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#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
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Monarch-MoE: Structured Experts for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

Learning new tasks in multimodal continual instruction tuning can cause catastrophic forgetting of previously acquired knowledge. Although multi-expert LoRA distributes learning across experts, updates to a dense low-rank expert can still affect many output features. We introduce Monarch-MoE, which replaces the dense f...

Xi Zhang, Bo-Yu Diao, Ze-Sen Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Much Computation Does Every Forecast Need? Structured Block Skipping in Two Time-Series Foundation Models

Time-series foundation models use the same network depth for every input, although forecasting windows differ in structure and difficulty. We test whether whole Transformer blocks can be removed at inference time in two pretrained models: Chronos-Bolt and TimesFM 2.5. Our bypasses avoid the original block computation a...

Max Bourgeat · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking Relative Policy Differences Transfer of On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a target policy on its own rollouts using token-level supervision from a stronger teacher, but typically relies on the teacher being substantially more capable than the target. Recent work relaxes this requirement by transferring the relative policy difference between an expert and a...

Rong Wu, Dao-Cheng Fu, Yu Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

S$^3$R: Fast and Faithful RL Rollouts via Self-Sparse Speculative Decoding

Fast rollout generation for long-context reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) requires reducing KV-cache traffic without changing the response groups used for policy optimization. In our profiled RLVR workloads, attention accounts for 72--76\% of autoregressive decoding kernel time. Sparse attention re...

Yuhang He, Hongyu Ge, Zihan Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Conference Sep 2026

WaSA: Wavelet Scattering Autoencoders for Unsupervised Offline Detection of Malicious Clients in Federated Learning

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without exposing raw data, yet remains vulnerable to malicious clients injecting poisoned datasets. Existing defenses are typically reactive (operating during training) or supervised (requiring prior knowledge of attack types)—assumptions that rarely hold in...

Alessandro Licciardi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling RNA Foundation Models through Iterative Refinement

Biological function in RNA is encoded across scales, from local sequence motifs to long-range structural dependencies. Conventional RNA foundation models couple parameter capacity and inference depth within a fixed architecture, prescribing a fixed computation graph for each inference. Here we present Eco-RNA, an 80M-p...

Peng-An Chen, Liang Hong, Xin-Yuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can Failed Trajectories Reveal Where Agents Go Wrong? Agentic Failure Attribution Without Step-Level Labels

Failure attribution for LLM agents aims to identify decisive steps responsible for task failure, which is critical for debugging and improving agentic systems. Existing methods rely on costly LLM prompting, step-level error annotations, or verified successful trajectories that lack failure signals for assistance. In th...

Do Nguyen-Thanh, Junlin Fang, Bing Li 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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