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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DeFlow: Decoupling Behavior-Prior Modeling and Value Maximization for Offline Policy Extraction

We present DeFlow, a decoupled offline RL framework that leverages flow matching to faithfully capture complex behavior manifolds. Optimizing generative policies is computationally prohibitive, typically necessitating backpropagation through ODE solvers. We address this by learning a lightweight refinement module withi...

Zhancun Mu, Chi Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CarBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Neural Surrogates on High-Fidelity 3D Car Aerodynamics

Benchmarking has been the cornerstone of progress in computer vision, natural language processing, and the broader deep learning domain, driving algorithmic innovation through standardized datasets and reproducible evaluation protocols. The growing availability of large-scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) datasets...

Mohamed Elrefaie, Dule Shu, Matt Klenk et al. · 0 citations

AlignSAE: Concept-Aligned Sparse Autoencoders

AlignSAE is introduced, a method that aligns SAE features with a predefined ontology through a "pre-train, then post-train"curriculum and achieves disentanglement improvements of $9$--$\infty\times$ over standard SAEs, and further supports multi-hop reasoning and a mechanistic probe of grokking-like generalization dyna...

Minglai Yang, Xin-Yu Guo, Zheng-Liang Shi et al. · 4 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SUPN: Shallow Universal Polynomial Networks for Efficient Function Approximation

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) are flexible function approximators, but their accuracy can require substantial network depth, width, and trainable parameter counts. Beyond making the resulting networks less transparent, large parameter spaces can increase training cost and produce sol...

Zachary Morrow, Michael Penwarden, Brian Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Graph Homomorphism Distortion: A structural (pseudo)-metric for attributed graphs

A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore features in favor of structure, making it nigh-impossible to assess to what extent two graphs with close features should be co...

Martin Carrasco, Olga Zaghen, Kavir Sumaraj et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Thinking-Free Policy Initialization Makes Distilled Reasoning Models More Effective and Efficient Reasoners

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) effectively solves complex tasks but demands extremely long context lengths during training, leading to substantial computational costs. While multi-stage training can partially mitigate this, starting with overly short contexts often causes irreversible performance...

Xin Xu, Clive Bai, Kai Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multimodal Remote Inference

We consider a remote inference system with multiple modalities, where a multimodal machine learning (ML) model performs real-time inference using features collected from remote sensors. When sensor observations evolve dynamically over time, fresh features are critical for inference tasks. However, timely delivery of fe...

Keyuan Zhang, Yin Sun, Bo Ji · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Stabilizing the Modality Gap: Null-Space Projected Continual Learning for Vision-Language Models

The modality gap is intrinsic to multimodal alignment, where embeddings from different modalities remain partially separated in a shared representation space. In continual learning, CLIP-based vision-language models (VLMs) not only suffer catastrophic forgetting but also experience modality gap drift that disrupts the...

Tiantian Peng, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tourist arrival forecasting with game-theoretic social influence weighting and deep learning

In the era of Industry 5.0, data-driven decision-making has become indispensable for planning in service systems such as tourism. This paper proposes a non-linear hybrid approach for forecasting tourist arrivals to Hong Kong from five major source markets before COVID-19 and to Sanya, China, through the COVID-19 shock....

Ali Nikseresht · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Parallel Layer Normalization for Universal Approximation

Layer Normalization (LN) is usually studied for its role in optimization, but it also acts as a multivariate nonlinearity between affine layers. We investigate how grouping LN units affects the approximation power of neural networks as width grows. In Parallel Layer Normalization networks (PLN-Nets), fixed-dimensional...

Yunhao Ni, Yuxin Guo, Yuhe Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KnowEEG: Explainable Knowledge Driven EEG Classification

Electroencephalography (EEG) classification has shown significant promise in applications ranging from neurodegenerative disease detection to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Whilst deep learning methods have increasingly dominated the research landscape in recent years; these models remain largely opaque 'black boxes...

Amarpal Sahota, Navid Mohammadi Foumani, Raul Santos-Rodriguez et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FANTF: Fuzzy attention network based transformers for time series analysis

This paper introduces Fuzzy Attention Network-Based Transformer (FANTF), an approach for time series forecasting, classification, and anomaly detection. FANTF combines fuzzy logic concepts with transformer architectures through a novel fuzzy attention mechanism. The proposed mechanism is inspired by Type-2 fuzzy set th...

Sanjay Chakraborty, Fredrik Heintz · 0 citations

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