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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

OrBIT: Structure-Guided Embedding Compression

Embedding tables are among the largest components of modern language models. Most compression methods fix a coding geometry such as coordinate blocks, low-rank subspaces, or unrestricted codebooks, and optimize within it. We instead ask whether the coding geometry can itself be discovered. We introduce \emph{OrBIT}, a...

Yunied Puig, Amit Kumar Jaiswal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Boosting and the Expressive Power of Simple Weak Learners via the $\gamma$-VC Dimension

Boosting converts weak hypotheses with a small edge over random guessing into highly accurate predictors, but the expressive power of the resulting classifier can depend strongly on the structure of the base class. We study this phenomenon through the $\gamma$-VC dimension introduced by Alon et al. (STOC 2021). Our fir...

Arthur da Cunha, Kasper Green Larsen, Liang-Yu Zou · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ResidualQuant: KV Cache Quantization for Looped Transformers with 2-Bit Residuals

Looped Transformers improve parameter efficiency by repeatedly applying shared Transformer blocks over multiple recurrent loops, increasing computational depth without increasing the parameter count. However, KV cache memory still scales with the number of loops, becoming a key memory bottleneck that limits batch size...

Hee-jung Kim, Junyoung Lee, SangLyul Cho et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continual Learning without Continual Training

Continual learning requires models to adapt to new domains and new classes while retaining prior knowledge. Many existing methods rely on continued optimization, using regularization, replay, or parameter expansion to prevent new updates from overwriting previously learned knowledge. Instead, we propose replacing conti...

Nikita Narayanan, Ritham Majumdarr, Sonali Parbhoo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Input-Blind Controls Produce Substantial Oracle Headroom for Layer Programs in Multiple-Choice Evaluation

Adaptive computation aims to improve language-model inference by tailoring execution to each input. For layer programs, oracle evaluations use known answers to estimate the potential gain from this flexibility, before a practical selector is available. However, a gain from selection does not by itself explain why the c...

Yi-Bei Guo, Rui Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Temporally Interpretable Differentiable Decision Trees

This work introduces time as a new dimension of interpretability, coined as temporal interpretability, and demonstrates how temporal abstractions via action chunking improve it, by first introducing two novel policy gradient algorithms that incorporate action chunking.

Eisuke Hirota, Aarav G. Sane, R. Paleja · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Koopman Observers for Diffusion Acceleration: Correcting Feature Forecasts with Shallow Measurements

This work introduces an observation-corrected Koopman framework for accelerating frozen diffusion models, and identifies finite-dimensional, time-dependent Koopman approximations that jointly describe the increments of shallow and deep network features.

Han-Ru Bai, Yuan-Chao Xu, Feng-Yi Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ORDERS: An Empirical Study of Norm-Rank Aggregation for Personalized Federated Learning

Personalized federated learning combines shared representations with client-specific predictors, but the contribution of a server weighting rule can be obscured by local training and evaluation choices. We study ORDERS, a configuration that combines a shared backbone, a private residual adapter and classifier, geometri...

Koffka Khan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AutoAdapt: Automatic Domain Discovery Enables Low-Cost Extensibility

Instruction-tuned models are deployed into environments where domains are heterogeneous and evolve, yet adding new domains or data typically requires costly retraining. We present AutoAdapt, a modular framework that incorporates new domains and data via targeted single-adapter training without modifying other adapters....

Josh McGiff, Salma Mekaoui, Robert Shanahan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Multichain MDPs: A Hierarchical Decomposition Approach

We study learning optimal policies in average-reward multichain Markov decision processes (MDPs), where the optimal gain may depend on the initial state and recurrence structures vary across policies, creating challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) methods. We propose an asynchronous value-iteration-based RL algori...

Huizhen Yu, Isaiah Heidt · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

HAN-Mamba: Hierarchical Selective State Space Networks for Multi-Scale Financial Volatility Forecasting

HAN-Mamba is a hybrid that summarizes each stream through a recurrent state whose input-dependent gating matches two structural properties of volatility: persistent but decaying memory and abrupt regime shifts, and improves mean RMSPE over HAN-T over time-aware five-fold cross-validation.

M. Deaconu, Ioan-Daniel Pop · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Thinking in Depth: Retrospective Inference for Tabular Foundation Models

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) are pretrained across diverse tabular tasks and make predictions on a new table at inference time using its labeled examples as context. Most recent TFMs perform such in-context prediction with stacked Transformer layers, repeatedly transforming how examples are represented and compared...

Hao-Run Cai, Si-Yang Liu, Zi-Jian Cheng et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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.

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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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