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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Financial World Modeling

Building a world model requires a state representation useful for planning and decision-making---potentially over tasks unknown at training time. In the context of financial markets, planning and decision-making may require a model to reason about market-wide conditions, asset-specific expected returns, liquidity, vola...

Humzah Merchant, Alec Guthrie, Simon Mahns et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ORACLE: Optimizer-Relative Alignment for Constrained LEarning

Constraint handling methods typically intervene before the optimizer acts, by modifying the objective or the gradient. Yet momentum, adaptive scaling, and structured preconditioning can substantially reshape that signal before it becomes a parameter update. We formulate optimizer relative constrained learning, where co...

Utkarsh Grover, Wyatt Mackey, Kaixun Hua et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SPIN: Shadow Predictive Indexer for Sparse Attention

Indexer-based sparse attention reduces the cost of core attention by passing only a fixed, small number of important tokens to it. However, the indexer must still score the entire KV cache at every decoding step. This scoring overhead becomes a major bottleneck as the context length grows. We propose SPIN (Shadow Predi...

Yao Fu, Cyrus Chang, Ritchie Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neighborhood Smoothing for Calibration

Modern neural networks are often miscalibrated, with a tendency to overconfidence. Existing train-time calibration methods largely modify task losses or calibration penalties, leaving neighborhood structure in learned representations underexploited. We introduce graph smoothing as a general principle for train-time cal...

Idan Horowitz, Avigdor Gal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Removing Information Content Does Not Certify Tamper Resistance in Open-Weight Models

Does removing harmful information make open-weight models resistant to fine-tuning attacks? We show that mutual information at release alone cannot universally certify slow recovery. Function-preserving reparameterizations leave information unchanged while altering gradient-descent geometry, so an invariant certificate...

Domenic Rosati, Alessa Carbo, Ali Dadsetan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

REFIT: Recognize, Fix, and Test Wearable Sensor Placement Shifts without Labels

We present REFIT, an input calibration for frozen activity-recognition models whose inertial sensors are worn differently at deployment than in training. When users move a watch to the other wrist or put a strap sensor back on turned, the model sees the same motion on changed axes. REFIT undoes such shifts without labe...

Bangxun Tang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SNR-Gated LSTM-Conditioned Diffusion Model for MIMO Channel Estimation

Accurate and low latency channel estimation is critical for modern MIMO systems, particularly under mobility, where channels exhibit structured sparsity and strong temporal correlation. This paper proposes a time-series conditioned diffusion framework for channel estimation that performs denoising in the angular domain...

Jixing Zhou, Xinming Huang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Best Optimizer Depends on Batch Size

A plethora of new adaptive optimizers are designed to efficiently estimate and use minibatch gradient statistics to shape parameter updates, but they are typically benchmarked at a single batch size. Hyperparameter scaling rules promise to preserve performance as batch size and gradient noise change, suggesting that th...

Xingyu Dang, Kaiyue Wen, Sadhika Malladi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Directed Temporal Representations for Offline Visual Control

Predictive world models provide compact visual representations for control. Control requires a latent geometry aligned with temporal reachability rather than predictive similarity alone. We introduce Directed Temporal Representations for Control (DTRC), which learns such a geometry from offline visual trajectories on t...

Chenyang Yuan, Haoyu Wang, Zhuo Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HCPN-GCN: Scaling Hierarchical Prototype Networks with Cone Geometry for Continual Graph Learning

Continual Graph Learning (CGL) aims to incrementally learn from graph-structured data while preserving knowledge acquired from previous tasks. A major challenge in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks degrades performance on previously learned ones. Hierarchical Prototype Networks (HPNs) ad...

Sammuel R. Silva, Vander L. S. Freitas, Gladston Moreira et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Vehicle-Integrated Approach to Digital Twin Deployment for Bridges Through Drive-By Sensing

Ageing bridge infrastructure is a growing global concern, yet conventional Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems are costly and difficult to scale, and routine visual inspections remain subjective. Drive-by, or indirect, bridge inspection, in which a sensorised vehicle recovers structural information from vehicle-...

Zihao Liu, Daigo Kawabe, Jiaji Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Task-Oriented Key-Layer KV Communication for Efficient Latent Multi-Agent Collaboration

Large language model-based multi-agent systems improve complex problem solving through collaboration, while latent communication directly transmits model internal states to avoid the high inference costs of natural language. However, existing KV-based latent communication methods prioritize sender-side state fidelity,...

Dongsen Zhang, Peipei Li, Zekun Li 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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