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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BONSAI: Bayesian Optimization with Natural Simplicity and Interpretability

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular technique for sample-efficient optimization of black-box functions. In many applications, the parameters being tuned come with a carefully engineered default configuration, and practitioners only want to deviate from this default when necessary. Standard BO, however, does not aim...

Samuel Daulton, David Eriksson, Maximilian Balandat et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Attention-Mass Condensation for Sparse Decoding

Attention-mass concentration creates an opportunity for sparse decoding, but retained mass alone does not guarantee a stable greedy decision: retrieval error, omitted value directions, and recursive decoding all matter. We formalize this distinction with an exact omitted-mass identity and a sufficient downstream margin...

Jorge L. Ruiz Williams · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Doc2Spec: Synthesizing Formal Programming Specifications from Natural Language via Grammar Induction

Ensuring that API implementations and usage comply with natural language programming rules is critical for software correctness, security, and reliability. Formal verification can provide strong guarantees but requires precise specifications, which are difficult and costly to write manually. To address this challenge,...

Shihao Xia, Mengting He, Haomin Jia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multiparameter Uncertainty Mapping in Quantitative Molecular MRI using a Physics-Structured Variational Autoencoder (PS-VAE)

Quantitative imaging methods, such as magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF), aim to extract interpretable pathology biomarkers by estimating biophysical tissue parameters from signal evolutions. However, the pattern-matching algorithms or neural networks used in such inverse problems often lack principled uncertainty...

Alex Finkelstein, Ron Moneta, Or Zohar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continuous-Utility Direct Preference Optimization

Large language model reasoning is often treated as a monolithic capability, relying on binary preference supervision that fails to capture partial progress or fine-grained reasoning quality. We introduce continuous utility direct preference optimization (CU-DPO), a framework that aligns models to a portfolio of prompt-...

Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Emily Fox · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Order-Optimal Sample Complexity of Rectified Flows

Recently, flow-based generative models have shown superior efficiency compared to diffusion models. In this paper, we study rectified flow models, which constrain transport trajectories to be linear from the base distribution to the data distribution. This structural restriction greatly accelerates sampling, often enab...

Hari Krishna Sahoo, Mudit Gaur, Vaneet Aggarwal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboPilot: Generalizable Dynamic Robotic Manipulation with Dual-thinking Modes

Despite rapid progress in robotics, complex or long-horizon tasks remain a fundamental challenge. Most current approaches follow an open-loop paradigm with limited reasoning and no feedback, resulting in poor robustness to environmental changes and severe error accumulation. We present RoboPilot, a dual-thinking closed...

Xinyi Liu, Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Zewei Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SEER: Self-Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Compression for Reasoning Models

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting can substantially improve the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), but it often comes with high inference cost due to long and poorly controlled reasoning traces. This overhead is particularly problematic in software engineering tasks (e.g., code generation), where both la...

Kerui Huang, Shuhan Liu, Xing Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scaling Legal AI: Benchmarking Mamba and Transformers for Statutory Classification and Case Law Retrieval

Statutory corpora and judicial decisions are growing faster than legal professionals can read them, while individual judgments often exceed the context limits of standard encoder models. Transformer architectures dominate legal NLP benchmarks, but their quadratic attention complexity can require truncating or fragmenti...

Anuraj Maurya · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Geometry-Centered 3D Latent World Models for Growing Surfaces

Many physical systems do not merely move or deform; they grow, adding material and changing the geometry that a world model must represent. Existing world models are typically optimized for pixel prediction, reward prediction, or fixed-support physical dynamics, leaving open how to model systems whose underlying physic...

Xiaoyi Liu, Hao Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

APE: Selective Fine-tuning with Acceptance Criteria for Language Model Adaptation

We present Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine-tuning method for adapting large language models that systematically explores parameter modifications while maintaining model stability. Inspired by evolutionary optimization principles, APE evaluates multiple candidate parameter updates through fine-tuni...

Javier Mar\'in · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboFAC: A Comprehensive Framework for Robotic Failure Analysis and Correction

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently advanced robotic manipulation by translating natural-language instructions and visual observations into control actions. However, existing VLAs are primarily trained on successful expert demonstrations and lack structured supervision for failure diagnosis and recovery,...

Zewei Ye, Weifeng Lu, Minghao Ye 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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