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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shape-Aware Neural Time Fields for Rigid-Body Motion and Manipulation Planning

Rigid-body motion planning is fundamental to robotic transport and manipulation, where both object position and orientation determine whether a body can move through cluttered environments. This coupling makes planning chal- lenging because translation and rotation can be constrained very differently by surrounding geo...

Yanming Zhou, Yuchen Liu, Ahmed H. Qureshi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reading the News Without Hindsight: NoLBERT Topics and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Language models that read financial news are usually trained on text from the same years used to test them, so a backtest can reward hindsight. We build news topics from NoLBERT, an encoder pretrained only on text published between 1976 and 1995, adapted into a sentence encoder by contrastive fine-tuning on passages of...

Kevin Foley, Jonathan Hartadi, Shivesh Prakash et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

LLM-Attack Suite: A Unified Red-Team Framework for Privacy Evaluation of Split and Distributed LLM Systems

Split language models keep input text on a client but send intermediate representations to a server. Attacks can reconstruct text from these messages. Comparing privacy evaluations is difficult when attackers see different messages, know different model weights or use different datasets and recovery measures. We presen...

G. Politis, E. Pappas · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CoLU: Confidence-Weighted Layerwise Unlearning for Large Language Models

Large language model (LLM) unlearning aims to forget certain information while preserving others, without retraining from scratch. SoTA methods such as NPO, SimNPO, and SatImp balance forgetting and retain through whole model fine-tuning, while FOM-UL explores selective layer updates. Prior works show that suppressing...

Jingkai Guo, Ziyi Zhao, Chaitali Chakrabarti et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Data Provenance Aggregation and Structural Descriptors for Query-Template Identification

Runtime query similarity identification supports several activities, including workload analysis, identifying recurring behaviour, auditing, debugging, and anomaly detection. Existing methods for evaluating query similarity mostly rely on SQL text, execution plans, or result values but do not account for input data or...

Paulo Pintor, Rog\'erio Costa, Jos\'e Moreira · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Optimal approximation of smooth functions by ReLU neural networks

We study uniform approximation of the H\"older ball $\mathcal H_1^s([0,1]^D)$ by fully connected ReLU networks. Except in the one-dimensional Lipschitz case, existing constructions remain separated from the information-theoretic efficiency limit. This article closes the gap for every $s>0$ and $D\ge1$: networks with wi...

Thomas Nagler · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Quantum-Classical Neural Networks for Solving Lindblad Master Equations

This work proposes a variational framework for solving Lindblad master equations by minimizing a residual cost function using a compositional ansatz obtained by combining a classical neural network with a parameterized quantum circuit, and demonstrates a theoretical connection between expressivity, covering numbers, ef...

Rafael D'Iaz, Julio Guerrero García, Elvira Romera Gutiérrez · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Is a Linear Probe Evidence of a Linear Representation?

The linear representation hypothesis holds that pretrained vision models encode generative factors as linearly decodable directions in feature space, and comes with a standard methodology: train a linear probe, declare a factor represented if accuracy is high. We show this test is too permissive. Asymptotically, any su...

Nadir Kutluozen, Christian Internò, David A. Klindt · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Shift-Reliance Alignment: Ranking Vision-Language Models by the Cues They Trust

Vision-language models (VLMs) are usually chosen from leaderboards, which give one ranking for every application. On questions about objects that a scene suggests but does not contain, however, the model with the lowest error on the POPE hallucination benchmark is not the one with the lowest error on such questions. Fo...

Faisal Mohammad, Mohamed Younis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Embodiment-Classifier Guidance: Transferring Frozen VLAs Across Robot Dynamics without Demonstrations

Flow-based policies such as $\pi_0$ are trained on a fixed set of embodiments, and transferring them to new ones is an open problem. To adapt a frozen $\pi_0$ to a new embodiment without additional demonstrations or parameter updates, we train a lightweight embodiment classifier to distinguish successful action chunks...

Devin Han, Hershraj Niranjani · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

HeRE: A Novel Benchmark for Hebrew Relation Extraction via LLM-Guided Denoising of Knowledge Graph Alignments

While LLMs demonstrate strong capabilities in English Relation Extraction (RE) tasks, a significant gap remains in assessing their RE performance in low-resource languages, due to a lack of standardized benchmarks. Creating native, language-specific annotated RE benchmarks is expensive and requires human expertise, whi...

Ron Keinan, A. Cohen, Reut Tsarfaty · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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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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