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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adversarial RL for Port-Scan Evasion: Attacker Feature Visibility in Edge-Deployed IDS

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning: Zero-Shot Transfer and Emergent Dynamics

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...

Rajneesh Anand, Mayuresh V. Kothare · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

CoDR: Training-Free Confidence-Drift Remasking for Diffusion Language Models

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
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Deep Learning-Based Tri-Hybrid Multi-User MIMO Precoding: The Blessing of EM-Reconfigurable Antennas

Electromagnetic (EM)-reconfigurable antennas provide multiple candidate radiation patterns per element, thereby introducing an additional EM-domain degree of freedom. Integrating radiation-pattern reconfigurability, realized as EM-domain precoding, with conventional hybrid analog-digital precoding yields tri-hybrid mul...

Kai-Jun Feng, Jia-Xi He, Hong-Rui Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distilling Graph Geometry: Knowledge Gap from GNNs to MLPs

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 learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why Forget-Only Unlearning Needs Memorization

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Oracle-Efficient and Parameter-Free Agnostic Smoothed Online Learning

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Two-Level Softmax Sampling Done Right: Correcting Bias from Size Imbalance and Dispersion

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...

Walid Bendada, Guillaume Salha-Galvan · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NeuralBES: A Differentiable, Control-Aware Emulator for Scalable Building Energy Modeling

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Seq-Flow: Efficient Probabilistic Forecasting with Self-Rollout Error Control

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
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Which Rollout Taught It That? BehaviorTrace and the Limits of Training-Data Attribution in Online RL

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...

Amit Nautiyal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Domain Pretraining for Steady-State Neural CFD Surrogates

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

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

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.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

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.

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