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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Prompt Optimizers Break Requirements They Are Not Scored On? A Preregistered Study

Prompt optimizers rewrite a prompt to raise one target metric, but prompts also state requirements the metric does not score, such as an output format, citations, or abstention. In a preregistered study, we run GEPA, MIPROv2, and TextGrad on HotpotQA, SQuAD 2.0, and IFEval and count per-item violations of unscored requ...

Sangdo Han, Moonsoo Kim · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CV-OPD: Contrastive Vision On-policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) reveals versatility and convenience during VLM post-training, providing dense supervision for student from teacher. However, we observed an anomaly that the distilled VLM could still answer the questions accurately even when the related visual regions were masked or replaced with noise. Bui...

Haowei Wang, Hao Lin, Qi Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Predictability Bias of Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning in Medical Imaging

TAP-JEPA is introduced, a ViT-B/3D trained on 113,611 CT volumes that is competitive with state-of-the-art encoders in scan-level classification and shows that contextual predictability is not a sufficient proxy for clinical relevance in medical representation learning.

F. Drexel, B. Kainz, J. Kather et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Golden Anchor for Video Generation

Video generation supports digital content creation, with applications in virtual avatars, AI-driven filmmaking, interactive game engines, and world models. State-of-the-art systems achieve controllability primarily through image-to-video (I2V) generation, in which an injected anchor image determines the identity, compo...

Jinyuan Xu, Shitong Shao, Lichen Bai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Verifiable Sampling for Delegated Generative Quantum Machine Learning

Generative machine learning has shown remarkable results across a wide range of interdisciplinary tasks, motivating significant efforts toward Quantum Generative Models as a path to beyond-classical performance, given their capability of generating classically intractable distributions. However, comparatively little at...

Matteo Inajetovic, Anna Pappa, Petros Wallden · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Prediction-Informed Landing Window Planning for UAV Landing on USV in High Sea States

Autonomous landing of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is difficult in high sea states. Existing hierarchical landing methods often infer future USV motion only implicitly from short observation histories, which limits their ability to adapt to severe and rapidly changing sea conditions....

Kai Li, Xi Zhou, Dan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neurograf v1: An End-to-End Romanian-First Language Model Family

We present Neurograf v1, an experimental end-to-end Romanian-first language-model pipeline developed to investigate the feasibility of training language models from scratch for a lower-resource European language. The pipeline comprises RoSfera, a 635 GB Romanian corpus containing 175.7 million documents; an 80k byte-le...

Ionut Adrian Rotaru · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fast Gradient-Based Approximation of Continuous Dynamic Time Warping

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a common choice for measuring the discrepancy between time series. It proceeds by finding an optimal warping between timestamps through dynamic programming, which can be slow and is not differentiable. Consequently, several variants have been proposed. Among them, Soft-DTW proposes a smoot...

Pierre Houedry, Romain Tavenard, Nicolas Courty et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why Heavy-Tailed Weight Spectra Predict Model Quality

A solid understanding of the predictive success of deep neural networks (DNNs) remains elusive. For example, while many data-dependent metrics exist that seek to predict model quality of DNNs, these metrics may be expensive to compute for large datasets and/or may be impossible to compute when training datasets are not...

Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Limits of Query Monitoring against Distributed Model Extraction

Model providers now face distillation campaigns run through thousands of accounts, each of which looks like an ordinary user. When network and payment metadata cannot link those accounts, the only evidence left is what they ask. We study what a provider can and cannot learn from those queries alone, using one million r...

Snigdha Chandan Khilar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lightweight Time-Frequency Vibration Sensing for Consumer Device Condition Monitoring

Consumer rotating devices, including washing machines, air conditioners, electric fans, robotic vacuum cleaners, and home fitness equipment, increasingly rely on vibration sensing for intelligent condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. Ensuring reliable operation in these resource-constrained appliances requir...

Po-Heng Chou, Jen-Yu Chiu, Chun-Yu Yeh et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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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