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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CorrFlow: Exact and Permutation-Equivariant Flow Matching on the Correlation Elliptope

Correlation matrices combine nonlinear positive-definiteness constraints with a simultaneous row-column permutation symmetry. Their generation therefore involves two distinct problems. First, every output must remain on the correlation elliptope, irrespective of how its variables are ordered. Second, the generator must...

Gautier Marti · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lower Bounds for Randomized Linear-Oracle Optimization over Strongly Convex Sets

Recent results [arXiv:2602.04378, arXiv:2602.22608] have established worst-case objective-error lower bounds of order $1/T^2$ after $T$ linear minimization oracle (LMO) calls, matching the upper bound [arXiv:1406.1305] in its dependence on $T$ and thereby resolving a long-standing open question. Upon close inspection,...

Sebastian Pokutta · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probabilistic Forecasting of Electric Vehicle Charging in a Time-varying Hierarchical Infrastructure

Uncertainty quantification for electric vehicle (EV) charging demand is essential to turn the increasing pressure of EV adoption on power systems into a source of flexibility. We study a large-scale dataset of public charging stations in Scotland, where demand exhibits a hierarchical structure, organized across multipl...

Guillaume Principato, Yvenn Amara-Ouali, Yannig Goude et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RARA: Robust Policy Fine-Tuning through Retrieval-Anchored Representation Alignment for Robotic Manipulation

Pre-trained robot policies, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, provide a strong foundation for generalist robotic manipulation, but adapting them to new tasks with only a few demonstrations remains challenging. Directly fine-tuning a pre-trained policy often achieves strong in-distribution performance, yet it...

Xuhui Kang, Sung-Wook Lee, Yan Zhuang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models

Multimodal language models (MLLMs) exhibit promising spatial reasoning capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms supporting them remain poorly understood. We uncover S-Space, a linear representation subspace in which object-token representations encode continuous coordinates along horizontal, vertical, and distance axe...

Zhi-Yuan Shi, Xiang Li, Xing-Zhuo Guo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Asymptotic Analysis of Discrete-Time Self-Attention Dynamics in Transformers

In machine learning, a self-attention dynamics describes the attention mechanism of transformers, and is obtained treating the layer index of a transformer as time index. Even though naturally discrete-time, this dynamical system is most often studied in continuous-time. Scope of this paper is to provide a thorough inv...

Claudio Altafini · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Scalable Learned Iterative Solver for Nonlinear MPC via Temporal Decomposition

Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) can be applied to large nonlinear systems with complex objectives while enforcing constraints, but the cost of solving the underlying optimization problems limits real-time application for systems with fast dynamics or many states. Neural networks can reduce this online cost by...

Lukas Lüken, Sergio Lucia · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Harmonic analysis and circuit approximation of Sobolev functions on quantum input spaces

We derive approximation rates for Sobolev functions defined on the complex unit sphere and complex projective space, representing quantum states, and on the special and projective unitary groups, representing quantum unitary operations. By using harmonic analysis on compact groups and compact homogeneous spaces, we cha...

Philipp Schmocker · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning by Compression: Risk Estimates Attain the Law-of-Large-Numbers Rate

Compression schemes provide a general framework for deriving data-dependent risk bounds for learning algorithms. For learning rules based on preferent compression, existing results upper-bound the risk in terms of a sample-dependent complexity $\boldsymbol{k}$, defined as the cardinality of the compression augmented by...

S. Garatti, M. Campi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Revisiting Accent Classification with DistilHuBERT: Speaker-Disjoint Evaluation and Cross-Corpus Generalization

Recent accent classification systems can achieve high accuracy in standard in-corpus evaluations. However, when speakers overlap between the training and test sets, such results may overestimate model robustness compared with real-world deployment scenarios. This study revisits the robustness of DistilHuBERT-based acce...

Xu He, Homayoon Beigi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR

Earnings call transcription presents a realistic continual learning scenario where Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are updated with new recordings but risk catastrophic forgetting of previously learned financial speech patterns. Adapting Whisper-small from a general-domain speech corpus to the Earnings22 ben...

Thai Quoc On, Homayoon Beigi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

One Thing Leads to Another: The Essentials of Time Series Causal Discovery

Time series causal discovery --- the process of detecting causation between time series --- has its roots in signal processing research from over a half century ago. It has since received active and widespread interest, evolving into different forms across domains such as statistics, dynamical systems and machine learn...

Kurt Butler, Damian Machlanski, Michael P. J. Camilleri 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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