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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Structure alone supports efficient visual computation in the Drosophila visual system

Understanding the extent to which measured synaptic wiring determines computation remains a central challenge. Here, we couple the proofread adult Drosophila melanogaster connectome to an anatomically faithful model of its eye. Visual information is inputted in the eye model, then passed to the connectome, and finally...

Eudald Correig-Fraga, Roger Guimer\`a, Marta Sales-Pardo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Controlling Dependence in Implicit Generative Models via Spread Mutual Information

Mutual information (MI) provides an objective for suppressing or encouraging statistical dependence in implicit generative models. However, direct MI evaluation is challenging in implicit models due to typically intractable densities. A remedy is estimating the generator gradient from the difference between conditional...

Jiahao Yu, Song Liu, Jos\'{e} Miguel Hern\'{a}ndez-Lobato et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Marrying Pricing and Advertising with LLMs

We study a sequential pricing problem in which a seller jointly posts a price and an advertisement generated by a large language model (LLM). The seller aims to maximize revenue under an unknown product demand that depends on both decisions, while observing only whether each offer leads to a purchase. We propose an onl...

Alessandro Barro, Francesco Bacchiocchi, Francesco Emanuele Stradi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Extreme Binary Classification: Extreme Value Theory for Extreme Constraint on False Negative

While binary classification is one of the most extensively studied problems in machine learning, the regime in which the goal is to learn a classifier with an almost zero false negative rate remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce the Extreme Binary Classification problem, where the objective is to...

Samuel Gruffaz, Muhammad Fawad, Jaakko Nevalainen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Possibilistic Radial Transport for Approximate IM Inference

Probing the hypothesis space after seeing the data remains valid under possibilistic inferential models (IMs), provided the significance level stays fixed. The price is computation, as each plausibility is a supremum of the possibility contour over the hypothesis, and the contour itself is approximated at each queried...

Jungeum Kim, Percy Zhai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Many Ways to Succeed: Diversity-Driven RL Fine-Tuning for VLA Generalization

Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning improves vision-language-action (VLA) policies through closed-loop experience, yet generalization beyond the fine-tuning distribution remains limited. Our analysis reveals a selective reshaping of exploration: RL contracts behavior globally, yet diversifies successful trajectorie...

Haoru Li, Jinmei Liu, Zhiyong Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning joint probabilistic weather forecasts from station observations alone

Assessing compound weather risks requires forecasts representing dependence between variables. CLARA (Calibrated Advection-Routing Attention) learns joint Gaussian predictive distributions of five surface variables from station observations alone, without numerical weather prediction or reanalysis; the approximately 28...

Chaeyeon Yi, Yun Am Seo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparsifying Stochasticity, Not Capacity: Partial Stochasticity via Deep Weight Factorization of Prior Scales

Bayesian neural networks need not be fully stochastic to be universal conditional density approximators, but it remains open which parameters should be stochastic. We learn this split by applying deep weight factorization to the prior scales, which are the standard deviations of the parameter priors, while fitting the...

Marius P Linhard, Maurizio Filippone · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Global Average Precision for Representation Learning

Standard information retrieval metrics, such as mean Average Precision (mAP), assess performance one query at a time, based on how the similarities between a query and its positives compare against those with its negatives. The same holds for common representation learning losses, such as InfoNCE and per-query AP surro...

Bill Psomas, Mohammad Mahdi, Michalis Thomas et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DeepTopoClustering: Unsupervised Derivation of Surface Process Taxonomy from 4D Point Clouds for Topographic Monitoring

4D point clouds acquired by permanent laser scanning (PLS) enable accurate high-frequency monitoring of surface change in dynamic topographic environments. However, existing methods remain limited in organizing detected surface activities into meaningful process types. We propose DeepTopoClustering (DTC), an unsupervis...

Jiapan Wang, Daan Hulskemper, Mathilde Letard et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ORCA: Hunting Compositional Failures in Text-to-Image Diffusion

Text-to-image diffusion models fail predictably on compositional prompts: attributes bind to the wrong objects, spatial relations invert, and multi-object scenes lose count. Recent architectures already augment CLIP with a T5 encoder precisely because CLIP's contrastive embedding loses compositional structure, yet thes...

Arshia Hemmat, Amirhossein Vahidi, Amitis Shidani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Origins of Universal Machine Learning Force-Field Errors in Multicomponent Materials

Universal machine learning force-field generalization to multicomponent environments generated by compositional design remains insufficiently assessed. We construct a benchmark of 7,599 multicomponent configurations inspired by high-entropy design, elemental substitution and anion mixing. Eleven pretrained models are e...

Hongwei Du, Dingyang Lv, Baole Wei 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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