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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Contextual Decision Making: Predictive or Generative

Contextual decision making uses observed covariates to guide decisions under uncertainty. Two natural approaches are predict-then-optimize (PtO), which learns the conditional expected objective, and generate-then-optimize (GtO), which learns conditional uncertainty and optimizes using generated scenarios. We study when...

L. J. Hong, Wei-Huan Huang, Xin-Ya Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Parameter Rebasin to Functional Transfer Across Heterogeneous Transformers

Adapting pretrained Transformers to downstream tasks produces task-specific updates that are expensive to reproduce for every model variant. Reusing these updates across different depths and widths is challenging because their parameters have incompatible shapes and do not share a canonical coordinate system. We introd...

Filippo Rinaldi, Aniello Panariello, Giacomo Salici et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shared Is Not Enough: Predictor Width and Factor Readability Under Masked Latent Prediction

Masked latent prediction methods such as I-JEPA aim to learn predictable features, but what determines which information they retain is less clear. We built a simulator in which every factor behind an image is known, so a probe can measure how readable each factor remains after training. We trained small encoders (0.7M...

Nilotpal Kakati · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Principled Nonlinear Concept Erasure and Steering

Learned representations often encode sensitive attributes, such as gender or race, that may be undesirable or unsafe to retain. Concept erasure aims to remove this information while preserving task-relevant content. Existing methods remain incomplete: linear methods provide guarantees only against linear probes, while...

Idan Simai, Shauli Ravfogel, Uri Shaham · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Amortized Thompson Sampling and Efficient Information-Directed Sampling for Simulator-Based Design

Thompson sampling is a widely used strategy for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, offering a principled way to balance exploration and exploitation. This strategy involves maximizing a target objective under a single sample drawn from the current belief over unknown quantities. Conventionally, this optimiza...

Michal Kobiela, Michael U. Gutmann · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

BAARC: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Partial Spectral Measurement to Full Reconstruction for Material Classification

Spectroscopic instruments with limited wavenumber coverage require accurate scan positioning or multiple measurements to complete the material analysis. This often requires prerequisite knowledge about the material under diagnosis to measure the spectral regions with distinguishing peaks. In our study, we simulate a Ba...

Adithya Ashok Chalain Valapil, Aishwarya Venkataramanan, Joachim Denzler · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

DRIVE: Fine-tuning via Data Contribution- and Diversity-aware Weighting with Prior Regularization

Single-stage fine-tuning is pervasive, yet catastrophic forgetting persists when the source pre-training data is inaccessible. Data weighting affords a natural lever to modulate sample influence. Yet existing weighting methods lack a principled mechanism to explicitly arbitrate knowledge retention against new-task adap...

Qing Liu, Xin-Rui Chen, Yi Du et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Accordion: Elastic-Depth Inference via Fixed-Prefix Layer Looping

Large language models serve applications with diverse inference budgets, but training and maintaining separate models for each budget incurs substantial costs. Recent Looped Transformers enable flexible inference computation through parameter reuse, but maintaining strong performance across different inference budgets...

Yudong Zhang, Wei Ding, Kaili Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Oct 2026

A curated multi-endpoint drug-protein bioactivity dataset with construct-aware protein targets

Crate-DTI, a construct-aware dataset derived from the 1 July 2026 BindingDB export, with IC50, Ki, Kd and EC50 processed independently, supports endpoint-specific classification and regression while allowing users to select molecular representations, protein representations and evaluation splits.

Lina Abou-Abbas, Nour Mhanna, Hasan Bazzi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Online Continual Learning in Edge-Cloud Applications

Experimental results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed edge-cloud methodology for integrating Continual Learning with Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Detection and Concept Drift Detection in IoT applications and its potential to support model adaptation while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.

Charalampos Davalas, Dimitrios Michail, Christos Diou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Sharpness-aware Orthogonalized Momentum Algorithms

Adversarial sharpness penalty per iteration of a base optimizer, known as sharpness-aware minimization (SAM), is an accepted technique to improve generalization in deep learning. Recently, Muon has emerged as a dominant optimization algorithm for training large language models (LLMs). It achieves lower sample complexit...

Geetika, Shivani Singh Chauhan, Gauranshi Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DualGSL: Prior-Guided Graph Structure Learning with Node-Adaptive Prediction Fusion

Graph structure learning (GSL) adapts propagation graphs to prediction tasks, but the relative predictive value of feature-derived priors and learned relations can vary across nodes. We propose DualGSL, a prior-guided framework for transductive node classification that learns node-specific weights for combining predict...

Yuxia Sun, Yutszyuk Wong, Huihong Chen et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

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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