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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Deflating the Hessian: Rank-4 W4A4 Quantization for Multimodal Diffusion Transformers

HSVDQuant is presented, a unified framework modeling low-rank-assisted W4A4 PTQ as a coupled calibration problem and deriving optimization-based solvers from the joint objective, which achieves better W4A4 performance with substantially lower rank and quantization cost.

Shi-Wen Wang, Peng-Xiang Zhao, Xiao-Ming Yuan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NP-Hardness of Minimizing Neurons in Two-Hidden-Layer ReLU Neural Networks

A fundamental question in neural network architecture optimization is whether the minimum hidden-neuron count required to approximate a target function within a prescribed tolerance can be computed efficiently. This paper resolves this question for two-hidden-layer ReLU networks under an $L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R}^m)...

Sangrock Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Memorization and Malign Generalization in Conditional Diffusion Models with Random Features

Conditional diffusion models generate diverse, novel, and high-quality samples under prescribed conditions. However, theoretical understanding of their memorization and generalization remains limited, while recent works have characterized these behaviors primarily in unconditional settings. In this work, we analyze a r...

Gwangho Kim, Sungyoon Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Residual spectral instabilities in representation learning

Learned representations can lose latent degrees of freedom successively, suggesting a cascade of transitions whose underlying stability principle remains unclear. Here we formulate dimension-wise posterior collapse in variational autoencoder (VAE) as a fluctuation theory around partially collapsed states. Interpreting...

Zhen Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Why On-Policy Distillation Sometimes Fails: Vanishing Learning Signals

A local recovery guarantee for teachers sufficiently close to the initial student in a shared parameterization under regularity conditions is proved, offering a conditional explanation for the success of self-RL teachers in the authors' experiments.

Lei Zhao, Qi-Chao Zhao, Bo-Wen Zuo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Read What Matters: Query-Adaptive Quantization for KV Caches

KV-cache entries are stored before their future queries are known, but each decoding query needs precision in different places. We study this mismatch using separate budgets for retained bits and bits fetched per query. ReadKV stores each key and value in a progressive code whose prefixes support different reconstructi...

Siddharth Bhandari, Lucas Gretta, K. Balasubramanian et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Low-Cost Sensor Calibration for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring: A Dataset, Evaluation Scenarios, and a Lightweight Model

Low-cost sensors enable scalable indoor air quality monitoring but require calibration because of nonlinear distortions, noise, and temporal drift. The conventional strict pairwise calibration setting requires a co-located reference sensor at each deployment location and does not account for spatial and temporal hetero...

Jinyong Yun, Seokho Ahn, Hyungjin Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SteerCast: Retrieval-Based Latent Steering for Decoder-Only Time Series Forecasting

Time series forecasting aims to predict future values from historical observations and auxiliary features. We propose \textbf{SteerCast}, a retrieval-based latent steering method that improves decoder-only forecaster at inference time, without updating its parameters. SteerCast constructs a database from the training s...

Van Dai Do, Huu Hiep Nguyen, Minh Hoang Nguyen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multimodal Graph Retrieval-Augmented Sequential Recommendation via Collaborative Filtering Paths

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation through their ability to reason over complex multimodal data. However, existing approaches either rely solely on the target user's own interaction history, neglecting collaborative signals from neighboring users, o...

Jason Marcell Setiadi, Xin Cao, Lina Yao · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Lattice of Transition Laws

Diffusion and autoregression (AR) have long been seen as different categories of generative models, with diffusion specialising in continuous fields and AR specialising in discrete tokens. Recent work seeks to combine the advantages of the two models, and each hybrid fixes its decoding schedule by design. In this paper...

Tin-Yan Tsui, Jia-Tao Gu, Ling-Jie Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Bridging KV-Cache Quantization and Linear Attention: From Theory to Pretrained Weight Migration

KV-cache quantization and linear attention are two representative approaches to tackling the storage and computational costs of Transformers. KV-cache quantization compresses individual KV entries into discrete codes but retains all entries, whereas linear attention recurrently aggregates multiple historical KV contrib...

Kai-Cheng Xiao, Li-Ran Dong, Hao-Tian Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Flatter Minima Drive Better Generalization? An Algorithmic Separation in Grokking

Flat loss landscapes have long been linked to better generalization in neural networks. However, its role as a causal mechanism for generalization is less established. Grokking provides an unique testbed to understand this distinction: models are prone to fit observed data using non-generalizing structure and remain in...

Mohnish Harwani · 0 citations

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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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