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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Symbolic Density Estimators for Unnormalized Distributions

Estimating the symbolic or analytical form of probability density functions (PDFs) from observed samples is a fundamental challenge in statistical and computational modelling. This process is critical for deriving interpretable and generalizable relationships characterizing the underlying phenomenon. Traditionally, thi...

Vikas Kanaujia, Riyansha Singh, Shashank Sharma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Many Repeated Pairwise Comparisons Are Needed for Ranking under Heterogeneity?

We study ranking models by population-average utility from pairwise comparisons when preferences vary across users and tasks. Prior work shows that a single comparison per user can be insufficient to identify the alternative with the highest average utility, even with arbitrarily many users (Golz et al., 2025). We inve...

Shashaank Aiyer, Han Shao · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NEMORA: Neural Equivariant Multipole Operators for Long-Range Atomistic Learning

Equivariant graph neural networks have emerged as foundational architectures for machine-learned interatomic potentials, approaching quantum-chemical accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost. These models describe local atomic environments accurately, but finite spatial cutoffs truncate long-range information f...

Jay L. Kaplan, Samuel Varner, Rebecca Willett et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning infinite context windows in recurrent architectures via spatial neural computing

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) offer linear-time scaling with sequence length while requiring only constant memory, yet they struggle to capture long-range dependencies due to vanishing gradients and limited receptive fields. To address these limitations, we introduce a second-order recurrent model in which the stand...

Aleix Salvador-Pomarol, Arthur N. Montanari, Earl K. Miller et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explaining the Saliency Map Sparsity of Adversarially-Trained Neural Networks

Understanding why deep neural networks make a given prediction is of great importance for their safe deployment. In computer vision, saliency maps, which highlight the image region most influential for a prediction, remain a widely-used form of explanation. An empirical observation is the apparent sparsity of gradient...

Yannick Lunk, Atell Yehor Krasnopolsky, Damien Garreau et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Teaching PPG How not Who: Fixed-Effects Distillation from ECG

ECG is widely used to teach PPG-only models, yet what it teaches is unexamined. Wearables are valued for tracking how a person's cardiovascular state changes, but ECG-to-PPG distillation mostly learns who the person is. A per-recording mean, the trait, holds 40-59% of a frozen ECG teacher's target, and pooled students...

Zhongli Wu, Zhuangzhi Gao, Yuankai Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PXtal: Learning to Align Powder X-Ray Diffraction and Crystal Structures under Information Asymmetry across Modalities

Scientific multimodal learning commonly assumes that paired views are comparably informative. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) makes this mismatch explicit: compressing a three-dimensional crystal structure into a one-dimensional diffraction pattern loses information and makes the pattern harder to connect to the crysta...

Zhuoran Yang, Christopher M. Collins, Bei Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Leakage-Controlled Multimodal Learning for Diagnosis and Progression Prediction in Alzheimer's Disease Research

Alzheimer's disease prediction involves irregular visits, heterogeneous measurements and incomplete modalities. This study presents a multimodal multitask framework combining an adapted SFCN MRI encoder, four causal clinical Transformers, shared fusion and task-specific ODE-GRU dynamics. Fine-tuning and LoRA adapt the...

Akeem Temitope Otapo, Ghazaleh Khodabandelou, Zuheng Ming et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

D-SLR: The Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank Decomposition

Compressing a matrix for reconstruction still defaults to the truncated SVD, approximating the data with a single low-rank structure. It is common to reduce the residual further by adding an overlapping row-sparse component, but methods that solve this joint problem often require iterative solvers and tuning of regular...

Vincent Szolnoky · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sample-Efficiency of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Deep reinforcement learning has achieved substantial performance gains over classical control approaches. Yet, a central challenge to learning in real-world applications is acquiring costly samples. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks are a recently proposed architecture that can learn physical relationships in control problems...

Kevin Riehl, Shaimaa K. El-Baklish, Fan Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Exact SO(3)-Equivariant Isotropic Kernels for Rotation-Robust Neural Dynamics

Neural surrogates for vector-valued partial differential equations can fit training data yet change their predictions when the same physical state is expressed in a rotated coordinate frame. We study this failure on three-dimensional Navier--Stokes dynamics observed at irregularly placed points. We introduce the Invari...

Ridham Patel · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recurrent Self-Improvement: Dynamic Cross-Loop On-Policy Distillation for Looped Language Models

Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) offer a parameter efficient approach to scaling reasoning by reusing shared parameters across recurrent computation steps. Despite their promise, effective post-training of LoopLMs remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide reward based supervision that is sparse or costly...

Yi Wang, Rui Qian, Yu Li et al. · 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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