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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FlowAWR: Online Adaptive Flow Reinforcement via Advantage-Weighted Rectification

Aligning generative flow models on continuous spaces via online reinforcement learning is constrained by intractable trajectory likelihoods. Existing density-approximated policy gradient methods rely on stochastic SDE samplers to construct tractable transition kernels, which introduce training-inference inconsistencies...

Zheming Fu, Ruizhe He, Wei Shang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VLA-FAIL: Efficient Task Failure Detection for Finetuned Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on many robotic manipulation tasks, yet they can still behave unpredictably in out-of-distribution scenarios. Runtime failure detection is therefore essential for the safe real-world deployment of VLAs.However, existing task failure detectors req...

Florian Seligmann, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Enes Ulas Dincer et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Urban Power Grid Topology and Hierarchy Identification from Open Data

Understanding the complex topology and hierarchy of urban power grid is crucial for energy prognosis, power flow management, and system resilience analysis. However, detailed grid information remains largely proprietary. This information, nevertheless, is crucial especially for analyzing the last-mile distribution netw...

Shiliang Zhang, Sabita Maharjan, Alexey Vinel et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Transfers: Kan Extensions of Topological Invariants of Learned Representations

When a learned representation is reused for a new task, which of its structure should survive? A task is a small category, a change of task is a functor $J$, and the invariants of a trained representation form a functor $F$. The left Kan extension $\operatorname{Lan}_JF$ is the invariant that the source and the change...

Luciano Melodia · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Deep Ensembles Actually Capture Uncertainty in Graph Neural Networks?

While deep ensembles are widely considered to be the default method for uncertainty quantification in deep learning, their effectiveness for graph-structured data is often simply assumed based on successes in domains like computer vision. We investigate standard deep ensembles specifically for message-passing graph neu...

Pedro C. Vieira, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Pedro Ribeiro · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SURF: Steering the Scalarization Weight to Uniformly Traverse the Pareto Front

Scalarization is widely used in multi-objective optimization owing to its simplicity and scalability. In many applications, the goal is to generate solutions that represent diverse user preferences, ideally with uniform coverage of the Pareto front (PF). However, uniformly sampling scalarization weights usually induces...

Liuyuan Jiang, Chentong Huang, Lisha Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quadratic Characterizations for Reachability Analysis of Neural Networks

Quadratic constraints (QCs) are widely used to characterize nonlinearities and uncertainties, but generic analytical characterizations can be conservative on bounded domains. This paper develops a framework for constructing verified quadratic characterizations of scalar relations in the two-dimensional real plane. Cand...

Elias Khalife, Mazen Farhood, Pierre-Loic Garoche · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Bayesian Nonparametric Mixed-Effect ODEs with Gaussian Processes

Dynamical modelling in pharmacometrics, systems biology, and epidemiology often involves subjects with related but distinct dynamics, observed through temporally sparse and irregular measurements. Classical nonlinear mixed-effects ODE models represent this heterogeneity but rely on parametric vector fields, making them...

Julien Martinelli, Maksim Sinelnikov, Harri L\"ahdesm\"aki et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Approximation Complexity of Matrix Product Operator (MPO) Born Machines

Matrix product operator Born machines (MPO-BMs) are tractable tensor-network models for probabilistic modeling, yet their approximation capabilities remain poorly understood in theory. In this paper, we characterize these capabilities from both negative and positive perspectives. As a negative result, we prove that con...

Chao Li, Zerui Tao, Yuchen Cong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Model Capacity Determines Grokking through Competing Memorisation and Generalisation Speeds

Existing accounts of grokking explain the phenomena in terms of mechanistic frameworks such as circuit efficiency or lazy-to-rich transitions. However, despite a known dependence between grokking and model size, how model capacity shapes grokking remains an open question. We give an information-theoretic account of thi...

Yiding Song, Hanming Ye · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reinforcement learning for inverse silhouette design and rapid laser cutting of compact parallelogram quad kirigami prototypes

Kirigami is an increasingly useful fabrication method to produce shape-programmable metamaterial structures. However, inverse design remains difficult because deployment is nonlinear, and feasible cut layouts must satisfy discrete compatibility rules, avoid overlap, and map one target shape to valid designs. We present...

Milad Yazdani, Shahriar Shalileh, Dena Shahriari · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Constrained Triple-Head Price Optimization (C3PO) Network for Discrete-Choice Models

We propose a Constrained Triple-Head Price Optimization (C3PO) network for real-time bi-level decision making in discrete-choice environments. In these settings, a seller selects product or service offerings to achieve business objectives, while heterogeneous users make personalized acceptance or rejection decisions ba...

Shivaram Subramanian, Zhengliang Xue, Markus Ettl 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.

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