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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Ascent Conditions for Length-Normalized Single-Rollout Policy Updates

Dividing each trajectory's score contribution by its realized length can change the direction of a reward-centered policy update. In a finite trajectory model, we derive an exact ascent threshold for a three-outcome softmax policy and exhibit a binary-reward example in which the expected Euclidean update decreases task...

Levin David Schwab · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TagBO: LLM-Driven Task-Aware Graph Bayesian Optimization for Scientific Discovery

Mixed-variable optimization in scientific discovery often requires exploring large combinatorial spaces under costly experimental evaluations, making sample?efficient Bayesian optimization (BO) essential. However, existing BO methods typ?ically rely on structural descriptors to define similarity among categorical varia...

Xinzhe Yuan, Zimu Zeng, Zhuo Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

From Rainfall to Road-Network Functionality: Transferable Graph Forecasting for Flood-Disrupted Transportation Networks

Extreme rainfall can rapidly degrade road-network functionality (RNF), disrupting emergency mobility, accessibility, evacuation, logistics, and infrastructure restoration. Existing flood-transportation impact models are often difficult to deploy across regions because they rely on local calibration, intensive simulatio...

Jun-Yan Wang, Nai-Yu Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

LLM-Augmented Bayesian Optimization with Adaptive Policies for Chiplet Design Space Exploration

Chiplet technology is a key approach for extending Moore's Law. However, its design process is constrained by two primary challenges: the scarcity of early-stage platforms for rapidly evaluating chiplet-based heterogeneous systems, and the complex relationships between design parameters and optimization metrics. To add...

Hang Liu, Zheng-Fei Chen, Zheng-Rui Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Reward-Aligned Distillation

Reward-Aligned Distillation (RAD), a bilevel framework that weights distillation signals based on their predicted effect on the student's post-update reward, supports reward-guided weighting of teacher supervision across model families and tasks.

Yilan Chen, Zian Su, Manish Prajapat et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PGSB: Pretrained-Guided Shared Basis for LoRA Model Merging

Large pretrained models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet adapting them to multiple downstream tasks remains challenging: full fine-tuning is costly, while maintaining separate task-specific models is storage-inefficient and fails to produce a unified multi-task model. Low-Rank Adaptation (Lo...

Mu-Qing Liu, Chong-Jie Si, Zhuo-Ya Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Query-Adaptive Neuron Steering for LLMs

Effectively eliciting the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) at inference time remains an important challenge. Existing studies address this challenge through context engineering, which shapes user queries, or fixed steering, which directly intervenes in model computation. However, predefined contexts and fix...

Yanxi Pan, Jingwen Wu, Yan Ma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

DEFT: Disentanglement-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for EEG Foundation Models

Disentangled EFM Fine-Tuning (DEFT) is proposed, a plug-and-play adapter for EFM fine-tuning that improves matched fine-tuning baselines and encourages branch disentanglement of pretrained tokens into task-oriented content and subject-consistent style.

Yu-Qiu Deng, Muyun Jiang, Zong-Peng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Gated Catchment Hydrology Model (GCHM) for Physically-Interpretable Rainfall-Evapotranspiration-Runoff Simulation Across Diverse Hydroclimatic Regimes

Recent advances in machine learning have improved rainfall-runoff prediction, yet most data-driven models remain difficult to interpret and do not explicitly enforce physical conservation laws. We present the Gated Catchment Hydrology Model (GCHM), a mass-conserving architecture based on the Mass-Conserving Perceptron...

M Jawad, HV Gupta, MA Farmani et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to Extrapolate in Depth with Looped Transformers

It is shown that under exchangeability and symmetric positive initialization, population training at depth K converges to an update rule governed by a single effective parameter that balances graph propagation against fitting structure unresolved at training depth.

Hui-Tao Yang, Jian-Hao Huang, Zi-Xuan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Transfer Probes to Expert Grouping: Evidence from LoRA Post-Training

A platform that post-trains one base model for many business lines often has more lines than experts it can maintain, so lines must share experts, yet lines seldom come with a taxonomy saying which should share. We ask whether transfer probes (train on one source, measure paired changes on all sources) can discover a g...

Xueyang Wu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Design Choices for Multimodal Transformer Learning with Missing and Longitudinal Healthcare Data

Multimodal learning offers the potential to improve predictions by integrating complementary information from heterogeneous data sources. However, multimodal datasets are frequently incomplete, raising important questions about how models should handle missing information. Although recent approaches increasingly rely o...

Rita Cordeiro Mendes, Maria Manuel Pereira, Carlos Santiago et al. · 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.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

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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