arXiv Machine Learning

NSMA: Neuro-Symbolic Manifold Alignment for Generalizable Adaptive Bitrate Streaming under Texture Shift

arXiv:2607. 18845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For decades, ABR has kept two kinds of intelligence apart.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Breaking the Central Bias: Spatially Partitioned Experts for Coordinate-Based Neuroevolution

The paper investigates a spatial-concentration bias in Evolvable-Substrate HyperNEAT (ES‑HyperNEAT) when applied to MNIST, where evolved networks focus on a central cluster of input pixels. By partitioning the input image into 13 non‑overlapping spatial segments and evolving a separate expert network for each, the authors achieve a 43% mean accuracy—an 106% relative improvement over the baseline—without relying on data‑driven weighting. The study also introduces a receptive‑field diagnostic to detect silent input‑coverage collapse and a spatial‑partitioning remedy to restore full image coverage.

By Romain Claret, Arthur Gygax, Michael O'Neill, Paul Cotofrei, Michael Palma Mendes, Pascal Felber
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Intelligence from Learnable Novelty

arXiv:2607. 18433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intelligence appears under different names in different fields: as data compression in statistics and machine learning, as universal computation in dynamical systems, and as adaptive behavior in agents.

By Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

DriftNeRF: Cross-Ray Density Drifting for Sparse-View Neural Radiance Fields

DriftNeRF introduces a regularizer that addresses cross‑ray density disagreement in Neural Radiance Fields, a defect that causes poor performance when only a few views are available. By aggregating densities from nearby points on other rays into a stop‑gradient consensus target, DriftNeRF penalizes unsupported disagreement while preserving agreed boundaries. The method improves 3‑view PSNR by 0.42–0.65 dB on NeRF‑Synthetic, DTU, and LLFF datasets and remains competitive with sparse‑view Gaussian pipelines without requiring additional geometry or preprocessing.

By Juntang Wang, Yihan Wang, Sheng'en Li, Hao Wu, Dongmian Zou, Shixin Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Unsupervised Behavioral Compression: Learning Low-Dimensional Policy Manifolds through State-Occupancy Matching

arXiv:2603. 27044v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is widely recognized as sample-inefficient, a limitation attributable in part to the high dimensionality and substantial functional redundancy inherent to the policy parameter space.

By Andrea Fraschini, Davide Tenedini, Riccardo Zamboni, Mirco Mutti, Marcello Restelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

When Thoughts Become Memory: Unifying In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning

The paper presents a certified rule that determines whether unseen data should be incorporated into a pretrained model’s context or its weights, based on an exact law for their information value. This law quantifies the code length saved on held‑out queries as the expected bits stored about the query, adjusted by a prior repair and decoding loss, and applies to any model, architecture, dataset, or task. The authors demonstrate that the rule’s ceilings correctly certify choices across diverse models—including transformers, TabPFN, occupancy networks, and stereo networks—and that an anytime‑valid test can reliably select the better approach (e.g., TabPFN over XGBoost or GPT‑2’s cache over fine‑tuning) with controlled error rates.

By Leon Chlon, Julie Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

WAM-Cache: Staleness-Bounded KV Reuse for Efficient World Action Models

WAM-Cache is a training‑free framework that reuses layerwise key‑value (KV) representations from a pretrained video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) across control chunks, recomputing only a sparse set of refreshed tokens. By selecting refresh tokens based on the action expert’s cross‑attention, visual latent surprise, and a strict age bound, it reduces DiT prefill FLOPs by 32‑42% on datasets such as RoboTwin 2.0 and LIBERO while maintaining action accuracy within 0.7‑1.8 percentage points of the dense baseline in simulation and 2.5 points on a real robot.

By Kai Ding, Yang He, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

IntBMoE: Integrating Block-Level Conditioning into Expert Composition for Full-Participation Mixture-of-Experts

IntBMoE introduces a block‑conditioned mixture‑of‑experts that decouples participation, execution, and materialization by combining dense expert composition with sparse block execution. Each internal layer uses a lightweight hypernetwork to merge all expert bases into a single composed expert, while a router selects only a few blocks per token, keeping compute and memory costs low. Experiments on image classification, language modeling, and sequential recommendation demonstrate consistent performance gains, and the model is deployed in AMap’s generative recommendation system, improving UVCTR by 2.4% in online A/B tests.

By Ran Cheng, Longfei Xu, Zheng Liu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu