Transformers have exhibited impressive empirical success across various domains, but their theoretical foundations remain less developed. This work constitutes a mathematical study of the measure-to-measure operators defined by transformers. We show that transformers map sub-Gaussian inputs to sub-Gaussian outputs; thi...
Frank Cole, Nicholas H. Nelsen, Takashi Furuya· 0 citations
Existing molecular and materials learning approaches often rely on a limited set of structural representations, which may capture only selected aspects of complex three-dimensional structure. Here, we introduce mathematical invariant-enabled topological neural networks (MITNNs), a framework that represents complex stru...
Yi-Ming Ren, Xiang Liu, Mustafa Hajij et al.· 0 citations
Fully decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), also referred to as independent learning, requires each agent to learn and act using only its local information and experience, without a centralized critic or inter-agent communication. Such a stringent information structure renders the conventional reward...
Fernando Martinez, Tao Li, Ying-Dong Lu et al.· 0 citations
Modern cache replacement designs saturate because they operate within fixed representational structures, hand-crafted and heuristic based feature-engineered predictors, or offline imitation models that cannot generate new decision logic on their own. At the same time, replacement is shaped by the causal interaction of...
User behavior simulation is the computational modeling of user interactions within information systems through the use of simulated agents in place of live users. It supports system testing and evaluation, decision-making and forecasting, and user experience design. Existing simulators rely on hand-crafted rules or dom...
Ni-Er Wu, Hong-Zhi Yin, Hui Li et al.· 0 citations
Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a practically successful framework for generative modeling on discrete product spaces, yet their statistical generalization properties remain poorly understood. Discrete real-world data such as text or biological sequences often concentrate on a small fraction of the astronomic...
State-of-the-art reinforcement learning agents are capable of outperforming human experts at games like chess, Go and StarCraft II. These agents do not simply take advantage of their digital hardware in being able to react and calculate faster than humans, but employ better strategies that lead to more victories. Inter...
As part of learning to play complex games, human players develop develop abstractions for concepts and strategies of gameplay consistent with game rules to improve their performance. These concepts are applied to explain other players' actions, and to inform their own actions in-game. Understanding other players' strat...
Abhijeet Krishnan, Colin M. Potts, Arnav Jhala et al.· 0 citations
Many real-world datasets exhibit unusually large values far more frequently than predicted by Gaussian models. Heavy-tailed distributions capture this behavior, yet evaluating learning performance under them remains challenging because rare, large feature entries retain non-vanishing effects even in high dimensions. Ev...
Probability forecasts are calibrated when predicted probabilities match empirical outcome frequencies: among events assigned a probability $p$, we'd hope that the fraction of positive outcomes is close to $p$. We study the problem of sequential forecasting of binary outcomes. The classical $O(T^{2/3})$ bound on expecte...
Scientific law discovery requires selecting measurements and converting evidence into a governing equation. We evaluate an explore-then-commit protocol in which a large language model proposes hypotheses, a programmatic planner gathers measurements, and a fresh prompt synthesizes the final law from fixed observations....
In mill yards, log loaders clear dense piles by a sequence of bundle grasps: hundreds of logs rest in contact, and each removal changes the pile available to the next grasp. A learned policy chooses where to place and orient the grapple from unsegmented point clouds and runs on a trailer-mounted hydraulic forestry cran...
George Sideris, Lucas Bessai, Heshan Fernando et al.· 0 citations
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.
Exploring how generative AI could make machine vision more accessible to businesses. The post GenEye in a Box: Making Machine Vision Something You Can Just Ask For appeared first on GPT-Lab.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 7, 2026
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.
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.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 6, 2026