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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Provably Efficient Representation Learning for Low-Rank CMDPs

We study representation learning in low-rank Constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs), where both value and reward functions are approximated by a set of unknown representation vectors, and the transition dynamics admit a low-rank factorization. The objective is to maximize expected cumulative rewards while comply...

Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Shengpu Tang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

How do Transformers Perform Low-Level Control In-Context?

One of the remarkable abilities of Transformer-based neural networks is in-context learning. This motivates us to think about "in-context" control. Can we control a system knowing only (1) that it belongs to a particular family of systems and (2) some data on system evolution (provided as the context trajectory) but no...

Ebonye Smith, Aidan Andrews, Phoenix Wilson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Scenario Augmentation for Rare Financial Events via Multimodal Latent Diffusion

Extreme market movements are scarce, heterogeneous, and difficult to learn from imbalanced historical data. We study whether generative augmentation can improve the representation and classification of CVaR-labeled rare financial windows while retaining the complementary structure exposed by different financial represe...

Mahdi Arab Loodaricheh, Anita Raja, Indranil SenGupta · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Graph Neural Networks for Resource Allocation in Integrated Sensing and Communication

In vehicular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks, each service-provider vehicle uses a limited power budget to serve multiple sensing targets and communication receivers. Maximizing the communication sum-rate subject to sensing signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints is nonconvex, an...

Junyu Liao, Lili Chen, Tian Han et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Energy Measurement and Optimization of TinyML in Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the volume of data generated at the network edge, where many devices operate under severe memory, processing, and energy constraints. In this context, Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) enables machine learning (ML) tasks to be executed on microcontrollers,...

Clariele Almeida, Renan Beserra, Rafael Moura et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Reweighting is not Harmless: Understanding the Role of Dataset Characteristics

Reweighting is a widely used pre-processing method for promoting discrimination-free model behavior by assigning different weights to data points during model training. While it is often credited with improving fairness, particularly by mitigating systematic underestimation for underrepresented groups, it can also intr...

Amalia Ionescu, Jose G. Hernandez, Emily F. Wong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Using Transformers for Teaching and Learning via Symbolic Distillation of Neural A-life Agents

Neural networks controlling behavior of A-life agents can evolve over multiple generations. While effective in making the agents survive, such networks are generally opaque to a human observer. Furthermore, the neural weights cannot be transferred between agents with different neural architectures. Distilling such neur...

Shuwei Wang, Vadim Bulitko, Matthew R. G. Brown et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

$D^2$-OPD: Separating Direction and Distance in Extrapolative On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model to match a teacher's next-token distributions on student-generated prefixes. Extrapolative OPD further extends the teacher's log-probability shift relative to a reference policy to construct stronger learning targets. However, existing methods couple extrapolation dir...

Bowen Fang (Columbia University), Dingmin Wang (AWS AI Lab), Hengzhi Pei (Amazon AGI) · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Neural Compression over Equivalence Classes: Exact Gauges and Functional Rate-Distortion

Neural networks admit many parameterizations of the same or nearly the same function, but deployment typically stores whichever parameter vector training happens to produce. We show that this representational freedom can itself be used for compression. Rather than redesigning the codec, we search over exact function-pr...

Toshiaki Koike-Akino · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Loopback Transformer: Towards a Unified View of Residual Looped Transformers

Looped Transformers reduce parameter count by repeatedly applying shared blocks, but parameter sharing alone does not determine how the results of repeated computation are reused. We take the depth-memory view of residual connections and analyze which representation is stored after each block application and how later...

Xuan Ouyang, Zefan Cai, Chenlong Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Fractional physics-informed neural networks to model social media virality

Existing models of social media virality either prescribe the functional form of engagement growth or assume a fixed mechanism by which past activity influences future engagement. We present a fractional physics-informed neural network that learns both the temporal memory and nonlinear growth dynamics of social media e...

Alex Koong, George Em Karniadakis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Canonical Correlation Neural Networks

Relational inductive biases such as grids or graphs allow neural networks with fewer trainable parameters and improved generalization, but require a known structure beforehand. When no structure is available, the covariance matrix provides a principled substitute, and coVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) have shown that u...

Andrea Cavallo, Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, Charilaos Kanatsoulis et al. · 0 citations

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Making machines that can listen

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