Regression Models Meet Foundation Models: A Hybrid-AI Approach to Practical Electricity Price Forecasting

This paper introduces FutureBoosting, a hybrid-AI framework that enhances electricity price forecasting by integrating forecasted features from a frozen time series foundation model into a regression model, thereby achieving significant accuracy improvements over state-of-the-art baselines while maintaining interpretability.

Yunzhong Qiu, Binzhu Li, Hao Wei, Shenglin Weng, Chen Wang, Zhongyi Pei, Mingsheng Long, Jianmin Wang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Safe Transformer: An Explicit Safety Bit For Interpretable And Controllable Alignment

The paper proposes Safe Transformer, a modular approach that inserts an explicit, interpretable safety bit into pre-trained language models to achieve controllable alignment and near-zero attack success rates through lightweight fine-tuning, addressing the opacity of traditional implicit safety methods.

Jingyuan Feng, Andrew Gambardella, Gouki Minegishi, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Don't Freeze, Don't Crash: Extending the Safe Operating Range of Neural Navigation in Dense Crowds

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach for dense crowd navigation that achieves zero-shot generalization to higher crowd densities by combining density-invariant observation encoding, density-randomized training, and physics-informed proxemic reward shaping, thereby significantly outperforming existing learning-based and analytical methods in success rate and collision avoidance without freezing.

Jiefu Zhang, Yang Xu, Vaneet Aggarwal2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Rank-Factorized Implicit Neural Bias: Scaling Super-Resolution Transformer with FlashAttention

This paper proposes Rank-factorized Implicit Neural Bias (RIB), a novel positional bias mechanism that enables the use of hardware-efficient FlashAttention in Super-Resolution Transformers, allowing for significantly larger window sizes and training patches that achieve state-of-the-art performance (35.63 dB PSNR) while reducing training and inference times by 2.1×\times and 2.9×\times, respectively.

Dongheon Lee, Seokju Yun, Jaegyun Im, Youngmin Ro2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models

This paper identifies that applying Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to diffusion language models causes reward collapse due to noisy importance ratio estimates and formulation mismatches, and proposes StableDRL, a reformulated algorithm featuring unconditional clipping and self-normalization to stabilize training and prevent policy drift.

Jianyuan Zhong, Kaibo Wang, Ding Ding, Zijin Feng, Haoli Bai, Yang Xiang, Jiacheng Sun, Qiang Xu2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Property-driven Protein Inverse Folding With Multi-Objective Preference Alignment

This paper introduces ProtAlign, a multi-objective preference alignment framework that fine-tunes pretrained inverse folding models to simultaneously optimize diverse developability properties like solubility and thermostability while preserving structural designability, resulting in the enhanced MoMPNN model for practical protein sequence design.

Xiaoyang Hou, Junqi Liu, Chence Shi, Xin Liu, Zhi Yang, Jian Tang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Implementation of Quantum Implicit Neural Representation in Deterministic and Probabilistic Autoencoders for Image Reconstruction/Generation Tasks

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum-classical autoencoder and variational autoencoder framework utilizing Quantum Implicit Neural Representations (QINR) to achieve stable, high-quality image reconstruction and generation with enhanced diversity and sharp details compared to existing quantum generative models.

Saadet Müzehher Eren2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Learning Unbiased Cluster Descriptors for Interpretable Imbalanced Concept Drift Detection

This paper proposes ICD3, an interpretable and robust approach for detecting concept drift in imbalanced streaming data by employing multi-distribution-granular search to identify small concepts and training independent One-Cluster Classifiers for each, thereby overcoming the masking effect of dominant large clusters.

Yiqun Zhang, Zhanpei Huang, Mingjie Zhao, Chuyao Zhang, Yang Lu, Yuzhu Ji, Fangqing Gu, An Zeng2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Diversity-Aware Adaptive Collocation for Physics-Informed Neural Networks via Sparse QUBO Optimization and Hybrid Coresets

This paper proposes a diversity-aware adaptive collocation method for Physics-Informed Neural Networks that formulates point selection as a sparse QUBO optimization problem on a kNN graph to efficiently construct hybrid coreset subsets, thereby reducing training redundancy and overhead while improving accuracy on PDEs with shock formation.

Hadi Salloum, Maximilian Mifsud Bonici, Sinan Ibrahim, Pavel Osinenko, Alexei Kornaev2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Prediction of Steady-State Flow through Porous Media Using Machine Learning Models

This study presents a machine learning framework for predicting steady-state flow through porous media, demonstrating that the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) outperforms convolutional autoencoders and U-Nets by achieving high accuracy, significant computational speedups over traditional CFD, and mesh-invariant properties ideal for topology optimization.

Jinhong Wang, Matei C. Ignuta-Ciuncanu, Ricardo F. Martinez-Botas, Teng Cao2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Metalearning traffic assignment for network disruptions with graph convolutional neural networks

This paper proposes a meta-learning framework combined with graph convolutional neural networks to enable rapid adaptation of traffic flow predictions to unseen network disruptions and demand patterns, achieving high accuracy (R² ≈ 0.85) without requiring extensive training data covering all possible scenarios.

Serio Agriesti (Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark), Guido Cantelmo (Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark), Francisco Camara Pereira (Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG