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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Actions

Generative policies based on diffusion models and flow matching have shown strong promise for offline reinforcement learning (RL), but their applicability remains largely confined to continuous action spaces. To address a broader range of offline RL settings, we extend flow matching to a general framework that supports...

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Ruiquan Huang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Grables: When Graph Structure Helps Tabular Prediction

Simple row-wise predictors that score each row independently remain competitive with far more expressive architectures on tabular benchmarks, which are i.i.d. by construction. They cannot, however, represent natural targets on transactional, temporal, and relational tables, where labels depend on other rows. We show th...

Tamara Cucumides, Floris Geerts · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distance Marching for Generative Modeling

Modern generative models based on diffusion or flow matching transport noise toward the data manifold, without representing the data manifold explicitly. We propose Distance Marching that explores an alternative design by explicitly modeling a distance field of the data manifold. A distance field offers a geometric vie...

Zimo Wang, Ishit Mehta, Haolin Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Optimality in Active Preference Learning

Aligning large language models (LLMs) depends on high-quality datasets of human preference labels, which are costly to collect. Although active learning has been studied to improve sample efficiency relative to passive collection, many existing approaches adopt classical experimental design criteria such as G- or D-opt...

Yao Zhao, Kwang-Sung Jun · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FIRE: Multi-fidelity Regression with Distribution-conditioned In-context Learning using Tabular Foundation Models

Multi-fidelity (MF) regression often operates in regimes of extreme data imbalance, where the commonly-used Gaussian-process (GP) surrogates struggle with cubic scaling costs and overfit to sparse high-fidelity observations, limiting efficiency and generalization in real-world applications. We introduce FIRE, a trainin...

Rosen Ting-Ying Yu, Nicholas Sung, Faez Ahmed · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federate the Router: Learning Language Model Routers with Sparse and Decentralized Evaluations

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly accessed as remotely hosted services by edge and enterprise clients that cannot run frontier models locally. Since models vary widely in capability and price, routing queries to models that balance quality and inference cost is essential. Existing router approaches assume a...

Baris Askin, Shivam Patel, Anupam Nayak et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Signal from Structure: Exploiting Submodular Upper Bounds in Generative Flow Networks

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets; GFNs) are a class of generative models that learn to sample compositional objects proportional to their a priori unknown value, their reward. We focus on the case where the reward has a specified, actionable structure, namely that it is submodular. We show submodularity can be harne...

Alexandre Larouche, Audrey Durand · 0 citations

Unrolled Neural Networks for Constrained Optimization

This work develops unrolled neural networks to solve constrained optimization problems, offering accelerated, learnable counterparts to dual ascent (DA) algorithms, and formulate training the two networks as a nested optimization problem and propose an alternating procedure that updates the primal and dual networks.

Samar Hadou, Alejandro Ribeiro · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KerJEPA: Kernel Discrepancies for Euclidean Self-Supervised Learning

Breakthroughs in self-supervised Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have established that regularizing Euclidean representations toward isotropic Gaussian priors yields provable gains in training stability and downstream generalization. We introduce a new, flexible family of Euclidean joint embedding self...

Eric Zimmermann, Harley Wiltzer, Justin Szeto et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep Learning and Elicitability for McKean-Vlasov FBSDEs With Common Noise

We present a novel numerical method for solving McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV--FBSDEs) with common noise, combining Picard iterations, elicitability and deep learning. The key innovation involves elicitability to derive a path-wise loss function, enabling efficient training of neu...

Felipe J. P. Antunes, Yuri F. Saporito, Sebastian Jaimungal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?

Reasoning models (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) generate long chains of thought to solve harder problems, but they often loop, repeating the same text at low temperatures or with greedy decoding. We study why this happens and what role temperature plays. With open reasoning models, we find that looping is common at low temperatur...

Charilaos Pipis, Shivam Garg, Vasilis Kontonis et al. · 0 citations

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