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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Who Verifies the Verifier? Co-Evolving Inspectable Graders with Self-Improving Agents

We changed the agent: did it actually get better? Every self-improving agent loop answers this hundreds of times, and every answer comes from a verifier. On open-ended tasks none exists, so the loop is handed a hand-written rubric or a bare LLM judge grading output from a model like itself, inviting reward hacking and...

Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SpikeSSL: A Universal Spike Inference Framework with Dynamics-Informed State-Space Layers

Two-photon calcium imaging is a standard tool for recording large neural populations in vivo, yet inferring spikes accurately across the growing diversity of calcium indicators remains an open problem. Existing supervised methods achieve reasonable in-domain accuracy but generalize poorly to unseen indicators, because...

Chenghao Yue, Siming Xing, Shuran Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tracing the Thoughts of a Coding Agent Playing ARC-AGI-3: Lessons for Continual Learning

We study how a coding agent learns across a sequence of abstract reasoning tasks. The agent runs on a frozen foundation model inside a fixed harness and acts by writing and running Python and shell scripts. It retains no state across turns other than its written artifacts, so every thought it forms, carries, corrects o...

Chen Wu, Josh Passenger, Yin Song · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Why machines will still not rule the world

In our book Why machines will never rule the world [13, 14] we argue that arti- ficial general intelligence is mathematically impossible. This is because the human beings and the processes which exhibit intelligence are complex systems whose be- haviour cannot be captured by the kinds of models that we can generate wit...

Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Cognition-Oriented Emotion Tracing from Causes to Consequences in Real-World Social Scenes

Affective computing has progressed from categorical emotion recognition to open-ended affective analysis with large multimodal models. Yet affective science describes emotion as an unfolding process shaped by appraisal, regulation, and social interpretation, which remains underexplored computationally. We propose TRACE...

Hao Li, Jin-Ye Zhang, Bobo Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Estimating great expectations under autoregressive language models with potentials

Many applications of language models hinge not on individual samples but on the expectation of a test functional under the model. Estimating such expectations reliably can be computationally expensive. In this paper, we show how to make estimation more efficient by exploiting the next-token conditional probabilities wh...

Francesco I. Re, Shubhangi Ghosh, Tim Vieira et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

TypedBench: A Benchmark for Calibration, Framing Sensitivity, and Cost in System One Decision Models

System One models output calibrated probabilities over typed answers such as categorical choices, ordinal levels, or binary outcomes, via a non-generative interface. Software can act on these probabilities through thresholds, cost-weighted choices, and escalation rules. Consequently, if these probabilities are miscalib...

Rahul Sharma, Andrew B. Duncan, G. Caron et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Environmental Feedback Modeling Matters: Rethinking Feedback Treatment in Agentic Hindsight Self-Distillation

Reinforcement learning is commonly used to train language agents in interactive environments, but cannot be directly applied when rewards are unavailable. Recent methods use environmental feedback as privileged context for hindsight self-distillation, but our analysis suggests that simply conditioning the teacher on fe...

Hangxi Guo, Fengyuan Liu, Yue Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Equal Path Cost, Unequal Output Effects: Understanding Perturbation Propagation in Diffusion Models

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, with their sampling procedures routinely modified to control generation and improve efficiency. These modifications introduce perturbations along the sampling trajectory, raising a central question: how do such perturbations affect generated outp...

Wei Guo, Yaowen Zhang, Xingtong Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RIT-RAG: Navigating Document Corpora with Retrieval-Induced Trees

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds language models in external corpora. Agentic RAG enables iterative search, yet exposes the model to isolated chunks without document structure, making it difficult to distinguish relevant evidence from chunks that merely resemble the query. Structure-aware methods such as Pa...

Meghanadh Pulivarthi, Swaraj Kumar Biswal, Kushagra Bhushan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UniData: Universal Multimodal Instruction Generation Pipeline

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being applied in a wider range of real-world scenarios. However, due to the substantial labor cost, creating high-quality multimodal instruction datasets for MLLMs remains a significant challenge. Although some methods propose to generate instruction data, they...

Jiaqi Tang, Yi-Feng Wu, Yuting Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RaReCache: Bridging the Gap in Cross-Model KV Cache Reuse via Rank disagreement-based Selective Recomputation

Cross-model KV-cache reuse remains a key challenge in modern LLM serving. Coding agents and multi-model systems increasingly route a shared context across models: a user may switch models mid-session, or a cascade may escalate a difficult query. Because KV caches contain model-specific representations, each switch typi...

Sreetama Sarkar, Saptarshi Mitra, Si-Tao Huang et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 29, 2026

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

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