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Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Submodular Trajectory Rewards

We study cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning with decoupled dynamics and a monotone submodular reward function over joint trajectories. Due to the non-additive reward, an optimal policy may depend on the history of all agents. This dependence makes exact optimization exponential in the horizon and the number...

Yasaman Zolfimoselo, Nikolas Geroliminis, Maryam Kamgarpour · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Koopman Generative Operators for Efficient Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting

Probabilistic time-series forecasting requires models that simultaneously capture structured temporal dynamics, expressive uncertainty, and efficient inference, yet existing approaches fall short of this goal: latent dynamical models impose structure but rely on restrictive generation mechanisms, while modern generativ...

Raz Marshanski, Liran Nochumsohn, Mayank Jauhari et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Non-Interfering Asymmetric AdamW Updates for Constrained Exploration of Equifinality in Hybrid Models

Hybrid models let neural networks supply the unresolved parameters of a process-based simulator, and are fitted to observations that constrain aggregate fluxes and storages but not the internal partitioning that produces them. Such a fit is equifinal: configurations indistinguishable in the observed aggregates can disa...

Ekaterina Gikalo, Zavud Baghirov, Christian Reimers et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

What Does It Mean to Remove an Edge? Intervention-Aware Fidelity for Graph Neural Network Explanations

Graph neural network explanations are often evaluated via deletion fidelity, i.e., by deleting their top-ranked edges and measuring the resulting change in model output. Yet, in a message-passing GNN, "deleting an edge" does not specify a unique intervention. Structural deletion removes the edge from the graph and reco...

Rocco Mattia Di Mauro, Marco Grassia, Giuseppe Mangioni · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Surrogate Models for Stochastic Al-Cu Phase-Field Solidification

Phase-field models resolve microstructural evolution during rapid alloy solidification, but their computational cost limits long trajectories, stochastic ensembles, and studies across process conditions. We present a variance-preserving denoising diffusion bridge model (VP-DDBM) for state-conditioned prediction of two-...

Simon Savukoski, T. Pinomaa · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Sheaf-MPNN: A Library for Sheaf Neural Networks as Message Passing

Standard Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) implicitly assume that neighboring nodes share the same feature space, which contributes to oversmoothing and poor performance on heterophilic graphs. Sheaf Neural Networks (SNNs) remove this assumption by giving each node and edge its own vector space and learning restriction maps...

Alessio Borgi, Mario Severino, Luke Braithwaite et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

FedCSGA: Client Selection Based on Genetic Algorithm for Federated Learning

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of machine learning models across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. In practical deployments, FL relies on selecting a subset of clients in each communication round to reduce communication cost, mitigate stragglers, and improve training efficiency...

Ghani Haider, Majid Kundroo, L. Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Feature-Based and Deep Learning Methods for Astronomical Light Curve Classification

We compare feature-based machine learning and end-to-end deep learning for variable star classification using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) StarEmbed dataset, which contains about 40,000 objects across seven imbalanced classes. Classical models trained on physically motivated features consistently outperform deep...

V. Baymakanov, Kh. Khamitov, A. Raimova et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Leakage-free evaluation of residual graph convolutional networks for network intrusion detection

Graph neural networks are increasingly proposed for network intrusion detection, yet many reported results come from protocols in which test flows shape the graph used for training, duplicated flows sit on both sides of the split, or a single split is reported. This study measures what a residual graph convolutional ne...

Zahid Iqbal · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Exploiting Biases in Attention for Transformers

Attention is known to be sparse in vision transformers. In particular, we analyze the unequal relevance of attention-matrix columns to the final computation and show that this phenomenon becomes increasingly pronounced with network depth. This can be interpreted as saying that tokens have an absolute importance for the...

Charles Herr, Gabriele Spadaro, Enzo Tartaglione · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Nov 2026

Self-Privileged Fine-Tuning

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a key component of language model post-training, enabling effective task adaptation and serving as an important foundation for subsequent reinforcement learning. Recent methods seek to improve SFT by introducing token-level weights into the training objective, where these weights are typ...

Yang Hu, Xue-Yu Zhou, Yue Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Policy Network Diffusion

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in AI-generated content, including images and videos. In this paper, we explore whether diffusion models can generate the parameters of policy networks in reinforcement learning (RL), and whether the generated policies exhibit generalization capabilities. To achieve this,...

Jiate Liu, Deheng Ye · 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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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