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#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Mask-Induced Displacement in Audio XAI via Logit Trajectory Decomposition

Perturbation-based XAI methods for audio classifiers often estimate feature importance by masking spectrogram regions and crediting output changes to the retained signal. Yet they typically assume the fill (the mask replacement) is negligible. We propose logit-space trajectory decomposition to examine this assumption....

Nico Garc\'ia-Peguinho (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London), David Kelly (Department of Informatics et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Sharp training-conditional coverage for conformal prediction under covariate shift

Weighted split conformal prediction reweights calibration scores by the likelihood ratio between the test and training covariate distributions and guarantees marginal coverage under covariate shift. We study its coverage conditional on the calibration data. An elementary argument, based on a single concentration inequa...

Mehrdad Pournaderi · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Visual Classification Dataset and Model Evaluation for Historical Manuscript Illustrations

Historical manuscript illustrations preserve rich visual evidence of past cultures. They depict people, animals, plants, diagrams, music notations, and decorative forms. Although large digitization projects have made many manuscripts available online, the material itself remains difficult to explore at scale. Extractio...

Yoav Evron, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Michael Fire · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Recovering Lower-Dimensional Semialgebraic Support of a Measure from its Moments

Recovering probability measures from their moments has numerous applications, esp. in connection with the method of moments in statistics and optimization. In the setting where measure need not be finitely atomic, but its support is known to be compact and semialgebraic with codimension at least one, the problem is sti...

Ruben Karapetyan, Shenyuan Ma, Ales Wodecki et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Let CSP Be Your ANCHOR: Adaptive Crystal Search over Frozen Structure Priors

This work introduces ANCHOR, a GRPO composition policy trained with multi-objective rewards around a frozen CSP model, and continuous adaptive novelty (CAN), a graded novelty score against known structures and a growing discovery history.

Emma Lei Hovmand, J. Elsborg, Melih Kandemir et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Local LMO is Secretly a Projection Method!

It is shown that, whenever the ball radius does not exceed the Polyak radius, the Local LMO step is the Euclidean projection of the current iterate onto the intersection of the feasible set with a half-space that separates the iterate from the solution set; this projection is nonetheless computable by a linear oracle a...

Peter Richtárik, Ammar Mahran · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Identifying the Predictable Drift of a Semimartingale from Marginal Laws

A special semimartingale admits a unique decomposition $X=X_0+M+A$ into a local martingale $M$ and a predictable finite-variation part $A$. We consider the identification of $A$ when $X$ is observed only through repeated cross-sections. The estimand is then the projection of the sampled predictable compensator onto the...

Jakub Mareček, E. Biffis, Abigail Langbridge et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Geometry-Adaptive Mechanisms for Private Synthetic Data

Generating differentially private synthetic data with meaningful Wasserstein utility guarantees is challenging in high dimensions. For datasets of size \(n\) on $[0,1]^d$ with $d\ge2$, existing pure \(\varepsilon\)-differentially private mechanisms achieve expected $1$-Wasserstein error of order $(\varepsilon n)^{-1/d}...

Raoof Zare Moayedi, Amir R. Asadi, M. Yassaee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

When Privacy Moves ML-Mediated Decisions On Device: Information and Incentive Misalignment in Auctions

Moving ML-mediated decision making onto privacy-preserving clients decentralises the economic decision along with the inference. Shared budget constraints then depend on information that cannot be globally current, creating an information-structure failure that conventional pacing is not designed to solve. We study thi...

Dipankar Sarkar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Statistical Benefits of Multiple Responses for Learning from Demonstrations

It is found that multiple responses provide a qualitatively stronger benefit in this setting of generative systems, and is shown that a greedy multiplicative-weights learner achieving the upper bounds without any assumption on demonstrator quality is possible.

Chandramauli Chakraborty, Cong Ma · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Aug 2026

Modelling non-linear aeroelastic loads in long-span bridges with extreme learning machines

Accurate modelling of aerodynamic loads is essential for predicting instabilities and ensuring the safety of long-span bridges. A methodology is introduced for modelling aerodynamic self-excited forces in bridge-deck cross-sections using extreme learning machines (ELMs). ELMs, as single-layer feedforward neural network...

G. Tondo, S. Chawdhury, Sergio Andrés Castaño Giraldo et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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