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
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
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...
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
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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
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
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...
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
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
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...
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
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
A machine-learning approach called CheMeleon provides a practical way to develop new drugs or other molecules with much less detailed, expensive experimentation.
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.
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 28, 2026
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 27, 2026
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.
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