Sequential data collection has emerged as a widely adopted technique for enhancing the efficiency of data gathering processes. Despite its advantages, such data collection mechanism often introduces complexities to the statistical inference procedure.

Nash equilibria can be effectively addressed.

Code is available at https://github.com/wl-zhao/UniPC . In this paper, we propose a training-free framework for the fast sampling of DPMs called UniPC .

Let M denote M = 2 1 1 2 1 . . . . . . . . . 1 2 1 1 2 R

These theoretical findings are supported by experimental results.

For the convenience of the reader, we summarize a list of notations blow. 1. null G In Appendix B.1, we present a general statement of Theorem 3.1 (a) along with its proof. Theorem 3.1 (a) states the order recovery guarantee for a specified parameter We summarize the bounds for (I) and (II) in Lemma B.1 and Lemma B.2, which can be found in Collecting the results in Lemma B.1 and Lemma B.2 and reorganizing the terms in the inequalities, we have the following conclusion. We now state the proof of this Lemma. Then we bound the first term using the concentration bound on Chi-squared random variables. For the non-identifiable models, we can use Lemma H.1 in a similar way to obtain that with probability We now state the proof of this Lemma.

Load balancing-the allocation of work across parallel resources to reduce delay, energy and cost-is a pervasive challenge in science and engineering, from large-scale simulation and data processing to cloud and manufacturing operations. Motivated by the emerging bottleneck in large language model (LLM) serving, we study a particularly stringent regime of load balancing that arises in barrier-synchronized, stateful systems: work cannot be freely migrated and progress is gated by the slowest participant at each step, so heterogeneity and temporal drift in workloads create persistent stragglers and substantial idle time. LLM serving under data-parallel decoding provides a prominent modern instance: in production traces, barrier-induced idle can exceed 40% of compute time per decode step. Here we develop a universal load-balancing principle, which admits a step-wise finite-horizon integer-optimization formulation and yields worst-case guarantees: across LLM decode models and a broader class of non-decreasing workload drift processes, it reduces long-run imbalance by a factor that grows with batch size and system scale. Extensive experiments corroborate the theory, showing substantial improvements in throughput and latency together with reductions in energy consumption. These results provide a general, theoretically grounded framework for load balancing, with immediate implications for sustainable LLM serving and broad relevance to other synchronization-gated resource-allocation problems.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) typically involve a large number of parameters and are trained to achieve zero or near-zero training error. Despite such interpolation, they often exhibit strong generalization performance on unseen data, a phenomenon that has motivated extensive theoretical investigations. Comforting results show that interpolation indeed may not affect the minimax rate of convergence under the squared error loss. In the mean time, DNNs are well known to be highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in future inputs. A natural question then arises: Can interpolation also escape from suboptimal performance under a future $X$-attack? In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of interpolating estimators in a framework of nonparametric regression. A finding is that interpolating estimators must be suboptimal even under a subtle future $X$-attack, and achieving perfect fitting can substantially damage their robustness. An interesting phenomenon in the high interpolation regime, which we term the curse of simple size, is also revealed and discussed. Numerical experiments support our theoretical findings.