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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EEG-Captioner: Grounding EEG-to-Language Generation in Fundamental Signal Properties

Electroencephalography (EEG)-to-language models offer a promising approach for translating complex neural signals into human-readable descriptions. However, generating plausible language does not necessarily demonstrate that a model has learned to interpret the underlying EEG signal. A direct way to assess such interpr...

Leyuan Jin, Jiahao Mei, Yixuan Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Energy and Latency First: How Deployment Constraints Reverse Time-Series Model Selection

AI models, and time-series models in particular are typically ranked by accuracy and deployed under constraints absent from that ranking. In this paper, we study a real setting where these constraints are explicit and measurable: handover pre- diction in cellular networks, where inference runs on the User Equipment onc...

Shruti Bothe, Illyyne Saffar, Ayush K. Varshney · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Doubly Robust Distributionally Robust Offline Contextual Pricing

Offline contextual pricing often relies on logged observational data, but faces challenges from distributional shifts between training and deployment environments. Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides a principled approach to off-policy evaluation and learning (OPE/L). However, existing methods are mostl...

Min Xu, Xinyi Yin, Yunfan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Ground-Truth-First Benchmarking of Reinforcement Learning via Converse Optimality: From Smooth, Fully Observed Systems to Non-Smooth or Partially Observed Tasks

A ground-truth-first framework based on converse optimality is developed, constructing each task with a certified optimal value function and policy withheld from learners and used only for evaluation, and extends beyond smooth affine Gaussian systems to include non-affine raw-action interfaces and finite-covariance non...

Grégoire Ouerdane, Sinan Ibrahim, S. Streif et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

OpenAttention: One Percent Is Enough with Tail Proxies

Sparse attention reads only a small subset of the key-value cache, and how to treat the unread tail remains a key challenge. Discarding the tail biases the output, and sampling it as previous approaches do fails at reads of 5% and below, where the tail likely holds heavy hitters the selector missed. Our key observation...

Hyunwoo Yu, Jongbeom Lee, Hyunbin Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Random Initialization as a Baseline for Time Series Foundation Models

It is suggested that MTSC evaluations should distinguish the effect of pretrained weights from that of the underlying architecture and should include both architecture-matched random initialization and strong non-pretrained baselines.

Pinar Sungu Isiacik, Georgiana Ifrim · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Same molecule, Different Knowledge: Cross-Identifier Binding Failures in LLMs For chemistry

Chemical AI workflows routinely represent the same molecule through multiple co-referring identifiers, including trivial names, IUPAC names, and SMILES, implicitly assuming that these representations provide interchangeable access to an LLM's knowledge. To test this assumption, we first introduce a controlled benchmark...

Khouloud Saadi, Di Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Building Presentation Intelligence for High-Quality Slide Generation

PowerPoint presentations (PPTs) are a dominant medium for communication across diverse domains, yet high-quality PPT generation still depends heavily on labor-intensive human effort. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) for agentic tasks have created both new opportunities and challenges (Chen et al., 2026)...

Yuhang Xie, Cheng Li, Chenliang Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Tracing Subliminal Learning Through Pretraining

This work study both hard label distillation, where students train on numbers generated by a biased teacher, and on-policy soft label distillation, where students generate the data and the teacher's logits provide the learning signal, finding transfer persists in both settings across differences in weight initializatio...

Angela Tang, V. Anand, Gonçalo Paulo · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Inherited, Not Invented: Tracing the Provenance of Wait in Reasoning Models

Reinforcement learning (RL) is credited with teaching reasoning models to write {wait} before reconsidering a step, yet large RL accuracy gains do not require the word. This view can confuse what RL discovers with what a model inherits from its training data. We trace the word through open models'training histories, re...

Zhi-Zhuo Kou, Si-Zai Hou, Long Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

One Teacher, Many Views: Reducing Reference Sensitivity in On-Policy Self-Distillation

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves reasoning by training a model on its own trajectories with dense token-level supervision from a privileged copy conditioned on a reference solution. Existing methods typically use a single teacher distribution conditioned on the complete reference. We identify a limitation of...

Khouloud Saadi, Di Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MOER: Mix-Policy Optimization under Expert Prefix Guidance with Selective Rollback

Mix-policy optimization incorporates off-policy expert data into the reinforcement learning (RL) loop to transcend the capability boundary of on-policy RL. However, existing methods either provide static full-trace guidance that suppresses self-exploration, or adopt expert prefix guidance without correctness guarantees...

Xuyang Zhong, Jiuding Yang, Yiwen Guo et al. · 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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