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#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Feature Priming in Online Linear Regression: Sparse-Regret Lower Bounds and a Tight Univariate Rate

This analysis identifies a common obstruction: cheap nuisance interpolation causes the refit to underweight the truly predictive coordinate, and an exact target-mass identity and a two-sign argument turn this effect into clipped prediction loss.

Huibo Xu, Shi Fu, Qixin Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Reflex-Guard: A Low-Latency Guardrail for LLM Prompt Safety Using Dense Semantic Embeddings

Reflex-Guard is introduced, a lightweight guardrail that runs locally that uses jailbreak-aware preprocessing, compact sentence-transformer embeddings, and seven fast binary classifiers that enable high-accuracy prompt safety filtering with much lower latency than existing solutions.

Istiaque Ahmed, Afia Anjum Borsha, Ranat Das Prangon et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Aug 2026

When to Review: Spaced Repetition for Continual Pre-Training of Language Models

Spaced Repetition Training (SRT) is introduced, a continual learning framework inspired by cognitive science, which schedules sample-rehearsal using the SuperMemo-2 (SM-2) algorithm, and preserves broad benchmark performance that naive continual pre-training and uniform replay substantially degrade.

Alankar Atreya, Devesh Batra, Yoages Kumar Mantri et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Looking Beyond the Scale: Do Surgical Skill Models Learn Transferable Representations Across Assessment Rubrics?

Results indicate the visual component is dominant but not solely responsible for skill prediction; further work is needed to conclusively disentangle transferable skill features from those bound to a specific visual domain.

Hanna Hoffmann, F. Bechtolsheim, Stefanie Speidel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

When AI Designs AI: Innovation or Imitation?

An analysis that derives task-specific algorithmic design spaces from human-designed methods, maps both human- and agent-designed methods into these spaces, and quantifies their algorithmic differences at the module level suggests that although current agents can occasionally match or surpass human SOTA performance, their algorithmic designs remain within human-derived algorithmic design spaces.

Yikang Yang, Zhengxin Yang, Luzhou Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Online Generalized Sparse Regression: How Does Overparametrization Help?

This paper proposes an online generalized-sparsity-constrained regression framework, focusing on online cardinality-constrained linear regression and low-rank matrix sensing, and introduces an efficient online hard-thresholding algorithm that performs closed-form updates and requires storing only summary statistics, making it computationally, memory, and storage efficient.

Shuoguang Yang, Qiang Sun · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

On the Pseudo-Mixing of Kac's Walk

Motivated by a conjecture of Vaikuntanathan and Zamir, we study the pseudo-mixing of Kac's walk on $\mathrm{SO}(n)$: whether short trajectories are indistinguishable from Haar measure by low-complexity tests. We prove that the first $k$ columns mix in Wasserstein distance in $O(n(k+\log n)\log n)$ steps for fixed accuracy, resolving a conjecture of Oliveira. Combining this with a representation-theoretic variance bound, we show that if $T=\omega(nk(k+\log n)\log n)$, then every degree-$k$ polynomial normalized to have unit Haar variance has expectation under the $T$-step law within $o(1)$ of its Haar expectation. As an application, we show that this pseudo-mixing estimate can be used to prove the effectiveness of a fast Johnson--Lindenstrauss transform with the usual target dimension.

N. Pillai, Aaron Smith, Vinod Vaikuntanathan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

SPACE: Sample-cloud Predictive Adaptive Conformal Ellipsoids for Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting

SPACE is proposed, a conformal wrapper for sample-generating multivariate forecasters that consistently brings realized joint and rolling coverage closer to the nominal target, achieving superior coverage-efficiency tradeoffs relative to competing wrappers.

Baishi Li, Kelvin J. L. Koa, Ke-Wei Huang · 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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