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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Randomized Transport Maps for Model-Free Policy-Gradient Mean-Field Control

We develop a model-free policy gradient method for discrete-time mean-field control (MFC). In MFC, the policy affects the objective both through the controlled dynamics and through the population distribution. Standard REINFORCE estimators capture the first effect but not the second. We introduce Transport REINFORCE, a...

Adonis Jamal, Samy Mekkaoui, Yadh Hafsi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Embedding-Bias in Conditional Independence Testing

To test conditional independence of $X$ and $Y$ given a text or an image $Z$, one conditions on an embedding $\psi(Z)$ in place of $Z$. The embedded test is valid if $Z$ is independent of $X$ or of $Y$ given $\psi(Z)$, which cannot be confirmed from data, and when this fails, the rejection probability under the null hy...

Nikolaj Thams, Anton Rask Lundborg · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LAIR-Net: Leaky Alignment-Impulse Residual Networks for Tabular Regression

Deep randomized models fix hidden-layer parameters through random initialization and learn only closed-form readouts, typically adding depth by stacking random trans formations without target-aware control of hidden-state evolution. We propose LAIR Net, the Leaky Alignment-Impulse Residual Network, which mixes a shallo...

Rahul Goswami, Aryan Bhambu, Bittu Karmakar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Efficient Quantum Circuit for Flow Model Execution Using Quantum Neural Networks

Flow models generate trajectories from an initial distribution to a target distribution by solving an ordinary differential equation defined by a velocity field. Flow matching learns this velocity field by modeling the transport dynamics between the two distributions. Wavefunction flow establishes a formal connection b...

Rui Che, Ludvig af Klinteberg · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

HAND: A Biologically-Inspired Activation Function that Improves Generalisation and Sample Efficiency in Image Classification

DNNs exhibit robustness and generalisation issues not seen in humans. They are also far less data-efficient learners, requiring considerably more training samples to accurately classify novel exemplars. Inductive bias could help with these issues by providing in-built mechanisms to improve generalisation, and hence, re...

M. Spratling, Heiko Schutt · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning qBIC Resonances across Metasurface Families in Dielectric Fourier Space

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) metasurfaces are typically described by geometry-specific parameters, hindering cross-geometry comparison, while ultranarrow qBIC features are easily diluted in full-spectrum learning. Here, 2015 samples from seven dielectric metasurface families are mapped to a shared reciprocal-lat...

Shuangteng Lei, Li Yu, Tianxin Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PSI-SINDy: Post-Selection Inference for Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics

Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a data-driven framework for discovering governing dynamics from time-series data by identifying a sparse subset of candidate dynamical terms from a prespecified library. In this work, we develop a statistical inference framework for quantifying the reliability of d...

Ashraful Islam, Shuichi Nishino, Tomohiro Shiraishi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Feature Space Adaptation for Effortless Gaussian Process Flows

Outside the linear-Gaussian regime, conditional sampling from Gaussian processes (GPs) is challenging. Recent methods such as FlowGP (Moss et al., (2026)) can condition on arbitrary non-linear and non-Gaussian statements, but at considerable cost: an expensive iterative and high-dimensional diffusion that requires hand...

T. Cowperthwaite, Louis Sharrock, L. Astfalck et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

BioBigBird: A Sparse Attention Model for Long-Range Dependency Processing in Biomedical Text

While domain-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) have encoded vast biomedical knowledge, their limited context windows often hinder a deep understanding of nuanced relationships within and across texts. To address this limitation, we introduce BioBigBird, a bidirectional language model pre-trained on extensive biomed...

Roshan Balaji, S. Pavan Kumar, Vasudev Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Causal-fate dynamics of unrealized influence

Many dynamical systems generate influences whose consequences are not fully exhausted in the realized trajectory at the moment they arise. Such consequences are often treated as absent, delayed or statically stored, leaving unclear how unrealized influence retains future relevance as the system evolves. Here we formula...

Yiwei Liu, Luwei Yang, Shunbo Lei · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Refinement as a Service: Algorithmic Predictor Refinement

Prediction aggregation aims to combine information from multiple predictors into a more informative one. We study this question in the setting of calibrated predictors, where each prediction must equal the conditional expectation of the quantity being predicted given the predictor's signal. Given several calibrated inp...

Wei Tang, Hanrui Zhang · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

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

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