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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Code Understanding is a Bottleneck for Coding Agents

Repository benchmarks (e.g., SWE-bench) for coding agents often assume that lines of code edited can predict task difficulty, but such datasets'poor control over code and task types makes it hard to know which abilities truly drive agent errors. We present CABRA: a Coding Ability Blueprint for Rigorous Agent evaluation...

Nishant Balepur, Kiran Tomlinson, Tobias Schnabel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

From Investigation Failures to Reliable SOC Agents: Understanding and Improving LLM-Based Alert Triage

Security operations centers (SOCs) must triage large volumes of alerts, most of which are benign, while missed attacks can remain uninvestigated. Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents can retrieve evidence during triage, but it remains unclear how reasoning strategies determine what to gather and when an investi...

Saimon Amanuel Tsegai, Alex Kantchelian, Dan-Feng Yao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Type-checking: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Formal Specification Generation

When generating verifiable code, natural language requirements are mapped to machine checked code using LLMs and agentic workflows. A crucial component of this pipeline is specification generation (SpecGen), which produces a formal contract against which an agent can prove implementation correctness. Proof generation c...

Srijith Nair, Aditya Vempaty, Jia Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Certified Corruption Budgets: Anytime-Valid Leaderboard Claims under Adaptive Rigging

Public leaderboards for AI models are read continuously, and attackers can see every published standing. Vote rigging, selective disclosure of private variants, and benchmark contamination can each move a ranking. Existing guarantees assume genuine records or bound the corruption per step, which an attacker who corrupt...

Hamed Khosravi, Xiaoming Huo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

A Survey on LLM-Integrated Hardware Design Verification

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into hardware verification to automate specification interpretation, verification-artifact generation, debugging, formal reasoning, and tool orchestration. This survey provides a systematic review of LLM-assisted hardware functional verification across Syst...

Hao Zheng, Jaime Rafael Imperial, Bardia Nadimi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SLVR: Structured Latent Visual Reasoning via Human-like Reasoning Flows

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often answer visual reasoning questions by relying on linguistic priors rather than task-relevant visual evidence. Textual chain-of-thought reasoning can partially mitigate this issue by encouraging models to decompose visual questions into intermediate evidence-seeking steps, b...

Albert Gao, Bing Xue, Andrea Zanette · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science

AI foundation models pretrained on weather and climate data are increasingly fine-tuned to Earth science tasks well beyond weather forecasting. Their development and adoption are outpacing the scientific community's ability to evaluate them. These models are judged almost entirely by benchmark skill metrics, which meas...

Makoto Kelp, Amirhossein Arzani, Patricia Castellanos et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Freeze the Decoder, Heal the Encoder: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for SVD-Based KV-Cache Compression

Comparing parameter-efficient fine-tuning recipes under a single, shared learning rate is a common but flawed practice: when the arms being compared have very different trainable-parameter counts, a shared rate can simultaneously depress the larger arms'means and inflate their variance, manufacturing a large, seemingly...

Yu-Feng Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning

In self-supervised contrastive learning, negative pairs are typically constructed using an anchor image and a sample drawn from the entire dataset, excluding the anchor. However, this approach can result in the creation of negative pairs with similar semantics, referred to as "false negatives", leading to their embeddi...

Vicente Balmaseda, Bokun Wang, Ching-Long Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the estimation and validity of AI time horizons---a statistical look at the METR plot

METR's 50\% time horizon measures the human completion time of software tasks that an AI solves with 50\% probability, allowing AI capabilities to be expressed in interpretable units. On 228 tasks and 26 AIs, we recompute the time horizons using splines and item-response theory to relax the assumption that the AI diffi...

Drew T. Nguyen, William Fithian · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BrickBench: Evaluating Agentic Brick Design

We propose BrickBench, a benchmark for agentic text-conditioned LEGO-set design. Given a prompt, an agent is tasked with producing an assembly that not only satisfies semantic and design criteria, but that can also be physically built. To do so, it must select parts from a discrete library and reason jointly about loca...

Peter Kulits, Yiqing Xu, R. Kenny Jones et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Ecology of AI Agents: Collaboration Creates a Population Threshold for Takeoff

AI agents can now conduct real-world cyberattacks, scale up capabilities with the number of agents, and collectively pursue misaligned goals to obtain rewards. Together, these factors raise the risk of a population explosion of misaligned agents: agents could compromise computers and secretly deploy additional agents,...

Erin Crawley, Hidenori Tanaka · 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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