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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Optimal Algorithms for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization with Constraints

We present new algorithms for stochastic optimization problems in which the objective is neither smooth nor convex, subject to a convex constraint set. Our algorithms return a $(\delta,\varepsilon)$-Goldstein stationary point, as recently defined for constrained problems by Liu et al. (2024), with improved complexities...

G. Buzaglo, Guy Kornowski · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Geometry-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization: Norm-Constrained Oracles with Entropic Weight Updates

Multiple-gradient descent is typically formulated in Euclidean geometry, whereas matrix-aware optimizers use directions induced by other norms. We analyze a single-loop multi-objective method combining a norm-constrained linear minimization oracle with entropic updates of task weights. For any finite-dimensional norm p...

El Mahdi Chayti, Alireza Mirrokni, Martin Jaggi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

From Pixels to Privacy-Sensitive Features: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Reconstruction Bounds

What can an adversary recover from a model trained with DP-SGD? Its $(\varepsilon,\delta)$ guarantee does not answer this question directly. We derive a distortion bound that can be computed before training and applies even to an adversary who observes the parameter trajectory during training, knows every other trainin...

H. Bourne, Robert Allison · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Shortcut Learning in Geospatial Foundation Model Embeddings for Cross-Disaster Damage Assessment

Geospatial foundation models can support disaster damage assessment, but high accuracy on familiar disasters may hide shortcut learning: prediction from event or scene characteristics rather than evidence that transfers to a new disaster. We study embeddings from TerraMind, Prithvi-EO-2.0, DOFA, and DINOv3 on the multi...

Ali Shibli, A. Nascetti, Yi-Fang Ban · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

SmolWAM: A Latent World-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation on Edge Devices

SmolWAM is presented, a latent WAM that is derived from the 2B-parameter Cosmos Policy by keeping its pretrained trunk and rebuilding its inference interface: single-frame visual latents, cached text features that preserve the trunk's attention sinks, and 1,008 tokens from which actions and future visual latents are re...

Timi Owolabi, Hikmah Olawore, Frances Adelakun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

X-AVDD: Cross-Attentive Audio-Visual Dataset Distillation

Audio-visual dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large paired audio-visual dataset, while nearly preserving the training utility for neural networks. Existing approaches such as DM and AVDD face two critical limitations: 1) they are memory-intensive, making them difficult to scale to complex...

Saumyaranjan Mohanty, Aravind Reddy, Konda Reddy Mopuri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Scalable Sparse Autoregressive Variational Inference for Non-Gaussian Spatial Fields

Latent field models are essential for spatial statistics, but the posterior distribution of the latent field, even with a Gaussian process (GP) prior, is analytically intractable whenever the likelihood is non-Gaussian. Existing approximations are either too slow or too restrictive for large non-Gaussian datasets. We p...

Paul F. V. Wiemann, Matthias Katzfuss · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Critical Look at Power Sampling when Test Time Sharpening LLMs

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved LLM reasoning, yet growing evidence suggests it mainly performs distribution sharpening: concentrating probability mass on reasoning paths the base model already produces. Recent work therefore seeks RLVR's gains without needing reward sig...

Abiel Malkani Talwar, Christopher Nemeth, Henry B. Moss · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Electron-Density-Informed Molecular Property Prediction Using Surrogate Functionals

Machine learning methods are increasingly used to predict chemical properties directly from the molecular structure to bypass the often prohibitive cost of quantum mechanical calculations. Recent work has shown that including the ground-state electron density as input to the machine learning model can improve accuracy...

M. V. Klockow, Simon Wagner, Roman Remme et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

JitterVLA: A Replay Benchmark for Motion Quality in VLA-Driven Human-Robot Manipulation

Vision-language-action (VLA) policies issue sparse targets whose arrival at the robot controller is delayed and irregular, so a reasonable predicted action can still produce abrupt motion near people. Remedies are evaluated on different streams, delays and metrics. JitterVLA replays identical commands and arrival trace...

Faith Ogunwoye, Didar Seyidov, Konstantin Gubernatorov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kernel-based External Validity of Experimental Studies

The external validity of a study is the extent to which its findings generalize to unseen experimental conditions, such as datasets. We formalize the results of a study together with its research question, and define external validity as the probability that two independent and same-sized replications of the study prod...

Federico Matteucci, Gerhard Neumann · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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