These results establish abstention as a first-class training objective that transforms ``I don't know''from failure into a coordination signal, enabling models to earn trust through calibrated honesty about their limits.
The design of learning objectives is central to training time-series forecasting models. Existing learning objectives such as mean squared error mostly treat each future step as an independent, equally weighted task, which leads to the following two challenges: (1) they overlook the label autocorrelation effect among f...
Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Yuan Lu et al.· 0 citations
Physical neural networks (PNNs) are promising candidates for next-generation computing, but existing demonstrations remain several orders of magnitude smaller than modern digital neural networks, whose recent advances have been driven by rapid growth in trainable parameters. This situation resembles the constraints of...
Kohei Tsuchiyama, Andre Roehm, Takatomo Mihana et al.· 0 citations
Training time-series forecasting models requires aligning the conditional distribution of model forecasts with that of the label sequence. The standard direct forecast (DF) approach resorts to minimizing the conditional negative log-likelihood, typically estimated by the mean squared error. However, this estimation pro...
Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Yuan Lu et al.· 0 citations
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We study kernel regression with common rotation-invariant kernels on real datasets including CIFAR-5m, SVHN, and ImageNet. We give a theoretical framework that predicts learning curves (test risk vs. sample size) from only two measurements: the empirical data covariance matrix and an empirical polynomial decomposition...
Dhruva Karkada, Joseph Turnbull, Yuxi Liu et al.· 0 citations
HARL-A is presented, an open-source, actively maintained framework built on IsaacLab that enables scalable training and benchmarking of adversarial policies across morphologically diverse robot teams with any number of teams and any mix of robot morphologies per team.
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Physically-isolated Experts Routing Network (PiERN), an architecture that directs computation and reasoning at token level, thereby enabling iterative alternation within a single chain of thought, is proposed, offering an efficient, interpretable, and scalable paradigm for interfacing language models with scientific sy...
The increasing variety of molecular data creates a need for generative models that can flexibly incorporate heterogeneous constraints across modalities. However, existing SMILES-based diffusion models are typically designed for a fixed conditioning modality, and introducing new constraints often requires retraining the...
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful paradigm for optimizing expensive black-box functions. Traditional BO methods typically rely on separate hand-crafted acquisition functions and surrogate models for the underlying function, and often operate in a myopic manner. In this paper, we propose a novel direct regret opt...
Training time-series forecasting models poses unique challenges in loss function design. Most existing approaches adopt temporal mean squared error, but this study reveals two critical limitations: (1) it ignores the presence of label autocorrelation, which biases it from the true label sequence likelihood; (2) it invo...
Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Zhichao Chen et al.· 0 citations
The design of effective optimization algorithms for neural networks remains a fundamental challenge, and most existing methods rely on heuristic extensions of gradient-based updates. We introduce KO (Kinetics-inspired Optimizer), a plug-and-play optimization module grounded in kinetic theory and partial differential eq...
Mingquan Feng, Yixin Huang, Yifan Fu et al.· 0 citations
Estimating causal effects under networked interference from observational data is a crucial yet challenging problem. Most existing methods mainly rely on the networked unconfoundedness assumption, which guarantees the identification of networked effects. However, this assumption is often violated due to the latent conf...
Weilin Chen, Ruichu Cai, Jie Qiao et al.· 0 citations
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.