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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Graph-Enhanced Disease Trajectory Discovery and Temporal Endpoint Forecasting from Longitudinal Electronic Health Records

Longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) can reveal disease-progression structure, while useful forecasting requires leakage-controlled discovery, censor-aware outcomes, and inspectable trajectory evidence. We developed a graph-enhanced framework in MIMIC-IV v3.1 that splits patients before graph construction, lea...

Jin-Jia Zheng, Vincent S. Tseng · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Hindsight-Privileged RLVR: Single-Rollout Token Credit Without Group Sampling

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains language models from checked task outcomes, but assigning a terminal reward to individual reasoning tokens or actions remains difficult. Group-relative methods such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) sample several attempts per prompt, but lose thei...

Wei Chen, Yu-Bing Wu, Zhou-Shi Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Average-Reward Policy Identification from a Single Continuing Trajectory

An algorithm is developed that learns where to collect information while ensuring that the required samples can be obtained efficiently, and a matching information theoretic lower bound is proved, showing that learning from a single trajectory is no harder in the worst case than learning with unrestricted access to sta...

Tong-Xi Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Decoupled Marginal Sharpening for Training-Free Inference-Time Scaling

Decoupled Marginal Sharpening (DMS) is proposed, which separately controls how strongly the model favors particular reasoning paths and how strongly it favors final answers after aggregating support across those paths.

Wei-Xin Wang, Wei Deng, Anderson Schneider et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Selective Growing Q-Networks (SGQN): An Analysis of Adaptive Action Grids in Decoupled Q-Learning

Value-based Q-learning for continuous control can discretise the action space, but the resolution of the discretisation trades early exploration against final precision. Growing Q-Networks (GQN) grow the resolution uniformly from coarse to fine. We introduce Selective Growing Q-Networks (SGQN), which keeps decoupled Q-...

Parham Nooranbakht, Seyed Mahdi Basiri Azad, Joschka B\"odecker · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning by Examples: Power Grid Steady State Analysis with a Tabular Foundation Model

Foundation models have shown strong generalization across scientific domains, but their use in power systems remains largely task-specific. We investigate whether a pretrained tabular foundation model (TFM), TabPFN, can serve as a general-purpose neural solver for power grid steady-state analysis. We evaluate the TFM o...

Olayiwola Arowolo, Oluwadara Adedeji, Peter Palensky et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Accuracy Well: Nonmonotone Accuracy Dynamics at Vanishing Initialization

We study classification dynamics under small initialization and identify a pronounced non-monotone behavior of accuracy that we call the accuracy well: accuracy rises rapidly early in training, subsequently drops, and only much later recovers. We observe this phenomenon in deep linear networks, fully connected ReLU net...

Yaroslav Gusev, Eugene Golikov, Dmitry Yarotsky · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continual Learning for Reliable In-Sequence Molecular Communication

This paper considers reliable in-sequence molecular communication, where bio-nanomachines exchange molecule-encoded information in a specified order, and investigates a new simulation-based method to incrementally evaluate communication protocols by gradually increasing the complexity of experimental settings. The prop...

Siddhant Setia, Junichi Suzuki, Tadashi Nakano · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

OrionMoE-v1.0: A Mixture-of-Experts Foundation Model for Tabular In-Context Learning

Tabular foundation models enable in-context learning by predicting unseen observations from a labeled support table without task-specific parameter updates. Despite recent advances, most existing approaches rely on dense architectures that apply the same transformations across features and datasets. We introduce OrionM...

Mohamed Bouadi, Nassim Bouarour, Aditya Tanna et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Tracking a Small Set of Experts in Online Convex Optimization

For the fundamental problem of prediction from expert advice, Freund asked whether one could compete with a comparator that switches $k$ times among only $m$ experts. For a discrete set of experts, this problem was resolved by Bousquet and Warmuth (2020), who gave an efficient algorithm with optimal regret matching the...

Angelos Assos, Anand Brahmbhatt, Elad Hazan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

One Size Does Not Fit All: Curvature-Aware Adaptive Perturbation for SAM

Poor generalisation in deep neural networks is frequently associated with convergence to sharp minima. Sharpness-Aware Minimisation (SAM) improves generalisation of deep neural networks by minimising a combination of the training loss and the local sharpness of the loss landscape, biasing convergence towards flat minim...

Alessia Rossi, F. Campelo, Gabriel L. Oliveira · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Does Momentum Help in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards?

Momentum is a classical tool for accelerating convex optimization and a standard component of modern large language model training. Yet recent empirical work has questioned the usefulness of first-moment momentum in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). We study this question through a bandit formulati...

Kaifei Wang, Zikang Shan, Liwei Wang 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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