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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continuous Semantic Caching for Low-Cost LLM Serving

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Geometric Probing for Algorithm Selection in Continuous Black-Box Optimization

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...

Jiabao Brad Wang, Xiang Shi, Yiliang Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Just on Time: Token-Level Early Stopping for Diffusion Language Models

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ELROND: Exploring and decomposing intrinsic capabilities of diffusion models

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DiTS: Multimodal Diffusion Transformers Are Time Series Forecasters

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PrismSSL: One Interface, Many Modalities; A Single-Interface Library for Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Estimating Model-Level Membership Inference Vulnerability Without Reference Models

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HomID : Benchmarking Intrinsic Dimension Estimators on Homogenous Manifolds with Anisotropic Embeddings

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Modified Loss of Momentum Gradient Descent: Fine-Grained Analysis

We analyze gradient descent with Polyak (1964) heavy-ball momentum (HB) whose fixed momentum hyperparameter $\beta \in (0, 1)$ provides exponential decay of memory. Building on Kovachki and Stuart (2021), we prove that on an exponentially attractive invariant manifold the algorithm is exactly plain gradient descent wit...

Matias D. Cattaneo, Boris Shigida · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Causal Posterior Estimation

We present Causal Posterior Estimation (CPE), a novel method for Bayesian inference in simulator models, where evaluating the likelihood function is intractable or computationally expensive, but generating outputs given parameter values is straightforward. CPE approximates the posterior distribution using flow matching...

Simon Dirmeier, Antonietta Mira · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Utility and Complexity of in- and out-of-Distribution Machine Unlearning

Machine unlearning, the process of selectively removing data from trained models, is increasingly crucial for addressing privacy concerns and knowledge gaps post-deployment. Despite this importance, existing approaches are often heuristic and lack formal guarantees. In this paper, we analyze the fundamental utility, ti...

Youssef Allouah, Joshua Kazdan, Rachid Guerraoui et al. · 0 citations

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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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