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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
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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
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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
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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
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Accelerating Linear Bandits with Persistent Candidate Sets

Exhaustive optimistic scoring can make action selection costly in linear bandits with a large fixed set of $K$ actions, requiring $\mathcal{O}(K)$ score evaluations per round. We introduce Persistent Candidate LinUCB (\textsc{PC-LinUCB}), which maintains $k$ active actions and samples $q$ challengers uniformly from the...

Bing-Kui Tong, Daria Korovaitceva, M. Sheshukova et al. · 0 citations
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Why Linear Models Can Still Work in a Complex and Changing World

Linear models can predict well in complex domains even when underlying mechanisms are nonlinear. We argue that this can occur because the complexity of the world exceeds the complexity that can be learned reliably from finite, partially observed data. Flexible models can exploit curvature, thresholds, and interactions...

Fangzhou Lin, Dengzhe Hou, Yinxing Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PlacePulse: Learning Transferable Place Representations from Structural Geographic Data

Geospatial machine learning often depends on task-specific feature engineering over large collections of sociodemographic, business, and environmental variables. Geospatial foundation models offer reusable representations of place, but leading approaches typically encode dynamic signals, such as mobility and search act...

Lucía García-Duarte, M. Álvarez, D. Vicente et al. · 0 citations
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BLOKS: Scaling Kernel Solvers with Sketched Block Preconditioning

Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) is a theoretically sound algorithm for nonparametric learning, which is also often used to investigate properties of deep learning. However, the exact KRR formulation incurs time and memory costs preventing applicability to large datasets, motivating the development of approximate solvers....

Giordano Vitale, Giacomo Meanti, Marco Rando et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Opening the Black Box of Classifier-Free Guidance via Information Bottleneck

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a standard technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, yet its activation schedule is usually selected heuristically. In practice, most existing CFG-based methods rely on a pre-defined activation policy throughout inference, while recent dynamic variants often d...

Jiayang Gao, Tianyi Zheng, Jiayang Zou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Hidden Data Challenges in Clinical Machine Learning

Widely reused preprocessing pipelines for electronic health records can encode assumptions about when information became available, what clinical episode a label represents, and what missingness means. These assumptions are rarely audited systematically and may propagate across subsequent studies when preprocessing pip...

Carolin Cissée, Dennis Fast, Raneen Younis et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Understanding Mamba-3 Through Oscillatory Dynamics

Mamba-3 introduces input-dependent rotations into recurrent state updates, but their contribution beyond state retention remains unclear. We interpret these ro- tations as underdamped second-order dynamics, providing a framework for in- vestigating the role of oscillation in sequence modeling. Controlled comparisons sh...

Shutian Liang, Yue Song · 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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