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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Noise-Robust Forced Alignment for Spontaneous Speech

The classical GMM-HMM aligner is revisit with upsampled WavLM features instead of MFCCs, explicit phone units for fillers and non-lexical vocal events trained on verbatim-annotated spontaneous speech, and a discriminative projection fitted on clean and noise-corrupted feature pairs to improve robustness.

Laurin Wagner, M. Zusag · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Structure-Aware Spatial Kernels for Gaussian Process Distributed Port-Hamiltonian Systems

A structure-aware kernel design is presented that removes irrelevant state coordinates and decouples state and spatial dependencies through a tensor-product covariance and allows qualitative knowledge of spatial heterogeneity to be incorporated by selecting an appropriate spatial kernel without requiring an analytical...

Tian-Yi Yang, Thomas Beckers · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Coverage Cliffs in Off-Policy Quantile Certification

We study when logged contextual-bandit data can certify an upper tail quantile for a policy selected from the same sample. We construct a PAC-Bayes Bernstein lower-confidence envelope for the target cumulative distribution function (CDF), simultaneous over a predeclared threshold grid and all data-dependent posteriors....

P. Bourigault, Emmanuelle Bourigault · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Deterministic Bounds on Accuracy and Stability of Metric-Space Regression and Classification

A geometric framework that quantifies ambiguity of the input-target relation through the average kernel size, computed with data-dependent, i.e. model-independent, feasible sets derived from worst-case input and target noise is introduced.

N. Gottschling, Jakob Gawlikowski, Michele Caprio · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

On the SPOT: Enhancing Speculative Decoding for Diffusion Language Models via Commit-Order Prediction

This work proposes using coupled-noise match verification for diffusion blocks, following shared-Gumbel-noise coupling approaches, and introduces Speculating Positions Order Trajectory (SPOT), which learns to predict this order.

Eliezer Shlomi, Eliron Rahimi, Avi Mendelson et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Don't Retrain, Remix: Adaptation of Web Agents using Mixture Hypernetworks

WebMix, a mixture hypernetwork that adapts web agents to unseen interfaces by composing previously trained low-rank adapters, matches or outperforms in-context learning and LoRA baselines, often matching the average success of specialists trained directly on those interfaces.

Md Farhan Ishmam, Minh Pham Dinh, Kenneth Marino · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning smooth dynamics via Kinematic Interpolants

This paper introduces Kinematic Interpolants (KI), a novel framework that extends the seminal methodology of stochastic interpolants to infer nonlinear dynamics across multiple snapshots in phase space, i.e., observables with position and velocity measurements.

Yi-Heng Jiang, Youssef M. Marzouk, A. Bose et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Predicting Privileged Information Effectiveness for On-Policy Self-Distillation

This work systematically evaluates 16 PI configurations across three multi-turn agentic benchmarks and three student models that vary in scale and reasoning mode and finds that PI effectiveness depends on its content, generation source, and the student model.

Kai-Jian Zou, Emiliano Penaloza, MohammadHossein Rezaei et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Generative Value Classifier

This work provides a critic whose generative component is a return-conditioned policy, which can share the actor's architecture, and shows gains over leading discriminative methods, including distributional RL methods.

Alex Swerdlow, Perry Dong, Chelsea Finn · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Progressive Misalignment Can Emerge from Benign Recursive Self-Distillation

This paper observes that when a safe model is recursively self-distilled on its own (safe) generations while receiving an additional non-harmful cue, it becomes increasingly misaligned across a diverse set of harmful queries; it is called Progressive Misalignment.

Karim Abdel Sadek, F. Di Gennaro, Fanny Yang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Lean4AgenticRL: Advancing Agentic RL with Verifiable Multi-level Process Rewards

The proposed **Lean4AgenticRL** is the first framework that grounds multi-level process rewards in the unified Lean4 formalization schema for open-ended agentic RL, and provides multi-level rewards to support more effective agentic RL with the workflow-stage-normalized GRPO algorithm.

Rui-Da Wang, Gerald Friedland, Tong Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Sparse Autoencoders Can Induce Local Geometry for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting

This work introduces Sparse Autoencoder Geometric Anchoring (SAGA), which converts a Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) trained at each task boundary into local, low-rank constraints on representation drift, and establishes its local relation to latent code matching, define its spectral truncation error, and derive a conditional...

Kamil Faber, K. Filus, Łukasz Pawela · 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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