Audio language models must handle dozens of distinct skills, from pitch comparison and speaker counting to musical tempo estimation and emotion recognition. Joint training on all skills at once causes interference: gains on one skill often come at the cost of another. We propose \textbf{SkillFormer}, which decomposes a...
Lee Seung-woo, Bowen Qi, Kim Min-jun et al.· 0 citations
Mobile manipulators such as humanoid robots are increasingly deployed in dynamic, unstructured environments to perform dexterous manipulation tasks. However, end-to-end manipulation policies trained to imitate demonstration data collected from a single robot pose are brittle: even centimeter-scale deviations in robot p...
Suzannah Wistreich, Stephen Tian, Isabella Huang et al.· 0 citations
Two populations of graphs often have to be compared without any correspondence between their vertices, for instance when networks come from different communities, or when a graph generative model is evaluated against held-out graphs. We study how many graphs such an unaligned two-sample test needs, and which graph stat...
Muon combines current and past gradients into matrix momentum. For $M=U\Sigma V^\top$, the idealized polar update $Q=UV^\top$ gives every singular direction the same weight. We refer to this as the flat profile. Several recent optimizers replace this flat profile with fine-grained spectral maps that give each direction...
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The combination of increasing connectivity to the outside world and the lack of inbuilt security mechanisms has made legacy intra-vehicular networks extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks. Consequently, significant research has been devoted to analysing the impact of potential attacks, yielding datasets crucial for devel...
Artifact removal routinely precedes the classification of electrodermal activity (EDA), on the assumption that a cleaner signal supports a better decision. We tested this assumption in a virtual-reality (VR) balance-disturbance task. A residual gating network was trained on a benchmark with expert-corrected EDA, frozen...
Haochen Chai, Qixu Zhu, Siyao Li et al.· 0 citations
Accent classifiers are typically trained with a fixed label inventory and cannot accommodate new accent categories as new data becomes available. Moreover, accented speech corpora often exhibit substantial class imbalance and/or domain shift due to differences in recording conditions across corpora. We present AccentCL...
Mu-Ruei Tseng, Waris Quamer, Ghady Nasrallah et al.· 0 citations
Bayesian Optimization (BO) has become an established methodology for minimizing black-box functions of a vector input. Often, however, this parameter vector arises from the discretization of an inherently functional relationship. Several recent articles have considered the Functional Bayesian Optimization (FBO) setting...
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We present a new perspective on the problem of likelihood approximation within the framework of simulation-based inference that promotes scalable and controllable simulation routines for large-scale data analysis, allows efficient parameter space exploration or smooth interpolation in high-dimensions and, thus, support...
Joint Models simultaneously model longitudinal and survival outcomes, leveraging patterns in patients'longitudinal trajectory to improve the prediction of survival outcomes. The classical parametric joint models, however, rely on fixed parametric assumptions, making them susceptible to bias under model misspecification...
Synthetic patient data generation is a promising solution to the dual challenge of data scarcity and privacy constraints in healthcare machine learning. Realistic synthesis of patient-level clinical data requires jointly modeling heterogeneous static covariates, irregularly sampled longitudinal trajectories, and inform...
Robust person re-identification often combines complementary cues such as face, gait, and body shape. While adaptive fusion typically targets query quality, model strength also varies across identities. We introduce identity-conditioned score fusion, a framework that tailors weights to each gallery identity without tra...
Manyi Yao, Jurijs Nazarovs, Eunji Chong et al.· 0 citations
Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 12, 2026
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