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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PairAudit: Guiding Human Review with Graph Tokens under Distribution Shift

Intrusion detectors can confidently misclassify attacks that were not seen during training. Human review can correct these errors, but only a limited number of cases can be checked. Uncertainty-based review may overlook confident errors, while anomaly scores alone do not show whether changing the review plan will corre...

Jiran Tao, Binyan Jiang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MorphCL: Morphological Contrastive Learning for Inertial-based Human Activity Recognition

Despite the ubiquity of sensors in wearable and mobile devices and the abundance of human movement data they generate, translating unlabeled recordings into foundational motion models remains an open challenge. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has alleviated the need for costly annotations, yet existing approaches leave...

Marius Bock, Yuwei Zhang, Juergen Gall et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ProtocolMatch: Protocol-Dependent Model Selection for Scientific Dynamics Forecasting

Scientific dynamics forecasting is often framed as an architecture choice, although deployment is also determined by observed history, rollout feedback, compute budget, physical objective, and test distribution. We formulate protocol-dependent model selection and introduce ProtocolMatch, a compute-matched, validation-s...

Lu Wei, Yufeng Wang, Haibin Ling · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating Sequence Assembly Strategies for Differentially Private Synthetic Time-Series Forecasting

Differentially private time-series generators commonly produce fixed-length synthetic windows, whereas downstream forecasting models often require long continuous training sequences. How these windows are assembled after generation can therefore alter the effective synthetic data presented to a forecaster, even when th...

Guoxiong Long, Huizhen Huang, Qikun Cai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Finite-Sample Approximation of Hessian-Guided Perturbed Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Wasserstein gradient flow extends gradient descent to probability measures. Its Hessian-guided perturbed variant (PWGF) adds Gaussian perturbations to escape saddle points in nonconvex problems. We investigate when its approximation by finitely many interacting particles remains accurate over growing time horizons. Our...

Ryotaro Kawata, Atsushi Nitanda, Taiji Suzuki · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Edge Accuracy Is Not Enough: Why Dynamics-Learned Structure Fails to Transfer to Inverse Problems

A natural strategy for inverse problems with scarce labelled data is to transfer relational structure learned from abundant forward-simulation data. We show this strategy fails systematically, even when it satisfies the standard theoretical justification for why structure should help. We prove that approximate structur...

Nicholas Tan Jerome, Fangnian Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

OrthoGen: A Generative Orthogonal Learner for Time-Varying Treatments

Estimating conditional distributional potential outcomes (CDPOs) over time is important in medicine (e.g., to estimate patient-specific risks under different treatment sequences). However, this task is challenging because of time-varying confounding, yet existing adjustment strategies for this task are limited. In this...

Tom\`as Garriga, Valentyn Melnychuk, Konstantin Hess et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How to train your model organism

Model organisms of alignment-relevant behaviors (e.g., backdoors, sycophancy, spurious correlations) have emerged as a key tool for evaluating whitebox interpretability techniques. We argue that the prevailing practice of training model organisms to a single objective of installing the target behavior is insufficient a...

Xilin Wang, David Bau, Byron C. Wallace · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Robust Decentralized Fairness Auditing

Emerging legislation requires large language models (LLMs) to be audited for compliance with regulatory standards, particularly fairness. Such black-box audits typically assume a single auditor with access to a large, representative set of queries. In practice, it can be difficult for an auditor to obtain such a query...

Sayan Biswas, Jade Garcia Bourr\'ee, Anne-Marie Kermarrec et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Pre-training of Bayesian Optimization Algorithm through Bayesian Optimization

Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely used as a standard approach for expensive black-box optimization. However, BO algorithms often involve parameters that must be specified in advance, and their performance can strongly depend on these choices. We propose a framework for optimizing such parameters using sample paths d...

Satoshi Katayama, Shoyo Hunt, Shintaro Masuda et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Unified Information-Theoretic Approach to Constrained Multi-Fidelity Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

Bayesian optimization often involves multiple objectives, constraints, and fidelity levels. We address the challenge of jointly selecting where and at which fidelity to evaluate to identify the highest-fidelity feasible Pareto frontier in this combined setting. From a unified information-theoretic perspective, we measu...

Rikuto Matsumoto, Masanori Ishikura, Masayuki Karasuyama · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

m-Set Adversarial Bandits with Winner Feedback

We show upper and lower bounds on the regret of $m$-set adversarial bandits for different utilities (winner reward or sum of rewards) and feedback models (winner index, winner reward, sum of rewards, and their combinations). By comparing to standard bounds for combinatorial and MNL bandits, our results reveal how subtl...

Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi, Matteo Papini · 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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