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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Shift-aware score transport for privacy auditing without retraining

Privacy auditing empirically assesses privacy leakage by using membership inference attacks to establish lower bounds on privacy loss. We consider an observational auditing setting in which the auditor cannot insert canaries, control data inclusion, or retrain the target model, and must instead rely on fixed sets of kn...

Yao-Hong Yang, Gauri Pradhan, Qi Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Same Luck, Different Choice: Twin-World Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Agentic reinforcement learning rewards a complete episode, yet the policy needs credit for every decision inside it. Counterfactual branching estimates this credit by re-running the episode after an alternative decision, but the branch draws its sampling noise independently of the factual episode, so the outcome differ...

Zeropy Surio, Tobias Engel, Mei-Lin Chou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PYTHIA, a transferable machine learning framework for simultaneous defect and adsorption site optimization

Machine learning has permeated material optimization, providing high value. Nevertheless, its re- liance on a high number of samples limits its applicability to relatively explored material families. In this paper we extend the applicability of machine learning to novel and understudied materials through the PYTHIA (Pr...

Ioannis Kouroudis, Zhaosu Gu, Poonam et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Piano2Pop: Expanding Piano Demos into Pop Productions Without Aligned Supervision

We introduce Piano2Pop, a music-expansion task that transforms piano MIDI into instrumental pop productions. Enabled by recent advances in music generation and polyphonic music transcription, our pseudo-supervised approach conditions a pretrained flow-matching model on piano rolls without aligned piano-pop supervision....

Yun-Chen Cheng, Chih-Pin Tan, Tzu-Hung Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SABLE: Scalable Affine Bayesian Latent-space Exploration

It is shown that the off-span norm implicitly selected by affine EI can lead to underexploration, and SABLE instead prescribes it using a finite-horizon schedule, without restricting search to a learned subspace.

Erik Bodin, L. Kreusser, Donney Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Training Small Language Models for Transferable Tool Selection

As LLM agents operate over corpora of more than ten thousand tools, selecting the right tool for a complex multi-step user instruction becomes a central bottleneck. Tool descriptions cannot all fit in context, and relevance-based retrievers only rank tools without knowing which are actually needed. Recent work instead...

Zhao-Yi Zhou, Akshayaa Magesh, Jeongyeol Kwon et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon

Apple Silicon is among the most widely used platforms for local LLM inference, yet nearly all inference optimizations are designed and validated on server-class NVIDIA GPUs under batched serving workloads. Which optimizations retain their benefits when moved to Apple Silicon, and what determines their applicability? We...

Kyrylo Yemets, Andrii Yaroshevych, Victor Muryn et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RheOPT: Few-Shot Non-Newtonian Flow Prediction via Newtonian Pretraining of RheOFormer

Despite advances in numerical methods, non-Newtonian flow simulations remain computationally expensive because velocity and stress must be advanced together through rate- and history-dependent constitutive dynamics. Neural-operator surrogates reduce inference cost after training, but their training data require the sam...

Maedeh Saberi, Amir Barati Farimani, Safa Jamali · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Token Prediction and Alternative Tokenization Improve Learning Latent Multi-Hop Graph Search at Scale

Given an unseen graph, a start node, $s$, and an end node, $t$, can a language model generate the shortest path from $s$ to $t$? Prior work has found that models fail to learn this task as the graphs scale. We show that this failure has two causes: the supervision signal and the tokenization. First, we theoretically es...

Arvid Frydenlund, FuTe Wong, Katherine Lambert et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Drift Says When, Budget Says How Much: Rate-Controlled KV Re-selection for Long-Form Multimodal Generation

KV cache compression for multimodal LLMs usually selects the visual tokens to keep once, at prefill, and reuses that selection for the whole generation. We show that this one-shot selection is severely limited on long-form generation: on detailed image description, even an oracle that selects with the attention of the...

Bin Hu, Yingbo Xiao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Predictable performance is suboptimal, and what it means for model routing

This work takes a model's self-confidence, the probability it assigns to its chosen answer, as a baseline and study how much a performance predictor can improve on it, and shows that any performance predictor that outperforms a model's self-confidence can be used to improve the model's loss.

Guan-Hua Zhang, Moritz Hardt · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Post-Hoc Feature Selection Layer for Neural Networks Interpretability

The interpretability of complex neural networks remains a critical challenge, especially for models already deployed in high-stakes domains. To address this, we adapted the Feature Selection Layer (FSL) to optimize feature weights post-training, a variant we term post-hoc FSL. Our approach reframes the FSL as a lightwe...

Jo\~ao Kenji Suwa, Jo\~ao Pedro Silveira e Silva, Bruno Iochins Grisci · 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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