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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generalized Determinantal Point Processes for Attraction and Repulsion with Distinct Interaction Kernels

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) model subset selection probability with repulsion, but many applications also exhibit attraction arising from pairwise relations or shared latent structures. Nonsymmetric DPPs (NDPPs) capture both effects, but their kernels are difficult to interpret and specify. We propose the dete...

Hideaki Ishibashi, Takahiro Kawashima, Hideitsu Hino · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Solvers Get Moody: Quantifying and Predicting Performance Variability in Mixed Integer Programming

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers are widely used, yet their performance can vary substantially even under seemingly neutral perturbations. Such variability complicates benchmarking, and the interpretation of computational studies. We introduce the Weighted Variability Score (WVS), a robust multi-component metric...

Mourchid Adegbindin, Brenda Dietrich, Jamol Pender et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Universal Bounds for Self-Normalized Kullback-Leibler Estimation

This work studies an entropy-based estimator of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence constructed from normalized importance weights. We prove a universal finite-sample bound showing that its expectation can exceed the target-proposal KL divergence by at most $\log 2$ for any sample size. We then characterize the KL diverge...

Buu Phan, Lester Mackey, David Alvarez-Melis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Two-way Guidance: Simultaneous Learning of Summary Statistics for Generative Bayes

Bayesian simulation-based inference (SBI) can struggle to recover increasingly concentrated posteriors as observation size grows. We consider learning sufficient summary statistics jointly with the posterior as a general principle for scalable inference in various SBI methods. A common measure taken in SBI is dimension...

Percy S. Zhai, Max Pachman, Peverel D. Shipley et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

APEX: Asynchronous Prefix Denoising for Extreme Compression

Fewer latent tokens promise cheaper diffusion. Yet aggressive latent compression creates a reconstruction-generation dilemma: adding channels improves reconstruction but makes generation harder. We introduce APEX, short for Asynchronous Prefix denoising for EXtreme compression, which pairs a hierarchical latent space w...

David Dinkevich, Nisan Chiprut, Yoav HaCohen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scalable Learning of Determinantal Point Processes with Kernel-Structured Interactions

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) on a finite set are probability models that exhibit repulsion where inter-item similarities are encoded by a positive definite kernel matrix. Scaling DPP learning to large datasets typically requires imposing structural constraints on the kernel matrix, such as a low-rank-plus-diago...

Takahiro Kawashima, Hideitsu Hino · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Trainable Quantum-Native Language Models: Dissipative Memory, Capacity Limits, and Hardware Validation

We study byte-level autoregressive language models whose hidden state is a small quantum register, whose transitions are learned token-conditioned quantum channels, and whose next-byte probabilities come directly from Born-rule measurements without a learned classical vocabulary projection or softmax. In the fixed-widt...

Deniz Yunus G\"o\u{g}\"u\c{s} · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Polyconvex neural-network surrogates with learned paired directional features for anisotropic hyperelastic homogenization

Approximating the effective anisotropic hyperelastic response of a representative volume element (RVE) requires constitutive expressiveness, mechanical consistency, and computational efficiency. This work develops a polyconvex physics-augmented neural network (PANN) construction based on paired directional features who...

S. A. de Parga, A. Cornejo, J. A. Hernandez et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Credit Attribution in Timestamped Soccer Networks Using Multivariate Hawkes Processes

The two main traditional player statistics used in soccer are goals scored and assists, with an assist credited when a player's pass immediately leads to a teammate scoring. Attributing credit solely to the player who makes the final pass before a goal fails to account for the contributions of multiple players in the b...

Phillip W. Kornberg, Kevin S. Xu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Minimax Rates for Estimating Powered Sliced Wasserstein Functionals

We study the two-sample estimation of the powered Sliced Wasserstein functional under projected $r$-th moment assumptions. Let $N=n\wedge m$, where $n$ and $m$ are two sample sizes. We establish the minimax rates in the noncritical regimes. When $p<r<2p$, the minimax risk is of order $N^{-(r-p)/r}$, while for $r>2p$ it...

Binh Thuan Tran · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StereoEngine: Scaling Stereo Bimanual Robot Data without Stereo Cameras

Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, the scarcity of large-scale, real-world stereo datasets remains a fundamental bottleneck for scaling such policies. Recent generative monocular-to-stereo methods t...

Jason Chen, I-Chun Arthur Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Zebra3D: Efficient Hybrid Foundation Models For Scalable 3D Reconstruction

Feed-forward 3D foundation models reconstruct scenes from unposed images, but the quadratic cost of global attention limits their scalability to large view sets. We present Zebra3D, a layerwise sparse-linear hybrid attention framework that improves the efficiency of pretrained 3D foundation models without training from...

Utkarsh Saxena, Rui-Jing Yang, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh 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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