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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Partially Informed Stochastic Optimization via Zeroth-Order Residual Tracking

Many optimization problems provide direct access to only part of the gradient, while the remaining component must be inferred from function evaluations. This structure arises in performative prediction, performative reinforcement learning, and bilevel optimization with a black-box lower level. We introduce Partially In...

El Mahdi Chayti, Alireza Mirrokni, Martin Jaggi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Inference-Time Steering Across Scaffolds and Epitopes for Sample-Efficient De Novo Nanobody Design

Generative molecular design typically relies on over-generation and post-hoc filtering. Inference-time steering methods like Feynman-Kac (FK) steering improve efficiency by biasing trajectories toward high-reward candidates, yet they optimize within a single fixed configuration. In de novo nanobody design, upfront comm...

Mason Minot, Simon Friedensohn, C\'edric R. Weber · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Returning to Development States: When Full Sandbox Snapshots Help Coding Agents

Coding agents often make useful progress before they fail, but retry-from-scratch discards the machine state created along the way. This makes failure recovery an interesting search problem: if intermediate environment states preserve meaningful progress, restoring and branching from them could outperform repeatedly re...

Daniel Thi Graviet, Tanmay Shah · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Specialists Learn Faster: Knowledge Organization in Pre-training Shapes Knowledge Update Efficiency

An ideal (language) model must continually update its knowledge. Existing work largely focuses on making these updates efficient after training. We investigate how the organization of time-varying knowledge during pre-training shapes the efficiency of subsequent updates. Models trained on chronologically ordered knowle...

Sheng Zhao, Yuhao Zhu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Design Space of Continuous Diffusion Language Models

Continuous diffusion language models (CDLMs) promise to bring the benefits of continuous flow modelling to language, including accelerated sampling and controllable generation. The field has grown rapidly, and the capabilities of CDLMs have begun to rival those of discrete diffusion. Yet, unlike for continuous modaliti...

Oscar Davis, Daan Roos, Alice Bizeul et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shared Canonical Component Removal Beyond Expert Views

In clinical practice, experts often begin by converting raw inputs into a set of expert features before making a decision. While black-box models trained on raw input can outperform models trained on expert views, it remains unclear what predictive signal the raw model exploits beyond what the expert view captures. We...

Jose Roberto Tello Ayala, Akl C. Fahed, Roy Perlis et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TabMF: Learning Dataset Representations with Tabular Foundation Models

Representations of supervised datasets support higher-level machine-learning tasks such as dataset retrieval and distribution-shift monitoring. However, existing approaches typically rely either on hand-crafted meta-features or on dataset encoders trained specifically for representation learning. We introduce TabMF, a...

Rafiq Kamel, Nicolas Atienza, Aziz Fouch\'e et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning

Flow-matching and diffusion models are increasingly used as priors for linear inverse problems, however, most methods are bespoke to one class of trajectory prior. Plug-and-play methods have been proposed, however these implicitly decorrelate the guided trajectory, resulting in broad priors that can struggle when data...

Teo Deveney, Lea Bogensperger, Hok Shing Wong · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

QTestBench: A Test Framework for Evaluating LLM-Generated Quantum Code

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong results in classical code generation and are increasingly used to write the unit tests that safeguard that code. Whether they can do the same for quantum software is less clear, because quantum programs are probabilistic, depend on numerical tolerances, and are judged by d...

Meriem Terki, Nouhaila Innan, Ming-Hao Shao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Randomized Momentum Transport with Cheap Predictors

Momentum methods such as STORM and second-order momentum track the gradient by adding a transport correction to momentum, at the cost of an extra oracle call per iteration. We introduce randomized momentum transport, which evaluates the correction with probability $q$ and otherwise uses a cheap prediction, with importa...

El Mahdi Chayti, Martin Jaggi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Studying the Effects of Task Diversity Using Small Mathematical Worlds

Basic mathematical tasks like modular addition have been a valuable tool for illuminating aspects of neural network behavior that are challenging to see in noisy, unverifiable, large-scale, real-world settings. These studies have typically focused on a single task. However, modern language models are exposed to a vast...

Emily Xia Meng, Xuan-Yu Yang, Junaid Hasan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark

Origin-destination (OD) flow forecasting supports urban mobility decisions by predicting the volume and patterns of human movement across a city. Most existing public OD benchmarks provide only a partial view of citywide mobility, covering a single transport service or at most two modes. With partial mode coverage, obs...

Taeyoung Yu, Seonbin Jo, Jiwon Kim 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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