poset hierarchy is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets, including pairwise acoustic preference data and LLM agent traces, demonstrate that the proposed HPO and HCPO models outperform existing approaches in both predictive performance and structural interpretability.