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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PoreML: A Data-Driven Framework for Learning Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

Multiphase flow in porous microstructures is central to CO$_2$ storage, fuel-cell operation, and flip-chip packaging. Predicting these flows remains challenging because wettability and complex pore geometry govern the nonlinear evolution of fluid interfaces. Machine learning holds substantial promise for advancing the...

Chun-Yang Wang, Ming-Rui Zhang, Yu-Yan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

RSIGym: A Flexible Environment for Recursive Self-Improvement

Recursive self-improvement requires carrying accepted changes into later improvement cycles, while studying agent-proposed changes also requires substantial research infrastructure. Existing settings often leave agents to rebuild routine infrastructure or restrict exploration to individual components. We introduce RSIG...

Fan-Qing Meng, Ling-Xiao Du, Hao-Cheng Lu et al. · 3 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Do Transformers Learn to Represent Symmetries?

Training Transformer-based architectures with finite data augmentation has become an increasingly popular approach in geometric machine learning. Despite its empirical success, the interplay between the Transformer architecture, invariance to different symmetries, and augmentation budgets remains underexplored. In this...

Eduardo Santos-Escriche, Valerie Engelmayer, Y. Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Continual Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

In Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (CMARL), agents learn cooperative policies across sequences of tasks, aiming to adapt effectively to new tasks while preserving the ability to solve previously encountered ones. In many applications, tasks differ in their underlying structure, which can represent, for exa...

Tommaso Marzi, Ahmed Hendawy, Jan Peters et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Revisiting Explainable AI through Model-Independent Concept Dictionaries

Modern applications of AI rely on increasingly complex models. Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as a set of techniques aimed at improving model transparency. However, existing XAI methods typically assume input features to be inherently interpretable, or they rely on intermediate internal abstractions that are difficul...

T. Schnake, Doreen Schöppenthau, Alexander Meyer et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Shared Gaussianization: What Gaussian Regularizers Certify About Contrastive Learning, and What They Miss

What can a distribution-matching regularizer such as SIGReg in LeJEPA certify about contrastive learning? We study shared Gaussianization (SG), a characteristic-function Gaussianity test on the average of two normalized views, scaled by an independent $\chi_d$ radius. Because disagreeing views shorten the average, one...

Ruo-Yu Zhao, Yu-Ting Chen, Jin-He Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Physics-Aligned Electronic Ground-State Learning Improves Generalization

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) excel at in-distribution tasks, accelerating drug and material development, yet they struggle to generalize out-of-distribution. We propose to push the cost-accuracy Pareto frontier by designing observable-agnostic electronic ground-state descriptor models (GSMs) with comp...

Eike S. Eberhard, Xaver Kainz, Viktor Kotsev et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PatchBench: Measuring Collateral Damage in Activation Patching

PatchBench, a benchmark of empirically observed model-specific jailbreak failures inducing actionable harmful answers, and PatchBench-Local, an evaluation protocol testing whether a patch is behaviourally precise, provide a more precise basis for developing and comparing jailbreak repair methods.

Alexi Canesse, Mathis Le Bail, Maël Jenny et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Sparse Planning in Visual World Models via Cost Gradients

Token-based world models enable fine-grained latent planning, but repeatedly processing large spatial token grids makes action search expensive. We introduce COSTGRAD, a training-free, goal-conditioned selector that ranks spatial tokens by the gradient norm of the planning cost with respect to each input token. By deri...

Ying-Chen Xu, Edward Grefenstette · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Closed-Loop Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of PPO with Learned Critics and Clipping

Despite its widespread use, Proximal Policy Optimization with clipping (PPO-Clip) remains difficult to tune, and the interactions among critic learning, clipping, and rollout reuse remain incompletely understood. We develop a \emph{non-asymptotic} analysis of PPO-Clip as a \emph{closed-loop actor--critic} system. It ca...

Junwei Su, Mengfan Liu, Yanyong Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PairAudit: Guiding Human Review with Graph Tokens under Distribution Shift

Intrusion detectors can confidently misclassify attacks that were not seen during training. Human review can correct these errors, but only a limited number of cases can be checked. Uncertainty-based review may overlook confident errors, while anomaly scores alone do not show whether changing the review plan will corre...

Jiran Tao, Binyan Jiang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

MorphCL: Morphological Contrastive Learning for Inertial-based Human Activity Recognition

Despite the ubiquity of sensors in wearable and mobile devices and the abundance of human movement data they generate, translating unlabeled recordings into foundational motion models remains an open challenge. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has alleviated the need for costly annotations, yet existing approaches leave...

Marius Bock, Yu-Wei Zhang, Juergen Gall 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.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

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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