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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Detecting Control and Response Events for AI-Enabled Radio Access Networks

Next-generation wireless networks are moving toward the use of concurrent AI-driven control functions to optimize different objectives, particularly in AI-RAN and O-RAN architectures. When these functions interact, they can interfere with one another in ways that are difficult to detect from raw network data alone. A k...

Christie Djidjev, Nicholas Kaminski · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A prism hierarchy of learning regimes in large linear autoencoders

Theoretical studies of machine learning models commonly consider different limiting regimes in which the learning dynamics of gradient descent becomes theoretically tractable. It is, however, desirable to have a systematically obtained picture of qualitatively different extreme learning regimes for a particular type of...

Eugene Golikov, Yaroslav Gusev, Dmitry Yarotsky · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gradient-based optimization of nuclear criticality experiments using neural surrogate eigenvalue sensitivities

The validation of advanced nuclear reactor designs and fuel concepts will require the design of new critical experiments with high neutronic similarity to the target technology. Neutronic similarity can be quantified by the correlation coefficient $c_k$, which captures the shared bias in $k_\text{eff}$ induced by uncer...

Will Savage, Logan Burnett, Dean Price · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MAdam: Metric-Aware Multi-Objective Adam

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) underlies many machine learning problems, yet MOO solvers across the loss-balancing, gradient-balancing, and Pareto-based families almost universally hand their reconciled directions to Adam~\citep{kingma2015adam}. We show this coupling introduces two systematic gaps between the solve...

Fengbei Liu, Rachit Saluja, Sunwoo Kwak et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Regret Guarantees for One-Step Lookahead Bayesian Optimization

This paper studies theoretical guarantees of a one-step lookahead Bayesian optimization (BO) method. Although the empirical effectiveness of one-step lookahead BO methods, such as entropy search, has been studied extensively, they often rely on computationally intractable approximations, and their regret guarantees rem...

Shion Takeno · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Open-Weight LLM Fine-Tuning Defenses are Susceptible to Simple Attacks

Recent defenses for safeguarding open-weight large language models (LLMs) are intended to prevent adversarial usage. Underlying these defenses is an assumption that new harmful behavior is learned through fine-tuning rather than elicited by jailbreaking the model. Yet, pretrained LLMs already encode substantial harmful...

Kevin Kuo, Virginia Smith, Chhavi Yadav · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fourier Feature Pyramids for Physics-Informed Neural Networks

We present an improved neural field architecture for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Current physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a flexible framework for solving PDEs, but they struggle to achieve highly accurate solutions and require computation that scales poorly with parameter count. Our...

Brandon Zhao, Yixuan Wang, Jonathan T. Barron et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Set-Valued Policy Learning

Conventional treatment policies map patient covariates to a single recommended intervention in order to maximize expected clinical outcomes. However, when multiple treatments yield statistically indistinguishable outcomes or when treatment has no effect, recommending a single intervention may result in somewhat arbitra...

Laura Fuentes-Vicente, Mathieu Even, Ga\"elle Dormion et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Exact Convex Reformulations of Linear Neural Networks via Completely Positive Lifting

We show that the training problem of a deep linear neural network under the squared loss admits an exact convex reformulation in a lifted space over a generalized completely positive cone. The reformulation has the same optimal value as the original nonconvex problem and is linear in the lifted variables, with all nonc...

Karthik Prakhya, Alp Yurtsever · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Value of Mechanistic Priors in Sequential Decision Making

Hybrid mechanistic models, physical priors with learned residuals, promise to reduce the data required for good decisions, but have no computable criterion to test this. We characterize the value of mechanistic priors in sequential decision-making within both asymptotic and burn-in regimes. To formalize this, we introd...

Itai Shufaro, Gal Benor, Shie Mannor · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Geometry-Aware Discretization Error of Diffusion Models

Practical diffusion sampling requires simulating a reverse-time ODE or SDE with a limited number of denoising steps, making the choice of sampling parameters crucial for minimizing discretization error. Non-asymptotic convergence bounds characterize sampling complexity, but their worst-case constants can obscure target...

Samuel Hurault, Thomas Moreau, Gabriel Peyr\'e · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tree SAE: Learning Hierarchical Feature Structures in Sparse Autoencoders

Learning hierarchical features in Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) is essential for capturing the structured nature of real-world data and mitigating issues like feature absorption or splitting. Existing works attempt to identify hierarchical relationships within independent feature sets by relying on activation coverage, th...

Tue M. Cao, Hoang X. Nhat, Raed Alharbi et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

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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