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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tool Recommendation for Multi-Step Agents: Finding Every Tool a Task Needs

A multi-step agent task fails when a single tool it needs is missing, yet the tools an agent may need are too many to list: the roughly 8,200 tools on the platform we study have definitions that together exceed the context window of any model we evaluate. We present Tool Recommendation, a deployed system that gives an...

Sam Partee, River Stevens, Thierry Damiba et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Blitz: Accelerating the Diffusion Modules of AlphaFold3 and Boltz-2

Diffusion-based protein structure prediction models produce all-atom structures in about 200 denoising steps, and that cost has driven a number of few-step samplers. We present Blitz, a few-step distillation framework that uses a geometric noise schedule to distribute steps more evenly across noise scales, then learns...

Vinay Saji Mathew, Soundar R. T. Kumara, Gretta D. Kellogg et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Equivalence testing and run-count design for stochastic machine-learning experiments

Claims that two training methods perform equally well often rest on a non-significant difference between two or three runs per method. We develop a protocol, with its power theory, for certifying practical equivalence in per-run metrics such as the AUROC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve). It rest...

Dmytro Knopov, Nadiya Shvai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TriRouter: Sparse-to-Dense Electrode-Space Routing for Robust EEG Motor Imagery Decoding

Motor imagery brain-computer interfaces require reliable decoding from multichannel EEG, but practical acquisition often yields sparse or corrupted electrode montages. We propose TriRouter, an electrode-space routing framework with discriminative-preservation, mask-robustness, and latent-compensation paths. A validatio...

Ying Zhou, Yaoxin, Mengting Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

JAXtari: High-Throughput and Easy-to-Modify Arcade Learning Environment

The Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) has been a cornerstone of Deep Reinforcement Learning research, providing a standardized benchmark for evaluating general agents. However, its lack of native support for object-extraction and environment modification restricts research into evaluating whether agents learn robust ca...

Quentin Delfosse, Raban Emunds, Paul Seitz et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

No-Regret Language Generation

We introduce no-regret generation, which requires a generator to make a sublinear number of mistakes uniformly over all demonstration sequences and compatible target languages. We also formulate an agnostic variant that allows arbitrary demonstrations that may not be compatible with any languages. For both settings, we...

Jiaxun Li, Vinod Raman, Ambuj Tewari · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep LLM layers expose passage-level context in EEG during silent reading

In a previous report we showed that a decoder can recover open-vocabulary word-level information from 19-channel EEG recorded during silent reading, by aligning short EEG windows with hidden-state embeddings of the presented word taken from a large language model (LLM). That analysis contrasted two of the model's 33 la...

Ingo Marquardt, Anthilia Alchanat, Priyanka Jain · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deconstructing Multi-Task Active Learning: The Paradox of Gradient Conflict and Orthogonal Decomposition

Existing multi-task active learning (MTL-AL) methods predominantly rely on linear scalarization of heterogeneous objectives such as uncertainty, diversity, and gradient conflict. We argue that this entangled formulation is fundamentally limited, as linear combination fails to capture Pareto-optimal trade-offs under con...

Juho Jung, Seongjae Kang, Jinyoung Han · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

GRAFT-EEG: Gauge-Aware Physical Field Transport for Cross-Dataset Motor-Imagery EEG

Cross-dataset EEG decoding often treats montage, reference, and active-sensor changes as representation shift, although they also alter the observation operator. We study target-statistics-blind transfer: fitting receives no target signal, label, or empirical statistic, and electrode coordinates only instantiate a fixe...

Yi-Na Zhou, Meng-Ting Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ThetreStageAI: Multi-View Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Structured Bengali Theatre Production Planning

Staging a theatre performance requires coordinating dialogue, actor movement, stage directions, lighting focus, cue timing, and equipment constraints within the same production plan. This work presents ThetreStageAI, a retrieval augmented framework for structured Bengali theatre production planning. Rather than retriev...

Md. Mehedi Hasan Naeem, Mst. Kamrunnahar Ruma, Shakila Sultana et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Sign Code: The Hidden Binary Nature of Deep Networks

The natural unit of analysis for these networks may not be through their continuous weight space but instead through their discrete sign codes, which generalize well when same-class inputs share similar sign codes.

N. Göring, Shuo Zhang, Roi Holtzman et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Many, but How Sure? Class Competition as a Confidence Proxy in Multi-Class Density-Based Counting

Multi-class density estimators can count objects in crowded scenes, but their class-wise outputs offer no indication of how reliably density mass has been allocated. We introduce a training-free confidence proxy based on local competition between the strongest class channels. The resulting prominence measure requires o...

Villanelle O'Reilly, Georgios Leontidis, Marc Hanheide · 0 citations

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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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