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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MAGIC: Margin-gated Contrastive Debiasing with Evidence Restoration for VLM Test-time Robustness Scaling

This paper studies the problem of test-time robustness scaling for large vision-language models (LVLMs), which aims to mitigate language bias during inference. Existing approaches typically adopt test-time scaling techniques such as contrastive decoding to improve inference performance. Despite the progress, the perfor...

Shunshun Gu, Enze Zhang, Ming Pei et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

TRACE: Data-Free Text Reconstruction Attacks against Approximate Unlearning in LLMs

As large language models (LLMs) face growing demands for data removal driven by regulatory compliance, copyright concerns, and privacy protection, approximate unlearning has emerged as a practical alternative to expensive full retraining. In practice, pre- and post-unlearning model snapshots are often maintained for au...

Meng-Ying Zhang, De-Rui Wang, Ibrahim Khalil et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

WADE: An LSTM-Based Anomaly Detection Engine for WebAssembly Applications

WebAssembly (Wasm) enables near-native performance for web applications through a portable and sandboxed execution model. However, its limited runtime protection mechanisms (e.g., the lack of stack canaries and address space layout randomization (ASLR)) leave Wasm applications vulnerable to traditional attacks. We pres...

Ilaria Campestrini, S. Zanero, E. Kirda · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Model-Agnostic Correction Framework for Short-Term Building Load Forecasting

Short-term building load forecasting remains challenging because load patterns can change rapidly with weather and operating conditions. Data-driven forecasting models may become less reliable when the current operating regime is rare or poorly represented during training, even when similar situations exist elsewhere i...

Shiqiao Zhou, Huanbo Lyu, Holger Sch\"oner et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Input Bias Correction in Gaussian Process Regression

In traditional Gaussian process (GP) regression, the inputs are typically assumed to be known, and uncertainty enters only through the measurements. When scalar fields are mapped using GP regression with measurements obtained from a mobile sensor, the inputs correspond to the estimated pose of the mobile sensor. The go...

Muzaffar Qureshi, Tochukwu E. Ogri, Trivikram Satharasi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Real-to-Sim Calibration of Bosch Etching Simulators with Few-Shot XSEM Data and Hybrid Search

The Bosch process is widely used in MEMS and TSV fabrication, but accurate prediction of etching outcomes remains difficult without calibration against real measurements, which are sparse and costly to obtain. This work presents a few-shot real-to-sim calibration framework that decouples simulator parameters from direc...

Xinyu Jia, Jainil Shah, Rahul Tripathi 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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Early learning in large residual networks

We study the early training dynamics of nonlinear residual networks with blocks of zero hidden layers as a model of more general residual networks. We analyze networks in a sequential limit where first width and depth diverge, then the number of training data points diverges, and finally the input dimension diverges. T...

Vladimir Narovlansky, Boris Hanin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Operationalising Weaker Faithfulness: Recovery, Ambiguity and Computational Limits

Variables can predict an outcome jointly while each is individually independent of it, causing structure learners to discard informative links. We investigate how to operationalise weaker faithfulness through two approaches: selective protection in an adjacency learner and explicit retention of alternative directed gra...

Cillian Hourican, Rick Quax · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fooling LLM Safety Guards into Judging the Wrong Text

Safety guards check content before an LLM application acts on it, and most paste that content into a plain-text prompt. Content that imitates the prompt can append a second task, and the guard answers that one instead. We call this target rebinding. Our explanation is that the guard grades the last complete task in its...

Utkarsh Kanwat · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi modal perceived conversation success prediction for spontaneous autistic and non-autistic dyadic interactions

Conversation success is important for communication, social bonds, and well-being and is often reduced in autistic-neurotypical conversations. Previous studies have predicted perceived conversation success using acoustic and lexical features in pediatric autism-enriched samples, or using nonverbal behavior in non-autis...

Thanushi Withanage, Desi Jones, Noah Sasson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Autoregressive Physics-Informed Neural Operator Surrogates and Joint 4-D Seismic-Production Bayesian History Matching

A surrogate-accelerated Bayesian history-matching framework, demonstrated on a realistic synthetic model, with an exposure bound and a Loewner-order inequality explaining why joint assimilation is no less informative.

Clement Etienam, D. Blom, H. Pattathil et al. · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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