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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement

Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions. While WMs can model distributions over futures, policy evaluation and improvement typically rely on nominal imaginations, which can miss high-impact outcomes of...

Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Score Broadcast and Decorrelation: A General Framework for Broadcast-Based Credit Assignment

We introduce Score Broadcast and Decorrelation (SBD), a principled framework for broadcast-based credit assignment for general families of differentiable losses. Error broadcast is a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation that sends output information to hidden layers without weight transport. The Error...

Mustafa Uzun, Mete Erdogan, Cengiz Pehlevan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LoopFM: Learning frOm HistOrical RePresentations of Foundation Model for Recommendation

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers a single scalar prediction from a large foundation model (FM) to compact vertical models (VMs), suffering from diminishing transfer ratio -- the fraction of FM improvement captured by the VM -- as a single scalar cannot convey the rich intermediate knowledge that larger FMs learn....

Hua Zheng, Shali Jiang, Boyang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Residualized Temporal Sparse Autoencoders for Interpreting Diffusion Models

Text-to-image diffusion models generate images by iterative denoising, so their internal layers produce trajectories of activations rather than single static representations. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently been used to decompose diffusion activations into interpretable features, but most approaches analyze in...

Calvin Yeung, Prathyush Poduval, Ali Zakeri et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Handle with CARE: Can LLMs Reproduce How Online Communities React?

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for computational social analysis, yet faithfully representing the "thick descriptions" (Geertz, 1973) of human communities remains a critical challenge. Current evaluations often reduce social identity to static labels, sidelining how real-world groups navi...

Nuan Wen, Chanbin Lim, Xuezhe Ma · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Relative-Computability Theory of Self-Improving Agents

Agents increasingly modify the procedures by which they solve tasks and improve themselves. Autonomy over improvement, gains in practical capability, and enlargement of computational reach are distinct properties. We develop an oracle-relative model with mutable solvers, evaluators, and improvers. Uniform simulation ke...

Chien-Ping Lu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Brain alignment of reasoning and action representations from vision-language and action models during naturalistic gameplay

Understanding how humans and artificial intelligence systems predict and plan by interacting with their environment is a fundamental challenge at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning. Most brain-encoding studies focus on aligning artificial models with brain activity during language comprehension or pa...

Subba Reddy Oota, Anant Khandelwal, Khushbu Pahwa et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Constrained latent state modeling: A unifying perspective on representation learning under competing constraints

Learning latent representations from temporal, multimodal, and partially observed data requires specifying what information a latent state should retain, discard, and organize. Existing approaches encode these requirements through heterogeneous objectives, making methods difficult to compare and learned representations...

Gwenol\'e Quellec · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Few Steps Further: Why Defenses Against Malicious Finetuning Erode Under Continued Training

Model providers increasingly release the weights of large language models. Although these models are safety-aligned before release, their safeguards can often be removed by fine-tuning on harmful data. A growing class of defenses aims to make alignment robust to such malicious fine-tuning, but these defenses are typica...

Itay Zloczower, Eyal Lenga, Gilad Gressel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Steering Without Breaking: Mechanistically Informed Interventions for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Discrete diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising all positions in parallel, offering an alternative to autoregressive models. Controlled generation methods for DLMs, imported from autoregressive models, apply uniform intervention at every denoising step. We show this uniform schedule is...

Hanhan Zhou, Shamik Roy, Rashmi Gangadharaiah · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

APCD: Adaptive Path-Contrastive Decoding for Reliable Large Language Model Generation

Reliable text generation is critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications, particularly in high-stakes domains such as medicine. To improve factual reliability, various inference-time methods have been proposed, including logit-level methods that modify token probability distributions a...

Tianyu Zheng, Hong Wu, Jiaji Zhong · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TAVIS: A Benchmark for Egocentric Active Vision and Anticipatory Gaze in Imitation Learning

Active vision -- where a policy controls its own gaze during manipulation -- has emerged as a key capability for imitation learning, with multiple independent systems demonstrating its benefits in the past year. Yet there is no shared benchmark to compare approaches or quantify what active vision contributes, on which...

Giacomo Spigler · 0 citations

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