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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Vision Transformers Represent Position: A Mechanistic Comparison of Absolute and Rotary Positional Encodings

Positional embeddings encode the spatial position of each image patch in a Vision Transformer (ViT), allowing the model to distinguish different spatial arrangements of visual content. However, we know little about how the choice of embedding shapes a vision transformer's internal representation. In this work, we show...

Mahmoud Mannes, Nikhil Maturi, Parva Mehta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quasi-Binarized Autoencoders: An Architecture-Independent Information Bottleneck for Medical Image Anomaly Detection

Unsupervised anomaly detection, which learns only from normal images, is a central task in medical image analysis and remains an open problem. Reconstruction-based methods pass an image through an encoder-decoder network trained on normal data and detect anomalies from the residual between the image and its reconstruct...

Shouhei Hanaoka, Takahiro Nakao, Atsushi Takamatsu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AERR-Nav: Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) as a decision-making framework, have led to improvements. Howeve...

Jingzhi Huang, Junkai Huang, Haoyang Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling Online Optimal Transport Minibatches for Flow Matching

This work develops a scalable online entropic OT approximation that enables substantially larger source-target couplings while preserving the benefits of OT, and proves strict reductions in full stochastic-gradient variance and integration error relative to independent pairing.

P. Chen, Sergey Levine · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Unbalanced W-Flow: Unbalanced Wasserstein Drifting under Finite-Batch Marginal Fluctuations

Teacher-free one-step generative models such as W-Flow learn directly from distributional objectives, with the Sinkhorn divergence providing the strongest empirical performance among the energies studied in W-Flow. However, Sinkhorn divergence is based on balanced optimal transport, whose exact marginal constraints can...

Jongwook Jeon, Mingue Park, Jiwon Choi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SYNPRED: A Synergistic Approach to Multimodal Learning for Clinical Prediction

Multimodal medical data captures complementary aspects of disease. It provides a comprehensive basis for diagnosis and the identification of biological associations linked to progression or treatment response. Established contrastive learning approaches exploit shared information across modalities, but fall short in ex...

Ivana Jan\'i\v{c}kov\'a, Yen Y. Tan, Thomas H. Helbich et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Sea-Net: A Small and Inherently Interpretable Neural Network for Time Series Classification

Traditional time-series classification methods often operate as black boxes, providing a class prediction without indicating which time point or time interval within the series led to that prediction. To improve temporal interpretability, MILLET (Multiple Instance Learning with Temporal Explanation), which combines an...

U. ur Rehman, Tanmoy Mondal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Calibrated Disambiguation for Partial Multi-label Learning

Partial multi-label learning (PML) aims to train a classifier on datasets whose instances are over-annotated with not only relevant labels but also irrelevant labels, which is common when datasets are collected from crowd-sourcing platform. Existing works primarily approach it from a curriculum learning perspective, le...

Zhuoming Li, Yuheng Jia, Mi Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

C{\AE}NL: Collapse-Based Active Neural Learning with Objective-Aligned Representation Control

Active learning changes the representations used to acquire subsequent labels. We study this interaction through Collapse-Based Active Neural Learning (C{\AE}NL), which separates acquisition, Dynamic Collapse Regularization (DCR), and its coefficient policy. DCR penalizes a normalized within-class to between-class scat...

Saad Alqithami · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning $\omega$-Powered Conditional Distributions with Importance-Weighted Flow Matching

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) with guidance scale $\gamma$ is commonly motivated by the $\omega$-powered conditional distribution obtained by setting $\omega=\gamma$, but CFG does not, in general, sample from this distribution exactly. We study whether the powered target can instead be learned explicitly. We introduce...

Maciej Falkiewicz, Frantzeska Lavda, Jason Ramapuram et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Representational Difference Distillation

Knowledge distillation transfers representational knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact student. Existing relational and contrastive distillation methods treat all samples uniformly, spending equal gradient on well-matched and poorly-matched regions of the representation space alike. We propose Representa...

Abdulkarim Mugisha, Divin Irakiza · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ML-CLAPPS: A Probabilistic Framework for Imbalanced Multilabel Learning under Class Prioritization

Real-world datasets often exhibit severe class imbalance, degrading the performance of deep learning models, particularly on rare classes. While imbalance is well studied in binary and multiclass settings, it is substantially more challenging in multilabel problems due to complex label co-occurrence. In clinical applic...

Priel Hazan, Nir Almog, Noam Keidar et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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