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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conformal Data Contamination Tests for In-distribution Data Acquisition

The amount of quality data in many machine learning tasks is limited to what is available locally to data owners. The set of quality data can be expanded through trading or sharing with external data agents. However, external data may be contaminated or introduce undesirable sample diversity which can degrade performan...

Martin V. Vejling, Shashi Raj Pandey, Christophe A. N. Biscio et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Delphos: A reinforcement learning framework for assisting discrete choice model specification

We introduce Delphos, a deep reinforcement learning framework for assisting discrete choice model specification process. Delphos aims to support the modeller by providing automated, data-driven suggestions for model specifications, thereby reducing the effort required to develop and refine utility functions. Delphos co...

Gabriel Nova, Stephane Hess, Sander van Cranenburgh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Equilibrium Distribution for t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding with Generalized Kernels

We study the large-sample variational problem for t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding with a class of input and output kernels. The input law has compact support and a density continuous on that support. An entropy equation determines the scale parameter in the input kernel, and we prove that this parameter exi...

Yi Gu, Antonio Auffinger · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Survey on Archetypal Analysis

Archetypal analysis (AA) was originally proposed in 1994 by Adele Cutler and Leo Breiman as a computational procedure for extracting distinct aspects, so-called archetypes, from observations, with each observational record approximated as a mixture (i.e., convex combination) of these archetypes. AA thereby provides str...

Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio, Sebastian Mair et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Networks with Finite VC Dimension: Pro and Contra

Approximation and learning of classifiers of large data sets by neural networks in terms of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory are investigated. The influence of the VC dimension of sets of input-output functions of networks on approximation capabilities is compared with its influence on consiste...

Vera Kurkova, Marcello Sanguineti · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Graphons of Line Graphs

We consider the problem of estimating graph limits, known as graphons, from observations of sequences of sparse finite graphs. In this paper we show a simple method that can shed light on a subset of sparse graphs. The method involves mapping the original graphs to their line graphs. We show that graphs satisfying a pa...

Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi, Cheng Soon Ong · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Quantum Multi-Armed Bandits and Linear Bandits: Lower Bounds and Algorithms

We study quantum multi-armed bandits (QMAB) and quantum linear bandits (QLB), where the learner queries each arm or action through a quantum reward oracle or its inverse. Prior work gives algorithms over horizon $T$ with regret $O(K\log T)$ for QMAB with $K$ arms and $O(d^2\operatorname{polylog} T)$ for $d$-dimensional...

Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, John C. S. Lui · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Sheaf Neural Networks Use Holonomy? A Measure--Intervene--Control Study

Geometric architectures are often motivated by internal mechanisms, but accuracy alone does not show whether predictions use them. In Sheaf Neural Networks (SNNs), edge transports form a connection whose cycle products define holonomy. We ask whether training changes triangle holonomy, whether predictions rely on the l...

Ankit Grover, R\'emi Bourgerie · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

System-Prompt Conditioning and Hidden-State Geometry in Four Open-Weight Models: Corrections and What Survives

Versions 1 and 2 of this preprint reported that an identity-specifying system prompt leaves a geometric fingerprint in the final-layer hidden-state trajectories of four open-weight language models, and that instruction tuning moves this fingerprint from the direction to the magnitude of the hidden-state vector. An audi...

Jorge Castillo Sep\'ulveda, Marco Torres Y\'evenes, Juan Carlos Lanas · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Decision-Focused On-Policy Learning for Contextual Linear Optimization with Partial Feedback

Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictive models by optimizing downstream decision quality rather than standalone prediction accuracy. For contextual linear optimization, most existing DFL methods assume offline data and full observations of the objective cost vector. We develop an on-policy learning method for...

Wyame Benslimane, Tinghan Ye, Pascal Van Hentenryck et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MARGIN: Runtime Confidence Calibration for Multi-Agent Foundation Model Coordination

When a coordinator compares answers from heterogeneous foundation models, self-reported confidence may have different meanings across responders and changing workloads. This paper presents MARGIN (Multi-Agent Runtime Grading via Incremental Normalisation), a runtime calibration method that learns model-specific confide...

Joss Armstrong · 0 citations

Fast Adversarial Attacks with Gradient Prediction

A family of attacks is introduced that eliminates the backward pass by predicting the input gradient from forward-pass hidden states via a lightweight linear regression, and exact affine conditional gradient means are derived.

Kamil Ciosek, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Nicolò Felicioni et al. · 1 citation

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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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