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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Forecasting Corpus-Sampling Disagreement in Masked Text Reconstruction

If a second text corpus were collected from the same population, how much would a predictor's outputs change? We study this question for masked-text reconstruction using a smoothed predictor built from nearby token-pair counts and evaluated over the full 50,257-token GPT-2 vocabulary. Treating each source document as o...

Hare Krishna · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scan-Parallel Variational Inference for event-driven Latent Jump Models

Continuous-time latent state-space models are widely used for irregularly observed time series, typically representing uncertainty through a random initial state followed by smooth ordinary differential equation (ODE) dynamics, or Brownian perturbations accumulated by a stochastic differential equation (SDE). While the...

Vansh Bansal, Min Chen, James G. Scott · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

NucleoNet: A Nuclear-Aware Determinant Ansatz for Multi-Geometry Neural Variational Monte Carlo

Neural-network variational Monte Carlo provides an accurate route to solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation, but many neural wavefunctions are optimized for a single nuclear geometry, requiring separate calculations to map out a potential energy surface. We introduce NucleoNet, a nuclear-aware determinant ansatz...

Qiao-You Gao, Yang Huang, En-Ze Hou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including high cost, limited elasticity, and long wait times under resource constraints. At the same time, modern Apple Silicon-based macOS devices are equipped with powerful GPUs that remain...

Jianhua Li, Yun Xing, Girisha De Silva et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Imbalance to Evidence: Deep Nonparametric Testing for Complex Data under Severe Sample Imbalance

Comparing distributions under severe sample imbalance requires effectively using abundant majority observations while retaining sensitivity to differences involving the smaller sample. This challenge is particularly relevant for complex, non-Euclidean data, such as graphs, whose structural characteristics call for flex...

Guanhao Zhou, Xiufan Yu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Dictionary Learning for Measure-Valued Data via Linearized Optimal Transport: Efficient Algorithms and Sample Complexity

We study dictionary learning for probability measure-valued data by embedding measures into Hilbert spaces using features derived from optimal transport geometry. We learn data-adapted dictionaries through sparse autoencoder parameterizations, producing fast, scalable representations of probability measures as sparse f...

Brendan Mallery, Shuchin Aeron, James Murphy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Second-Order Information: Paid Logistic Regression with Noisy Features

We consider online binary prediction with paid stochastic features, where the learner can spend resources to obtain better observations of the underlying features. This setting is motivated by applications such as medical testing, where additional cost can provide more precise measurements of patient's features for pre...

Sanghwan Kim, Kyoungseok Jang, Seyoung Yun · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

BLEND: Balancing Personalization vs. Generalization in Federated Vision-Language Models

Federated vision-language models (FedVLMs) represent one of the emerging frontiers of machine learning, aiming to integrate federated learning within the fine-tuning pipelines of vision-language models (VLMs). In this work, we introduce BLEND, a new framework designed to jointly enhance the personalization and generali...

Payam Abdisarabshali, Fardis Nadimi, Kasra Borazjani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation

In continuous diffusion language models (DLMs), latents generated by the diffusion prior are mapped almost deterministically to tokens, either by a decoder or through a token embedding matrix. Unlike in image generation, where visual details can vary continuously, the diffusion prior must capture fine-grained discrete...

Jin-Jin He, Xin-Song Feng, Lu-Cheng Fu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Generalized Determinantal Point Processes for Attraction and Repulsion with Distinct Interaction Kernels

The determinant-ratio point process (DRPP), which models repulsion and attraction via a ratio of the determinants of two symmetric positive-definite kernels, is proposed, which preserves the feature-based interpretation of standard DPPs while allowing the two effects to be specified separately.

Hideaki Ishibashi, Takahiro Kawashima, H. Hino · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Solvers Get Moody: Quantifying and Predicting Performance Variability in Mixed Integer Programming

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers are widely used, yet their performance can vary substantially even under seemingly neutral perturbations. Such variability complicates benchmarking, and the interpretation of computational studies. We introduce the Weighted Variability Score (WVS), a robust multi-component metric...

Mourchid Adegbindin, Brenda Dietrich, Jamol Pender et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Universal Bounds for Self-Normalized Kullback-Leibler Estimation

This work studies an entropy-based estimator of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence constructed from normalized importance weights. We prove a universal finite-sample bound showing that its expectation can exceed the target-proposal KL divergence by at most $\log 2$ for any sample size. We then characterize the KL diverge...

Buu Phan, L. Mackey, David Alvarez-Melis · 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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