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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Follow the Perturbed Leader for Linear Bandits: $\sqrt{T}$ Regret over General Convex Sets

This work gives the first adversarial linear bandit algorithm based on Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) that achieves $\sqrt{T}$ regret over general convex action sets and develops a systematic way to analyze the stability term in the FTPL regret through the Fisher information of the perturbation distribution.

Chen-Yu Wei · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hybrid Parallel Bessel KAN Model: a Kolmogorov Arnold Network: integrated framework for developing a novel architecture to reconstruct the fused-basis approach via a parameter free quadratic interaction

The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) challenges traditional MLPs by placing learnable activation functions on network edges. However, scaling KANs to spatial data exposes limitations in default B-Splines. While hybrid architectures mix multiple basis families on a single edge to resolve this, monolithic superposition ca...

Mintu Pathak, Meshv Patel, Mohendra Roy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

MissPath-FM: Flow Matching with Structured Priors for Partially Observed Time Series

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful alternative to diffusion models for generative modeling, but standard conditional flow matching is fundamentally misaligned with partially observed time series: starting from an uninformed Gaussian source forces the model to transport even already-observed entries from noise to t...

Gen-Pei Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Confine to the Task, Anchor the Rest: Concept-Guided Retention Regularizer for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has been widely used, yet the adapted model suffers catastrophic forgetting of pre-trained knowledge. While most existing work hardens the adapter by constraining where the weight update may lie, we note that constraining this weight channel does not constrain the activation chann...

Ibna Kowsar, Ivan Medri, Fanyu Meng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Focus on What You Need: Global-to-Local Dynamic Attention for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

Multimodal sarcasm detection has attracted increasing attention due to the widespread use of images and text on social media platforms. Existing studies generally treat the semantic or emotional inconsistency between images and text as a key cue for identifying sarcastic expressions. However, images in real-world scena...

Dehao Wu, Xingjie Zhuang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DisaggKD: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Teacher-Student Disaggregation and a Fused Loss

Knowledge distillation (KD) frameworks place teacher and student on the same GPUs, so per-GPU memory limits the teachers that fit. DisaggKD separates them across nodes: teacher replicas stream hidden states to the student, a KD loss over row windows and vocabulary shards equals the full-vocabulary loss in exact arithme...

Ruixuan Tu, Yuyang Dong · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mixed Precision Scaling Laws for Quantized Pretraining

Since scaling laws were introduced for modern LLMs (Kaplan et al., 2020), several works have extended them to account for quantization, tracking the emerging low-precision data types supported on AI accelerators. We develop a more accurate scaling law for quantized pretraining with mixed precision across the forward an...

Jinuk Kim, Rajarshi Saha, Muhammed Fatih Balin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Calibrated Disambiguation for Partial Multi-label Learning

Partial multi-label learning (PML) aims to train a classifier on datasets whose instances are over-annotated with not only relevant labels but also irrelevant labels, which is common when datasets are collected from crowd-sourcing platform. Existing works primarily approach it from a curriculum learning perspective, le...

Zhuoming Li, Yuheng Jia, Mi Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

FedLoRD: Personalized Federated Learning based on Low-Rank Structures of Model Parameter Differences

We propose FedLoRD, a personalized federated learning (PFL) method based on the low-rank structure of the differences between the global and personalized model parameters. PFL is a branch of federated learning that aims to learn models tailored to the local data of each client under biased local data distributions. In...

Tsutahiro Fukuhara, Junya Hara, Hiroshi Higashi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

C{\AE}NL: Collapse-Based Active Neural Learning with Objective-Aligned Representation Control

Active learning changes the representations used to acquire subsequent labels. We study this interaction through Collapse-Based Active Neural Learning (C{\AE}NL), which separates acquisition, Dynamic Collapse Regularization (DCR), and its coefficient policy. DCR penalizes a normalized within-class to between-class scat...

Saad Alqithami · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Merit: Making every modality earn its contribution in multimodal attention decoding

More than 1.5 billion people have hearing loss. When several people talk at once, hearing aids amplify every voice alike. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) aims to solve this by reading a listener's brain signals to find the attended talker, letting the device amplify only them. A real device will not see the brain alo...

Ali Alavi, Donald S. Williamson · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Sense of Proprioception in Language Models

In humans, proprioception corresponds to the sense of self-movement or position, e.g. understanding the position of one's arm. This sense is often less well-understood and in popular understanding sometimes conflated with introspection. But, notably, proprioception is a separate sense, with dedicated receptors and veri...

Jonas Geiping · 0 citations

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