Validation-Frontier Representation Selection under Constrained Observation

[2608.15095] Validation-Frontier Representation Selection under Constrained Observation Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2608.15095 (cs) [Submitted on 15 Aug 2026] Title: Validation-Frontier Representation Selection under Constrained Observation Authors: Wesley Shu View a PDF of the paper titled Validation-Frontier Representation Selection under Constrained Observation, by Wesley Shu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: AI systems deployed outside clean benchmark settings often rely on observations that are incomplete, unstable, costly, or degraded by monitoring failures. This paper studies representation selection under constrained observation: choosing a state representation when raw accuracy is not the only operational criterion. We propose a validation-frontier selector that combines balanced accuracy with penalties for feature cost, overfit gap, and validation-test instability. In a focused public-tabular benchmark using three scikit-learn datasets, five observation regimes, 45 matched task cells, 720 candidate actions, and 405 representation rows, the adaptive selector improves frontier score over full trace features by 0.025801 while reducing mean feature count by 22.733. Balanced-accuracy difference is small and not statistically significant. A broader offline stress test gives mixed results. The supported claim is therefore bounded: adaptive representation selection can improve a constrained-observation robustness-efficiency frontier in matched benchmark settings, but does not universally dominate trace baselines. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2608.15095 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2608.15095v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15095 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Wesley Shu [ view email ] [v1] Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:40:39 UTC (17 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Validation-Frontier Representation Selection under Constrained Observation, by Wesley Shu View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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