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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Sequent-Prover: Training Agents for Formal, Checkable SMT-based Reasoning

We introduce Sequent-Prover, a family of verifier-using language-model agents, and the post-training framework that produces them. Agents reason in an executable SMT-LIB scratchpad: they write complete SMT-LIB programs, query Z3 across turns, inspect solver feedback, repair formalizations, and terminate with an explici...

Debargha Ganguly, Wei-Cong Chen, Mohsen Hariri et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EvolvAttack: Backdooring self Evolving VLM Agents

Self-evolving mechanisms let vision-language model (VLM) agents continually adapt through evolving memory, but they also allow malicious behavior to emerge only after deployment. We introduce a new attack surface, the self-evolving backdoor, whose payload stays dormant in the initial agent and is progressively activate...

Chuan Zou, Yang Xiang, Zexin Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Exploring Jailbreak Vulnerability Across Depth-Based Dynamic Inference in Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be computationally expensive and vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, in which adversarial prompts bypass safety alignment and induce harmful responses. To address this inefficiency, a range of techniques have been proposed to enable efficient LLM inference. Depth-based dynam...

Lass Najmuldeen, Seyedhamidreza Mousavi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

To Defer or Not to Defer? Online Learning with LLMs and Congested Experts

Modern AI systems increasingly combine large language models (LLMs) with human experts, using the LLM to handle routine queries while deferring uncertain cases for expert review. When expert capacity is limited, however, deferral decisions must account not only for the reliability of the LLM but also for congestion in...

Vasileios Saketos, William Reveillard, Alexandre Proutiere et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RIECNN: Real-Time Image Enhanced CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition

Traffic sign recognition plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous cars to reduce the accident rate and promote road safety. It has been a necessity to address traffic signs that are affected significantly by the environment as well as poor real-time performance for deep-learning state-of-the-art algorithms...

Reem Abdel-Salam, Rana Mostafa, Ahmed H. Abdel-Gawad · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ShellElastic: Scalable Elastic Pretraining with Simultaneous Maximal Updates and Hyperparameter Transfer

Foundation models need to support diverse inference budgets, yet training a separate model for each budget duplicates pretraining effort. Elastic models train several nested sub-networks inside one weight-shared supernet, but existing recipes face three obstacles: variable per-step workloads that hinder distributed sca...

Can Jin, Yan Kang, Yifan Gong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

scHFBiMamba: a bidirectional Mamba autoencoder for cardiac disease-state classification from single-nucleus RNA-seq data

To evaluate whether a compact bidirectional state-space autoencoder improves joint classification of species, cell type, and disease state from single-nucleus RNA-sequencing profiles in heart failure (HF), while yielding interpretable gene attributions. Building on the dense denoising autoencoder (DAE) and MLP framewor...

Ugo Lomoio, Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Pierangelo Veltri · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TurnCost: Turns, Not Observations: Cache-Aware Loop Engineering for Coding Agents

AI coding agents operate in iterative loops: they modify code, run tools, inspect the results, and decide what to do next. We call the design of this process loop engineering, which includes context management, model selection, compaction, and termination. Existing efficiency work mainly compresses tool observations or...

Pramod Kumar, Raj Kumar Pandey · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

InCLAD: A Continual Learning Benchmark for Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection

Industrial anomaly detection benchmarks have advanced rapidly, yet they remain largely static and therefore underrepresent deployment settings in which inspection systems must be extended from one industrial component to another over time. In our setting, continual industrial anomaly detection is framed as a task-incre...

{\L}ukasz Marcjan, Dorota Wilk-Ko{\l}odziejczyk, Roberto Corizzo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recurrent In-Context Learning for Tabular Foundation Models

Tabular foundation models adapt to new datasets through in-context learning (ICL), and, like most transformers, they tie computational depth to the number of independently parameterized layers. We ask whether the ICL stage of such a model needs a distinct set of parameters for every layer, or only depth. We introduce T...

Tejas Vaidhya, Gaurav Sahu, Irina Rish · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mixing Regularization for Average-Reward $Q$-Learning and $Q$-Planning

The average-reward setting for reinforcement learning is challenging because its Bellman operator is known to contract in span only when the underlying Markov chain is mixing. Whereas existing work typically assumes a contraction property, e.g., through environment mixing, we consider the setting where we are given a r...

Julien Roger, Sam Bodmer, Jian Qian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fitting Every Hint Is Not Enough: Premature Floods in Recurrent Algorithmic Reasoners

Recurrent algorithmic reasoners are trained with per-step hints on small graphs and run for many more steps on large ones. On breadth-first search in SALSA-CLRS, we find that a reasoner can reproduce every training hint and still fail on deep graphs: after some exact steps, it declares nodes reached before the search g...

Amin Najafgholizadeh, Mohsen Afsharchi · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

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