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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Complete or Sparse: A Tale of Two Identifiabilities

Understanding when neural networks learn interpretable representations is central to mechanistic interpretability. We study this through identifiability: when can supervised learning recover the true latent variables underlying the data? We introduce two data generating processes distinguished by their causal direction...

Jun-Ze Zhou, David A. Klindt · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Stability and Convergence of Flow Map Training

Flow maps are a recent method of probabilistic generation that amortize diffusion trajectories into one-step samplers, unlocking efficient generation. While progress has been made in improving their empirical performance, there is still a lack of understanding behind the mechanisms underlying their success. Specificall...

Ishan Nath, Tom Stanic, Avishek Joey Bose et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Graph Additive Models disentangling feature, topology, and interactions

Graph Neural Additive Networks (GNANs) have emerged as effective, interpretable-by-design architectures for graph learning. They achieve transparency by combining per-feature shape functions with simple distance-based reweighting. However, GNANs have three limitations. First, node-wise relevance scores aggregate inform...

C. Álvarez-Rodríguez, Steve Azzolin, Vincenzo Marco De Luca et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Latent Annealed Posterior Sampling with a Variance-Preserving Bridge for Sparsely Observed Random Fields

Posterior inference for random fields from sparse observations presents two major challenges: accurately characterizing complex spatial uncertainty and preventing conditional sampling costs from growing substantially as the spatial grid is refined. To address these challenges, we propose latent annealed posterior sampl...

Jian-Kun Lei, Tian-Xi Qi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A polylogarithmic bound for list replicability

Zhang [Zha26] recently posted a manuscript announcing that the list-replicability number of every class of $M\ge 2$ binary concepts on $N\ge 2$ domain points is $O(\log^2 M\log N)$, which would be the first polylogarithmic upper bound on this quantity. In this note, we present a short, self-contained proof of this boun...

Ari Blondal, Hamed Hatami, Pooya Hatami et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Explore Once, Evaluate Many: Multiple Policy Evaluation for Stochastic Linear Bandits

We study how to evaluate $K$ target policies simultaneously in stochastic contextual bandits with linear reward structure. Given a known $d$-dimensional feature map and reward-free access to policy queries, we propose PRISMA (Policy evaluation through Regularized Information Sharing and Mixture Allocation), an algorith...

Spyros Dragazis, Yi-Lei Chen, Aldo Pacchiano · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Query-Efficient Rejection Sampling for Parallel Masked Diffusion

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) accelerate generation by unmasking multiple tokens in parallel, but sampling these tokens independently ignores their correlations and biases the output. Anari et al. (2026) corrected this bias with rejection sampling, decomposing the log acceptance probability into a sum of token-level t...

Shiyuan Zhang, Xuheng Li, Qiwei Di et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Tilted Sampling Problem: Optimism, Posterior Sampling, and Logarithmic Regret

Many modern learning systems are used not to select a single best action, but to sample diverse high-quality outputs. Examples include entropy-regularized reinforcement learning, RLHF, and reward-guided generative modeling. Motivated by these settings, we study tilted sampling: an online learning problem in which the g...

Mohammad Pedramfar, Siamak Ravanbakhsh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Classical methods for modern applications: synthetic tabular data generation using lightweight discrete response continuous latent variable model

In this paper, we present a lightweight algorithm for modelling tabular data containing both continuous and discrete variables. The method uses empirical marginal distributions and a selected quantile function to transform the data into a continuous latent space, where a distribution of choice, e.g. a multivariate Gaus...

Bartosz Barzdajn, Mateusz Krzyszto\'n · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Market Incentives for AI Safety Investment

Despite their practical significance, modern AI systems pose significant societal risks, including toxicity, malicious use, and misinformation. Their mitigation depends not only on technical feasibility but also on the incentives of firms that develop and deploy these systems. We show how profit maximization shapes saf...

Nikita Tsoy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sharp and Stable Label-Free Calibration Certificates from Logical Coherence

Query-conditioned probabilistic predictors answer logically related questions one at a time, and labels to check their calibration are often missing. For each restriction on what a bettor's stakes may use, a minimax theorem identifies, for finitely supported laws of the answers, the sharp label-free lower bound on the...

Takahiro Kato (NP-hard, Inc.) · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Regret Lower Bound for Online Learning of Quantum States with Logarithmic Loss, with Applications to Quantum State Tomography and Confidence Sequences for Matrix Means

A regret lower bound is established, showing that the regret rates of Exponential Weights and the algorithm of Tseng et al. (2025) have optimal polynomial dependence on the dimension, which leads to a quantum state tomography algorithm that is sample optimal up to polylogarithmic factors in the sample size.

Yen-Huan Li, Wei-Fu Tseng · 0 citations

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