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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Extending Music Annotation Schemas: Zero-Shot Prediction or Few-Shot Adaptation?

Automatic music annotation is typically tackled under the assumption of a fixed annotation schema. In practice, commercial music catalogs often need to accommodate new musical attributes as needs evolve. Given that expert music annotation is expensive, it is not evident which methodological approach is most effective a...

Christos Plachouras, Emmanouil Benetos, Johan Pauwels · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Anchor Divergence for Semantic Geometry in Contrastive Learning

This paper concerns how semantic context determines geometry in learned vector representations. Similarity is typically measured using cosine similarity, which provides a single fixed geometry. Semantic similarity, however, is inherently context dependent: two images may be similar because they depict the same object,...

Akash Kannan, Kiho Park, Victor Veitch · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Nonlocal Hamiltonian Dynamics on Sparse L\'evy Graphs: Spectral Analysis and Multimodal Sampling

We develop a sparse graph method for transporting probability mass toward multimodal target distributions through damped nonlocal Hamiltonian dynamics. The formulation combines logarithmic-mean mobility with symmetric L\'evy-type interaction weights, coupling the evolving density to an edge momentum field. A graph cons...

Miaolei Zheng, Ting Gao, Jinqiao Duan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Component and Dimension Sparsity in Transformer Refusal Mechanisms

Activation steering manipulates large language model behavior by intervening on internal activations, but the mechanistic basis of these interventions remains poorly understood. We decompose refusal steering into component-level interventions across four open-weight models, identifying the sparse subsets of attention a...

Vincent Siu, Glenn Grant-Richards, Vlad Pavlovich et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Memory Prediction Excess: A Probabilistic Quantity for Predictive Gain and Memory Length in Stochastic Processes

A central question in the prediction of stochastic processes is the extent to which past information can improve the probability of correctly predicting the next state. We introduce the Memory Prediction Excess (MPE) to address this question quantitatively. The MPE measures the average improvement in prediction accurac...

Jiahao Jiang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Axiom Satisfiability of Linear Rewards in Alignment

Learning from human preference data is the dominant route to aligning language models with human values. In linear social choice, where rewards are linear in a fixed feature representation of prompt-response pairs, Ge et al.[2024] show that fitting such a reward by minimizing any non-decreasing convex loss, including B...

Soumya Nasipuri, Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Sanjukta Roy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Zero-Shot Visualization: Exploring Text Corpora with User-Prompted Axes

We study the application of large language models (LLMs) to the visual exploration of textual corpora. We introduce zero-shot visualization (ZSV), a task in which users specify concepts in natural language and documents are mapped onto the corresponding concept axes for visualization. Building a ZSV system of practical...

Arnau Bueno Tricas, J. A. Rodríguez-Serrano · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Can World Models Recover Physical Laws?

Accurate prediction does not establish that a world model has recovered a physical law: distinct dynamics can generate identical records under the same observation protocol. We formulate law recovery on a fixed physical domain under an explicit catalog of experiments, sensor uncertainty, and an acquisition budget. A ra...

Ye Yuan, Jun Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Statistical Turbulence and High-Fidelity Disturbance Fields for Quadrotor Flight Control

Reinforcement-learning quadrotor controllers are usually trained under simplified wind models, yet the impact of wind-field fidelity, as opposed to magnitude, on policy robustness remains unquantified. This paper compares five disturbance-fidelity levels, from wind-free flight and discrete 1-cosine gusts through statis...

Xun Huang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Trajectools Demo: Towards No-Code Solutions for Movement Data Analytics

This demo paper presents the conceptual foundations and the first steps towards implementation of a novel no-code solution for movement data analytics based on the open-source Python library MovingPandas and the open-source geographic information system QGIS. The resulting Trajectools plugin is available open-source at...

Anita Graser, Melitta Dragschnig · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Marginals: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for Multi-Table Synthetic Data Generation

Synthetic data generation is critical for privacy compliance, machine learning augmentation, and software testing. While single-table evaluation is well established, multi-table (relational) synthesis, the dominant enterprise use case, lacks a unified evaluation framework. Existing approaches assess marginal column dis...

Aparana Gupta, Anurup Dey, Suyash Dwivedi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Geometry of Statistical Feature Learning in Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics

We introduce a geometric formulation of statistical feature learning for supervised regression. Feature learning is defined through a base--fiber decomposition: the base is the feature-side geometry produced by training, and the fiber is the learned feature space where estimation is performed. We prove this property fo...

Zong Shang, Tomoya Wakayama, Guillaume Lecu\'e 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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