arXiv:2607. 07513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning matches supervised accuracy from a fraction of the labels, but the labeled-sample efficiency behind this has lacked a theoretical explanation.
By Adam M. Oberman
arXiv:2606. 06494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient finetuning methods based on spectral decomposition have enabled progress in Continual Learning.
By Marius Dragoi, Ioana Pintilie, Alexandra Dragomir, Antonio Barbalau, Florin Brad
arXiv:2607. 09371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible machine-learning methods can be sensitive to hidden confounding: they may learn associations induced by unobserved confounders rather than stable signals.
By Andrea Nava, Peter B\"uhlmann, Fabio Sigrist
arXiv:2602. 09530v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce AutoSpec, a neural network framework for discovering iterative spectral algorithms for large-scale numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization.
By Zihang Liu, Oleg Balabanov, Yaoqing Yang, Michael W. Mahoney
arXiv:2607. 21039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spectral methods are among the most widely used techniques for community detection, clustering, and graph learning.
By Zhuan Liang, Zheng Zhai
arXiv:2501. 10870v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The principal objective of this work is twofold within nonparametric regression settings: (1) to establish the minimax optimal convergence rates for fixed-bandwidth Gaussian kernel spectral algorithms when the true regression function resides in a Sobolev space, and (2) to apply Gaussian spectral algorithms for achieving robust and adaptive transfer learning under concept shift.
By Haotian Lin, Matthew Reimherr
arXiv:2606. 01292v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Teacher-Student Knowledge Transfer (KT) is ubiquitous in modern machine learning, ranging from classical model compression via Knowledge Distillation (KD) to the emergent phenomenon of Weak-to-Strong (W2S) generalization.
By Wendao Wu, Fangqing Zhang, Haihan Zhang, Cong Fang
arXiv:2605. 07914v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sharpness-aware and gradient-alignment methods have been shown to improve generalization, however each family of methods targets a single geometric property of the loss landscape, while ignoring the other.
By Aristotelis Ballas, Christos Diou
arXiv:2607. 09803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large autoregressive language models exhibit a self-correction blind spot: they reliably fix identical errors when attributed to an external source yet fail to fix the same errors in their own outputs.
By Ingrid Petrova, Luan Vejsiu
arXiv:2406. 04425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A fundamental problem in machine learning is understanding the effect of early stopping on the parameters obtained and the generalization capabilities of the model.
By Rishi Sonthalia, Jackie Lok, Elizaveta Rebrova
arXiv:2606. 17567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While sequential residual fitting is the bedrock of standard boosting frameworks, it inherently breeds learner redundancy by repeatedly revisiting correlated error components.
By Ye Su, Jipeng Guo, Yong Liu, Xin Xu, Gangchun Zhang, Jinxin Chen, Di Wu, Longlong Zhao
arXiv:2606. 04405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Transformer architectures frequently employ normalization mechanisms such as RMSNorm and Query-Key Normalization, making parts of the model approximately scale-invariant with respect to weight magnitudes.
By Mingyu Li