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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Auditing Multi-Proxy Explanations of Web User Preferences: Identification Boundaries and Abstention

Web systems infer user preferences from behavior, ratings, text, and LLM-generated profiles, yet explaining a proxy may reveal its measurement process rather than the preference of interest. We develop an audit framework distinguishing point identification, partial identification, and abstention relative to an explicit...

Yu Zhang, Zhihan Wang, Yuhang Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Exact Selective Inference for Spectral Clustering via Piecewise-Constant Graph Perturbation

Cluster labels are often used twice: first to discover groups, and then to test whether the discovered groups differ. This double use of the data makes ordinary two-sample $p$-values anti-conservative. Selective inference fixes this by conditioning on the clustering event, but for spectral clustering the event appears...

Naotoshi Nakamura · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

ZEMA: confidence-calibrated signed descent with only one state

Recent work characterizes the Adam optimizer as sign descent modulated by gradient uncertainty: the update is the sign of the batch gradient, scaled by how strongly the batch supports that sign. We apply this view directly and introduce ZEMA (Z-score Evidence Momentum Adaptation), which measures that support with a per...

Ali Dadsetan, Domenic Rosati, Frank Rudzicz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Deep Neural Operator Learning for stochastic heat equations and applications

In this paper, we establish a universal approximation theorem for solution operators of semilinear stochastic heat equations in spatial dimension \(d\ge2\), extending deep neural operator approximation results to SPDEs with distribution-valued Gaussian forcing. A smooth Fourier cutoff reduces the forcing to finitely ma...

Hengrong Du, Qi Feng, Weinan Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Modulating Merging Strengths via Joint Loss Estimation for LoRA-based Continual Learning

Continual learning (CL) aims to adapt models to new tasks while preserving previously learned knowledge. Recently, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a representative Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has gained increasing attention in CL due to its efficiency and scalability. Several LoRA-based merging methods m...

Kun Gu, De Cheng, Zhipeng Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Cool Graphs: Active Property Search Towards Quantum Nano-Refrigerators

Nanodevices that absorb energy from their thermal environment can act as quantum refrigerators. Finding suitable configurations, however, is a needle-in-a-haystack problem: the many-body state space scales exponentially with the size of the device, where each candidate configuration requires an expensive quantum-chemic...

Sofia Blyufer, Amir Kleiner, Uri Peskin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Attending to Memory Writes Reduces Seed Variability in Recurrent Length Generalization

Recurrent memory requires learning useful updates, but attention added to assist learning can also compromise length generalization. We study bounded delta attention: causal attention over uncorrected update proposals whose bounded correction enters the recurrent update. Its implementation in TraceRelay combines additi...

Sungwoo Goo, Hwi-yeol Yun, Sangkeun Jung · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

DLER: Dual-Logit Experience Replay for Online Continual Learning

Online continual learning aims to continuously train neural networks on a non-stationary data stream in a single pass. Rehearsal-based methods alleviate catastrophic forgetting by replaying stored samples, but the imbalance between current and previous data often leads to predictions biased toward current classes. Many...

Huiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Kong Aik Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Anomaly Detection on Resource-Constrained Devices with Reservoir Computing

Anomaly detection at the edge requires the deployment of models that achieve competitive performance, while minimizing computational cost and memory footprint. In this article, we investigate the suitability of the Mahalanobis Distance of Reservoir States (MDRS), an unsupervised time-series anomaly detection method, fo...

Marco Angioli, Mathias Persson, Hiroto Tamura et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Sleep-Disordered Breathing Detection with Quantum Recurrent Neural Networks

This work investigates the application of Quantum Recurrent Neural Networks to the binary classification of sleep-disordered breathing events in time-series data, aiming to distinguish between apneic and normal breathing episodes. A variational classical--quantum architecture is proposed and evaluated against classical...

Alejandro Mayorga-Redondo, Jos\'e Daniel Viqueira, Diego Alvarez-Estevez et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

On the Complexity of Finite-Sum Nonconvex-Strongly-Concave Minimax Optimization with Exact Proximal Oracles

Finite-sum nonconvex-strongly-concave minimax problems arise in adversarial training and distributionally robust learning. Their known lower bounds cover only linear-span algorithms, zero-respecting algorithms, or a restricted proximal protocol. They leave open the power of exact component proximal steps, whose respons...

Yuxing Peng, Zhiqing Tang, Weijia Jia · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Training Specialist LLMs on Your Phone: Forward-Only Optimization via Block-Spectral Coordinates

Large language models (LLMs) on personal devices keep user data local, but limited memory restricts their general capability. Since most user-specific tasks do not require the breadth of frontier models, a practical solution is to adapt a shared on-device model into lightweight specialists. However, backpropagation is...

Liyan Tan, Yequan Zhao, Ziyue Liu 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

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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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