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| Comments: | AISTATS 2026. 24 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Project page see this https URL |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2510.04995 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2510.04995v3 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.04995 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Xuefeng Xu [view email]
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