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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Flux as a Codec: Zero-Shot Lossy Compression with Flux

We propose FluxC, a zero-shot codec that uses Flux as a compression prior. Although DiffC has shown that pretrained diffusion models can serve as zero-shot codecs, we ask how the choice of coding path and reconstruction method affects rate--distortion--perception behavior. We analyze FluxC along three axes: coding cost...

Fuma Kimishima, Jinjia Zhou · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Same Answer, Different Future: Matched Predictions Do Not Imply Matched Belief Updating in Language Models

Language models can produce similar probabilistic predictions after observing outcomes, reading summaries, receiving instructions, or undergoing activation interventions. Whether these routes induce equivalent belief states remains unclear: agreement in current predictions does not establish how a model will respond to...

Weihan Li, Junhao Wu, Xinlei Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

EnergyBench: a live, gate-aligned benchmark of day-ahead forecasts for European power markets

Energy forecasting models are usually compared on backtests and fixed public datasets. Backtests can use data that did not yet exist when the forecast would have been made, and a fixed test set, reused across studies and possibly contained in the pretraining data of foundation models, invites overfitting to the benchma...

Evgenii Genov, Ander Martinez Alonso, Christoph Bergmeir · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

PBPO: Prefix-Block Policy Optimization for Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) commonly decode responses by proceeding autoregressively across blocks while iteratively denoising multiple tokens within each block. This structure makes block-level policy optimization a natural adaptation of autoregressive policy optimization. However, the exact likelihood of...

Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu, Si Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Adapters as Data: The Latent Space of LoRAs

LoRA adapters are usually treated as finished artifacts rather than as a data modality. Prior work has shown that LoRA adapters populate a low-dimensional manifold that a linear PCA basis already organizes well enough to support different operations such as sampling, editing, and inversion. We ask what a learned, nonli...

Moritz Gr\"avinghoff, Konstantin Wehmeyer, Aron Asefaw et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Optimal Learning in Games with Arbitrary Delays: Best-of-Both-Worlds for Self-Play and Adversarial Opponents

We study learning in zero-sum games with delayed feedback. We introduce Multi-Anchor Optimistic Online Mirror Descent (MAO-OMD), a single algorithm which obtains optimal fast rates in self-play on smooth games, while simultaneously maintaining minimax optimal guarantees against arbitrary opponents. In particular, in sm...

Emmanuel Esposito, Andrew Jacobsen, Hao Qiu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Neural Collapse on Imbalanced Datasets and Open-Set Scenario

Neural collapse (NC) describes the elegant geometric structure that sample features and classifier vectors exhibit when a classification model's loss reaches its minimum. Class imbalance, however, generally distorts standard NC. In this paper, we theoretically reformulate NC on imbalanced datasets and in open-set setti...

Qiufu Li, Huibing Xiao, Linlin Shen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Foresee to Trade: Forecast-Augmented Policy Optimization for Portfolio Management

Online investment services must translate asset opportunities into investment outcomes for users' accounts, yet the same market opportunity can warrant different account actions. We study how supervision from future asset opportunities can strengthen account-level trading decisions and propose Forecast-Augmented Relati...

Zeyu Liu, Xuanzhi Feng, Haoran Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ConvPE: Convolutional Position Embedding Improves Transformers

ConvPE (Convolutional Position Embedding) improves both the performance and efficiency of Transformer models in language modeling, long-context extension, and vision. It injects a windowed, content-dependent bias into attention scores through a lightweight causal convolution over a low-dimensional projection of the hid...

Zehao Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Ordering Multivariate Time Series by Volatility Memory: A Temporal Convolutional Approach to Volatility Heredity

Volatility dynamics can carry information about temporal relationships that is not apparent in the conditional mean. Extracting this information is difficult because the persistence of each variable can obscure its dependence on other variables. This paper presents QS-TCN, a method for ordering multivariate time series...

Kaoutar El Azaar, Mohamed Hamlich, Moncef Garouani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Comparing Classification and Feature Learning by Analyzing Their Loss Functions in Normalized Spaces with Different Scale Factors

Classification and feature learning are two closely interrelated fundamental tasks. Feature learning in supervised settings is typically achieved by training classification models, under the common assumption that higher classification accuracy implies better feature quality. In this paper, we first point out that clas...

Qiufu Li, Huibin Xiao, Linlin Shen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Static Recovery Is Not Dynamic Stability: Dynamics-Aware Benchmarking of Protein Motif Scaffolding

Protein motif scaffolding benchmarks assess whether generative models can build scaffolds around functionally important residues. Their conclusions depend on which motifs are tested and which criteria define success. Existing benchmarks typically use small hand-curated motif sets and static refolding criteria, but prot...

Emile de Bruyn, Moritz Sch\"affler, Jannik Schneider et al. · 0 citations

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