We study Riemannian optimization on an unknown manifold accessed only through feasible samples. The central challenge is to turn feasible samples into optimization steps, i.e., the samples are drawn from the unknown feasible manifold, but do not directly provide the tangent spaces, projections, or retractions required...
Ruixiang Wu, Jiahao Ai, Tinko Sebastian Bartels et al.· 0 citations
Quantifying correlations is important for understanding how quantum states and channels support information processing. Quantum umlaut information $U$ connects such correlations to reliability in hypothesis testing and certain communication settings, but its known formulas require classical descriptions of the underlyi...
Beomjoon Kim, Donghwa Ji, Kabgyun Jeong· 0 citations
Federated learning (FL) keeps raw data local, but most deployments still rely on a trusted coordinator for client admission, checkpoint distribution, update collection, aggregation, and rewards. This paper presents AuditFL, a contract-backed clearing layer for auditable FL in open settings. AuditFL keeps training and a...
ReCouple is introduced, a controllable framework that constructs coarse-grained OT couplings, to better understand rollout-free OT-based post-training post-training quality, and reveals an NFE-dependent interplay between coupling optimality, neural realizability, and generation quality.
Soon Hoe Lim, Aditi Gupta, Michael W. Mahoney et al.· 0 citations
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RGB-thermal (RGB-T) object detectors combine visible and thermal imagery for robust detection, but signal corruption in either stream can substantially degrade accuracy. Restoration-based methods incur significant latency and do not consistently improve downstream accuracy, raising a more direct question: rather than r...
LLM agents increasingly triage security alerts by combining the outputs of several detection tools, implicitly treating those tools as trustworthy. Unlike prior work on conflicts between a model's knowledge and its context, we study conflicts among the tools themselves: what happens when this machine-generated evidence...
Mechanistic interpretability to E2E driving is applied by training Sparse Autoencoders on the internal activations of a simple, single-camera end-to-end path planning model, revealing interpretable structure aligned with route intent, vehicle speed, and braking behavior.
Manav Gagvani, Benjamin Namikas, Sivamurugan Velmurugan et al.· 0 citations
Simplicial neural networks (SNNs) are powerful tools for prediction tasks on higher-order relational datasets stored on simplicial complexes (SCs), a higher-order generalization of graphs. However, SNNs usually lack rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ), limiting their usefulness in high-stakes scenarios. We propose...
Lekun Wang, Jaidev Goel, Yulia R. Gel et al.· 0 citations
We review models of inexact computational oracles in smooth continuous optimization and their implications for the convergence, computational complexity, and attainable accuracy of optimization algorithms. We adopt a framework in which zeroth-,first-, and second-order oracles are characterized by quantitative error bou...
Albert S. Berahas, Liyuan Cao, Katya Scheinberg· 0 citations
Assay-aware learning can use the full D2B assay sequence to guide multi-objective molecular optimization, and models tailored to the structure of D2B data can improve prediction and guide the discovery of more potent and selective compounds.
AkshatKumar Nigam, N. Amara, Hillary J. Dequina et al.· 0 citations
Multi-rater segmentation datasets show that a single image can admit several valid masks, yet most training sets expose only one annotation per image. We study single-annotation multi-hypothesis segmentation: each training image exposes one fixed mask, while the model must return a finite bank that covers held-out huma...
Armin Dadras, Robert Sablatnig, Franziska Proksa et al.· 0 citations
A unified mathematical framework for mesh-agnostic LDMs based on conditioning in Neural Fields (NeFs) is introduced, establishing a Universal Approximation Theorem (UAT) for this class of models and analyzing their stability by deriving Lipschitz bounds for different conditioning mechanisms.
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.
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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 28, 2026
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 27, 2026
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.