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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

History, Adaptation, and Hidden Gain: Two Prospective Tests of Learned Predictive Control in a Synthetic Neural Population

We study learned one-step predictive control of a synthetic population of 64 leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose light sensitivity is scaled by a hidden factor s, using two prospective confirmations on plants simulated only after the analysis was frozen. In the first (50 plants, 11 conditions), removing the 200-ms i...

Mahesh Reddy Pagadala · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Oct 2026

ConformalGuard: False-Positive-Controlled Action Gating for LM Classifiers

Language model classifiers are increasingly deployed for high-stakes decisions such as phishing screening, content moderation, and fraud triage, yet validation-set thresholds provide no finite-sample control of deployment-time false positives. We present ConformalGuard, a model-agnostic calibration layer that wraps a f...

Bishnu Bista, Dhanraj Haibatrao Jadhav, Vibha Choudhary et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Sample Complexity of Multicalibration with an ERM Oracle

A predictor is multicalibrated with respect to a class of subpopulations (formally, of functions on the inputs, called auditors) if, for every subpopulation in the class and every value the predictor outputs, the average outcome among the members of that subpopulation who receive that value is close to the value itself...

Princewill Okoroafor · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Class-Conditional Conformal Prediction for Signal Temporal Logic Inference with Many Classes

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) inference provides interpretable formulas for time series classification. For multiclass classification, however, accurate predictions do not necessarily ensure that the inferred formulas are satisfied consistently with the true class. We introduce the positive satisfaction rate and codeword...

Yixuan Wang, Danyang Li, Matthew Cleaveland et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

On the Depth Transfer of Neural Optimizers via L-Smoothness

Scaling deep learning models efficiently requires predictable performance transfer across compute regimes. Establishing reliable hyperparameter transfer allows optimal training dynamics and structural choices to be discovered on low-cost proxy models, avoiding catastrophic failures during massive-scale training. Existi...

Maximilian Wong, Chen-Yu Xu, Jia-Jin Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continuous-Time Cloth Dynamics with Physics-Informed Neural ODEs

We present ContinuousCloth, a continuous-time, physics-informed neural solver for deformable cloth dynamics that enforces a spring--mass ODE within a neural trajectory model. Unlike classical time-stepping simulators that return trajectories only on a discrete integration grid, ContinuousCloth supports querying at arbi...

Yingdong Ru, Lipeng Zhuang, Zhuo He et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Decentralized Bandit Learning of Markov Perfect Equilibria

We study decentralized bandit learning in discounted infinite-horizon, general-sum Markov games with continuous actions. Agents observe the public state, but only their own realized rewards, and use simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation to update their actions. Under strong monotonicity of the negative run...

Felix H\"ofer, H. Mete Soner · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to See through Action: Predictive Curiosity for Robots

Humans and animals do not learn vision from a fixed set of data: they move, interact, and learn from the visual consequences of their actions. Motivated by this developmental view, we study whether robots can improve visual learning by actively collecting experience through curiosity-driven interaction. We introduce Dy...

Stelios Zarifis, P. Filntisis, George Retsinas et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Layer-wise Input Recoverability in Deep Neural Networks

The inner workings of deep neural networks are still not well understood. The information bottleneck framework, which characterizes deep networks by the mutual information between their hidden representations and the network's input, has been used to identify compression of input information with respect to an input im...

M. Spiridonov, Alireza Rahmansetayesh, Pierre Baldi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Variance Fingerprints: Component-Wise Identification of Content Factors by Augmentation Design

Augmentation-based self-supervised learning can recover the content shared across views without separating its underlying factors into individual coordinates. We ask whether augmentations can be designed to make those factors identifiable. Our approach allows content factors to fluctuate across augmented views while pr...

D. Hudson Smith · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Artificial Neural Networks Need Dendritic Nanotubes? Two Reasons for Shrinking Importance Estimates in Continual Learning

Regularization-based continual learning protects each parameter in proportion to an estimate of its importance, yet these estimates come from finite samples and heuristics and are used as if they were exact. We report four studies that start from a biologically inspired mechanism and end with a statistical explanation...

Saurav K. Aryal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive-Depth Is a Finishing Stage

Looped transformers reuse the same layer multiple times, allowing inference compute to be adjusted without changing the model. Recent adaptive-depth methods train the model across multiple loop depths from the beginning of training. We introduce fixed-first training, which varies model depth only during a short final p...

Andrei Piterbarg, Sean McLeish, Dhruv Pai et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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