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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkillFormer: Skill-Decomposed Adaptation for Audio Language Models

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MobileVISTA: Generative Data Augmentation for Pose Generalization in Mobile Manipulation

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
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Two-Sample Testing for Random Graphs without Vertex Correspondence

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...

Soham Dan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Does Muon Need Fine-Grained Spectral Shaping?

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...

Meher Chaitanya, Tian-Yi Zhou, A. Gionis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep Defence on Wheels: A Dual Intrusion Detection System Architecture for Comprehensive In-Vehicle Network Security

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...

Shashwat Khandelwal, Shanker Shreejith · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Artifact removal improves electrodermal waveforms but not downstream classification in a virtual-reality balance task

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AccentCL: Robust Accent Classification with Incremental Expansion

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
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Bayesian Optimization on Function Spaces via Sparse RKHS Manifolds

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...

Davide Sartor, Meghan E. Huber, Donghyun Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A perspective note on likelihood approximation and inference for complex simulation models using a chain of aggregated normalizing flows

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...

Getachew K Befekadu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DeepAJM: Deep Association Joint Model for Irregularly Sampled data

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...

Barsha Halder, Jeffrey A. Thompson · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HyperNSDE: Personalized Neural SDEs for Joint Static-Longitudinal Clinical Data Generation

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...

Perrine Chassat, Agathe Guilloux · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Identity-Conditioned Score Fusion for Open-Set Person Re-Identification

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

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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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