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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Machine Unlearning for Federated Socially Fair k-Means Clustering

Federated clustering can support applications such as patient stratification across hospitals and customer segmentation across distributed financial datasets. Responsible AI calls for fair representation of demographic groups and support for data deletion, motivated in part by rights such as the GDPR's right to erasure...

Aravind Reddy, Deeraj S K, Mohd Wasif Raza et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Understanding the Training of GFlowNets: A Theoretical Perspective

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn policies that sample discrete objects in proportion to a positive reward. They are trained by minimizing balance objectives, whose exact satisfaction guarantees correct sampling. However, a comprehensive theory linking nonzero balance loss and approximate stationarity to sampl...

Rui Hu, Yu Chen, Zhuoran Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Transformer-based In-Context Score Operator Learning for Diffusion Models

Diffusion models typically learn the generative dynamics of a single target distribution or a family of distributions indexed by conditioning variables fixed during training. This limits their ability to adapt to a previously unseen distribution from only a small set of examples. We introduce an in-context solution ope...

Wuzhe Xu, Zhaiming Shen, Yulong Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VQIL: Visible Quantum Interference Learning for Perturbation Response Ranking on Graphs

Learning how local perturbations affect a network is important for identifying which components drive or absorb a system's response. We formulate this as seed-conditioned response ranking: given a perturbation at one seed node, ranking all other nodes by response strength. This is challenging when the model is given on...

Seokjun Lee, Sergio A. Ortega, Daniel K. Park et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

On the Encoding of Calendar Features in Covariate-Informed Time Series Foundation Models

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) increasingly offer covariate support, with calendar information being the most common type of categorical covariate in practice, as it is available for every point in time. However, how these features are encoded is largely treated as an implementation detail rather than as an obje...

Alexander Kreusel, M. Beichter, Alexandra Nikoltchovska et al. · 0 citations
#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

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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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