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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hyperspherical Contrastive Representations Unlock Planning and Exploration

We develop a self-supervised reinforcement learning algorithm that learns to build towers of up to eight cubes from scratch, without prior data, rewards, demonstrations, or pretrained models. Our method, Contrastive Planning via Spherical Linear Interpolation (C-Slerp), uses contrastive representations as reusable buil...

Jonghae Park, Sungil Son, Jonghun Shin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Training Language Models to Fail Gracefully

This work proposes training models to fail gracefully: to preserve successful behavior whenever possible while learning to execute a safe fallback policy when acting would be unreliable, and shows that reinforcement learning can not only incentivize models to succeed, but also to reason about the limits of their capabi...

Daman Arora, Xue-Chen Liu, H. Singh et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Human Corrections to Learned Segmentations: A Critical Mathematical Review of Information, Learning, and Human Effort

When does a human correction become useful learning, and what establishes better segmentation at matched human effort? This critical narrative review follows feedback through its selection, learner update, and evaluation. It compares active learning, machine teaching, interactive segmentation, and sequential predictive...

Jon Sporring · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ReAl: Refine neural operators via aligning dynamical flow

Neural partial differential equation (PDE) surrogates trained with mean squared error (MSE) can capture dominant dynamics but often lose high-frequency information and fine-scale structures. Generative models (e.g., Flow Matching) can capture the distribution of fine-scale details, yet stochastic errors may accumulate...

Jing Xu, Zeng-Lin Xu, Li Yi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fractional is Better: Learnable Derivative Orders in Neural Operator Learning

Neural operators learn mappings between function spaces, enabling fast surrogate solutions to partial differential equations. Despite remarkable architectural diversity, these methods often share a common input representation: raw coordinate-value pairs $(x, u(x))$. We ask whether inputs aligned with PDE differential s...

Fares B. Mehouachi, Saif Eddin Jabari · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Expert Rankings: Contrast Calibration for Mixed-Precision MoE Quantization

Mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models activate only a few experts per token, yet all expert weights must be stored. Mixed-precision quantization reduces this storage cost by assigning higher bit-widths to sensitive experts and lower bit-widths to resilient ones, but expert rankings alone do not determine how strongl...

Renjie Xie, Juncheng Yang, Aoting Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NeuroDETR: Multiscale Discrete Spatiotemporal Tokenization for Asynchronous EEG Event Detection

Asynchronous EEG event detection supports practical brain-computer interfaces by identifying event classes and temporal boundaries directly from continuous recordings without predefined event boundaries at inference time. The primary challenge lies in extracting event-related patterns embedded in ongoing background act...

Yaozhi Wen, Kun Zhao, Wei Wei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Non-asymptotic Convergence of Average-reward Q-learning with Options

We study the finite-sample convergence of Q-learning algorithms for the average-reward formulation of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with options. While options allow temporarily extended and hierarchical actions, the average-reward formulation incorporates continual tasks beyond discounted and episodic RL. We establish t...

Kintan Saha, Ahana Deb, Anders Jonsson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

When Does Task-Aware Imputation Matter? An Analysis of Robustness Under Train-Test Mismatch

Results reveal that reconstruction error constitutes a poor proxy for predictive utility and that task-aware imputation becomes critical in scenarios where classical methods fail to recover complete-data performance, achieving win rates of up to 80% in challenging train-test mismatch scenarios.

Maria V. Salvador, Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime dos Santos Cardoso · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Training Dynamics of Transformers on Unbounded Inputs: Attention Learning Can Lag Output Layer Learning

The success of transformers is attributed to several factors, including their capacity to express formal languages over variable-length inputs, and ability of the attention mechanism to focus on relevant input features. However, there is limited understanding of the training dynamics of shallow transformers, specifical...

Yaomengxi Han, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Are We Overthinking One-Step Generation?

Diffusion and flow matching are now dominant frameworks for generative modeling in continuous domains, but they typically require multiple network evaluations at inference. This has motivated extensive research on one-step generative modeling primarily built on diffusion and flow, though existing approaches often rely...

Woobin Park, Jaeyeon Kim, Yi-Lun Du et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Comparative Evaluation of Deep-Learning based DoA Estimators for Real-Time ISAC Beamforming

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems rely on accurate Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation for effective beamforming and spectral-efficiency enhancement. While numerous classical and deep-learning-based DoA estimation methods have been reported in the literature, their suitability for real-time ISAC ope...

Anjali K. S., Manoj Kumar Panda, Chandramani Singh · 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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