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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Structural Pass Analysis in Football: Learning Pass Archetypes and Tactical Impact from Spatio-Temporal Tracking Data

Football action-value approaches estimate scoring, possession, or other downstream outcome value; complementary descriptions can characterise how a pass relates to the opposition's spatial structure. We introduce an interpretable structural-passing framework using tracking and event information, with three descriptors:...

Oktay Karaku\c{s}, Hasan Arkada\c{s}, Can Ey\"{u}po\u{g}lu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Holistic Scaling Laws for Optimal Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Optimization

Scaling laws govern macroscopic resource allocation for LLMs, yet precise architectural configurations for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models remain guided by heuristics. Existing MoE scaling studies either incorporate MoE-specific variables into scaling formulas, causing fitted coefficients to grow rapidly without propor...

Weilin Wan, Jingtao Han, Debing Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep probabilistic model synthesis enables unified modeling of whole-brain neural activity across individual subjects

Many disciplines need quantitative models that synthesize experimental data across multiple instances of the same general system. For example, neuroscientists must combine data from the brains of many individual animals to understand the species' brain in general. However, typical machine learning models treat one syst...

William E. Bishop, Luuk W. Hesselink, Bernhard Englitz et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SERQ: Saliency-Aware Low-Rank Error Reconstruction for LLM Quantization

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a prevailing technique for deploying large language models (LLMs) efficiently in terms of both memory and computation, across edge devices and server platforms. Existing PTQ methods primarily aim to reduce precision in weights and activations by mitigating quantization er...

Yeonsik Park, Hyeonseong Kim, Seungkyu Choi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Less Noise, Same Certificate: Retain Sensitivity for Unlearning

Certified machine unlearning aims to provably remove the influence of a deletion set $U$ from a model trained on a dataset $S$, by producing an unlearned output that is statistically indistinguishable from retraining on the retain set $R := S\setminus U$. Many existing certified unlearning methods adapt techniques from...

Carolin Heinzler, Kasra Malihi, Amartya Sanyal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Next-token Preference: Scaling Unsupervised Reward Modeling

Learning from feedback advances the capabilities and safety of frontier models, but preference supervision remains costly and difficult to scale. We introduce next-token preference (NTP), an unsupervised reward-modeling method that constructs preference pairs from the continuation structure of raw web text. NTP uses ea...

Jingxuan Fan, Yueying Li, Zhenting Qi et al. · 0 citations

TopoCurate:Modeling Interaction Topology for Tool-Use Agent Training

This work proposes TopoCurate, an interaction-aware framework that projects multi-trial rollouts from the same task into a unified semantic quotient topology that explicitly captures how tool invocations and environmental responses drive the divergence between effective strategies and failure modes.

Jin-Luan Yang, Yuxin Liu, Zheng-Yu Chen et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Floorplan Generation with Space Syntax: From Design Theory to Model Improvement

Architectural design increasingly adopts generative AI (GenAI) for floorplan generation, an early-stage design task exploring how spaces should be organized for use. Yet fidelity objectives inherited from native visual and geometric generators do not automatically capture this design purpose. This organization remains...

Zhuoyang Jiang, Dongqing Zhang, Qingxiang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What is the Value of Censored Data? An Exact Analysis for the Data-driven Newsvendor

We study the offline data-driven newsvendor problem when historical demand is censored by past inventory levels. We introduce a class of policies for which worst-case expected regret over all bounded demand distributions admits an exact finite-dimensional characterization, valid for any sample size and historical inven...

Rachitesh Kumar, Omar Mouchtaki · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers

Transformer models systematically favor certain token positions, yet the architectural origins of this position bias remain poorly understood. This bias is closely connected to the Lost-in-the-Middle phenomenon, where models underutilize information placed in the middle of the context. We show that causal Transformer a...

Hanna Herasimchyk, Robin Labryga, Tomislav Prusina et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Certified Per-Instance Unlearning Using Individual Sensitivity Bounds

Certified machine unlearning can be achieved through noise injection, with differential privacy guarantees obtained by calibrating the noise to worst-case sensitivity. Yet, the influence of individual training points is highly heterogeneous, making such uniform calibration unnecessarily conservative for most deletion r...

Hanna Benarroch (DI-ENS), Jamal Atif (CMAP), Olivier Capp\'e (DI-ENS) · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Behavior-first approach to Multi-Intention Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) seeks to infer reward functions from expert demonstrations. When demonstrations originate from multiple experts with different intentions, the problem is known as Multi-Intention IRL (MI-IRL). Recent deep generative MI-IRL approaches couple behavior clustering and reward learning, b...

Antonio Mone, Frans A. Oliehoek, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert · 0 citations

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