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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Solvating machine-learning interatomic potentials for solution-phase chemistry

Most machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are trained on gas-phase data, which limits their use for chemistry in solution. Here, we introduce AnySolv, a transferable implicit solvation potential that provides solvent-dependent energy and force corrections to existing gas-phase potentials without retraining t...

Anton Z. Ni, J. Lee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Soft Teacher Forcing

Soft tokens have so far been used to replace discrete chain-of-thought in latent reasoning methods. These approaches typically require multi-stage training and, in some cases, auxiliary modules, yet they still underperform supervised fine-tuning (SFT) ontriples. In this paper, we ask whether soft tokens can be used to...

Mohammad Fahes, Cordelia Schmid, Anurag Arnab · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Comprehensive Workflow for Uncertainty-Aware Ionic Liquid Solvent Discovery

Designing synthesizable materials with targeted properties remains one of the central objectives in materials sciences. Ionic liquids (ILs) are well suited to this goal due to their "tunability", where physical and chemical properties can be precisely customized by modifying their molecular structure, specifically by v...

Alexander Lobo, Urvi Awasthi, Leonid Zhukov · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Generalized McDiarmid Inequality: Sample Reuse and Non-Uniform Unbounded Differences

We develop a novel generalization of McDiarmid's concentration inequality and use it to obtain a uniform law of large numbers result and error bounds on stochastic optimization problems which simultaneously incorporate two key features: 1) They capture the benefit of training sample reuse in algorithms that also employ...

Jeremiah Birrell · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neuromorphic Decoding and Dynamical Image Reconstruction from Populations of Spiking Retinal Ganglion Cells

Decoding visual stimuli from the spiking activity of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) informs both our understanding of the retinal code and the design of visual prostheses. Natural vision is dynamic, yet state-of-the-art decoders mostly reconstruct single frames with artificial neural networks that process dense, continu...

Ning Zhang, Arto Nurmikko · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Implicit and explicit reparameterizations of the Folded Normal and Rice distributions

Variational inference is a flexible tool for modeling experimental data and has proven useful in crystallography. Pathwise gradient estimators provide low-variance gradients for reparameterized variational inference, but are not readily available for some distributions central to crystallography. This work derives and...

Luis Aldama, Kevin Dalton, Minhuan Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SCOPE Before You Sample: Conformal Scores Guide Posterior Exploration for Fast and Calibrated Bayesian Predictive Inference

Bayesian predictive regions account for parameter uncertainty but can be poorly calibrated under model misspecification, even with expensive full MCMC. Cheaper approximations such as variational inference reduce the cost but often yield less accurate predictive distributions. We propose SCOPE (Score-guided Conformal Po...

Zahra Moslemi, Ziyi Liang, Babak Shahbaba · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Gluing Local Contexts into Global Meaning: A Sheaf-Theoretic Decomposition of Transformer Representations

Existing interpretability tools do not test whether a representation keeps the same content when only the phrasing changes. We treat each paraphrase pair as a local witness that two activations should agree and build a cellular sheaf over the paraphrase graph; its Laplacian $L_\mathcal{F}$ answers the question on a fro...

Bryce Grant, Peng Wang · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

LocalTrain: Integer-Only Local Learning for Energy-Efficient CNN Training on Edge FPGAs

Local learning reduces cross-layer training dependencies, but an efficient accelerator must still retain operands, accumulate gradients, and select quantization scales. We present an FPGA system that trains a CNN and its regional auxiliary classifiers using a shared integer matrix engine. Compact errors are expanded on...

Shi-Qi Ding, Xuan-Yu Liang, Xin-Yang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

In-context classification: Calibration and noise in linear attention with softmax readout

We study in-context binary classification in a simple attention model trained to minimise a logistic loss. Each prompt has a latent logistic teacher, and the learner must infer its direction from Bernoulli-labeled context examples. We derive an asymptotic prediction for the test logit in a high-dimensional regime with...

Arman Rysmakhanov, Mary Letey, Yue M. Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring Variable Importance Using Proportional Inclusive Marginal Effects

Shapley-based measures are widely used for measuring variable importance in statistics and machine learning. However, these measures have a serious issue--a nonactive variable can get a positive importance measure when it is correlated with an active variable. Herin et al. recently proposed a measure called proportiona...

Youngseo Cho, V. Roshan Joseph · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MENTOR: Procedural Shielding of Tool-Using LLM Agents

Tool-using LLM agents are increasingly used to automate workflows governed by procedural manuals, such as company rules for booking travel or procuring hardware. These manuals are written in natural language for humans and describe general requirements over such complex workflows. Ensuring compliance of LLM agents with...

Ashwani Anand, Ivi Chatzi, Ritam Raha et al. · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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