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High-Probability Bounds for SGD under the Polyak-Lojasiewicz Condition with Markovian Noise

Kar, Avik, Chandak, Siddharth, Singh, Rahul, Moulines, Eric, Bhatnagar, Shalabh, Bambos, Nicholas

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We present the first uniform-in-time high-probability bound for SGD under the PL condition, where the gradient noise contains both Markovian and martingale difference components. This significantly broadens the scope of finite-time guarantees, as the PL condition arises in many machine learning and deep learning models while Markovian noise naturally arises in decentralized optimization and online system identification problems. We further allow the magnitude of noise to grow with the function value, enabling the analysis of many practical sampling strategies. In addition to the high-probability guarantee, we establish a matching $1/k$ decay rate for the expected suboptimality. Our proof technique relies on the Poisson equation to handle the Markovian noise and a probabilistic induction argument to address the lack of almost-sure bounds on the objective. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of our framework by analyzing three practical optimization problems: token-based decentralized linear regression, supervised learning with subsampling for privacy amplification, and online system identification.





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Neural Information Processing Systems

Gradient NormPreserving (GNP) architectures where each layer preserves the gradient norm during backpropagation. For 1-Lipschitz Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this involves using orthogonal convolutions (convolution layers with an orthogonal Jacobian matrix) [Li et al., 2019b, Trockman and Kolter,


'In the end, you feel blank': India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

The Guardian

A still from Humans in the Loop, a 2024 documentary that follows female data workers in Jharkhand state, India, whose labour underpins global AI systems. A still from Humans in the Loop, a 2024 documentary that follows female data workers in Jharkhand state, India, whose labour underpins global AI systems. 'In the end, you feel blank': India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Thu 5 Feb 2026 03.00 ESTLast modified on Thu 5 Feb 2026 03.03 EST On the veranda of her family's home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi Murmu works from one of the few places where the mobile signal holds. The familiar sounds of domestic life come from inside the house: clinking utensils, footsteps, voices. On her screen a very different scene plays: a woman is pinned down by a group of men, the camera shakes, there is shouting and the sound of breathing.


BioTrove: A Large Curated Image Dataset Enabling AI for Biodiversity

Neural Information Processing Systems

We introduce BioTrove, the largest publicly accessible dataset designed to advance AI applications in biodiversity. Curated from the iNaturalist platform and vetted to include only research-grade data, BioTrove contains 161.9 million images, offering unprecedented scale and diversity from three primary kingdoms: Animalia (animals), Fungi (fungi), and Plantae (plants), spanning approximately 366.6K species. Each image is annotated with scientific names, taxonomic hierarchies, and common names, providing rich metadata to support accurate AI model development across diverse species and ecosystems.We demonstrate the value of BioTrove by releasing a suite of CLIP models trained using a subset of 40 million captioned images, known as BioTrove-Train. This subset focuses on seven categories within the dataset that are underrepresented in standard image recognition models, selected for their critical role in biodiversity and agriculture: Aves (birds), Arachnida} (spiders/ticks/mites), Insecta (insects), Plantae (plants), Fungi (fungi), Mollusca (snails), and Reptilia (snakes/lizards). To support rigorous assessment, we introduce several new benchmarks and report model accuracy for zero-shot learning across life stages, rare species, confounding species, and multiple taxonomic levels.We anticipate that BioTrove will spur the development of AI models capable of supporting digital tools for pest control, crop monitoring, biodiversity assessment, and environmental conservation. These advancements are crucial for ensuring food security, preserving ecosystems, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. BioTrove is publicly available, easily accessible, and ready for immediate use.


Named Entity Recognition for the Kurdish Sorani Language: Dataset Creation and Comparative Analysis

Abdalla, Bakhtawar, Nabi, Rebwar Mala, Eshkiki, Hassan, Caraffini, Fabio

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This work contributes towards balancing the inclusivity and global applicability of natural language processing techniques by proposing the first 'name entity recognition' dataset for Kurdish Sorani, a low-resource and under-represented language, that consists of 64,563 annotated tokens. It also provides a tool for facilitating this task in this and many other languages and performs a thorough comparative analysis, including classic machine learning models and neural systems. The results obtained challenge established assumptions about the advantage of neural approaches within the context of NLP. Conventional methods, in particular CRF, obtain F1-scores of 0.825, outperforming the results of BiLSTM-based models (0.706) significantly. These findings indicate that simpler and more computationally efficient classical frameworks can outperform neural architectures in low-resource settings.


An Optimized Machine Learning Classifier for Detecting Fake Reviews Using Extracted Features

Anees, Shabbir, Anshuman, null, Chaurasia, Ayush, Bogar, Prathmesh

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

It is well known that fraudulent reviews cast doubt on the legitimacy and dependability of online purchases. The most recent development that leads customers towards darkness is the appearance of human reviews in computer-generated (CG) ones. In this work, we present an advanced machine-learning-based system that analyses these reviews produced by AI with remarkable precision. Our method integrates advanced text preprocessing, multi-modal feature extraction, Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) for feature selection, and a stacking ensemble classifier. We implemented this methodology on a public dataset of 40,432 Original (OR) and Computer-Generated (CG) reviews. From an initial set of 13,539 features, HHO selected the most applicable 1,368 features, achieving an 89.9% dimensionality reduction. Our final stacking model achieved 95.40% accuracy, 92.81% precision, 95.01% recall, and a 93.90% F1-Score, which demonstrates that the combination of ensemble learning and bio-inspired optimisation is an effective method for machine-generated text recognition. Because large-scale review analytics commonly run on cloud platforms, privacy-preserving techniques such as differential approaches and secure outsourcing are essential to protect user data in these systems.


A Hybrid Proactive And Predictive Framework For Edge Cloud Resource Management

Kumar, Hrikshesh, Garg, Anika, Gupta, Anshul, Agarwal, Yashika

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Old cloud edge workload resource management is too reactive. The problem with relying on static thresholds is that we are either overspending for more resources than needed or have reduced performance because of their lack. This is why we work on proactive solutions. A framework developed for it stops reacting to the problems but starts expecting them. We design a hybrid architecture, combining two powerful tools: the CNN LSTM model for time series forecasting and an orchestrator based on multi agent Deep Reinforcement Learning In fact the novelty is in how we combine them as we embed the predictive forecast from the CNN LSTM directly into the DRL agent state space. That is what makes the AI manager smarter it sees the future, which allows it to make better decisions about a long term plan for where to run tasks That means finding that sweet spot between how much money is saved while keeping the system healthy and apps fast for users That is we have given it eyes in order to see down the road so that it does not have to lurch from one problem to another it finds a smooth path forward Our tests show our system easily beats the old methods It is great at solving tough problems like making complex decisions and juggling multiple goals at once like being cheap fast and reliable