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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Structure Tax: How Structured Output affects LLMs Performance

Deploying large language models in production often requires constraining outputs to structured formats such as JSON or XML, and prior work treats the resulting accuracy loss as an inherent `structure tax'. We re-examine this claim by evaluating a battery of models, datasets and schemas, measuring task accuracy, confid...

Vineet Kumar, Kanishka, Bhuvanesh Mandora · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

InterviewPlayground: A Simulation Environment for Evaluating AI Interviewers

Increasingly, AI interviewers are being developed to elicit open-ended responses in applications like market research, public polling, preference elicitation, and social science research. However, evaluating AI interviewers is challenging because they function in extended, multi-turn interactions where they must adapt...

Jonathan Ivey, Aimee Liang, Arthur Y. S. Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PulseBound: Future-Beat State Forecasting Under an Explicit Information Boundary

Predictive representation learning from photoplethysmography (PPG) can violate causal information access even with causal attention, as normalization, nonlocal transforms, or companion views may depend on withheld samples. We introduce PulseBound, a PPG representation learner combining physiologically structured future...

Chenyang Xu, Donglin Xie, Xi Xiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Complexity of Grounded Semantics and Preferred Semantics in Finitary Argumentation Frameworks

Abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) introduced by Dung provide a formal foundation for non-monotonic reasoning in artificial intelligence. While decision problems for general infinite AFs typically reside at high levels of the analytical hierarchy ($\Sigma_1^1$ or $\Pi_1^1$), restricting the framework to be computa...

Jinfan Xu, Jieting Luo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Interpretable Approach to PDE Solution Discovery via Structural Experience Distillation

PDE solution discovery aims to identify explicit symbolic expressions for unknown physical fields from observations under known physical constraints. Existing methods, however, collapse data fidelity and physical consistency into a single terminal score used as the sole feedback signal, providing little information abo...

Yunpeng Gong, Huolong Wu, Can Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MetaOPD: Meta-Learned Token Weighting for On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using token-level teacher supervision. However, uniform weighting overlooks differences in token learning value, while existing weighting methods rely on predefined mappings from prediction signals to token weights. These mappings are not lear...

Zipeng Wang, Xinpeng Dong, Yuefan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation

Research idea innovation is a fundamental engine of scientific progress, yet it remains difficult to generate and evaluate in a scalable and controllable way. This challenge lies in its inherently open-ended and multi-objective nature, where ideas should balance novelty, plausibility and feasibility. While recent LLM-b...

Mengdi Liu, Wenjue Chen, Wenyue Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Is Automated Research Evaluated? A Survey of Benchmarks and Evaluation Practices

Automated research systems support literature synthesis, ideation, experiments, writing, and peer review, but their evaluation is dispersed across tasks, benchmarks, and studies that are difficult to compare directly. We review this literature from the perspective of evaluation design and evidence, covering six targets...

Liulei Zhang, Dejing Zhou, Chuyue Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LEVER: Adaptive Cost-Aware Proof Search Over AND/OR Graphs

Mathematicians value proofs for more than correctness: among correct proofs, simplicity, purity and the computational cost of finding them vary widely. Yet LLM-powered theorem provers largely search for any correct proof, and improve its quality only after it is found. We propose LEVER, a proof search algorithm that ma...

Nihal Jain, Shuangjie Yao, Begum Cicekdag et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probability-Signature Dynamics: Unpacking Modular Addition Learning Within Two-Layer Networks

Neural networks trained on modular addition tasks often develop Fourier-structured representations that support exact generalization. While prior work has identified these Fourier circuits, the mechanism by which gradient-based training selects them from the data distribution remains unclear. We address this question u...

Yunji Wang, Junjie Yao, Linyu Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks

Learning to act in unfamiliar environments requires agents to infer how the world works and revise that understanding as new evidence arrives. Yet limited observations can support multiple world models that explain past interactions but predict different outcomes in unseen states. We introduce Memento 3, building on th...

Haoyu Zhao, Zhengxu Yu, Zhiyuan He et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RouterInterp: Understanding Superposed Specialisation in Mixture of Experts Routing

Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) models scale more efficiently than dense models by routing tokens to modular expert networks that are only active for processing a fraction of tokens. A leading hypothesis for the performance of MoE models is that each expert specialises in a single, coherent domain. However, interpretab...

Ilya Lasy, Nora Yinuo Cai, Kola Ayonrinde · 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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