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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Representation Geometry and Inductive Biases in Quantum Classifiers across Classical Visual Benchmarks

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has a theoretical advantage over classical algorithms for specific synthetic data that is computationally hard. However, it remains unclear whether such theoretical advantages play a meaningful role for realistic classical data, such as natural images. Quantum structural properties induce...

Yu Yamaoka, Weng Ian Chan, Kosuke Mitarai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Differentiable 3D Scene Graph Metric via Contextual Hellinger Triplet Geometry

3D scene graph prediction is commonly supervised with local object and predicate classification losses. Although effective for slot-wise label prediction, this formulation does not provide a graph-level semantic distance between a predicted scene graph and its ground truth: semantically mild label errors and structural...

U-Chae Jun, Yoonhyuk Choi, Jiwoo Kang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Encoding Context into LLM Weights: What Makes It Context?

Longer contexts allow large language models (LLMs) to condition their predictions on more information, but inference costs grow prohibitively with context length. An emerging alternative uses test-time updates to encode context as temporary changes to model weights. However, encoding this information into weights that...

Yue Wang, Qi-Zhou Wang, Feng Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deficit-Driven Stratified Acquisition for Building STRATA-S12: An Open SAR-Optical Corpus for Self-Supervised Learning

Building a co-registered SAR-optical corpus for self-supervised Earth Observation is above all an acquisition problem, yet the main multi-modal datasets are collected opportunistically, with no per-stratum quota control and no mechanism against the geographic dropout that non-uniform cloud cover leaves behind. We prese...

Christian Sanchez-Leon, Dongming Chen, Dongqi Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

textGrain watermarking is harder to detect: can sum-tests still do it optimally?

Watermarking embeds an imperceptible signal in text from large language models that is statistically detectable with a secret key. The recent textGrain watermark (Li et. al. (2026b)) calibrates this signal against the model's sampling entropy through an explicit entropy budget, combining the stochasticity of Red-Green...

Swapnaneel Bhattacharyya, Soham Bonnerjee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Training Generalist Navigation Policies via Action Self-Distillation

Language provides a natural interface for humans to specify and reason about goals, but training language-conditioned robotic policies and reasoning typically requires expensive manual annotations. We propose Action Self-Distillation (ASD), a method for learning language-conditioned reasoning for robotic navigation wit...

Bowen Feng, Keqin Wang, Yulong Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Risk-Averse Inference-Time Diffusion Model Alignment with Finite-Sample Guarantees

Inference-time alignment steers diffusion models toward downstream objectives without costly fine-tuning, but existing methods typically optimize expected cost (or reward) without explicitly controlling tail risk. In this work, we propose a risk-averse framework for inference-time alignment of diffusion models that bal...

Yuchen Liang, Xian Yu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ATTUNE: Agentic Throughput Tuning for LLM Training

Training a large language model can occupy thousands of GPUs for weeks, and its speed depends on its recipe: how the model is split across GPUs, how memory is traded for compute, and which kernels and communication overlaps it uses. Finding a good recipe is still manual work for experts. Automated tuners search fixed l...

Leo Fan, Hong-Yang Wang, Wen-Bo Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Orbit Matching to Docking: A Hierarchical Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Multiphase Rendezvous Trajectory Design

As the complexity of space missions increases, autonomous spacecraft guidance must accommodate transitions between mission phases with distinct dynamics, objectives, and constraints. Rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) are particularly challenging because they span multiple operating regimes, from orbital-scale m...

Mariko Storey-Matsutani, Anatoly Zlotnik, Lee Holguin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Fr\'echet Distributional Decoder Alignment for Latent Generative Models

Fr\'echet Distributional (FD) objectives provide an effective distribution-level signal for post-training generative models. For latent generative models, however, existing FD-based post-training methods optimize only the latent generator while keeping the decoder frozen: the decoder is trained on reconstruction latent...

Xianghong Fang, Jiajun Zhu, Esma Aimeur et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Selective Inference for Clustering Under Unknown Covariance

Unsupervised clustering is widely used to discover underlying group structure, after which researchers often seek to validate these groups via post-hoc hypothesis testing on the population means. However, using the same data both to form clusters and to test for a difference in means inflates the Type I error rate. Rec...

Yiqun T. Chen, Lucy L. Gao · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

BrowseSafe++: Benchmarking Prompt Injection Detection Across Web Contexts, Languages, and Browser Views

Browser agents need to make decisions and execute actions on behalf of users while consuming untrusted webpages, creating opportunities for malicious instructions embedded in webpages to redirect legitimate tasks. We introduce BrowseSafe++, which extends BrowseSafe from 14,719 pages to 38,675 pairs of pages. Most of it...

Yue-Tian Chen, Kai-Yuan Zhang, Yun-Tao Du et al. · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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