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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Near Minimax Rates for Quantile Distributional Reinforcement Learning

In this paper, we study quantile distributional policy evaluation, where the return distribution under a given policy is approximated by the quantile Bellman fixed point $\bm\eta_m$. We investigate the statistical accuracy of estimating $\bm\eta_m$ across quantile resolutions under Wasserstein distances. Assuming acces...

Zijie Cheng, Zhihua Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Score-Based Modeling of Effective Langevin Dynamics with State-Dependent Mobility

In a previous work [L. T. Giorgini, Phys. Rev. E 114, L012102 (2026)], we introduced stochastic reduced-order models that reproduce by construction the stationary density and short-time correlations of the observed variables, using a constant mobility matrix and the score, the gradient of the logarithm of this density....

Ludovico T. Giorgini · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Surprisal-R\'enyi Free Energy

The forward and reverse Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergences arise as limiting objectives in learning and inference, yet they induce markedly different inductive biases that cannot be explained by expectation terms alone. We introduce the Surprisal-R\'enyi Free Energy (SRFE), a normalized R\'enyi-Chernoff log-moment funct...

Shion Matsumoto, Ankur Arjun Mali · 0 citations

Deep Learning of Compositional Targets with Hierarchical Spectral Methods

This work analyzes compositional target functions of three-layer fitting using an explicit three-layer fitting model trained via layer-wise spectral estimators, and establishes Gaussian comparison bounds for projected moments when $0<\varepsilon<1/3$, and motivates separations in sample complexity between two- and thre...

Hugo Tabanelli, Yatin Dandi, Luca Pesce et al. · 2 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Emergence of Distortions in High-Dimensional Guided Diffusion Models

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the de facto standard for conditional sampling in diffusion models, yet it often reduces sample diversity. Using tools from statistical physics, we analyze the emergence of generative distortions induced by CFG, namely the mismatch between the CFG sampling distribution and the true con...

Enrico Ventura, Beatrice Achilli, Luca Ambrogioni et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Quantification of Tail-trimming Effects for Interval CVaR Based Nonlinear Regression

The tail trimming strategy is widely adopted for robustness against outlier contamination in statistical learning and operations research. However, it generally lacks the thorough understanding that to what extent the tail-trimming technique is effective for nonlinear regression. In this paper, we address the robust no...

Yulei You, Junyi Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Recovering Geodesic Distances from Noisy Observations

Let $(M,d,\mu)$ be a nice geodesic probability space (such as a manifold) and $X=\{x_i\}_{i\in [N]} \subset M$ a finite $\mu$-i.i.d. sample. Suppose we observe noisy distance random variables $d'(x_i,x_j)$. When can the true distances be recovered to small additive error? This question has attracted interest in two dis...

Charles Fefferman, Jonathan Marty, Kevin Ren · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Data-Efficient Kernel Methods for Learning Differential Equations and Their Solution Operators: Algorithms and Error Analysis

We introduce a novel kernel-based framework for learning differential equations and their solution maps. The framework is efficient in its data requirements in terms of the number of observed states and the amount of data available per state. Our formulation also allows us to employ efficient Gauss-Newton-type optimiza...

Bamdad Hosseini, Alexander Hsu, Yasamin Jalalian et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Few-Step Boltzmann Generators via Scalable Likelihood Flow Maps

Recent progress in flow-based generative modeling has led to models that output high-quality samples while using only a small number of function evaluations. However, at present, there is a lack of similar advances in estimating the model likelihood. In particular, most existing methods either rely on restrictive archi...

RuiKang OuYang, Hanlin Yu, Xinyue Ai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

TabPFN-3: Technical Report

Tabular data underpins most high-value prediction problems in science and industry, and TabPFN has driven the foundation model revolution for this modality. Designed with feedback from our users, TabPFN-3 builds on this foundation to scale state-of-the-art performance to datasets with 1M training rows and substantially...

L\'eo Grinsztajn, Klemens Fl\"oge, Oscar Key et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Almost Sure Convergence Rates of Stochastic Approximation and Reinforcement Learning via a Poisson-Moreau Drift

Establishing almost sure convergence rates for stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning under Markovian noise is a fundamental theoretical challenge. We make progress towards this challenge for a class of stochastic approximation algorithms whose expected updates are contractive, a setting that arises in man...

Xinyu Liu, Zixuan Xie, Shangtong Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Estimating the expected output of wide random MLPs more efficiently than sampling

By far the most common way to estimate an expected loss in machine learning is to draw samples, compute the loss on each one, and take the empirical average. However, sampling is not necessarily optimal. Given an MLP at initialization, we show how to estimate its expected output over Gaussian inputs without running sam...

Wilson Wu, Victor Lecomte, Michael Winer et al. · 0 citations

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