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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Omni-modal Large Language Model Inference via Per-Query Modality Selection

Omni-modal large language models (Omni-LLMs) can jointly process a broad range of modalities, such as text, audio, and video, enabling stronger multimodal understanding and reasoning capabilities, but often at substantial inference cost. We observe that the benefit of additional modalities varies across queries, indica...

Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Luke Ong · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ConsMSA: Semantic Distribution Consistency Learning for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict human sentiments by integrating signals from different modalities such as text, video, and audio. However, raw multimodal sequences often suffer from semantic inconsistency--exhibiting redundancy or conflicts within and across modalities--which hinders robust understa...

Pan Wang, Lipeng Ke, Huajun Ying et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When and How Does Muon Precondition? The Role of Structured Gradient Noise

Muon has become a popular optimizer for large language model training, yet its theoretical foundations remain poorly understood. In this work, we study how gradient noise geometry shapes Muon's preconditioning benefits. We first show, theoretically and empirically, that under the classical isotropic noise assumption, M...

Xiaoran Chen, Binghui Li, Liwei Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cognitively Constrained Partners for Zero-Shot Coordination in Real-Time Partitioned Control

Effective human-machine teaming requires agents that coordinate with unpredictable human partners. Reinforcement learning from live human feedback or large behavioural datasets is expensive, while purely simulated training overfits to artificial conventions and fails at Zero-Shot Coordination with real people. We propo...

Ash Simmons, George De Ath, Richard M. Everson · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Adversarially Robust Multigraph Neural Networks for Financial Crime Analysis

Financial transaction networks are naturally represented as multigraphs, where repeated transactions between the same pair of accounts are modeled as distinct edges. Recently proposed multigraph neural network architectures leverage this structure explicitly to achieve a strong performance on anti-money laundering (AML...

Dennis Heijmans, H. \c{C}a\u{g}r{\i} Bilgi, Rui Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Does LeWorldModel Preserve Local Action Geometry?

We examine how closely pretrained LeWorldModel (LeWM) reproduces the effects of small action changes. Using matched simulator and model responses, we measure action sensitivity with Gram matrices at three perturbation scales. Across nearly a thousand states from Reacher and OGBench Cube, the most sensitive action direc...

Vasil Vasilev, Siddharth Nayak · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Path to NDE 4.0: A Review of Algorithms, Techniques, and Strategies for Autonomous Inspection

Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) is a cornerstone of modern quality assurance, critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of infrastructure and manufactured components without causing damage. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the current NDI landscape, analyzing the field through four distinct lenses,...

Ashiqur Rahmana, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi, Zachary Kral et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Should Transformers Encode Numeric Values in Electronic Health Records?

How do we encode numeric values in transformer-based sequence processing, particularly in electronic health record (EHR) data? We systematically compare discrete, continuous, and hybrid value encoding strategies using synthetic arithmetic tasks embedded within real-world EHR data, as well as real-world clinical predict...

Maria Elkj{\ae}r Montgomery, Christian Igel, Mikkel Odgaard et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Benchmarking Is Just Feature Selection and Multiple Regression

Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's questions. By reframing this problem as an instance of multiple regression with feature selection, we find that existing efficient benchmarking methods can be...

Sam Bowyer, Acyr Locatelli, Kris Cao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shaping the Prior: How Synthetic Task Distributions Determine Tabular Foundation Model Quality

What determines the quality of a tabular foundation model? Unlike language or vision, tabular foundation models acquire their inductive biases almost entirely from synthetic pretraining distributions, yet the design of these distributions remains poorly understood. Standard synthetic priors are too well-behaved: they o...

Mohamed Bouadi, Nassim Bouarour, Varun Kulkarni et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Attractor-Vascular Coupling Theory: Formal Grounding and Empirical Validation for AAMI-Standard Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation from Smartphone Photoplethysmography

We present Attractor-Vascular Coupling Theory (AVCT), a theory-guided framework for deriving interpretable blood pressure (BP) predictors from photoplethysmography (PPG) attractor geometry. AVCT connects vascular dynamics, PPG observation, delay-coordinate reconstruction, and attractor descriptors within a unified fram...

Timothy Oladunni, Farouk Ganiyu Adewumi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

POETS: Uncertainty-Aware LLM Optimization via Compute-Efficient Policy Ensembles

Balancing exploration with exploitation is a core challenge in black-box optimization and reinforcement learning. We introduce POETS ($\textbf{Po}$licy $\textbf{E}$nsembles for $\textbf{T}$hompson $\textbf{S}$ampling), a novel framework that bridges uncertainty quantification and policy optimization. Our approach is gr...

Nicolas Menet, Andreas Krause, Abbas Rahimi · 0 citations

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Making machines that can listen

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