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...
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
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
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly popular, caching responses so that they can be reused by users with semantically similar queries has become a vital strategy for reducing inference costs and latency. Existing caching frameworks have proposed to decide which query responses to cache by assuming a fini...
Baran Atalar, Xutong Liu, Jinhang Zuo et al.· 0 citations
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Automated algorithm selection for continuous black-box optimization depends on what information is acquired from a problem under a limited probing budget and how that information is represented. We introduce a geometric probing framework that samples multi-scale two-dimensional restrictions across location, orientation...
Diffusion language models generate text through iterative refinement, a process that is often computationally inefficient because many tokens reach stability long before the final denoising step. We introduce a training-free, token-level early stopping approach that identifies convergence independently at each position...
Zakhar Kohut, Severyn Shykula, Mykola Vysotskyi et al.· 0 citations
A single text prompt passed to a diffusion model yields a wide range of visual outputs determined solely by a stochastic process, leaving users with no direct control over which semantic variations appear. Exploring this range is difficult: random search offers no guarantee of covering it, while prompt editing is coars...
Pawe{\l} Skier\'s, Emilia Kaczmarczyk, Tomasz Trzci\'nski et al.· 0 citations
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown stunning results in complex tasks, yet they often operate in isolation, failing to learn from past experiences. Existing memory-based methods primarily store raw trajectories, which are often redundant and noise-heavy. This prevents agents from extracting high-level, reusabl...
Peng Xia, Jianwen Chen, Hanyang Wang et al.· 0 citations
While generative modeling facilitates probabilistic time series forecasting, incorporating heterogeneous exogenous information remains challenging. Diffusion Transformers (DiT) provide a scalable framework for conditional generation, yet their adaptation to forecasting calls for conditioning mechanisms tailored to time...
Haoran Zhang, Haixuan Liu, Yong Liu et al.· 0 citations
We present PrismSSL, a Python library that unifies state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) methods across audio, vision, graphs, and cross-modal settings in a single, modular codebase. The goal of the demo is to show how researchers and practitioners can: (i) install, configure, and run pretext training with a...
Melika Shirian, Kianoosh Vadaei, Kian Majlessi et al.· 0 citations
Membership inference attacks (MIAs) have emerged as the standard tool for evaluating the privacy risks of AI models. However, state-of-the-art attacks require training numerous, often computationally expensive, reference models, limiting their practicality. We present a novel approach for estimating model-level vulnera...
Euodia Dodd, Nata\v{s}a Kr\v{c}o, Igor Shilov et al.· 0 citations
The manifold hypothesis suggests that data lies on manifolds with smaller intrinsic dimension (ID) than their ambient dimension. However there is no empirical agreement on the estimates for ID from different estimators for realistic datasets. Thus it is important to test ID estimators (IDEs) with targeted stressors. In...
Aritra Das, Joseph T. Iosue, Victor V. Albert· 0 citations
Exploring how generative AI could make machine vision more accessible to businesses. The post GenEye in a Box: Making Machine Vision Something You Can Just Ask For appeared first on GPT-Lab.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 7, 2026
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.
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.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 6, 2026