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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Limits of Query Monitoring against Distributed Model Extraction

Model providers now face distillation campaigns run through thousands of accounts, each of which looks like an ordinary user. When network and payment metadata cannot link those accounts, the only evidence left is what they ask. We study what a provider can and cannot learn from those queries alone, using one million r...

Snigdha Chandan Khilar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Space Over Statistic, Retraining Over Ranking: Auditing Training Labels Under Label-Only Backdoors

Some backdoor attacks never touch an image. FLIP only changes labels: on CIFAR-10, flipping 3% of them makes a ResNet-32 send 99.7% of triggered source-class images to the attacker's class. The usual defenses look for the poison inside a model trained on those same labels. So when they struggle, is the problem the test...

Arnab Dey, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lightweight Time-Frequency Vibration Sensing for Consumer Device Condition Monitoring

Consumer rotating devices, including washing machines, air conditioners, electric fans, robotic vacuum cleaners, and home fitness equipment, increasingly rely on vibration sensing for intelligent condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Ensuring reliable operation in these resource-constrained appliances requir...

Po-Heng Chou, Jen-Yu Chiu, Chun-Yu Yeh et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Forecasting Corpus-Sampling Disagreement in Masked Text Reconstruction

If a second text corpus were collected from the same population, how much would a predictor's outputs change? We study this question for masked-text reconstruction using a smoothed predictor built from nearby token-pair counts and evaluated over the full 50,257-token GPT-2 vocabulary. Treating each source document as o...

Hare Krishna · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scan-Parallel Variational Inference for event-driven Latent Jump Models

Continuous-time latent state-space models are widely used for irregularly observed time series, typically representing uncertainty through a random initial state followed by smooth ordinary differential equation (ODE) dynamics, or Brownian perturbations accumulated by a stochastic differential equation (SDE). While the...

Vansh Bansal, Min Chen, James G. Scott · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NucleoNet: A Nuclear-Aware Determinant Ansatz for Multi-Geometry Neural Variational Monte Carlo

Neural-network variational Monte Carlo provides an accurate route to solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation, but many neural wavefunctions are optimized for a single nuclear geometry, requiring separate calculations to map out a potential energy surface. We introduce NucleoNet, a nuclear-aware determinant ansatz...

Qiao Gao, Yang Huang, Enze Hou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including high cost, limited elasticity, and long wait times under resource constraints. At the same time, modern Apple Silicon-based macOS devices are equipped with powerful GPUs that remain...

Jianhua Li, Yun Xing, Girisha De Silva et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Imbalance to Evidence: Deep Nonparametric Testing for Complex Data under Severe Sample Imbalance

Comparing distributions under severe sample imbalance requires effectively using abundant majority observations while retaining sensitivity to differences involving the smaller sample. This challenge is particularly relevant for complex, non-Euclidean data, such as graphs, whose structural characteristics call for flex...

Guanhao Zhou, Xiufan Yu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Dictionary Learning for Measure-Valued Data via Linearized Optimal Transport: Efficient Algorithms and Sample Complexity

We study dictionary learning for probability measure-valued data by embedding measures into Hilbert spaces using features derived from optimal transport geometry. We learn data-adapted dictionaries through sparse autoencoder parameterizations, producing fast, scalable representations of probability measures as sparse f...

Brendan Mallery, Shuchin Aeron, James Murphy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Second-Order Information: Paid Logistic Regression with Noisy Features

We consider online binary prediction with paid stochastic features, where the learner can spend resources to obtain better observations of the underlying features. This setting is motivated by applications such as medical testing, where additional cost can provide more precise measurements of patient's features for pre...

Sanghwa Kim, Kyoungseok Jang, Se-Young Yun · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BLEND: Balancing Personalization vs. Generalization in Federated Vision-Language Models

Federated vision-language models (FedVLMs) represent one of the emerging frontiers of machine learning, aiming to integrate federated learning within the fine-tuning pipelines of vision-language models (VLMs). In this work, we introduce BLEND, a new framework designed to jointly enhance the personalization and generali...

Payam Abdisarabshali, Fardis Nadimi, Kasra Borazjani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation

In continuous diffusion language models (DLMs), latents generated by the diffusion prior are mapped almost deterministically to tokens, either by a decoder or through a token embedding matrix. Unlike in image generation, where visual details can vary continuously, the diffusion prior must capture fine-grained discrete...

Jin-Jin He, Xin-Song Feng, Lu-Cheng Fu 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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