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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Fewer Heads, Fewer Memories: Pruning Redundant Attention Heads Suppresses Verbatim Memorisation

It is demonstrated that zeroing out a substantial fraction of attention heads prior to inference can significantly suppress verbatim memorisation while preserving, or even improving, language modelling performance on the benchmark used to identify redundant heads.

Aryan Chowdhury, R. Batista-Navarro · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning Stabilizing Latent Feedback Controllers via Multi-Step Backward Losses

It is shown that learning linear autoencoders and latent dynamics with multi-step prediction-reconstruction losses with backward losses provably recovers the structure needed for stabilization, and why both reconstruction and a multi-step horizon are essential.

Paul Lutkus, L. Lindemann, Stephen Tu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Robust-by-Design Distributional Learning from Contaminated Samples

Modern data analysis pipelines increasingly rely on large datasets assembled through retrieval, scraping, automated filtering, and post-hoc curation, where the observed sample is often a contaminated mixture rather than the target population. Standard distributional objectives either ignore contamination and converge t...

Nevena Gligi\'c, Arya Farahi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Predictive Maintenance at the Edge: An Embedded Anomaly Detection Pipeline Trained with Quantum Optimization

This article presents a predictive-maintenance pipeline that detects anomalies in bearings from vibration signals, adapted for deployment at the edge on low-cost microcontrollers, and that uses quantum optimization in two steps of its training. The pipeline consists of a step of vibration feature extraction and a step...

F. C. Ferraz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Combinatorial Residual Network: a decay-chain-aware classifier without explicit jet assignment

Final states with several jets from the decays of heavy particles pose a combinatorial problem, since the jets must be assigned, at least implicitly, to their parent particles. We describe the Combinatorial Residual Network (CoReNet), a classifier that encodes the assumed decay chain of the final state in its architect...

John Alison, Patrick Bryant, Alejandro Gomez Espinosa et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Mage-VL-Cowork: A Full Training Recipe to Learn Hybrid Computer Use From Evolved Harnesses

Effective computer-use agents (CUAs) should seamlessly combine visual GUI interaction with code and terminal execution within a single policy. We present Mage-VL-Cowork, a 4B hybrid CUA trained from a general multimodally aligned checkpoint through an end-to-end, progressive five-stage curriculum across midtraining, SF...

Xiaoyi Zhang, Haoqing Wang, Xinjie Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Apriel Voice 27B Preview: An Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use

A capable voice assistant must do more than recognize words; it must understand requests, reason over context, sustain conversations, and act through tools. We present Apriel Voice 27B Preview, an open speech-language model that unifies these capabilities within a shared reasoning backbone while retaining text and imag...

Aman Tiwari, Akshay Kalkunte, Akintunde Oladipo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Model-Agnostic Search for New Physics in the Presence of Imperfect Background by Smearing the Data

In the search for new particles in high-energy physics, it is necessary to first define the signal region (SR) enriched in signal events, and then compare events in this region with the expected background distribution. While most existing search methods rely on prior domain knowledge of either the signal or the backgr...

Soheun Yi, J. Alison, Mikael Kuusela · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Li$^{2}$SAO: Lifting Light Singl-Rollout Asynchronous RL Optimization via Group-Relative Actor-Critic Bootstrapping

Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming a mainstream paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs), as it improves training efficiency by updating the model as rollouts arrive. Recent work argues that group-wise sampling in GRPO does not naturally fit asynchronous RL training because rollout leng...

Zichen Bai, Yanli Wang, Yang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

INLA for Adaptive UAV Sampling of Radio Environment Maps in IoT Networks: Prior Width Governs Accuracy and Calibration

We study adaptive UAV sampling for radio environment map (REM) construction from non-Gaussian IoT observations. Integrated nested Laplace approximation(INLA) updates a Mat\'ern GMRF posterior, with waypoints selected by entropy pre-screening and Sherman--Morrison lookahead over the reachable set. We show that the likel...

Changhao He, Kaichuang Yang, Xiaojuan Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Geometry of Multitask Learning: Sharp Rates for Shared Subspace Estimation

Learning a shared subspace in multitask learning is an important statistical problem, yet exact rates remain poorly understood in many of the formal settings considered in the literature. To address this gap, which arises from limitations of existing upper-bound techniques, we propose a general multitask lemma. The lem...

Tony Cai, Abhinav Chakraborty, Samory Kpotufe · 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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