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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Interpretable Graph Partitioning for Spatial Prediction

This study forms a graph partitioning problem to construct a global surrogate model that approximates black-box predictions with simpler representations, and selects connected subgraphs to minimize within-cluster residuals in vertex-level predictions.

Yuta Shikuri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Backward Conformal Prediction under Covariate Shift

This work extends BCP to covariate shift through importance weighting, preserving its guarantees when the density ratio is known, and proves that this approach recovers the same report asymptotically under an interpretable condition and characterize the resulting bias otherwise.

Amin Meghrazi, Yuan-Yuan Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Certified Robustness via Sparse Second-Order Cone Relaxations

Certified robustness is critical for deploying neural networks in safety-sensitive settings, but computing exact certificates typically requires solving nonconvex optimization problems. Practical verifiers use convex relaxations: linear programming (LP) relaxations are scalable but often too conservative, whereas semid...

Mohammadreza Maleki, Daniel Sadig, Rushendra Sidibomma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A 4-Qubit Variational Quantum Classifier for Sequence-Specific Classification of DNMT3A and DNMT3B Flanking Methylation Preferences

DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression and genome stability, primarily catalyzed by the DNA methyltransferase 3 (DNMT3) family of enzymes. Distinguishing precise sequence-specific flanking preferences between DNMT3A and DNMT3B remains computationally challenging due to the...

Murat Isik, Yusuf Moinuddin, Humaira Gowher et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Representational Difference Distillation

Knowledge distillation transfers representational knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact student. Existing relational and contrastive distillation methods treat all samples uniformly, spending equal gradient on well-matched and poorly-matched regions of the representation space alike. We propose Representa...

Abdulkarim Mugisha, Divin Irakiza · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dissipative Lagrangian Neural Networks for the Interpretable Modelling of Passive Mechanical Systems

In this paper, we propose the Dissipative Lagrangian Neural Network (dLNN), a continuous-time system identification technique that separately learns the conservative and dissipative dynamics of a mechanical system directly from data. A key contribution is a novel parametrisation of dissipative forces that (i) is struct...

Rob Seabourne, Alice Cicirello · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Probabilistic Forecasting of Wildfire Size Using Conditional Flow Matching

In this work we present a probabilistic model for predicting the temporal evolution of wildfire size using conditional generative algorithms, namely flow matching. Rather than predicting spatially resolved fire progression, the proposed model forecasts a time series of fire acreage, substantially reducing computational...

Isaac Lee, Bryan Shaddy, Assad A. Oberai · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Softmax-Free Attention in Spiking Transformers as the Zero-Temperature Limit of Two-Level Systems

Spiking Transformers achieve energy efficiency by discarding softmax normalization in favor of thresholded, binary attention. However, this removal breaks the thermodynamic framework used to analyze attention networks, as the normalized measure and partition function cease to exist. We restore this theoretical foundati...

Roberto C. Sotero, Pouya Taghipour, Jose M. Sanchez-Bornot · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Repeated-Data Pretraining: Batch Size, Regularization, and GPU-Time Tradeoffs

We study pretraining when compute is abundant but unique training data are finite, requiring repeated training on the same data. We first revisit infinite-compute pretraining (Kim et al. 2026) and show that its frontier depends critically on choices previously fixed or studied only in isolation. In particular, optimizi...

Sewon Min · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Instance-Adaptive Online Multiclass Multicalibration

We study online multiclass multicalibration over $T$ rounds, and give an algorithm with beyond-worst-case guarantees. With $n$ possible outcomes, forecasts lie in a simplex of dimension $d=n-1$. In the worst case, cumulative $\ell_1$ multicalibration error scales with $\widetilde\Theta(T^{(d+1)/(d+2)})$, which becomes...

Zhiming Huang, Jamie Morgenstern, Aaron Roth et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Error-Based Bidirectional Predictive Coding Enables Deep, 4-Bit Predictive Coding Networks

Predictive coding networks (PCNs) promise properties not offered by backpropagation-trained networks: learning from purely local information, a single network that both discriminates and generates, and flexible inference by energy minimization. However, their iterative inference is expensive, making hardware accelerati...

Garrett Kinman, Zeljko Zilic · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Mesh-Free Convolution: Learned Spectral Attenuation and Transport

Learning solution operators for partial differential equations (PDEs) requires models that can represent spatial structure across grids and scales. This becomes especially important in time-dependent problems, where the learned operator is often used autoregressively: each predicted state is fed back as input to predic...

N. Zakariaei, M. Manav, Eldad Haber · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

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