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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Dr. No: Feature Steering for Abstention in Vision-Language Models

Large foundation models often answer even when the available visual or textual evidence is insufficient to support a reliable conclusion. This failure to abstain makes them hard to trust in high-stakes or information-seeking settings, where a confident but unsupported answer can be worse than no answer at all. It also...

Farid Hasanov, Riccardo Renzulli, Bahram Zonooz et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Probabilistic Steering of Generative Priors for Lab-in-the-Loop Antibody Optimization

Therapeutic antibody development is often framed as comprising two discrete stages: initial discovery of novel binders followed by iterative optimization to refine these hits into therapeutic-grade molecules. Models and methods often reflect these stages, with generative structure models applied to discovery and probab...

Anisha Parsan, Sebastian Ober, Calvin McCarter et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Quantifying out-of-distribution data severity with Wasserstein distances: benchmarking large language models for alloy property prediction

As general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Gemini and DeepSeek, exhibit increasingly advanced reasoning capabilities, a critical question arises: how do their property prediction abilities compare to those of domain-specific pretrained materials models? In this study, we evaluate predictions for Ti, steel...

YuJie Liu, Dezhen Xue, Jun Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Language Models Can Benefit from Domain-Specific Inductive Biases

This work trains small language models from scratch on representative subsets of pretraining data and introduces variants of transformers in which standard activation functions are replaced with learned splines tuned on specific datasets, providing a simple way to modify their inductive biases.

Damien Teney, Liang-Ze Jiang, Zachary Shinnick et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Nov 2026

Honest Small Decision Models for Finance: Scale, Specialization Collapse, and Mixed-Corpus Remediation

Financial workflows need fast, calibrated, auditable decisions, not just generated text. We train System-1 decision models, small language models fine-tuned to answer typed questions (choice/score/noul) with a probability in a single forward pass, across two model families (K2-Horizon and Qwen3.5/3.8) and nine rungs fr...

Ajitabh Kumar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

CaRe-KT: Continuity-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Knowledge Tracing

Knowledge tracing (KT) estimates learners' evolving knowledge states from interaction histories to support adaptive learning. Retrieval-augmented KT improves these estimates using cross-learner behavioral evidence, but existing approaches typically separate evidence retrieval from downstream prediction. This creates a...

Mehrnoush Mohammadi, Kamal Berahmand, Mohammad Morsali et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

RATSIFT: Resolution-Adaptive Transformer for Solar Irradiance Forecasting and Temporal Downscaling

Accurate forecasting and temporal downscaling of solar irradiance is critical for reliable renewable energy integration and grid management. Traditional methods often struggle to capture rapid irradiance variability. In this work, we develop a Transformer-based architecture for simultaneous forecasting and temporal dow...

Jesto Peter, Timothy M. Hansen, Hossein Moradi Rekabdarkolaee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SSPE: Robust Sequential Staypoint Extraction in Degraded Trajectory Data

Extracting semantically meaningful staypoints from raw trajectory streams is a foundational prerequisite for mobility analytics. However, real-world trajectory data is frequently degraded by severe spatial noise and protracted temporal dropouts. Classic threshold-based extraction methods, such as the widely adopted sli...

Yueyang Liu, Lance Kennedy, Andreas Z\"ufle · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Minimal Superior Penalties: Characterising and Calibrating Decision-Aware Proper Scoring Rules

Training a classifier means letting a validation metric decide which model is kept and when training stops. A natural requirement on that metric is superiority: every correctly classified forecast should score better than every incorrectly classified one, however close the underlying probabilities are. Neither the Brie...

Rouhollah Ahmadian · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Auditing a Model-Hub Benchmark: Data Quality, Training Budgets, and Side Information in HuggingBench

Benchmarks built from model hubs combine interaction data, knowledge graphs (KGs) and resource documentation, but valid files do not ensure that these artifacts describe the same objects. Treating the release as a data product, we audit HuggingBench (SIGIR 2025), a benchmark for recommending Hugging Face resources, thr...

Michal Podstawski · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Does the Trust Boundary Hold over Time? A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Receiver-Directed Federated Learning

In receiver-directed federated learning, each site draws a trust boundary. For every source and model component it judges, on its own data, whether the transfer helps (admit), harms (reject) or cannot yet be told (abstain). We ask whether this boundary holds over hundreds of rounds. Our benchmark has a federation of th...

Ting Xu, Henry Leung · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Stress-Testing the Robustness of LLM-Based Causal Inference

Why do some of the world's most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems still struggle to reason about cause and effect? Causal discovery, the ability to discern the underlying drivers of a system, is fundamental to scientific inquiry and has traditionally relied on structured data and statistical methods. Recent...

Ankitkumar Patel, Jigarkumar Patel, Amit Kumar 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

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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