This article is a geometric rediscovery of the singular value decomposition, with a further claim: the construction it builds is the machinery behind much of machine learning. The same argument that answers an idle question about ellipses is the algorithm behind principal component analysis, kernel methods, and PageRan...
This work gives the first reliability study of the TabICL setting, with TabICL as the TFM and half of each graph as labeled context, and introduces HG-DAPS, a training-free diffusion score whose homophily gate reads only the in-context labels, so the guarantee still holds.
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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard tool for post-training language models on reasoning tasks, where the policy is updated by reward feedback while exploring the space of responses. Despite its empirical success, theoretical understanding of RL post-training remains limited, in particular of why on-policy...
Sequential test-time training adapts a memory network through successive updates, each computing an inner-loop gradient based on the network's previous state. Intuitively, this state dependence should allow each update to account for what the memory has already learned and better incorporate new information. However, w...
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Probabilistic load forecasting has been widely studied for power-system operation and planning, but customer- and transformer-level forecasting introduces a distinct scalability challenge. At these levels, load uncertainty is strongly affected by customer behavior, weather, and mixed load composition, making it difficu...
In the field of Explainable AI (XAI), counterfactual (CF) explanations interpret a model's decision by suggesting the changes to the input that would lead to a more favourable outcome. To be useful in practice, such an explanation should change few features and change them as little as possible, properties known as spa...
Understanding the principles behind Shampoo has recently guided the development of more effective neural network optimizers. These methods learn a preconditioner by optimizing the Frobenius or Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence against the gradient second moment. In this work, we investigate how the choice of divergence...
Bing Liu, Wenjie Zhou, Chengcheng Zhao et al.· 0 citations
Hybrid architectures combining linear sequence models with softmax attention provide an effective balance between efficient long-context modeling and precise token retrieval. Existing designs such as Native Hybrid Attention (NHA) combine compressed long-term states with sliding-window attention, but their exact attenti...
Rui-Jie Li, Jia-Xi Hu, Shi-Yu Wang et al.· 0 citations
Few-shot meta-learning traditionally formulates task adaptation either as analytical gradient descent through unrolled computational graphs or as metric-based distance comparisons over flattened 1D fea- ture vectors, which either incur costly test-time backpropagation or discard native 2D spatial geometry. In this work...
This work infer the initial latent state directly from a small set of early-time observations, treating latent-state initialization as an adaptation problem, and investigates two strategies: an auto-decoding formulation and a meta-learning approach in which the initial latent state acts as a task-specific context varia...
Stefano Maria Pizzamiglio, S. Pagani, Francesco Regazzoni· 0 citations
Integrated circuit design involves multiple design stages: logic synthesis, floorplanning, placement, and routing, with each stage taking hours to weeks to complete. Discovering timing violations late in this flow forces costly iterations back to earlier stages, wasting computational resources and delaying product laun...
We establish a polynomial sample complexity separation between symmetry-aware and symmetry-agnostic feature learning. We study growing-rank multi-index models with high-dimensional Gaussian covariates in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $r=\Theta(d^\delta)$ teacher directions forming a cyclic symmetry orbit, where $0<\delta<1/2$. We...
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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.