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SACQ: Structured Decoding with Memory-Conditioned Refinement for Long-Horizon Forecasting

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) models predominantly employ patch-based encoders terminated by a flatten readout head that maps the entire encoded historical memory to all future steps through a single shared projection. This implicit coupling of future positions obscures position-specific historical-to-future...

Guo Cheng, Zhengzhuo Xu, Chenchen Jing et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CARE: A Lightweight Plug-in Gated Correction and Uncertainty-aware Module for Long-term Time Series Forecasting

Multivariate long-horizon forecasting is critical to electricity load scheduling and traffic flow management, and to financial risk control. Existing deterministic backbones output a single trajectory, masking heterogeneous prediction difficulty across horizons and channels and providing no localized reliability signal...

Guo Cheng, Changlong Lv, Jingyi Hou · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RideBench: A Large-Scale Exogenous-Aware Benchmark for Ride-Hailing Time Series Forecasting

We release Ride-Hailing, a large-scale ride-hailing time series dataset synthesized from DiDi's marketplace data across 200 spatial areas. Ride-Hailing spans four consecutive years at half-hourly granularity and covers three representative exogenous scenarios: Weather Disturbance, Holiday Effect, and Large-scale Event...

Shengsheng Lin, Jing Hu, Zhengyang Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do LLMs Learn from Rewards in Context? : Rethinking the role of reward in In-Context Reinforcement Learning

LLM agents increasingly improve at inference time by accumulating experience in context rather than by updating parameters. This process is often described as in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL). Whether in-context learning (ICL) can actually play the role of RL, however, has not been tested. We study this questio...

Minchan Kwon, Seunghee Koh, Sunghyun Baek et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Ranking Prior Alignment for Credit Risk Modeling: When Do External Priors Matter?

Cold-start credit scoring -- deploying models with scarce labeled data, weak features, or minimal capacity -- is a recurring problem in financial machine learning. When a new lending product launches, labeled default data is scarce, feature pipelines are immature, and models must be deployed with minimal capacity to av...

Qiye Lu, Jiang Ji, Liang Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

QUILT: Rethinking Sparse-Attention Prefill through Shared Query Execution

Sparse attention reduces the cost of long-context attention, but existing kernels typically process queries independently, repeatedly loading and dequantizing KV entries shared across queries. We observe substantial overlap in the KV entries selected by neighboring queries, creating opportunities for cross-query reuse....

Zhenduo Zhao, Qihui Zhou, Mingcong Song et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Machine Learning Optimization for Enhanced OS Fingerprinting

Operating System (OS) Fingerprinting is a technique that can be used to identify a network's operating systems by evaluating network traffic in the form of TCP/IP packets. This research will explore the effectiveness of passively identifying operating systems on the CIC-IDS2017 dataset, a collection of over 47 gigabyte...

Jae Sung Kim, Spencer Ekeroth, Jeremy Neale · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dynamics as Code: On Model Compression via Dynamic System

The escalating size of pretrained neural networks has rendered model compression a prerequisite for deployment under stringent memory and compute constraints. With the irrational winding as an example, earlier work introduced a dynamic system (DS) paradigm that reconceptualizes compression as compact weight representat...

Fan Gao, Wei Su, Juntong Fan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cova-PINN: Cross-Domain Conservation Physics-Informed Neural Network for Fluid-Solid Conjugate Heat Transfer in Complex Geometries

Multi-domain physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) flexibly model medium-specific representations to solve fluid--solid conjugate heat transfer (CHT). However, standard multi-domain PINNs enforce governing equations and interface conditions on separately sampled domain supports, which can yield plausible temperature...

Weizheng Zhang, Xunjie Xie, Hao Pan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DaCe-DT: Data-Centric Offline Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Prompts and Trajectory Correction for Heterogeneous Tasks

Offline multi-task reinforcement learning (Offline MTRL) heavily depends on the quality and distribution of pre-collected data. However, existing methods mainly focus on algorithmic optimization, with less emphasis on data-level improvements to enhance learning ability and generalization performance. This paper, from a...

Xinfei Wang, Shanchen Pang, Chenhao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Optimally Pacing Budget Spending and Learning

We establish near-optimal regret bounds for budget-constrained online learning against arbitrary classes of budget-pacing experts in the adversarial setting. In particular, given any class of $F$ experts and a candidate budget pacing schedule, we provide a full-information algorithm which obtains regret $O(D \sqrt{\log...

Mark Braverman, Jingyi Liu, Jieming Mao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CityDeploy-Bench: Benchmarking Physics-Grounded Spatial Set Planning for Multi-Transmitter Network Deployment

Automating city-scale wireless deployment remains challenging under complex urban propagation and network-wide interference. We introduce \textbf{CityDeploy-Bench}, a benchmark that reframes multi-transmitter deployment as \emph{physics-grounded spatial set planning} under a unified ray-tracing verifier. The benchmark...

Chenyang Yuan, Xiaoyuan Cheng · 0 citations

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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.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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