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#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

What Neural Network Field Theory Can and Cannot Realise on a Computer

A no-go theorem is used to separate four versions of neural network field theory, according to whether the defining object is the finite width ensemble or its infinite width limit, and whether the target the authors want to compute is a quantum or an effective field theory.

Thomas R. Harvey · 1 citation

Robust Chance-Constrained Optimization using a Continuous Parameter Space Wasserstein-2 Ambiguity Set of Gaussian Mixtures

A novel formulation of a Wasserstein-2 metric that uses the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) metric over probability measures with finite second moments is developed, which allows the worst-case distribution to endogenously determine both how many mixture components receive mass and where their means and covariances lie within a continuous support.

Shibshankar Dey, Sanjay Mehrotra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Jul 2026

An End-to-End Hybrid Quantum--Classical Sampling Workflow for Discrete Markov Random Fields: A Reproducible Case Study

Sampling from discrete Markov random fields (MRFs) is a hard problem and amplitude-encoded i.i.d. sampling for small MRFs where $2^n$ target probabilities are precomputed classically is studied to allow a clean comparison against classical MCMC based on independent circuit samples.

A. Mazumder · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Jun 2026

Closing the Operational Gap in Semantic Caching

Semantic caching cuts LLM inference costs by serving a cached response to semantically similar queries. Standard practice evaluates these systems using PR-AUC, a metric that only measures how well scores rank and ignores whether they are usable at a fixed threshold. We show this mismatch leads to systematically poor deployment choices, as models with the highest PR-AUC are often the worst in operation. We introduce Precision--Cache Hit Ratio (P-CHR) AUC, a cache-aware metric that measures precision across cache utilization levels, and Operational Retention Rate (ORR), which captures how much offline ranking quality survives at deployment. We decompose the operational gap between offline and deployed quality into a recoverable threshold-utility component and an irreducible structural component fixed by the dataset's positive rate. Our experiments show that the threshold-utility gap is governed by the training objective rather than data scale, and yields only to re-normalizing scores over the candidate pool or changing the training objective. Ultimately, model selection for semantic caching is a threshold-utility problem, not a ranking one, and measuring it is the first step to closing the gap.

Aditeya Baral, Radoslav Ralev, Iliya Sotirov Zhechev et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Aug 2026

WINO: A Weak-Form Physics Informed Neural Operator for Hyperelasticity on Variable Domains

We propose a Weak-form Physics-Informed Neural Operator (WINO), a data-free framework that combines the efficiency of neural operators with the geometric flexibility of the $\varphi$-finite element method ($\varphi$-FEM). $\varphi$-FEM is an unfitted method that accommodates geometric variations without body-fitted meshes, where the domain geometry is represented by the level-set function $\varphi$. To impose the boundary conditions, Dirichlet problems adopt the $\varphi$-FEM lifting so only the homogeneous displacement contribution is learned, whereas traction-driven Neumann problems additionally predict the auxiliary fields necessary for the unfitted weak formulation. Parameters are trained by minimizing squared weak-form residuals aligned with $\varphi$-FEM together with squared penalties on the cut-cell auxiliary equations, which removes the need for large paired datasets of converged reference solutions. When labeled reference data are available, an optional data-augmented variant (WINO+data) can further combine this physics-informed loss with a supervised term. After training, WINO outputs can seed the nonlinear $\varphi$-FEM solvers as neural operator warm starts (NOWS), which reduce iteration counts relative to traditional cold-started solvers. Numerical benchmarks show substantial accuracy of WINO together with total training times of about 15%-70% of those of supervised $\varphi$-FEM-FNO across all cases, without requiring reference-solution generation.

Bokai Zhu, Yizheng Wang, Qinghui Zhang et al. · 0 citations

Online Learning-to-Defer with Varying Experts

An online multiclass L2D algorithm that combines queried-action bandit feedback with a dynamically varying pool of experts is introduced that achieves expected true-deferral regret under a concentrated-score condition.

Duy Hoang Dang, Yannis Montreuil, Maxime Meyer et al. · 5 citations

DiffAnon: Diffusion-based Prosody Control for Voice Anonymization

DiffAnon is proposed, a diffusion-based anonymization method with classifier-free guidance (CFG) that provides explicit, continuous inference-time control over prosody preservation, and is the first voice anonymization framework to provide structured, interpolatable inference-time prosody control.

Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews et al. · 0 citations

Deflation-PINNs: Learning Multiple Solutions for PDEs and Landau-de Gennes

The results show that Deflation-PINNs can successfully identify and characterize multiple distinct crystal structures: a single unsupervised run recovers all six stable states of the benchmark and the discovered branches are refined to percent-level accuracy.

Sean Disarò, R. Maity, Aras Bacho · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Mar 2026

Agentic-Kube: A Graph-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Objective Kubernetes Scheduling

The architecture decomposes multi-objective scheduling into a tripartite optimisation space managed by dedicated sub-agents for cost minimisation, anti-affinity fault tolerance, and vector resource balancing, and Agentic-Kube consistently achieves Pareto-efficient placements.

Hamed Hamzeh · 0 citations

FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation

The results clearly demonstrate that FlowCorrect learns from very few demonstrations and enables fast, sample-efficient, incremental, human-in-the-loop corrections of generative visuomotor policies at deployment time in real-world robotics.

Edgar Welte, Yitian Shi, R. Wolf et al. · 4 citations

Robust Assortment Optimization from Observational Data

This work uncover and identify the notion of ``robust item-wise coverage''as the minimal data requirement to enable sample-efficient robust assortment learning and bridges the gap between robustness and statistical efficiency in assortment learning.

Miao Lu, Yuxuan Han, Han Zhong et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 27, 2026

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

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