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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Structure-Aware Numerical Stabilization for Half-Precision Proximal Policy Optimization

Local online training on resource-constrained platforms requires low computational and training-state overhead. We study the numerical stability and computational efficiency of half-precision proximal policy optimization (PPO) on commodity GPUs. Directly converting PPO training to FP16 is unreliable because numerical e...

Linxuan Wu, Liang Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MORAD: Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Objective Rewards for RNA Inverse Design

We introduce MORAD, an online reinforcement learning framework for backbone-conditioned RNA diffusion models that trains a single shared policy across diverse target backbones. Structure-conditioned RNA inverse design seeks nucleotide sequences compatible with a target three-dimensional backbone, yet existing reinforce...

Jixin Tang, Ji Guo, Jun Zhao · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DAG Structure Learning with Node-Varying Heavy-Tailed Disturbances

DAG structures can be learned from observations by incorporating acyclicity via smooth constraints, such as DAGMA's log-determinant function. Typically, observations and the underlying DAG are related through linear structural equation models, with Gaussianity assumption on the disturbances at each node. Extending DAG...

Robin Francis, Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recovering Irreducible Three-Body Interactions with Lagrangian Neural Networks

Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNNs) learn mechanical systems from trajectory data by parameterizing a scalar Lagrangian and deriving the dynamics through the Euler-Lagrange equations, biasing the model toward motion that respects the variational structure of mechanics. The interactions studied so far have been pairwise-a...

Sena Kalabalik, Sukru Caglar, Abdullah Umut Hamzaogullari et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MHR-Router: Multimodal Heterogeneous Retrieval-Enhanced Adaptive Routing for VLM Inference

Vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit complementary capabilities, yet selecting the most suitable expert for a given image-question query remains challenging due to heterogeneous multimodal inputs and varying expert strengths. Existing routing approaches rely on text-based cues or static model profiles, failing to capt...

Wenjuan Zhu, Zheming Yang, Yunqing Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CopRoute: Dependence-Aware Conformal Routing for Language Models

Set-based language model routing aims to increase the coverage of the event where at least one model answers a query correctly while controlling the number of inference calls made. Existing risk-controlled routing policies bound the all-miss risk (the probability that every model in the selected set fails) by calibrati...

Siva Rajesh Kasa, Santhosh Kumar Kasa, Karan Gupta · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Data-Adaptive Mahalanobis Metric Learning for Cross-Head Attention in Transformers

In this paper, we propose Data-Adaptive Mahalanobis Cross-Head Attention (DAMCHA), a simple and effective attention mechanism that generalizes Multi-Head Attention (MHA) through the lens of metric learning. Standard MHA implicitly learns a static, head-wise Euclidean similarity corresponding to the diagonal blocks of a...

Zhen-Ke Duan, Xin Li, Ji-Qun Pan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neural Surrogate Modeling of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Media

Neural surrogates provide computationally efficient auto-regressive modeling of wave propagation, enabling e.g. fast inverse solutions. Despite recent progress, the current surrogates are not yet sufficient for the needs of ultrasonic sensing, characterized by high frequency and heterogeneous propagation media. We show...

Burla Nur Korkmaz, Petro Moilanen, Ari Salmi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CAST: Credit Alignment for Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation

Cross-tokenizer on-policy distillation (OPD) requires aligning teacher and student sequences before their scores can be compared. Decoded-text alignment provides such correspondence at the chunk level, but leaves a distinct problem unresolved: credit alignment. A chunk-level signal specifies how much a span should chan...

Jingru Yang, Jinhang Wu, Minjing Shi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

State-OPD: State-Grounded On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring reasoning capabilities from frontier models to smaller models, while extending its success to multi-turn agentic environments remains challenging. We study agentic OPD through interaction states, distinguishing the objective task and execu...

Zhentao Zhang, Yanzhao Zheng, Yanlin Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Schwarzschild Geodesic Motion with Lagrangian Neural Networks

Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNNs) learn dynamics from trajectory data by parameterizing a scalar Lagrangian and deriving accelerations through the Euler--Lagrange equation, providing a variational inductive bias that improves physical consistency over purely data-driven models. LNNs have recently been extended to gener...

Sukru Caglar, Sena Kalabalik, Abdullah Umut Hamzaogullari et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Tensor-based Fusion of Multi-modal Data for Predicting Cancer Risk Levels

Cancer diagnosis and treatment increasingly rely on multi-modal diagnostic technologies that generate high-dimensional datasets. Although these datasets are rich in pathological information, they pose considerable challenges in interpretation, dimensionality reduction, and clinical applicability. Conventional machine l...

Ali Anaissi, Yuan-Zhe Jia, Qi-Shun Peng 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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