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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Jevolution: A Framework for Studying Communication and Collective Dynamics in AI Agents

Experiments with remote decision-making agents depend on more than the policy: the world may change during inference, the simulator determines which actions are available, and births and immigration alter who can act. We present Jevolution, an instrumented spatial predator-prey framework that makes these dependencies e...

Xi-Rui Huang, N. Hooda, Utkarsh Gupta · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KV4-RL: Unlocking Faster Asynchronous Rollouts for RLVR with INT4 KV Cache Quantization

Asynchronous rollout improves the efficiency of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) by reducing under-utilization during long-tail generation. Sustained concurrency also concentrates context processing into fewer decode steps, increasing the KV workload per step. We characterize this \emph{KV concentr...

Sihwan Park, Sung-Yub Kim, Doohyuk Jang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Target-ESS Tempered Policy Optimization (TETPO): Smooth Variance Control via Bridge Importance Sampling

Asynchronous reinforcement-learning post-training of large language models is computationally efficient but inherently off-policy: the learner updates on rollouts generated by a stale policy, while correcting this mismatch requires importance weights that can be extremely heavy-tailed. A small number of trajectories ma...

Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Kayhan Behdin, Wen-Hui Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Coarse-Graining Recursive Expert Computation: Continuation-Relative Interfaces and Failure Modes

Computational coarse-graining aims to replace a sequence of updates with a cheaper module while preserving task performance. We present a continuation-relative evaluation framework that assesses replacements through the computation that follows them, using downstream task quality and total execution cost as joint crite...

Shihua Yu, Yanzhi Wang, Tianchi Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Memory Without Curation: Learning Multi-Stream Latent Memory for Robot Policies

It is widely appreciated that robotic policies require long-term memory to perform complex tasks. However, directly conditioning policies on all past observations leaves policy learning susceptible to learning spurious shortcuts, and introduces large latency at policy deployment. As such, today's memory-augmented polic...

Yilin Wu, Rutav Shah, Shuaiyi Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep learning from a control vantage point

This article offers an overview of recent developments in deep learning from a control vantage point. It reviews several classes of models including feedforward and residual neural networks, transformers, large-language models, and selective state space models while explaining how control theory plays an important role...

\'Alvaro Rodr\'iguez Abella, Jo\~ao Pedro Silvestre, Bahman Gharesifard et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DexFLEX: Contact-Aware Foundation Controller for Command-Guided Dexterity

Dexterous robot hands can receive useful motion intent from teleoperation or learned policies, but successful execution also depends on contact decisions that these commands rarely specify. We introduce DexFLEX, a contact-aware foundation controller that turns upstream fingertip-motion drafts into contact-consistent jo...

Weikang Wan, Zeyu Lai, Jianyu Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Natural Code Transformation Confuses Agents in Vulnerability Analysis

Having demonstrated a strong potential for automating vulnerability discovery, AI agents can also be used to attack software systems at scale. Today's software systems need mechanisms to level the playing field by slowing down potential attacks, giving them time to patch vulnerabilities and strengthen software. Along t...

Jie Zhu, Ronik Bhaskar, Heather Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EV-JEPA: Elastic V-JEPA for Any Device and Cross-Device Inference

Foundation models like V-JEPA are increasingly deployed across a heterogeneous edge-cloud continuum spanning smart glasses, phones, robots, and servers. Yet, they are typically trained as rigid, fixed-capacity networks bound to one device, supporting neither reconfigurable compute budgets nor collaborative execution. E...

Anxhelo Diko, Jieyu Lin, Stefano Ambrogio et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MvFFN: Multi-view Floor plan Feed-forward Network for Unposed Wide-Baseline Panorama Layout Reconstruction

Reconstructing accurate camera poses and floor-plan layouts from sparse, unposed, wide-baseline RGB panoramas remains a challenging open problem. Direct multi-room floor-plan prediction is especially difficult in this setting: pose, geometry, semantics, and global layout structure are tightly coupled, yet a complete fl...

Yuguang Li, Yichuan Deng, Zixuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GeoFix: Geometry Fixing for 4D Consistent Generation

Video diffusion models increasingly serve as priors for 4D generation, but the generated videos often lack geometric consistency. Recent approaches address this through post-training by designing geometric rewards, yet this can degrade texture and fine detail, requiring auxiliary appearance rewards and careful reward b...

Yeobin Hong, Hyojun Go, Dohun Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The RNN Homunculus: Learning to Gate Long-Term Memory

Learning long-range dependencies with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is difficult because of the vanishing gradient problem. Gated recurrent neural networks like GRUs and LSTMs address this problem and are commonly explained by their ability to create additive copy paths through time. This explanation is correct, but...

Zeyu Fan, Alexandru-Dragos Manolache, Jan van Gemert · 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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