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
Heavy-tailed noise has been widely observed in modern machine learning, motivating the use of methods like gradient clipping and normalization. While these methods are well understood in centralized settings, much less is known in decentralized ones, where applying a nonlinearity to local gradients affects both optimiz...
Aleksandar Armacki, H. Cai, Ali H. Sayed· 0 citations
The sensitivity to instruction phrasing is characterized with statistically tested single-edit swings and an oracle phrase search, which shows that phrasing alone nearly closes the 21-point gap between in-distribution and out-of-distribution tasks.
Small tabular datasets with expert-designed spectral features are the norm in
operational Earth observation, and the networks applied to them are typically
hand-designed. We revisit one such published model -- a Sentinel-2 algal
bloom classifier -- and ask what architecture search adds, holding the task,
the fe...
Kursat Komurcu, Linas Petkevicius· 0 citations
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We study the best arm identification problem in a stochastic environment with a novel form of adversarial perturbations, which we coin Shifting Means. While classically the mean rewards of the $K$ arms are stable in time, in Shifting Means only the gaps $\boldsymbol{\Delta}$ between mean rewards are stable, while their...
Lukas Zierahn, Wouter M. Koolen, Shubhada Agrawal et al.· 0 citations
Rapid and accurate prediction of urban wind and temperature fields is important for urban microclimate design and climate adaptation. Large-eddy simulation (LES) effectively resolves these instantaneous fields, but its application is limited in iterative design of urban microclimate applications due to high computation...
Peng Liu, Shaoxiang Qin, Theodore Potsis et al.· 0 citations
Gradient observations promise more accurate Gaussian process (GP) surrogates, but the cost of incorporating them has long stood in the way of realizing that promise. We propose a derivative GP with a budget of just two directions per observed gradient. One direction focuses on each gradient's direct contribution to tar...
SteerSpeech is presented, a lightweight activation-steering framework that controls emotion by injecting steering vectors into hidden activations that encourages monotonic emotion control while preserving speaker identity and linguistic content, constraining steering drift, and keeping the TTS backbone frozen.
A. Benazir, Darius Petermann, Felix Xiaozhu Lin et al.· 0 citations
General-purpose agents increasingly write code, use tools, and complete complex digital tasks, raising the question of how far these capabilities carry into the physical world. To investigate this, we introduce RobotWorld, a challenging simulation testbed for robot use: turning instructions and observations into physic...
Zhiqin Yang, Chen-Xin Li, Xiao-Meng Hu et al.· 2 citations
The sharp bound of $n(n-1)$ vertices for $n\ge2$ is proved, answering Rote's rotation-assignment open problem, and assignment-based bounds extend the approach to three-dimensional rotations and partial matching at a supplied translation through branch-and-bound.
Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome· 0 citations
Models can be retrained as new data arrive, but deploying every new version risks replacing a good policy with a worse one. We study how to plan policy updates (i.e., meta-policy) before future candidates are trained, balancing the benefits of improvement against the risk of performance regression. Our offline meta-pol...
We study decentralized adaptive sensing, where multiple agents choose measurements from evolving local beliefs while exchanging information over a communication graph. We ask whether the measurements actually selected by an adaptive policy have collected enough evidence to distinguish the true target from every plausib...
Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 28, 2026
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 27, 2026
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write a book.