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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Causal Discovery via Transformed Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces

We propose Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces (LRQS), a bivariate causal model in which, in the causal direction, an unknown monotone transformation of the conditional quantile surface admits a low-rank functional decomposition. LRQS subsumes location-scale noise models and post-nonlinear heteroscedastic noise models, while al...

Ryo Kamimura, Thong Pham · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

On the disintegration of the stochastic majority vote: From PAC-Bayesian bounds to a self-bounding algorithm

A derandomization framework for stochastic majority votes is proposed that derives two families of high-probability generalization bounds, covering both data-independent and data-dependent constructions of the ensemble, which naturally lead to a self-bounding learning algorithm optimizing deterministic majority vote gu...

J. Bastian, Benjamin Leblanc, Pascal Germain et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Time-warping estimation via stationarity-based learning of the de-warped signal

Time-warping estimation is a fundamental problem in signal processing with applications in bioacoustics, radar, and biomedical analysis. This paper introduces a Time-Warping Estimation Trainable (TWET) model for estimating timewarping functions from a single observation. The proposed approach formulates time-warping es...

Corentin Presv\^ots (Phys-ENS), Adrien Meynard (Phys-ENS) · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Certified Inference and Training for Deep Equilibrium Networks: A Continuation Framework with Polynomial Complexity Guarantees

We develop a certified continuation framework for inference and training in deep equilibrium networks (DEQs), with training posed as interpolation to accuracy $2^{-b}$. For inference, input homotopy selects an equilibrium branch from a supplied start root, and a rounded tracker follows it under quantitative conditionin...

A. Borisevich · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Learned Look-Ahead Splitting Rule for CART

A look-ahead tree-building method that evaluates each candidate split by the prediction error reduction achieved after growing a conventional CART subtree below that split, and a smart look-ahead algorithm that learns downstream split values using node-level features are described.

Andrew Gao, Tian-Li Liu, Rui-Chen Han et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Mini-batch Sampling Strategies for Long-Tailed Image Classification: An Empirical Study on CIFAR-100-LT

Real-world datasets often exhibit long-tailed class distributions, where a few head classes contain a large number of training samples while a large number of tail classes have only a few. The composition of each mini-batch, determined by the sampling strategy, governs which classes contribute to the stochastic gradien...

Si-Yu Yuan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Compute-Optimal Pretrain--Fine-tune in Ridge Gradient Descent

This paper characterise the optimal split under data-dependent evaluation geometries induced by the fine-tuning problem as a compute-split problem under a two-stage pretrain--fine-tune procedure with fixed total optimisation budget, using regularised least squares trained by gradient descent as a tractable setting.

Alex Buna, Fang-Hui Liu, Patrick Rebeschini · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Coupled Calibration and Learning: Mitigating Teacher Bias in LLM Distillation without Target-Domain Reward Feedback

Coupled Calibration and Learning (CCL) is proposed, an LLM distillation algorithm that couples teacher calibration with student updates through token-level branching, using reward feedback only on source questions.

Hai-Chen Hu, Yu-Heng Zhang, David Simchi-Levi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Personalized Federated Learning through Global Knowledge Distillation and Local Head Adaptation

Component-wise diagnostics and convergence results support the role of persistent heads and distillation-guided local optimization under label-skewed data and suggest that pFedKDH obtains the best accuracy in most settings.

Polycarpo Souza, José Mairton Barros da Silva, C. Cavalcante · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HyCoSeq: Contextual Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Genomic Sequences

HyCoSeq incorporates weighted Lorentzian residual aggregation into multi-curvature Lorentz encoding, allowing full Lorentz representations to participate directly in geometry-consistent local aggregation, thereby extending local hyperbolic convolutional encoding to sequence-level contextualized representations.

C. Zeng, Zhi-Bin Pu, Shu-Fei Ge · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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