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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Contrastive uncertainty learning for robust multi-structure segmentation in lower-pelvic MR

Boundary delineation of anatomical structures in prostate MRI is often compromised by regional ambiguity. Automated segmentation methods relying on global overlap loss functions tend to be insensitive to surface deviations, leading to significant errors in ambiguous regions. Most existing uncertainty-aware methods trea...

Bilal Sidiqi, Yi-Pei Wang, Wen Yan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Multilingual Mixture-of-Experts: How Language Coverage Changes Capacity and Compute Allocation

Multilingual models share capacity across languages, so adding languages can hurt performance on existing ones. Mixture-of-experts models expand this capacity with little additional per-token computation. Given this extra capacity, does adding experts reduce what each additional language costs? To answer this question,...

Joel Dag, Nikit Srivastava, Hamada M. Zahera et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The minimal width of neural networks and immersions of real projective space

The minimal width of deep neural networks that can approximate all continuous functions from $\mathbb{R}^n$ to $\mathbb{R}^m$ in the topology of uniform convergence on compact subsets is investigated, suggesting an intriguing connection between the approximation theory of neural networks and differential topology.

Bao-Zhi Chu, Ben Weinkove · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mixed Poisson diffusion models and application to posterior sampling

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for learning complex probability distributions. While widely used diffusion models for continuous data rely on Gaussian noising processes, we instead develop diffusion models based on Poisson noise. More precisely, we introduce and study a new mathematical framework, called Mix...

Thibaut Pellerin, Alain Durmus, Elinor Berger et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continual pretraining Prostate MRI ViT Encoder for task alignment

Building foundation models for MRI has emerged as a promising direction for advancing medical image analysis and improving accessibility of task specific models. Existing approaches primarily focus on effective pretraining strategies and evaluating their performance across diverse downstream tasks. While these methods...

Bilal A. Sidiqi, Yipei Wang, Shaheer U. Saeed et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

Investigating Behavior Cloning from Few Demonstrations for Autonomous Driving Based on Bird's-Eye View in Simulated Cities

This approach enhances BC by integrating a kernel density estimator to adjust training sample weights based on action density, thereby improving the learning of rare but critical actions such as stopping at red lights and accelerating at green lights, specially in scenarios of scarce number of expert demonstrations.

Eric A. Antonelo, Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Christiane Möller et al. · 4 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gap Detection: Mitigating Homogenization through Demand and Defensibility

Language models often produce semantically similar answers to open-ended questions, even when many plausible alternatives exist. Generating useful alternatives requires identifying both what the query calls for and what existing responses already cover. We introduce Gap Detection, a framework that searches for relevant...

Xucheng Yu, Haibo Jin, Xiaoqi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Weighted Adjoint Matching: Finetuning Flow Matching Models with Time-Dependent Control Cost

We introduce Weighted Adjoint Matching, a method to finetune a pretrained diffusion or flow matching model given a differentiable reward. We derive it from Adjoint Matching, which reformulates finetuning as a stochastic optimal control problem with a quadratic control cost. Building on the observation that these models...

Eliot Beyler, Francis Bach · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Minimax estimation of the pseudo-spectral gap of continuous Markov chains, with applications to empirical concentration bounds

We study the minimax estimation of the pseudo-spectral gap $\gamma_{ps}$ of a Markov chain from the observation of a single trajectory. Extending earlier works on finite-state space chains by Wolfer and Kontorovich (2024), we provide an estimator in the case of a compact, continuous state-space. Our estimator appears t...

Vahe Karagulyan, Miko{\l}aj Kasprzak, Pierre Alquier · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Choosing the Number of Attention Heads from Intrinsic Dimension: A Small-Scale Study

The number of attention heads in a transformer is usually set by convention or grid search. We test a simple heuristic for setting it in advance: estimate the intrinsic dimension of token representations without labels, and use roughly that many heads. We estimate intrinsic dimension with a nested-dropout VAE trained o...

Arjun Boya, Charan Sai Bandaru, Masthanaiah Pillimetla et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AtomSearch: Evidence-Grounded Tree Search for Agent Skill Optimization

AtomSearch is introduced, which keeps revision actions local while using subsequent skill states to guide search, and shows how local rule edits can support the exploration of useful revision paths and yield compact skills, with additional offline evaluations used to explore alternative states.

Jiang-Shuai-Chen-Rui-,-Zhang-Rong-,-Wang-Gui-Fang- Tong, Sen Deng, Ming-Pei Peng et al. · 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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