Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) are increasingly used in resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) environments, yet their robustness is often evaluated against static attacks rather than adversaries that adapt to detection feedback. This paper investigates adaptive port-scan evasion agains...
Logan Andrew North, Priya Sanjay Kaluskar, Shasi Kumar Ramachandran Prabhu et al.· 0 citations
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are transforming chemical and materials discovery through closed-loop automation, yet automated infrastructure for physical manipulation of soft, deformable matter remains beyond current robotic platforms. A critical instance is autonomous droplet transport on an open surface, where con...
Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) decode by repeatedly committing tokens to masked positions, but these commitments are usually irreversible. A token chosen under sparse, partial context is kept fixed, even when later context no longer supports it. Existing samplers mainly decide when to commit a token, but rare...
Yue Wu, Qing-He Zhang, Yu Zhang et al.· 0 citations
GNN-to-MLP distillation aims to retain the predictive accuracy of a message-passing teacher while deploying a graph-free MLP at inference. Existing methods mainly transfer node-wise predictions or use confidence-based reweighting, but they do not specify where the student should preserve the teacher's graph-induced geo...
Zhewei Chen, Hao Zhu, Jiaojiao Jiang et al.· 0 citations
Machine unlearning asks for a deletion algorithm whose output is close to retraining from scratch without the selected forget examples. In this work, we study forget-only unlearning, where the deletion algorithm receives only the trained model and the examples to forget, with no retained data or extra training informat...
Luka Radi\'c, Vikrant Singhal, Amartya Sanyal· 0 citations
Online learning is an attractive framework in many domains because it permits well-defined learning even when data are dependent or chosen adversarially. This generality, however, comes at a steep price, introducing significant statistical and computational barriers. Recently, smoothed online learning has emerged as a...
Sasha Voitovych, Adam Block, Alexander Rakhlin et al.· 0 citations
Sampling from a softmax distribution is a fundamental operation in machine learning, but its linear complexity in the number of items makes exact sampling impractical at scale. Two-level softmax (2LS) sampling is a popular alternative enabling sublinear-time sampling. Assuming items are partitioned into clusters, 2LS f...
Demand-side flexibility i.e. forecasting, shifting, and curtailing residential energy loads, depends on thermal models trusted across millions of heterogeneous buildings. Existing tools force a hard tradeoff: high-fidelity physics simulators such as EnergyPlus are accurate but sequential and require per-building calibr...
Ting-Yu Dai, Takuya Kurihana, Wing Yee Au et al.· 0 citations
Many scientific forecasting tasks require updating a distribution over future trajectories as new observations arrive. Conventional diffusion and flow models generate each forecast from Gaussian noise, often at the cost of many sampling steps. Warm-start methods reuse earlier predictions to reduce this cost, but their...
Yinan Huang, Shitij Govil, Bo Dai et al.· 0 citations
When reinforcement learning teaches a language model a new behavior, can we find the training rollouts that taught it? And when an attribution method says it can, how do we know the answer is real? We study both questions on online RL fine-tuning with GRPO, using a planted behavior with a known cause. We release Behavi...
Neural surrogates for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have the potential to greatly enhance engineering innovation through accelerating simulation. However, the primary limitation for neural surrogates is the lack of generalization to geometries and applications beyond the training set, which is significant given th...
Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani, Shirley Ho et al.· 0 citations
Exploring how generative AI could make machine vision more accessible to businesses. The post GenEye in a Box: Making Machine Vision Something You Can Just Ask For appeared first on GPT-Lab.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 7, 2026
Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 6, 2026