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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

ProTok: Unified Protein Tokenization via Modular Multi-Codebook Quantization

Protein sequence, structure, and functional annotations each capture complementary aspects of protein biology, yet existing tokenizers encode each modality independently, limiting the expressiveness of discrete protein representations. We present ProTok, a unified protein tokenizer that maps all three modalities into a...

Romain Hardy, Xiao-Man Zhang, P. Rajpurkar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Graph Metanetworks for Transformer Based Language Models

Weight-space learning treats the weights of neural networks as data, processed by other models called metanetworks. A key challenge is that different weights can realize the same function, related by a group of symmetries the metanetwork should respect. While symmetry-aware metanetworks for simple architectures such as...

Yonathan Wolanowsky, Guy Bar-Shalom, Fabrizio Frasca et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Teacher-Guided Tool Learning for Small Language Models via Bidirectional KL Constraints

External tools can extend the capabilities of small language models (SLMs), enabling their deployment in resource constrained environments. However, their limited capabilities make it difficult for SLMs to discover effective tool use behaviors through reinforcement learning alone, while direct teacher supervision suffe...

Hao-Xuan Gao, Qin-Wen Luo, Xiang Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Multi-Stream Residual Computation in Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion language models reconstruct masked tokens in parallel, offering an alternative to autoregressive generation. Yet their Transformer backbones typically carry visible evidence and evolving masked predictions through a single residual stream. We equip masked diffusion models with multiple residual streams that p...

Ekaterina Alimaskina, S. Kazarian, G. Molodtsov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Task Success: A Theory of Representation Reuse

A learned representation is useful beyond its source task only if later tasks can make use of what the encoder has already learned. Source-task performance, however, gives no guarantee that the representation itself will remain useful once the original head is removed. We study representation reuse with respect to a sp...

Zibo Meng, Andrew C. M. Austin, Alin Achim · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Over-parameterization Is Neither Robust nor Fragile in Matrix Sensing: A Geometric Theory of Solution Robustness

Over-parameterization is ubiquitous in modern machine learning, yet its effect on robustness remains poorly understood. We study this question in matrix sensing, a canonical non-convex problem that can also be viewed, under an appropriate parameterization, as training a two-layer quadratic neural network. We develop a...

Runze Shi, Ziye Ma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Bayesian Optimization of CVaR with Unknown Hyperparameters

We study Bayesian optimization of the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) of an expensive black-box function that depends on a decision and an environmental variable. Existing no-regret algorithms assume that the correct Gaussian process (GP) kernel and its hyperparameters are known. In practice, however, they must be est...

Valentin Margraf, Jonas Hanselle, Viktor Bengs et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Reliable Risk Estimation with Kernel Mean Matching under Dependent Sampling

Kernel Mean Matching (KMM) estimates risk under covariate shift by reweighting labelled source samples so that their kernel mean embedding matches that of unlabeled target samples. Existing finite-sample guarantees are usually stated for independent samples, although many applications involve temporal, spatial, or clus...

A. Zaytsev, Diana Koldasbayeva, Egor Serov · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PING: physics informed graph neural network for advection-diffusion processes with applications to solar power forecasting

Advection-diffusion plays an essential role in transport phenomena such as atmospheric and cloud dynamics. Improved forecasting of cloud motion, in turn, enhances solar power production forecasts and facilitates the integration of additional photovoltaic (PV) sources into the power grid. However, both classical numeric...

Jelena Simeunovi\'c, Baptiste Schubnel, Pierre-Jean Alet et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Optimal Online Regret for Context-Lumpable Bandits

We study stochastic contextual bandits with an unknown context-lumpable structure. The $S$ contexts are partitioned into $r$ blocks, and every arm has the same mean reward across contexts in the same block. Under arbitrary context distributions and without separation assumptions, we design an algorithm with expected re...

Chen-Yu Lu, Zi-Han Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Teach Me After You Learn It: Lookahead Self-Distillation for RLVR

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a popular training paradigm for LLMs, providing dense, token-level supervision by aligning a model's own distribution with the distribution induced by privileged information. However, existing OPSD methods derive supervision solely from privileged information of the sam...

Ze-Peng Zhai, Mei-Lin Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Oct 2026

Operator Surrogates

This chapter provides a mathematical introduction to operator surrogates, which are finite-parametric maps approximating complex (typically nonlinear) operators between infinite-dimensional spaces, and presents convergence rate bounds for holomorphic operators that depend on the number of trainable parameters and the r...

Christoph Schwab, Josephine Westermann, J. Zech · 1 citation

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

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