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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond the Leaderboard: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Dense and Mixture-of-Experts Models for Automated Program Repair

Automated Program Repair (APR) with language models is usually evaluated by whether a generated patch passes the test suite, which can hide differences in maintainability, security, and computational cost. We propose a Weighted Quality Index (QI), inspired by the ISO/IEC 25010 software quality model, that combines func...

Anvit Shah, B. UmamaheswaraSharma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Making COMET Comparable Across Scripts: Diagnosis and Correction of Tokeniser-Induced Script Bias in Indic MT Evaluation

COMET reports translation quality as a single number, and that number is routinely compared across target languages written in different scripts. Such a comparison assumes Script Invariance: the score should not depend on the writing system that carries the target. We test it on IndicMT Eval by re-encoding the target i...

G. L. John Salvin, Swapnil Hingmire · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Marginal Monitoring: Distributed Joint-Distribution Testing for Data Concept Drift in Large Scale E-Commerce Operations

Concept drift threatens production machine learning, yet the empirical behavior of multivariate two-sample drift detectors at scale remains under-characterized. Existing benchmarks rarely address the hundreds of millions of rows and high-cardinality features typical of industrial-operational datasets. We evaluate five...

Cagdas Pullu, Mahmut Emir Arslan, Bugra Balkac et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Waypoint Regression: Query-Based Cost Learning over Reachable Ego Futures for End-to-End Driving

End-to-end planners based on waypoint regression achieve strong open-loop accuracy, but they primarily learn to mimic expert geometry and remain difficult to adapt to deployment-time safety constraints. We propose a query-based cost-learning framework that estimates bounded costs for dynamically reachable ego trajector...

Ahmed Abouelazm, Rupert Polley, Qingyuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Energy-Aware Path Following: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and NMPC for Electric Vehicles

Path-following control strategies typically follow the bi-objective optimization dilemma: minimizing deviations from a reference path while maintaining smooth speed profiles. The latter objective is especially relevant for Electric Vehicles (EVs), since their limited driving range can be extended by recovering energy t...

Mohamed Sabaa, Mostafa Emam · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Surviving the Router: Optimizing Skill Injections for Retrieval and Execution

AI agents increasingly rely on modular third-party "skills" that are dynamically selected by skill routers to execute complex tasks. While recent studies highlight the threat of prompt injections embedded in these skills, existing evaluations often assume settings where the malicious skill is already selected for execu...

Haneen Najjar, Luca Scionis, Haritz Puerto et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explainable Rule Mining of IPv6 Extension-Header Presence Patterns from Paired-Vantage Captures

IPv6 extension headers (EHs), such as fragmentation, segment routing, and in-situ telemetry, are operationally important yetwidely dropped in transit, and characterising their behaviour from packet captures is a recurring measurement problem. We ask whetheran explainable miner can recover human-readable rules of EH beh...

Priyanka Sinha, Nikolaos Kekatos, Stylianos Basagiannis et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ProximalFM: Amortized Proximal Causal Inference under Hidden Confounding

Standard causal identification methods often assume no unmeasured confounding and can fail when relevant confounders are unobserved. Proximal causal inference instead uses proxy variables to identify effects under hidden confounding. However, nonparametric proximal estimation can be challenging in practice: recovering...

Christoph Müller, Ayub Kharel, Alex Luedtke et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) turns agent experience into learning signals primarily through scalar outcome rewards after interaction. For group-relative objectives, however, this signal vanishes when all rollouts receive the same reward, even though their trajectories may reveal useful informat...

Haoxiang Zhang, Qinglin Chen, Hiroaki Hayashi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Language Carries the Expert's Impression: Instrument-Anchored LLM Judges Transfer Counseling-Quality Assessment and Beat In-Domain Training

Automatic assessment of communication quality in dyadic counseling conversations is bottlenecked by data: expert-rated corpora are small and expensive to grow. We study cross-domain transfer of expert overall-impression prediction across three German corpora of simulated counseling (two general-practice medical, one sc...

Tobias Hallmen, Elisabeth André · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DAEDALUS: Bootstrapping Agent Memory from Self-Generated Tasks

LLM agents often lack the operational knowledge to act reliably in new environments, as they must discover specific tool behaviors or environment conventions on their own. Without memory of past attempts, they repeat the same mistakes across tasks, leading to more task failures and longer trajectories. To address this,...

Antoine Edy, Max Conti, Victor Xing et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning consistent molecular mechanics force fields from first principles

Classical force fields (FFs) remain the workhorse for large-scale simulations even as machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) approach ab initio accuracy. They decompose total configuration energies into simple effective interactions whose parameters are traditionally assigned based on atom or bond types, enabli...

Berkay Gunes, Leif Seute, Jigyasa Nigam 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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