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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BRANCH: Bypassing Multi-Scanner AI Guardrails

AI systems increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) as core reasoning engines, making them targets for prompt injection and jailbreaks. Guardrails monitor and validate model inputs and outputs, yet their isolated, task-focused detection leaves gaps in their classification making them susceptible to bypasses. I...

William Hackett, Peter Garraghan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conversational Task Disambiguation over Tabular Data: Leakage-Aware Formulation, Benchmark Suite, and Training

Conversational task disambiguation over tabular data uses dialogue to resolve missing information about a user's intended task before producing a solution over tables or databases. Existing evaluation and training lack a leakage-aware foundation. Task success mixes the agent's disambiguation and solution-generation cap...

Nafiseh Ghoroghchian, Luis Scoccola, Tina Sedaghat et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LinSlot: Exploiting Linear Representation hypothesis for unsupervised attribute discovery from slot based object representation

This paper studies the problem of learning disentangled representations of objects and their attributes from raw, unstructured image data. Slot-based methods have shown considerable success in unsupervised learning of object representations from images. Block-slot attention-based methods extend this framework to attrib...

Sanket Gandhi, Utkarsh Giri, Varun Subramanium et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors

In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for only a limited range of traits, including preferences for animals (e.g., owls) and malicious personas. These traits can also be elicited wit...

Jan Dubi\'nski, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jan Betley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Nullify: Null-Space Activation Steering for Training-Free LLM Unlearning

Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably internalize substantial amounts of sensitive or private information during pre-training, while LLM unlearning aims to selectively erase specific knowledge to prevent privacy leakage with minimal loss of model utility. However, existing methods struggle to balance forget quality w...

Wei Zhai, Xiang Liu, Qiang Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond the Ergodic Wall: A Discrete Geometric Physics Sandbox for Analysing AI Scaling Limits and Complexity Collapse

This paper exposes the ergodic ceiling and thermodynamic inefficiency of current deep learning, which converges to a statistical average of historic human knowledge. True semantic novelty requires a path-dependent, spatiotemporally bounded observer (a Data LifeCone) to inject non-ergodic insight, achieving KL divergenc...

Simon Richard Daniel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Masked Generative Motion Planning with Geometry-Guided Token Search

Generative motion planners typically use learned trajectory priors for initial generation, while leaving test-time repair to local continuous refinement. We introduce Masked Generative Motion Planning (MGMP), which extends the learned prior from efficient parallel generation to structural repair. A masked generative tr...

Lipeng Zhuang, Yingdong Ru, Shiyu Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Log-Odds to Shapley Values: An Explanatory Geometry for the Weighted Naive Bayes Classifier

This paper studies the construction of an explanatory space for a weighted naive Bayes classifier from the supervised representation induced by the model. We start from the classical supervised distance based on conditional log-likelihoods and introduce a discriminative reformulation based on log-odds, which is more di...

Vincent Lemaire, Fabrice Cl\'erot · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Coverage-Aware Reasoning with Medical Tokens for Diagnosis Prediction

Large language models (LLMs) offer promising potential for next-visit diagnosis prediction, owing to their ability to integrate longitudinal clinical evidence and reason over it in natural language. However, reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning commonly rewards each trajectory according to the correctness of its fi...

Kaisong Zhang, Haotian Fang, Junmeng Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Visible Reasoning Is Not a Universal Optimizer: Persona- and Thinking-Dependent Effects in Analytics Code Generation

Visible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is often treated as a broadly useful reasoning instruction, yet analytics code generation combines natural-language ambiguity, schema grounding, target-language constraints, and model-specific inference behavior. Because the same analytics request can be expressed in two distinct target l...

Bhawani Shankar Leelar, Pawan Chorasiya, Davin Hill et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Has LLM Screening Performance Stalled in Software Engineering Systematic Reviews?

Screening in systematic reviews (SRs) is manual and time-consuming. Prior work has explored large language models (LLMs) for automating this step, but LLMs are evolving rapidly, so earlier performance claims may no longer accurately reflect their screening performance. We used an existing software engineering SR screen...

Aleksi Huotala, Miikka Kuutila, Mika M\"antyl\"a · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Phase-HDC: Replacing Optimizer History with Gradient Thresholds in Discrete Phase Learning

Training a compact model often needs far more memory than storing it, because the optimizer keeps its own records of past gradients. For a hyperdimensional classifier whose learned parameters are low-bit angles, which we call a \emph{phase memory}, these records take several times more memory than the model itself. We...

Ahmed Nebli · 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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