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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SparseDecoding: Decoding-Aware Pruning for Accurate and Efficient LLM Inference

The memory-bound nature of the decoding stage of large language model (LLM) inference incurs significant latency. Layer-wise training-free network pruning approaches guided by the Hessian have been a prominent solution to this problem, as pruning reduces the number of nonzero parameters read from memory during decoding...

Qi-Tong Wang, Xin-Wei Niu, Min Su et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

AdaptLSTM: Efficient Adaptive Online Learning for Cloud Workload Forecasting under Distribution Drift

Accurate workload forecasting is critical for elastic resource provisioning in web-scale cloud services, where distribution shifts driven by viral content, product launches, and user behavior degrade offline-trained models rapidly. Naive online learning recovers accuracy but incurs prohibitive per-step compute cost. We...

Xin-Hua Miao, Bo-Wei Yang, Zhen-Gong Cai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

RIFT: Relative Isolation From Trees For Anomaly Detection

Isolation Forest (IF) is a widely used baseline for unsupervised anomaly detection. Recent studies provide a closed-form expression for the infinite-forest limit for one-dimensional data. Inspired by the geometric interpretation of this formula, we introduce RIFT (Relative Isolation From Trees), a deterministic anomaly...

Márk Dániel Szalai, Gábor Horváth · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Training on the Future: A Delay-Aware Audit of Test-Time Adaptation for Time-Series Forecasting

Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods for time-series forecasting update a deployed model, or a small adapter around it, from incoming ground truth. But the label of an $H$-step forecast exists only $H$ steps later, and real data pipelines add further delay. We build a leakage-free harness in which the label of forecast o...

Mohamed Readh Fentazi, Mazene Ameur, Adlen Ksentini · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Verification with Transfer: Exact Information Frontiers and Their Price in Calls

A verifier that accepts or rejects whole answers reveals little: under a flat prior over $k$-bit answers, zero error needs $2^k-1$ verifications. The usual remedy is to solve related source tasks, either all first, as a curriculum does, or interleaved with verification. We price this remedy in information and in calls....

Hazar Yueksel · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

DataSense-Bench: The First Step Toward an AI Scientist

As claims about recursive self-improvement (RSI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI) proliferate, we ask a simple question: do frontier AI models have a sense of data, i.e., can they reliably select the right data for training? We introduce DataSense-Bench to study this capability through the fundamental problem...

Yudi Zhang, Ming-Yu Cao, Lu Yin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Just Weather Scoring: Efficient End-to-end Nowcasting with Distributional Diffusion

Generative diffusion models are well-suited for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting, but existing approaches often rely on separately trained compression or deterministic forecasting components and remain costly at inference due to iterative denoising. We introduce Just Weather Scoring (JWS), a single-stage, end-to-...

Jannik Wiese, Johannes Schusterbauer, Tommaso Martorella et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Is Real-World Training Data Necessary for Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection?

Generalist graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to build a foundation model that detects anomalies on arbitrary unseen graphs without retraining or fine-tuning. Sufficient data are essential for foundation model training, yet generalist GAD still faces a data shortage, as real-world anomalous graphs are scarce and costly...

Yu-Jing Liu, Yi-Xin Liu, Yue Tan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When KL Regularization Misfires in Group Policy Optimization

Why does removing reference-policy KL regularization sometimes improve group policy optimization? This motivates studying how reference-policy information should enter group-relative updates. We analyze seven potential failure modes in the interactions between KL and rewards: residual KL updates after reward clipping,...

Fei Ding · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Toward Optimal Regret in Adversarial MDPs with Stochastic Hard Constraints

We study episodic constrained Markov decision processes with adversarial losses under stochastic hard constraints. Specifically, starting from a known strictly feasible policy with margin $d$, we seek to obtain optimal regret while satisfying the expected cost constraints in every episode. In this setting, Stradi et al...

Qiang Zuo, F. Stradi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Bayesian Optimisation under State-Preservation Constraints

In many engineering design problems, the objective and constraints depend on the state: the solution of a PDE determined by the design parameters. We consider improving a design while holding selected state observables near trusted values, which we call state preservation constraints. Constrained Bayesian optimisation...

Gabriel Diaz-Aylwin, Vignesh Gopakumar, Omkar Myatra et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Large-Scale Benchmarking of Quantum Neural Network Configurations for Financial Time Series Forecasting

A large-scale systematic comparative evaluation of QNN component configurations for financial time series forecasting, using the GBP/USD spot exchange rate as a case study, provides practical architectural guidance for QNN design and establishes a baseline characterisation of QNN noise sensitivity on near-term quantum...

Jack Waller, Xing Liang, Dimitrios Makris et al. · 0 citations

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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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