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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Linear Strategic Classification with Endogenous Improvements

Classical models of strategic classification treat agents' responses to a deployed classifier as cosmetic: features change, but true labels do not. We study an improvement-aware variant in which strategic responses can change outcomes: agents choose post-deployment features strategically at a cost, and labels are then...

Siddharth Shrivastava, Mahvith Akshintala, B Vamsha Vardhan Reddy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Detectability without Interference: Efficient Canary Design for Privacy Auditing in One Run

Privacy auditing aims to empirically assess privacy leakage in machine learning models using membership inference attacks (MIAs), and to derive lower bounds on differential privacy (DP) parameters. Standard privacy auditing inserts a sensitive sample (a canary) into many ($\gg 100$) randomized training runs, requiring...

Mathieu Dagr\'eou, Valentin Dorseuil, Mohammad Yaghini et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Supervised Learning Objectives for High-Dimensional Treatment Effects

Predicting the effect of interventions with many possible variations, e.g., therapeutic content that affects mental health outcomes or an earnings call transcript that drives movement in share price, is useful across several domains. However, classical causal estimators tend to assume that all possible interventions ar...

Nikita Dhawan, Arnav Paruthi, Andrew Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Amortized Factor Inference Networks for Posterior Inference

Amortized inference promises fast test-time Bayesian inference, but existing methods typically target a fixed model or a restricted model family. Extending amortization to new model families often requires retraining or test-time fine-tuning. In this paper, we ask: is it possible to build a single inference network cap...

Joohwan Ko, Justin Domke · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evolutionary Multi-Task Optimization for LLM-Guided Program Discovery

Recent LLM-guided evolutionary search methods have shown that iterative program mutation can discover strong algorithms, but they typically optimize each task independently, even when related tasks share reusable structure. We study evolutionary multitask optimization (EMO) for LLM-guided program discovery and propose...

Halil Alperen Gozeten, Xuechen Zhang, Emrullah Ildiz et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neurodata Without Boredom: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Data Reuse

Neuroscience data are fragmented across labs, experimental paradigms, and storage formats, and data reuse often requires substantial manual effort. Standardized formats have been proposed in response, but a fundamental tension persists: formats flexible enough for diverse experiments are rarely self-explanatory, while...

Ling-Qi Zhang, Kristin Branson · 0 citations

Locking Pretrained Weights via Deep Low-Rank Residual Distillation

This work proposes DLR-Lock, a method where the purveyor of the model purposely replaces each pretrained MLP in their model with a deep low-rank residual network of comparable parameter count, forcing activation memory that grows linearly with depth during backpropagation, and exploits the inference-training asymmetry...

Keitaro Sakamoto, Pierre Ablin, Federico Danieli et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint May 2026

HAServe: Horizon-Aware Scheduling and Memory Co-Design for Efficient LLM Serving

HAServe is presented, which turns HorizonSchema, a workload abstraction that connects exact prefix paths, permitted serializations, and released consumers as shared inputs to both decisions, into a scheduling--memory co-design method of systematic optimization for online LLM serving.

Xing-Yu Qu, Tian-Hao Lin, Yiqi Li et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do LLMs have core beliefs?

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked debate about whether these systems exhibit human-level cognition. In this debate, little attention has been paid to a structural component of human cognition: core beliefs, truths that provide a foundation around which we can build a worldview. These commitments usua...

Anna Sokol, Marianna B. Ganapini, Nitesh V. Chawla · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mind the Gap: Structure-Aware Consistency in Preference Learning

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intent, whether through explicit reward modeling or direct methods such as DPO, fundamentally relies on minimizing a surrogate loss as a proxy for the true pairwise ranking objective. We prove that this reliance is flawed for the standard surrogate losses used: for the e...

Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where to Steer: Input-Dependent Layer Selection for Steering Improves LLM Alignment

Steering vectors have emerged as a lightweight and effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) at inference time, enabling modulation of model behaviors by shifting intermediate representations toward a target behavior. Many existing steering methods apply interventions at globally fixed locations in a...

Soham Gadgil, Chris Lin, Su-In Lee · 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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