AI RESEARCH
Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2603.26998v1 Announce Type: cross For status update systems operating over unreliable energy-constrained wireless channels, we address Weaver's long-standing Level-C question: do my packets actually improve the plant's behavior? Each fresh sample carries a stochastic expiration time -- governed by the plant's instability dynamics -- after which the information becomes useless for control.