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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Singular Geometry of Low-Rank Adaptation

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is now a standard approach to parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large neural networks. Its low-rank factorization is inherently non-identifiable, making LoRA a singular statistical model whose learning complexity cannot be described by parameter dimension alone. We study this complexity usin...

Kamillo Ferry, Anthea Monod, Keisuke Yano · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generalization properties of the token perceptron: the role of embedding and vocabulary

Large language models are trained to predict tokens from a finite vocabulary, each represented by a vector in a $d$-dimensional embedding space. Therefore, token prediction is a classification problem whose classes have a geometry determined by the embedding. We study how this geometry affects learning in a minimal sol...

Dario Bocchi, Matteo Negri, Flavio Nicoletti et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Bayesian Neural Networks via Sticky Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes

There is growing evidence that the performance of a neural network depends largely on a small subset of its weights, which are typically identified by training a dense network and pruning it afterwards. Within a Bayesian framework, pruning can be directly incorporated through a spike-and-slab prior, providing a proper...

August Arnstad, Geir Olve Storvik, Filippo Pagani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Score-Preserving Continual Lasso under Task Shift

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn from sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting when historical data are no longer accessible. We study continual learning for high-dimensional sparse linear regression, where $\ell_1$ regularization creates a difficulty absent from continual ridge regression: that r...

Jingyi Guo, Runze Li, Lingzhou Xue · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Acquisition for Spherical-Linear Bayesian Optimization on the Cube

Recent work demonstrated that executing Bayesian Optimization (BO) using simply a linear surrogate with a clever transformation is enough to approximate the performance of the standard Gaussian-Process (GP) based version on high-dimensional test functions. When the decision region is a sphere, this strategy admits rapi...

Nathan Wycoff · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Batched NN 4D-Var: a performant hybrid model framework for the Integrated Forecasting System

Hybrid forecasting systems combining machine learning and numerical weather prediction offer a promising route toward improved forecast skill while preserving physical consistency. In this study, we investigate online learning of state-dependent model-error corrections within the Integrated Forecasting System using 4D-...

Alban Farchi, Marcin Chrust, Massimo Bonavita et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Exact Global Minimax Risk near Nonidentification

We study squared-error estimation when a nuisance parameter is unidentified on a submodel but affects a target that vanishes there. For models with higher-order profile expansions, we give sufficient conditions under which the largest critical-path minimax risk is the exact asymptotic minimax risk over the full paramet...

Kaiyue Yang, Yunan Wu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Random Jump Forests

Random jump forests are introduced as a nonparametric tool for estimating conditional cumulative transition rates and occupation probabilities in multi-state models. The main idea is that a single tree partitions the covariate space for all transitions simultaneously, using partially observed trajectories, and with Nel...

Martin Bladt, Rasmus Frigaard Lemvig · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Empirical concentration for chains with infinite memory

Concentration inequalities for time series usually involve unknown quantities measuring dependence. This prevents their direct use as confidence bounds, or as criteria for learning algorithms. Recent works proved empirical concentration inequalities for stationary Markov chains, where the unknown quantities are estimat...

Pierre Alquier, Paul Doukhan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federated Nonparametric Regression with Heterogeneous Clients

Whether a federated predictor benefits an individual client depends on both population heterogeneity and estimation uncertainty. We study this question for Nadaraya--Watson regression in a triangular array with potentially different fitting and evaluation distributions. Each client transmits local kernel summaries, all...

Xiaoran Jiang, Anand N. Vidyashankar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Conditional Flow Models for Offline Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning

Offline maximum entropy reinforcement learning seeks to estimate the optimal soft action-value function \(Q^*\) from a fixed dataset without further interaction with the environment. Although \(Q^*\) is characterized by the soft optimal Bellman equation, the corresponding Bellman operator cannot be evaluated directly b...

Hao Cheng, Yu-Ling Jiao, Li-Can Kang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Combinatorial Characterizations of the Learnability of Conditional Distributions

We study the PAC-learnability of function classes that map inputs to probability distributions over a finite space. The learner observes i.i.d. input-label pairs, with each label sampled from the conditional distribution of an unknown target hypothesis in the class. We measure learning through excess risk under a bound...

Mihir Dhanakshirur, Ambuj Tewari · 0 citations

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