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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-User mmWave Beam and Rate Adaptation via Combinatorial Satisficing Bandits

We study downlink beam and rate adaptation in a multi-user mmWave MISO system where multiple base stations (BSs), each using analog beamforming from finite codebooks, serve multiple single-antenna user equipments (UEs) with a unique beam per UE and discrete data transmission rates. BSs learn about transmission success...

Emre \"Ozy{\i}ld{\i}r{\i}m, Bar{\i}\c{s} Yayc{\i}, Umut Eren Akturk et al. · 0 citations

Understanding Latent Diffusability via Fisher Geometry

It is shown that isometric embeddings preserve intrinsic FI and establish quantitative intrinsic-FI bounds for a broader class of bi-Lipschitz encoders with controlled weak volume distortion, whereas FIR is governed by the interplay between encoder and data geometries.

Jing Gu, M. Mardani, Wonjun Lee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Model Merging via Data-Free Covariance Estimation

Model merging provides a way of cheaply combining individual models to produce a model that inherits each individual's capabilities. While some merging methods can approach the performance of multitask training, they are often heuristically motivated and lack theoretical justification. A principled alternative is to po...

Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed, Derek Tam, Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Task Anti-Causal Learning for Reconstructing Urban Events from Residents' Reports

Many real-world machine learning tasks are anti-causal: they require inferring latent causes from observed effects. In practice, we often face multiple related tasks where the structural dependencies are a hybrid of task-invariant and task-specific mechanisms. We propose Multi-Task Anti-Causal learning (MTAC), a framew...

Liangkai Zhou, Susu Xu, Shuqi Zhong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

JEPA-Bisim: Learning Robust Visual Representations for Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models

World models learned from high-dimensional visual observations allow agents to make decisions and plan directly in latent space, avoiding pixel-level reconstruction. However, recent latent predictive architectures (JEPAs), including the DINO world model (DINO-WM), display a degradation in test time robustness due to th...

Leonardo F. Toso, Davit Shadunts, Yunyang Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SeedFlood: A Step Toward Scalable Decentralized Fine-Tuning of LLMs

This work presents SeedFlood, a new approach to decentralized LLM fine-tuning designed to scale across large models, large collaborations, and complex network topologies while achieving global consensus with negligible communication overhead. Traditional methods suffer from high communication costs that grow with model...

Jihun Kim, Dongyeop Lee, Namhoon Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why GRPO Needs Normalization: A Local-Curvature Perspective on Adaptive Gradients

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key driver of language model reasoning. Among RL algorithms, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is the de facto standard, avoiding the need for a critic by using per-prompt baselines and variance normalization. Yet why and when this normalization helps remains unclear. In...

Cheng Ge, Caitlyn Heqi Yin, Hao Liang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Poincar\'e Meets Bellman: Revisable Memory, Operational Quotients, and Evidence-Supported Learning in Changing Environments

Memory consolidation determines both what a learner can do now and which changes remain implementable later. We develop a finite-model synthesis of operational state abstraction and optimal control under the stability-evidence-revision (SER) framework. ``Poincar\'e meets Bellman'' names two complementary roles: qualita...

Xin Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Benchmarking Epistemology: Validity Theory for Evaluating Machine Learning Models

Predictive benchmarking, evaluating machine learning models based on predictive performance and competitive ranking, is central to machine learning research and scientific inquiry. However, benchmark scores at best measure performance relative to a specific dataset and learning problem. Drawing substantial scientific i...

Timo Freiesleben, Sebastian Zezulka · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Variability Aware Recursive Neural Network (VARNN): A Residual-Memory Model for Capturing Temporal Deviation in Sequence Regression Modeling

Real-world time-series regression often involves non-stationarity, heteroscedasticity, and regime changes, under which recent prediction errors may contain structured information about local temporal mismatch between model predictions and observations. Learning how to represent and reuse these errors can therefore prov...

Haroon Gharwi, Yue Dai, Kai Shu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Aligning Inductive Bias for Data-Efficient Generalization in State Space Models

The remarkable success of modern AI has been closely tied to scaling laws, yet the finite supply of high-quality data makes data efficiency--learning more from less--an increasingly important frontier. A model's inductive bias is a critical lever for data efficiency, but foundational sequence models such as State Space...

Qiyu Chen, Guozhang Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Escaping Efficiency of Distributed Adversarial Training Algorithms

Adversarial training has been widely studied in recent years due to its role in improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. This paper focuses on comparing different distributed adversarial training algorithms--including centralized and decentralized strategies--within multi-agent learning environments. Pre...

Ying Cao, Kun Yuan, Ali H. Sayed · 0 citations

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