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#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Improving Signals, Declining Encoder: A Known-Answer Test of Label-Free Monitoring in Self-Supervised Learning

Self-supervised training is monitored without labels, through the loss and statistics of the learned features. We report a case where we know the encoders lost part of what they had learned, so we can check whether these signals noticed. We trained LeJEPA encoders on synthetic images with known generating factors. In n...

Nilotpal Kakati · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Orbitol: Crystal Generation on Wyckoff Orbits

Generative models propose crystalline materials by learning composition and geometry, but unconditional sampling gives no direct control over the space group, which constrains whether responses such as piezoelectricity are symmetry-allowed. We present Orbitol, a crystal generator built on the Crystalite diffusion Trans...

Ivan \v{Z}ugec, Joshua Rosenthal, Ivor Lon\v{c}ari\'c et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

FAR-DPO: Feasibility-Aware and Robust Direct Preference Optimization for Cyclic Peptide Design

Cyclic peptides are emerging as promising molecular scaffolds in drug discovery due to their high binding affinity and structural stability. However, extending generative models from linear to cyclic peptide design remains challenging, as cyclization sharply restricts the feasible design space through coupled geometric...

Guofeng Zhang, Rong Han, Xiaoyu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Explicit 3D Gaussian Models for Fast, Mesh-Free Compression of Structured and Unstructured Volumes

Recent work has shown that implicit neural representations (INRs) can be trained to effectively compress structured and unstructured volume data, allowing for direct data querying with a reduced memory footprint. However, as existing INRs for unstructured volumes do not encode geometry, they require partial mesh storag...

Landon Dyken, Sharmistha Chakrabarti, Nathan Debardeleben et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Dense Supervision, Sparse Updates: On the Sparsity and Geometry of On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently become a prominent post-training recipe by combining two desirable ingredients: on-policy student-generated trajectories and dense token-level teacher supervision. Yet how this hybrid training regime shapes a model remains poorly understood. We characterize the sparsity and geo...

Guo Yu, Wenlin Liu, Yulan Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Autoregressive Diffusion World Models for Off-Policy Evaluation of LLM Agents

Evaluating large language model (LLM) agents in multi-turn interactive environments is expensive and risky, as it requires online environment interaction. We propose ADWM (Autoregressive Diffusion World Model), an evaluation framework that estimates the performance of a new LLM agent policy purely from pre-collected tr...

Kaixuan Liu, Guojun Xiong, Weinan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory

Agentic forecasting is important for decision-making in dynamic environments, but it remains challenging because agents must reason from incomplete, time-limited evidence and produce calibrated probabilities before outcomes are resolved. Memory provides a natural mechanism for transferring experience from resolved fore...

Yurui Chang, Yongkang Du, Yuanpu Cao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Knowledge Offloading: Decomposing LLMs into Sparse Backbones and Memory Modules

LLMs encode both general capabilities and domain-specific knowledge in a single set of parameters. We ask whether this capacity can be reorganized: keeping broadly useful computation in a shared backbone, while moving specialized knowledge into external memory modules. We propose \emph{knowledge offloading} (KOFF), a f...

Karim Galliamov, Rochelle Choenni, Ivan Titov · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Quantization Benefits of Residual-Free Transformers

Large-scale transformer training and deployment are increasingly constrained by the transfer of activations, gradients, and optimizer states across accelerators. Low-bit quantization offers a natural remedy, but transformer activations are often heavy-tailed and outlier-dominated, making simple quantization highly loss...

Yiping Ji, Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam, Peyman Moghadam et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Visual-Redundancy-Controlled Parallel Decoding for Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Models

Diffusion-based multimodal large language models (dMLLMs) decode by iteratively predicting tokens at multiple masked positions in parallel. This turns each decoding step into a position-selection problem: the model must choose not only which predictions are reliable in isolation, but also which positions should be comm...

Yulin Yuan, Hongshuo Zhao, Xiangming Meng · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning

Vision Transformers (ViTs) face severe computational bottlenecks due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. Existing token reduction methods rely on local metrics -- such as single-layer attention scores -- that are inherently vulnerable to the attention sink phenomenon, where uninformative...

Jaehyuk Lee, Hanyoung Kim, Yanggee Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Your Neighbors Know: Leveraging Local Neighborhoods for Backdoor Detection in Decentralized Learning

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm where nodes collaboratively train models without a central server. However, the collaborative nature of DL makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a model is taught to behave normally on standard inputs while executing hidden, malicious actions...

Sayan Biswas, Antoine Boutet, Davide Frey 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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