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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How do standard time series forecasting benchmarks translate to finance? A broad study of risk adjusted performance

Forecasting financial asset returns is challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios, non-stationarity and heavy-tailed distributions. We benchmark 16 deep learning architectures for time series forecasting, including Transformers, State Space Models (SSMs), xLSTMs and recurrent hybrids, on a 15-year daily futures data...

Adir Saly-Kaufmann, Kieran Wood, Jan-Peter Calliess et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Half-Truths Break Similarity-Based Retrieval

When a text description is extended with an additional detail, image-text similarity should drop if that detail is wrong. We show that CLIP-style dual encoders often violate this intuition: appending a plausible but incorrect object or relation to an otherwise correct description can increase the similarity score. We c...

Bora Kargi, Arnas Uselis, Seong Joon Oh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Isotropic Activation Functions Enable Deindividuated Neurons and Adaptive Topologies

Varying the number of neurons while preserving function is difficult because neural networks' dense connectivity creates strong computational interdependence between units. Elementwise activation functions, particularly their limited equivariance properties, are identified as a central hurdle to achieving this. We prop...

George Bird · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Under the Influence: Evaluating and Improving LLM Vigilance in Agentic Tasks

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly autonomous assistants, capable of accomplishing series of complex tasks by interacting with open world domains such as software databases and the internet. This presents great opportunity but also great risk: open domains routinely present opportunities for autonom...

Sasha Robinson, Katherine M. Collins, Ilia Sucholutsky et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BrainRotViT: Transformer-ResNet Hybrid for Explainable Modeling of Brain Aging from 3D sMRI

Accurate brain-age estimation from structural MRI provides a valuable biomarker for studying healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease. We propose BrainRotViT (Brain ResNet over trained Vision Transformer), a two-stage, slice-based (2.5D) framework that approximates volumetric context while combining the strengths of...

Wasif Jalal, Md Nafiu Rahman, Atif Hasan Rahman et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Feb 2025

Quantum-aware Transformer model for state classification

This work focuses on bipartite quantum states and presents a data-driven approach to entanglement classification using transformer-based neural networks, successfully adapts transformers for quantum state analysis, demonstrating their ability to systematically identify entanglement in bipartite systems.

Przemysław Sekuła, M. Romaszewski, P. Głomb et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Stochastic Inverse Problem: stability, regularization and Wasserstein gradient flow

Inverse problems in physical or biological sciences often involve recovering an unknown parameter that is random. The sought-after quantity is a probability distribution of the unknown parameter, that produces data that aligns with measurements. Consequently, these problems are naturally framed as stochastic inverse pr...

Qin Li, Maria Oprea, Li Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Foundations of the Scaling Law

This technical note explains three mechanisms behind the exponents of dense-to-equivariant excess-loss ratios, which cover visual resolution, conformational coverage and correlated-sample precision.

Tian-Yu Zhao, Zhi-Xiang Ren · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Privacy Accounting for Empirical Denoisers

Diffusion models have emerged as the foundation of modern generative systems, yet their high memorization capacity raises privacy concerns. While differentially private (DP) training provides formal guarantees, it comes at a cost in sample quality. In this work, we study a complementary question: how much privacy loss...

William Cheng, Dongjun Kim, Mijung Park · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distributed Sparse Interventions in Language Models

Language models can perform a wide range of tasks at various levels of abstraction. They flexibly infer tasks from context, execute multiple tasks simultaneously, and select among competing goals. Understanding and controlling how models represent these tasks is central to aligning them with human objectives. Researche...

Maximilian S. Ernst (Max Planck School of Cognition, Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Machine Learning Group Technische Universit\"at Berlin) et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Online Distributional Prediction via Latent Cluster Geometry Under Drift and Corruption

Online learning in non-stationary streams is often formulated as tracking a point estimate, although many applications require predicting the full data-generating distribution. We study online distributional prediction under drift and bounded causal adversarial corruption. Candidate laws are represented by variable-siz...

Navyansh Mahla, Prateek Chanda, Ganesh Ramakrishnan · 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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