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User simulators are increasingly central to interactive information retrieval, yet the community lacks standardized evaluation tools. Simulators serve two objectives, behavioral realism (matching real…
We give a self-contained, modern exposition of \'Edouard Goursat's 1887 theorem on pseudo-elliptic integrals -- those integrals of the form $\int F(t)\,\d t/\sqrt{R(t)}$ with $R$ a cubic or quartic po…
For a connected weighted hypergraph, we give a randomized almost-linear-time solver for the Poisson problem for the cut-based hypergraph Laplacian in the natural input size $P=\sum_{e\in E}|e|$, the s…
Entity search, i.e., finding the most similar entities to a query entity, faces unique challenges in e-commerce, where product similarity varies across categories and contexts. Traditional embedding-b…
Buchbinder and Feldman recently gave a deterministic $(1-1/e-\varepsilon)$-approximation for maximizing a non-negative monotone submodular function subject to a matroid constraint, with query complexi…
We study exact fixed-cardinality Solow--Polasky diversity subset selection on ordered finite $\ell_1$ sets, with monotone biobjective Pareto fronts and their higher-dimensional staircase analogues as …
Conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems mainly rely on fixed antenna arrays, which limits their capability to adapt the effective channel matrix to the propagation environment. Rota…
With the rapid spread of generative AI services, the token has gained value not only as a technical unit of language processing but also as an economic currency for accessing AI services. Major AI mod…
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a weighted undirected graph, with $n$ vertices. A distance oracle is a data structure that can quickly answer distance queries, with some stretch factor. A seminal work of \cite{TZ01}…
This paper studies how online discussion shapes and assesses political violence across different settings, particularly how moral evaluation, as a social perception, varies across institutional contex…
Do e-scooter speed governance policies yield behavioral safety gains beyond the mechanical cap they impose? A firmware ceiling mechanically prevents speeding, but whether the same riders also generate…
We introduce Flashback, a reversible string decomposition that repeatedly peels the maximal leading and trailing character runs from a sentinel-wrapped input, recording each pair as one bilateral toke…
This paper targets e-commerce search relevance. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in this field, they often encounter performance bottlenecks in persistent 'co…
Generating realistic synthetic citation, patent, or component dependency networks is essential for benchmarking community detection, graph visualisation, and network data mining algorithms. We present…
Web accessibility rests on static standards and developer compliance. That model frays in platforms where content is user-generated: photos arrive blurry or off-frame, descriptions skip size and condi…
Job-scheduling games have traditionally assumed fixed processing times. However, in many realistic environments, ranging from cyber-security response to high-frequency trading, a task's duration depen…
For the classical maximum coverage problem, the greedy algorithm achieves a worst-case $1-1/e$ approximation, which is optimal unless $\text{P} = \text{NP}$. The notion of coverage appears in a wide r…
Given a connected undirected graph $G$, a spanning tree is a subgraph $T$ of $G$ such that $V(T) = V(G)$ and $T$ is a tree. A collection of $\ell$ spanning trees $T_1,\ldots,T_\ell$ is pairwise $k$-di…
Open-source software (OSS) developers often struggle to understand and respond to user context, while existing tools, such as issue trackers (for handling bugs, requests, and feedback), largely focus …
We propose a new convex programming relaxation for the weighted Nash social welfare (NSW) problem that achieves a matching $(e^{1/e}\approx 1.445)$-approximation via the rounding algorithm of Feng and…
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