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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Probabilistic Filters with Strictly Proper Scoring Rules

Bayesian filtering of partially and noisily observed dynamical systems seeks to infer the evolving conditional distribution of the state of a dynamical system given observations, in an online fashion. This Bayesian filtering distribution is rarely available as a supervised learning target. However, one can often use th...

Eviatar Bach, Ricardo Baptista, Jochen Br\"ocker et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prime Fourier Embeddings: A Principled Basis for Modular Arithmetic

Numbers have algebraic structure that standard neural embeddings often fail to expose. We introduce Prime Fourier Embeddings (PFE), which encode integers as prime-indexed (cos, sin) pairs derived from the harmonic analysis of Q, providing a pre-structured representation in which modular arithmetic reduces to selecting...

Hyunsang Hwang, Suhyun Bae, Donghun Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Sparse Autoencoders Learn Meaningful Concept Hierarchies?

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become an important tool for unsupervised concept discovery in large models. To make the resulting feature spaces more interpretable and manageable, recent approaches have begun imposing hierarchical structure, either explicitly or as an implicit effect of training constraints, yet rigor...

Nils Grandien, David Steinmann, Felix Friedrich et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explaining Attention with Program Synthesis

A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this paper, we propose an approach for approximating the behavior of components of deep networks with executable programs. We focus on attention heads in transformer la...

Amiri Hayes, Belinda Z Li, Jacob Andreas · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

We Need Explanation Cards to Connect Explanation Algorithms to the Real World

Algorithmic explanations are intended to help stakeholders understand opaque algorithmic decisions, but in practice, they often fall short. First, the meaning of algorithmic explanations is often not what one might intuitively expect, so expert knowledge is required to interpret them correctly. Second, recent work has...

Eric G\"unther, Bal\'azs Szabados, Kristof Meding et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Express Language Modeling

We introduce a new tool, Express, for converting a non-causal attention approximation into a causal approximation with matching approximation guarantees. When combined with the state-of-the-art Thinformer approximation, Express improves upon the best known causal attention guarantees, delivering $\log^{3/2}(n)/s$ appro...

Albert Gong, Annabelle Michael Carrell, Raaz Dwivedi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mean-based algorithms: A lower bound and regret

Mean-based algorithms are online learning algorithms that assign low probability to actions with low average rewards. Recent research shows that they converge to serially undominated actions, which serve as approximations to Nash equilibria in economic games. However, empirical studies indicate that mean-based algorith...

Julius Durmann, Amelie Kleber · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FFR: Forward-Forward Learning for Regression

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) by training neural networks through purely local, layer-wise optimization. However, FF is inherently designed for classification via contrastive positive-negative sample pairs, and extend...

Xinyang Liu, Xuanyu Liang, Shiqi Ding et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Task diversity produces systematic transfer but inhibits continual reinforcement learning

Continual reinforcement learning (RL) aims to produce agents that never stop adapting to new tasks. A key question is how this interacts with the diversity of tasks an agent experiences. Prior work has shown that training on many diverse tasks leads to agents with strong zero-shot and in-context adaptation. However, th...

Purab Seth, Neil Shah, Ishaan Sinha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Terminal Representation in Reinforcement Learning

Representation learning is a powerful tool for spatio-temporal abstraction within reinforcement learning (RL). Two well established approaches are through the successor representation (SR) and the default representation (DR). The SR encodes states by the future trajectories they induce, capturing information flow decou...

Amir Esterhuysen, Anders Jonsson · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SeedER: Seed-Expand-Retrieve for Efficient Knowledge Graph Retrieval

Knowledge graphs (KGs) offer a rich representation for relational knowledge, but their irregular structure makes retrieval challenging: ego-graph expansion grows rapidly, and dense embedding methods struggle with multi-hop compositional queries. Several approaches use LLM agents to explore the KG, analyze candidate nod...

Hamed Shirzad, Frederik Wenkel, Dominique Beaini et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reinforcement Learning over Predictive Distributions for LLM Regression

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as flexible regressors capable of predicting real-valued quantities from heterogeneous inputs. Yet most LLM regression objectives optimize predictions independently, often yielding poor calibration. We introduce Distribution-Aware Reward (DAR), an on-policy reinforcement learni...

Jungsoo Park, Hyungjoo Chae, Ethan Mendes 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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