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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TabReliBench: Evaluating Tabular Foundation Models Beyond Predictive Accuracy

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) are increasingly popular for their strong predictive performance. Many also provide posterior predictive distributions (PPDs), whose reliability remains less studied. We assess reliability through point prediction, distributional quality, marginal and subgroup calibration, and interval...

Tianqi Zhao, Jia Guo, Yan Shuo Tan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PANDA: Prior-guided Attentional Dual-path Architecture

Hypergraph Neural Networks (HNNs), designed to model higher-order relations beyond pairwise interactions, typically rely either on fixed structural weights or on normalised attention. Fixed weights can propagate misleading information in heterophilic settings, while normalisation makes attention coefficients competitiv...

Rishabh Jain, Federico Belotti, Stefano Coniglio et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Private and Distributionally Robust Federated Multiclass Classification

Fault diagnosis in asset-intensive industries requires multiclass models trained on noisy, sensitive data collected across geographically distributed client sites. Federated learning enables collaborative training without centralizing data, but most approaches do not provide formal privacy guarantees for individual rec...

Andrea P. Hernandez, Michael Ibrahim, Nagi Gebraeel · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A small cognitive core explains human behavior at scale

Psychology has proposed many principles of cognition. Each, however, was developed in isolation, leaving their combined explanatory power unknown. We assembled a small set of established principles into one model, which we call COntextual Retrieval and Encoding (CORE). CORE consists of a hierarchy of episodic memories...

Marcel Binz, Eric Schulz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EchoTab: Learning Measurement-Grounded Representations for Echocardiographic Diagnosis through Tabular Reconstruction

Diagnostic information in multi-view medical imaging studies, like echocardiography, is distributed across views, each capturing different aspects of cardiac structure and function. In clinical practice, these views are first interpreted through quantitative measurements, which then support specific diagnoses. However,...

Michelle Espranita Liman, Ioana Ionac, Alexander M\"uller et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

$L_0$ Feature Selection via Monte Carlo Tree Search in High-Dimensional Financial Regression

Feature selection is a central problem in high-dimensional financial regression, where large numbers of engineered variables and strong correlations among predictors reduce model stability and interpretability. $L_1$ regularization (Lasso) is widely used for sparse regression, but its shrinkage can be restrictive when...

Cameron Mouangue, Tristan Cazenave · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Simultaneous Competitive and Regret Guarantees for TCP Acknowledgment

We study simultaneous competitive and regret guarantees for TCP acknowledgment. Each acknowledgment serves all pending packets, and the objective is to minimize the total acknowledgment and waiting costs. It is well known that no deterministic online algorithm achieves a competitive ratio better than $2$. Given $k$ ran...

Tsubasa Harada, Yasushi Kawase, Hanna Sumita · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rationally Linearized MLPs

We present Rationally Linearized Multilayer Perceptrons(RaLiMPs), a new approach to efficiently linearizing MLPs using low-degree rational approximations of standard activation functions. Inspired by polynomial-based MLP linearization, we show that rational approximations can provide accurate representations at substan...

Arijit Sehanobish, Byeongchan Kim, Avinava Dubey et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probabilistic Ship Trajectory Forecasting using Transformer Models on AIS Data

Anticipation of vessel trajectories is an essential task when navigating at sea. This applies to both human navigators and autonomous surface vessels. Trajectory forecasting enables sub-routines such as collision avoidance to assess the situation and react accordingly in time. This paper investigates Transformer and Pe...

Frederik E. T. Sch\"oller · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Simulating Training Spikes of Deep Neural Networks by Layer-wise Random Feature Models

Intermittent ``spikes'' in loss, during the pre-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), remains a mysterious phenomenon both theoretically and empirically. In this paper, we show that simple quadratic models with heavy-tailed, power-law distributed inputs can replicate these spikes. We introduce a theoretical framewo...

Ran Tian, Courtney Paquette · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

FedPCD: Priority-Constrained Federated Aggregation

Federated learning (FL) seeks to optimize a shared global model from decentralized client data. While effective for average performance, this process can produce unfair performance across clients, particularly under statistically heterogeneous data distributions. Existing fairness-aware and multi-objective FL methods a...

Yousef Irshaid, Dara Varam, Mohamed I. Alhajri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PPG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for PPG Foundation Models

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is increasingly recorded by wearable and clinical devices at enormous scale, and a growing number of PPG foundation models (FMs) have been developed to compute reusable representations for various downstream tasks. These models are difficult to compare: different evaluations use different dat...

Arvasu Kulkarni, Mahir Jain, Aditya Ray Mishra 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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