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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Expert-level detection of low-voltage intervals in EEG as a robust biomarker of neonatal encephalopathy

Background: Discontinuity in neonatal EEG is a critical marker of brain dysfunction but can be difficult to quantify visually. Inter-burst intervals (IBIs) are a key characteristic of discontinuity, yet their definition does not easily translate to AI detection. Objectives: To introduce low-voltage intervals (LVIs), de...

John M. O'Toole, Sean R. Mathieson, Aurel Luca et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Amortised Inference through One-Step Implicit Sampling

Efficient sampling from Bayesian posterior distributions in high dimensions remains a hard problem, despite advances in theory and algorithms. Multiple steps are usually required to draw unbiased samples, for example, iterations of an MCMC algorithm or integration steps in a diffusion-based amortised sampler. However,...

Vincent Pauline, Kirill Tamogashev, Arran Carter et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Data-driven Optimal Sensor Placement for Aerosol Monitoring in the UK

We develop a data-driven sensor-placement framework and apply it to aerosol monitoring in the United Kingdom (UK). A trained convolutional Gaussian neural process is embedded within the DeepSensor optimisation framework. Genetic optimisation with lazy evaluation and caching reduces mean computational time by 60\% (10$\...

Talha Ansar (University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan) et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SynAct: Synergistic Active Feedback Learning for LLM Agents

LLM agents executing multi-step workflows fail in two fundamentally different ways: recoverable slips, which further attempts can repair, and knowledge gaps, which retrying cannot resolve. Expert feedback can address the latter, but expert attention is scarce. The key challenge is therefore not whether to ask for feedb...

Ning Liu, Ian Li, Kristina Klinkner · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

STAPLE: Static Sparse Upcycling of Pretrained Checkpoints via Embedding Modules

Sparse computation can scale the parametric capacity of LLMs without proportionally increasing active computation, but pretraining sparse architectures remains expensive and data-hungry. Existing sparse upcycling methods mainly target Mixture-of-Experts models, where expert homogeneity, sample inefficiency, and system...

Ranajoy Sadhukhan, Euijin Hong, Sheng Cao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Realism VS Accuracy: Event Sequence Forecasting from a Generative Modeling Perspective

Event sequences are chains of random events, each described by heterogeneous (numerical and categorical) features. The problem of event sequence forecasting occurs in finance, healthcare, business process intelligence, and other fields. In this work, we study multi-horizon forecasting of event sequences as a conditiona...

Dmitry Osin, Egor Surkov, Petr Mokrov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

DiffusionART: Efficient, Stable and Scalable Reinforcement of Diffusion Models

Online reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tunes diffusion models with black-box rewards, but reverse-process methods such as Flow-GRPO are limited in efficiency by poor credit assignment, while forward-process methods such as DiffusionNFT are efficient yet unstable without carefully tuned exponential-moving-average (EMA)...

Zheng-Lin Wan, Jia-Yu Chen, Zhengfeiyang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An all-transistor physical-learning transformer can be trained to perform in-context learning

Most systems trained by equilibrium propagation or coupled learning are in the same class as multi-layer perceptrons: while they may be universal function approximators, they struggle to learn associative tasks which are easy for transformers. Equilibrium propagation relies on a bidirectional flow of information throug...

Michael C. Abbott, Benjamin B. Machta · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Sample-Adaptive Zeroth-Order Post-Training

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization offers a memory-efficient alternative to backpropagation for fine-tuning large language models. However, existing ZO methods typically sample training examples uniformly, overlooking their evolving importance and leaving avoidable estimation variance. To address this limitation, we propos...

Hai-Yuan Wan, Yan-Yi Li, Wei-Cheng Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Transformer-Based Masked Diffusion Models Provably Learn Distributions with Latent Structure

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete data by iteratively unmasking multiple tokens in parallel using a learned mask predictor. Their output carries two errors: parallelization error due to parallel sampling, and estimation error from the mask predictor learned with finite samples. Existing theory treats the...

Jingda Wu, Changxiao Cai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enriched Holomorphic Neural Networks for 2D and 3D Laplace Problems

Boundary-value problems for the Laplace equation develop singular behaviour near corners, edges and junctions that smooth approximators resolve poorly. We combine holomorphic neural networks with singular functions derived from the local geometry and boundary conditions. The representation is harmonic by construction,...

Kalp Shah, Andrei Vlad Nicula, Mihnea Andrei B\^arsan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Efficient Learning of Survival Analysis Models Under Outcome-Dependent Truncation and Censoring

Modern machine learning models are typically trained on data assumed to be representative of the predictive tasks the model will face in the future, but practical datasets violate this assumption. We focus on outcome-dependent truncation in which an observation appears in the training data depending on its label. Our w...

Itai Zilberstein, I. Anagnostides, Arman Kilic 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.

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