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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BFHD: Bidirectional Feature Harmonization Decomposition for Heterogeneous Clinical Assessments

Clinical assessments are often collected using heterogeneous assessment systems across centers and time, leading to records that mix different but related sets of measurements. This motivates harmonization beyond total-score linking. We formulate clinical harmonization at the measurement level as a bidirectional recove...

Yuanhao Zhuo, Zixi Qin, Ling Qin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) provides no reward-relative learning signal when all rollouts receive identical rewards. In long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions, rewards are given only upon successful task completion, making all-fail groups common early in training and limiting opportunities...

Minchan Kim, Sungho Bae, Young-Jin Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Integrated Novelty Detection Systems: From Sensor Networks to Multi-Novelty Computer Vision

Novelty detection is crucial in various technological and scientific domains. Its importance spans from ensuring the reliability of sensor networks to enhancing the adaptability of computer vision systems. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated and complex, effective anomaly detection is essential for maintain...

Iren\'e Tematelewo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition: Separating Selection from Redistribution in Training-Data Filtering

A training-data quality gate changes both which examples survive within regions of the input space and how training mass is distributed across those regions, so a gate-versus-random comparison does not isolate these mechanisms. We introduce Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition (CGSD), a four-arm, budget-matched de...

Hyojung Han, Jongmin Kim, Seung-Hun Jeon · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why don't Graph Transformers attend to the same token?

In large language models (LLMs), attention concentrates heavily on the first token. This 'attention sink' is believed to protect deep models against over-mixing. Even though graph transformers face a related pressure, we find that a SoTA graph transformer, GRIT, rarely forms sinks on molecules, and that it sinks less w...

Alexandre Bismuth · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Historical-Feature Residual Adaptation for Sequential Screening

Sequential screening policies must use acquired feedback effectively under a fixed experiment budget. We study acquisition-time residual adaptation: a small ranking correction built from fixed historical features and anchored to base scores recorded before feedback is revealed. The interface accepts a history-condition...

Yixiang Hong, Yuchen Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Did the LLM Answer the Question? A Semantic Reconstruction Game for Jailbreak Evaluation

The semantic reconstruction game is introduced, a training-free evaluator that decomposes compliance judgments into constrained semantic comparisons and achieves the lowest mean error against human labels among evaluated methods and reduces variation in reported ASR.

Liam Davis, Romain Emil-Popescu, Suman Jana · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DTDD: Divergence-Triggered Dynamic Distillation for Reliable On-Policy Supervision

On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense token-level supervision on student rollouts, but this supervision can become unreliable when the student and teacher diverge, either because of a large initial policy gap or compounding errors in long-horizon reasoning and tool use. We introduce Divergence-Triggered Dynamic D...

Qi-Jia He, Ze-Qun Li, S.-S. Luo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Verifier-Grounded Agentic RL for Provably Correct Code

Reinforcement learning for code usually rewards passing tests, which a model can do while remaining wrong on the inputs the tests do not cover. A program verifier instead decides whether a program satisfies a formal specification for all inputs. Language models are almost always paired with verifiers at inference time...

George Ma, Yu-Hao Zhang, B. He et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Exact Scaling Laws for a Random-Features Bigram Model

This work study capacity-limited scaling in a bottlenecked bigram model with power-law (Zipf) token statistics, viewed as an analytically tractable toy model of a large language model, and suggests that heavy-tailed language statistics may underlie both optimization- and capacity-driven scaling.

Julian Enoch, Elvis Dohmatob · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Dimension-Free Scaling Laws for Size Generalization: An Exponential Separation

Modern machine learning models increasingly operate on variable-size structured data, such as sets and graphs. A central requirement is \emph{size generalization}: the ability of a model trained on inputs of one size to generalize to inputs of a different, potentially much larger, size. Classical statistical learning t...

B. Tahmasebi, Melanie Weber · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Outcome-Routed Distillation and Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models

On-policy distillation provides dense supervision on the student's own samples, but its targets still come from the teacher. Verifier reinforcement learning (RL) instead uses an outcome signal, but it provides no direct constraint on capabilities outside the verifier. Combining the two is difficult for diffusion langua...

Wentao Lu, Tianyu Zhu, Jesse Clark · 0 citations

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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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