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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Hypergraph Representation Learning with Hyperlink Random Effects

Hypergraphs record multi-way interactions among entities. Extracting information from the combinatorial structure underlying observed multi-way interactions is a central task in many real-world problems. Existing methods face several limitations. First, many deep architectures for hypergraphs do not explicitly exploit...

Zi-Meng Li, Shi-Hao Wu, Gong-Jun Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Gradient-Free Sampling from Generative Models via Stochastic Bounded Extremum Seeking

We introduce a sampling approach for energy- and score-based generative models that requires no gradient evaluations of the model. Replacing the drift term that would normally contain the score $\nabla_\mathbf{x} \log p_\theta(\bf{x})$ with a high-frequency dithered cosine of the model's \textit{value}, $\sqrt{\alpha\o...

A. Scheinker · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gaussian Flow Dynamics: Simulation-Free Neural SDE Learning Beyond One-Time Marginals

Simulation-free training of latent Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) relies on a variational posterior process whose one-time marginals are tractable, typically Gaussian. Such marginals, however, do not determine the underlying dynamics: many processes share the same marginals while differing in their temporal s...

Grigory Bartosh, Christian A. Naesseth · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Local Fisher Information Enables Sparse Causal Discovery

Sparse causal discovery calls for methods that exploit graph structure without estimating high-dimensional densities. We introduce Fisher Information Completion Search (FiCS), a source-first algorithm for additive noise models that uses one local Fisher score for both ordering and parent selection. Under regularity and...

Byeongguk Kang, Donghyeon Lee, Euijong Song et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mitigating Over-squashing without Rewiring: A Sheaf Effective Resistance Perspective

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often struggle to capture long-range dependencies due to over-squashing -- a phenomenon in which the repeated compression of node embeddings into finite-size messages causes representations to collapse. Over-squashing is most often diagnosed as a property of the graph topology, with effecti...

Andr\'e Ribeiro, Germano Barcelos, Amauri H. Souza et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Partitioning Schemes for Optimistic Optimization

Applications such as engineering design often require us to optimize a black-box function, i.e., a system whose inner processing is not analytically known and whose gradients are not available. Practitioners often have a fixed budget for the number of function evaluations and the performance of an optimization algorith...

Raja Sunkara, Ardhendu Tripathy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Latent Score-Based Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao Bound Estimation for High-Dimensional Imaging Systems

We propose a data-driven framework for estimating the Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) in high-dimensional imaging systems with complex, analytically intractable priors. Direct CRB computation is challenging in this setting due to the need to model the prior score and to form and invert the Bayesian Fisher information...

Evan Scope Crafts, Thomas Wynn, Seonyeong Park et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Probability flow ODEs in score-based and reflected diffusion models

Probability-flow ordinary differential equations (PF-ODEs) are widely used as deterministic samplers for score-based diffusion models. Their usual justification is that the Fokker--Planck equation of a diffusion can be rewritten as a continuity equation driven by the score function of the forward diffusion. This identi...

R. Cont · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Targeted Active Learning for Preference-Based Treatment Effects on Multivariate Outcomes

Treatment efficacy is traditionally demonstrated on the basis of a single primary outcome. However, clinical decision-making usually requires consideration of multiple outcomes, balancing expected benefits against potential risks. The relative value assigned to these outcomes varies substantially from one patient to an...

Lola Giordani, Mathieu Even, Chlo\'e Geoffroy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shapley-based Structural Analysis of Neural Calibration for Stochastic Volatility Models

Neural network-based approaches have emerged as efficient alternatives to traditional optimization-based procedures for the calibration of stochastic volatility models. However, existing work has focused primarily on predictive accuracy, with comparatively little attention devoted to understanding the structure of the...

Sha\"in Afzali, Serena Della Corte, Antonis Papapantoleon · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Online Control via Counterfactual Tracking

We study online control of a known linear dynamical system with adversarial costs and bounded disturbances, measuring regret against a general class of benchmark policies. We introduce counterfactual tracking, which separates the challenge of learning from the challenge of controlling the system. An online learner buil...

Yunzong Xu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powered by foundation models. This paper presents a new set of foundation models, called Llama 3. It is a herd of language models that natively support multilinguality, coding, reasoning, and tool usage. Our largest model is a dense Transformer with 405B parameters and a...

Aaron Grattafiori (Jack), Abhimanyu Dubey (Jack), Abhinav Jauhri (Jack) et al. · 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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