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  1. Valid Stopping in Adaptive Generator-Verifier Loops

    Oct 5, 2026Mahmoud Hegazy, Michael I. Jordan, Aymeric DieuleveutFDR ControlE-Values

    CMAP, École polytechnique, IP Paris, France · Inria Paris, France · EECS, UC Berkeley, USA

  2. OR for AI That Does OR: Routing LLMs up the Escalator inside the OSCAR Framework

    Oct 1, 2026Jinzhi Bu, Haixin Tang, Huanan ZhangLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationOptimal Stopping

    Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

  3. Budget Boundary Effects in Test-Time Mathematical Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Guilin Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Wulan Guo +5Mathematical Reasoning BenchmarksTest-Time Optimization

    Yantong AI

  4. Anticipatory Robot Goalkeeping via Monotone Optimal Stopping

    Sep 21, 2026Hao E. Zhang, Ruize Geng, Yisen Li +8Optimal StoppingRobotics

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Texas at Arlington · General Motors

  5. PROSE: A Theory of Optimal Stopping with Perishable Evidence for Peer Selection in Intermittently Connected Decentralised Learning

    Sep 20, 2026Christos AnagnostopoulosOptimal StoppingDecentralized Learning

    School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

  6. SAGE: Optimal-Stopping Peer Selection for Decentralised Federated Learning

    Sep 20, 2026Ke Xiao, Qiyuan Wang, Christos AnagnostopoulosOptimal StoppingAdaptive Sampling

    School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  7. Optimal No-Regret Learning for Repeated Prophet Inequality

    Sep 20, 2026Kun WangRegret MinimizationOptimal Stopping

    Purdue University

  8. Multi-Armed Bernoulli Bandits via Minimax Single-Arm Stopping

    Sep 19, 2026Huikang Liu, Zhengchao Wang, Daniel Kuhn +1Multi-Armed BanditsMinimax Regret

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · The University of Sydney · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne +1

  9. How Many Posterior Samples? Calibrated Stopping for Adaptive Sensing

    Sep 18, 2026Vincent Corlay, Andriy EnttselActive PerceptionOptimal Stopping

    Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe

  10. Safe to Stop? Risk-Constrained Stopping for Sequential Clinical Diagnosis Agents

    Sep 9, 2026Yuexin Wu, Vasile RusSelective PredictionAI Agent Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science University of Memphis

  11. Knowing When to Ask for Help: Bayesian Self-Escalation in Hierarchical LLM Agents

    Aug 25, 2026Nadeem ShaikhAdaptive Model RoutingLLM Agent Orchestration

    Independent Researcher Melbourne, Australia

  12. Knowing When to Stop: Bayesian Optimal Stopping for LLM Evaluations

    Aug 14, 2026Toby D. PilditchLLM EvaluationOptimal Stopping

    UK AI Security Institute, London, UK

  13. Optimal Stopping of Self-Refining Foundation Models

    Aug 11, 2026Kim Hammar, Tansu Alpcan, Emil C. LupuLLM Self-RefinementOptimal Stopping

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom · University of Melbourne, Australia

  14. Kernel Methods for Refined Prophet Inequalities

    Aug 9, 2026Patrick Loiseau, Mathieu Molina, Vianney Perchet +2Optimal Stopping

    FairPlay Joint Team, Inria · Tel-Aviv University · FairPlay Joint Team, CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris, CRITEO AI Team +2

  15. LLM-OSDA: An Optimal-Stopping Dynamic Auction for Native Advertising in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations

    Jul 31, 2026Yan Fang, Jialin Chen, Chun Gan +5Mechanism DesignOnline Advertising

    JD.com, Inc. · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · University of Sydney +1

  16. CC-AOS: Cost- and Horizon-Conditioned Amortized Backward Induction for Finite-Horizon Optimal Stopping

    Jul 24, 2026Tianwei YuTime Series ClassificationCost-Aware Inference

  17. OS-Pruner: Pruning Chains-of-Thought of Reasoning Models via Optimal Stopping

    Jul 13, 2026Mohammed Ehab, Aymane El Gadarri, Vivek F. Farias +2Overthinking in Language ModelsSequential Decision Making

    MIT · Columbia Business School

  18. How much Data do We Need? Sequential Data Collection for Stochastic Programming

    Jul 11, 2026Xin Li, Juergen Branke, Xuan Vinh DoanStochastic OptimizationSequential Decision Making

    University of Warwick

  19. Stop Guessing When to Stop Testing: Efficient Model Evaluation with Just Enough Data

    Jul 9, 2026Ofir Arviv, Kristjan Greenewald, Yotam Perlitz +3Early StoppingOptimal Stopping

    IBM Research

  20. Strategic Buying Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Mingyang Fu, Ming HuSequential Decision MakingOptimal Stopping

    Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

  21. When Does Learning to Stop Help? A Cost-Aware Study of Early Exits in Reasoning Models

    Jun 29, 2026Zhe Dong, Fang Qin, Manish ShahEarly StoppingCost-Aware Inference

    University of Maine at Presque Isle · Stanford University · Independent Researcher

  22. Asymptotically Optimal Learning for Parametric Prophet Inequalities

    Jun 25, 2026Jung-hun Kim, Anna Grebennikova, Vianney PerchetSequential Decision MakingOptimal Stopping

    FairPlay Team, CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris · UFR IM2AG, Université Grenoble Alpes · Criteo AI Lab

  23. Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding

    Jun 20, 2026Xuanming Zhang, Sining Zhoubian, Yuxuan Chen +8LLM AlignmentLanguage Model Decoding

    Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc. · Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University

  24. Continuous-time Optimal Stopping through Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 16, 2026Cosmin Borsa, Michael LudkovskiQuantitative FinanceSequential Decision Making

    Department of Statistics & Applied Probability, UC Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3110, USA

  25. FAST-ME: Foundation-aware Adaptive Stopping for Motion Estimation for Efficient IoT Video Analysis

    May 22, 2026Kakia Panagidi, Stathes HadjieftymiadisSequential Decision MakingOptimal Stopping

    Department of Informatics & Telecommunications National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece

  26. The Secretary Problem with a Stochastic Precursor

    May 21, 2026Franziska Eberle, Alexander LindermayrSequential Decision MakingOptimal Stopping

    Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

  27. Regret-Based (ε,δ)(ε,δ)-optimal Stopping Criteria for Bayesian Optimization

    May 21, 2026Haowei Wang, Jingyi Wang, Qiyu WeiBayesian OptimizationOptimal Stopping

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA · The University of Manchester, UK

  28. Delay-Adaptive Speculation Control for Low-Latency Edge-Cloud LLM Inference

    May 17, 2026Kangkang Sun, Jianhua Li, Xiuzhen Chen +2Sequential Decision MakingOptimal Stopping

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Administration Technologies for Information Security, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  29. Reinforcement Learning for Speculative Trading under Exploratory Framework

    Apr 2, 2026Yun Zhao, Alex S. L. Tse, Harry ZhengOptimal StoppingAlgorithmic Trading

    Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK. · Department of Mathematics, University College London, London WC1H 0AY, UK.

  30. Learning in Prophet Inequalities with Noisy Observations

    Apr 2, 2026Jung-hun Kim, Vianney PerchetOptimal StoppingDecision-Making under Uncertainty

    CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris · FairPlay joint team · Criteo AI Lab