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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reward-Driven Learning under Prompt-Level Differential Privacy

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains a language model on problems that may themselves be confidential, and the trained model can reveal which problems it saw. We study RLVR under prompt-level differential privacy: the released weights must be ({\epsilon},{\delta})-differentially private with res...

Jiachen Zhao, Antonia Januszewicz, Taeho Jung · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can LLM-assisted regularization increase forecast accuracy for migration flows in low data regimes?

Predicting migration flows remains a significant challenge for traditional gravity-based forecasting models, which primarily rely on structured socio-economic indicators such as economic disparity, political stability, and geographic distance. This work investigates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve migr...

Nathaniel T. Hindman, Fabricio Murai · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Distributionally Robust Mixture-of-Experts Training

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) transformers scale capacity by activating only a few experts per token, but this sparsity creates a hidden reliability problem: when routing is imperfect, load-balanced models may send tokens to experts that are insufficiently trained for the assigned inputs. We propose Distributionally Robust...

Xin Teng, Mu-Xi Li, Hong-Yi Wen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Exact Unlearning via Quantized Sufficient Statistics

Exact unlearning requires a deployed predictor to match one rebuilt without the information named by a deletion request. Existing general-purpose exact methods localize retraining through disjoint shards, but every request still invalidates a model, and smaller shards reduce the data available to each constituent predi...

A. Tavory, Shripad Gade, Tal Sarig et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Scientific Exploration from Human Research Decision Trajectories

A key challenge in building AI systems for scientific research is enabling $\textit{scientific exploration}$: the systematic process of investigating unknown phenomena or ideas to gain new knowledge through sequences of research decisions and actions. Yet this process is largely missing from existing scientific corpora...

Xuchen Gong, Shane Gu, Haokun Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

CLM-as-a-Judge: Evaluating an Open Contrastive Decision Model on Public Judge Benchmarks

An open contrastive decision model is near chance as a judge on the hard public benchmarks: Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B scores between 0.351 (best- of-four, chance 0.250) and 0.593 (pairwise, chance 0.500), is statistically indistinguishable from coin flipping on RM-Bench and JudgeBench, and answers every HaluEval item...

Gowthamkumar Nandakishore · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A theory of platonic representations in language models

Representations of translated sentences are similar in the inner layers of multilingual language models -- an observation connected to the platonic representation hypothesis, yet unexplained theoretically. We provide an explanation based on the assumption that data have a hidden hierarchical structure whose abstract le...

Darshil Doshi, Wen-Jie Zhou, C. Wegner et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adversarial Training for Deep Hedging in Nonstationary Markets

Deep hedging learns trading policies from historical or simulated market trajectories, yet under nonstationarity these training paths may not represent future market conditions. We propose WRAP (Wasserstein-Reweighting Adversarial Perturbation), a drift-aware adversarial training framework derived from a two-budget dis...

Philipp J. Schneider, Lukas Looser, Antoine Garin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Implicit Bias of Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Multiclass Data: A Busemann Risk Perspective

We study the implicit bias of Riemannian gradient flow for hyperbolic multiclass classification with fixed class prototypes in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$. Our framework accommodates general permutation invariant relative margin (PERM) losses, a class that includes cross entropy and other standard multiclass losses...

Xing-Run Li, Sho Kuno, Yusuke Mukuta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SoloQ: Calibration-Free Quantization for Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion large language models dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive language models through bidirectional diffusion-based token generation. However, their growing model sizes and high inference costs make efficient deployment challenging: full-sequence denoising repeatedly invokes compute-i...

Donghyun Lee, Arkapravo Ghosh, Varun Manjunath et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sample-Optimal Estimation of the Fr\'echet Inception Distance

The Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) is widely used to evaluate generative models, but its empirical plug-in estimator suffers from finite-sample bias [BSAG18, CF20]. We study the sample complexity $n$ of estimating FID to error $\epsilon$ between $d$-dimensional Gaussians with bounded mean distance and covariances,...

Ziyun Chen, Jerry Li, Kevin Tian 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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