Transductive Generalization via Optimal Transport and Its Application to Graph Node Classification

This paper introduces efficient, representation-based transductive generalization bounds for graph node classification using optimal transport and Wasserstein distances, which not only correlate strongly with empirical performance but also explain the non-monotonic relationship between GNN depth and generalization error through the analysis of distributional transformations.

MoonJeong Park, Seungbeom Lee, Kyungmin Kim, Jaeseung Heo, Seunghyuk Cho, Shouheng Li, Sangdon Park, Dongwoo Kim2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG

DendroNN: Dendrocentric Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Classification of Event-Based Data

This paper introduces DendroNN, a novel dendrocentric neural network that leverages non-differentiable sequence detection and a rewiring phase to efficiently classify event-based spatiotemporal data, achieving competitive accuracy with up to 4x higher energy efficiency than state-of-the-art neuromorphic hardware through a dedicated asynchronous digital architecture.

Jann Krausse, Zhe Su, Kyrus Mama, Maryada, Klaus Knobloch, Giacomo Indiveri, Jürgen Becker2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Reward-Zero: Language Embedding Driven Implicit Reward Mechanisms for Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces Reward-Zero, a general-purpose implicit reward mechanism that leverages language embeddings to transform natural-language task descriptions into dense, semantically grounded progress signals, thereby accelerating training, stabilizing learning, and improving generalization for reinforcement learning agents without requiring task-specific reward engineering.

Heng Zhang, Haddy Alchaer, Arash Ajoudani, Yu She2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG

Interactive 3D visualization of surface roughness predictions in additive manufacturing: A data-driven framework

This paper presents a data-driven framework that combines a multilayer perceptron trained on experimental data augmented by a conditional generative adversarial network with an interactive 3D web interface to predict and visualize surface roughness in material extrusion additive manufacturing, enabling optimized process planning and part orientation.

Engin Deniz Erkan, Elif Surer, Ulas Yaman2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG

Democratising Clinical AI through Dataset Condensation for Classical Clinical Models

This paper introduces a differentially private, zero-order optimization framework that extends dataset condensation to non-differentiable clinical models, enabling the creation of compact, privacy-preserving synthetic datasets that facilitate the democratization of clinical data sharing without compromising model utility.

Anshul Thakur, Soheila Molaei, Pafue Christy Nganjimi, Joshua Fieggen, Andrew A. S. Soltan, Danielle Belgrave, Lei Clifton, David A. Clifton2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Flow Field Reconstruction via Voronoi-Enhanced Physics-Informed Neural Networks with End-to-End Sensor Placement Optimization

This paper proposes VSOPINN, a novel framework that integrates differentiable Voronoi tessellation with Physics-Informed Neural Networks to enable end-to-end optimization of sensor placement, thereby significantly enhancing the accuracy and robustness of high-fidelity flow field reconstruction under sparse measurements and sensor failures.

Renjie Xiao, Bingteng Sun, Yiling Chen, Lin Lu, Qiang Du, Junqiang Zhu2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG

SPAARS: Safer RL Policy Alignment through Abstract Exploration and Refined Exploitation of Action Space

SPAARS is a curriculum learning framework for offline-to-online reinforcement learning that safely improves policies by initially exploring a low-dimensional latent space to ensure sample efficiency and stability, then seamlessly transitioning to raw action space to bypass decoder-induced performance ceilings, thereby achieving superior results over state-of-the-art baselines on both robotic manipulation and locomotion tasks.

Swaminathan S K, Aritra Hazra2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models

This paper introduces the Fully Convolutional Diffusion Model (FCDM), a ConvNeXt-based architecture that achieves competitive generative performance with significantly fewer computational resources and training steps than Transformer-based counterparts, demonstrating that modern convolutional designs remain a highly efficient alternative for scaling diffusion models.

Taesung Kwon, Lorenzo Bianchi, Lennart Wittke, Felix Watine, Fabio Carrara, Jong Chul Ye, Romann Weber, Vinicius Azevedo2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Reconstructing Movement from Sparse Samples: Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Matching Strategies for Low-Frequency Data

This paper proposes four enhancements to the Spatial-Temporal Matching algorithm—dynamic buffering, adaptive observation probability, a redesigned temporal scoring function, and behavioral analysis—to improve the efficiency and accuracy of reconstructing GPS trajectories from sparse, low-frequency data in dense urban environments, as validated by experiments in Milan.

Ali Yousefian, Arianna Burzacchi, Simone Vantini2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG

TrainDeeploy: Hardware-Accelerated Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Small Transformer Models at the Extreme Edge

TrainDeeploy is a novel framework that enables efficient, parameter-efficient on-device fine-tuning of both CNN and Transformer models on ultra-low-power, memory-constrained RISC-V SoCs, achieving significant reductions in memory usage and computational overhead while supporting end-to-end training at the extreme edge.

Run Wang, Victor J. B. Jung, Philip Wiese, Francesco Conti, Alessio Burrello, Luca Benini2026-03-11🤖 cs.LG