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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Visualizing the World Model in an Agent's Value Function

Could model-free reinforcement learning algorithms actually be learning a model of the environment? In this work, we apply counterfactual interventions which hold everything about a state fixed, besides a targeted change, to explore if the value function of a Proximal Policy Optimization agent forms a world model of th...

Shawheen Naderi, Fatemeh Akherati, Yubei Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Artificiality's First Exam: An LLM-Referenced C-test for Supraintelligence

Under the accelerated pace of AI development, any benchmark whose difficulty is calibrated with humans or current AI systems becomes circular, or saturates soon. How can we then evaluate machines that may become more capable than the current machines and the people who write the tests? One answer to the question hinges...

Jose Hernandez-Orallo · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Oct 2026

The Geography of Algorithmic Judgment: LLM Intermediaries, Place Identity, and Racial Steering in Housing Search

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly assuming an intermediary role in housing search through the integration of listing platforms within conversational interfaces, mediating access to information, search, and recommendations within urban settings. We expand on prior work on racial steering in LLMs by conducting a b...

Hana Samad, Trung Lam, Christoph Mügge-Durum et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Particle-based Generalised Stochastic Optimisation

We develop a class of general diffusion-based stochastic particle optimisation methods for loss functions with intractable gradients. Specifically, we consider problems in which the loss gradient is an integral with respect to a parameter-dependent distribution, a structure that includes training generative models, fin...

Jiechen Jackie Zhang, O. Deniz Akyildiz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

H-OPD: Confidence Aware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm by providing supervision on student-generated trajectories. However, existing OPD methods for multimodal reasoning usually rely on a static teacher routing, assigning each sample to a single teacher based on modality or task type....

Qixiang Yin, Huanjin Yao, Yuchen Cai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lesion-DDPM: Lesion-Enhanced 3D Diffusion for MS MRI Synthesis

3D FLAIR MRI is widely recommended as one of the standard MRI sequences for brain imaging in multiple sclerosis (MS), but publicly available MS datasets remain relatively small and vary across scanners, acquisition protocols, and lesion patterns. This scarcity and variability hinder the development of robust neuroimagi...

Weidong Zhang, Yongchan Jung, Shafayat Mowla Anik et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unsupervised Identification and Removal of Spurious Correlations During Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning a pretrained language model on a curated dataset can produce spurious correlations between the fine-tuning task and unintended latent factors---such as misaligned personas or political slant---that the curation procedure has entangled with the task. The model can latch onto these spurious correlations, lead...

Ciar\'an M. Gilligan-Lee, Joseph Egan, Yuchen Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Is TabPFN the Silver Bullet for Insurance Pricing?

Modelling claim frequency and severity for non-life insurance pricing predominantly relies on generalised linear models (GLMs), with gradient-boosted machines as the leading machine learning alternative. Tabular foundation models (TFMs) present a fundamentally different inference paradigm. By pre-training on large coll...

Bruno Deprez, Wouter Verbeke, Tim Verdonck · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-View Attention Fusion Net: A Prior-Guided Dual-View Representation Learning for Cardiac Output Estimation from Short-Term PPG Signals

Accurate cardiac output (CO) estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) is promising for unobtrusive hemodynamic monitoring, but remains difficult since CO is jointly determined by cardiac function and vascular tone. Conventional feature-based models use physiologically meaningful PPG descriptors, yet depend on accurat...

Yaowen Zhang, Bo Cui, Libera Fresiello et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Stochastic Compositional Optimization via Hybrid Momentum Frank--Wolfe

Stochastic compositional optimization minimizes $F(f(x), x)$ over a compact convex set when the inner map $f$ is available only through noisy samples. We propose Hybrid Momentum Stochastic Frank--Wolfe, a projection-free method for outer functions $F$ that are jointly convex and Lipschitz but not necessarily differenti...

El Mahdi Chayti, Mohamad Fakhouri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Vision2Code: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Evaluating Image-to-Code Generation

We study whether vision-language models (VLMs) can reconstruct structured, graphics-based images by writing executable code to generate them. Existing benchmarks on image-to-code generation are generally limited in the domains they cover, rely on reference source code for evaluation, and do not provide metrics to quant...

Ajay Vikram Periasami, Junlin Wang, Bhuwan Dhingra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fairness-Guided DQN-Based TXOP Control for NR-U/Wi-Fi Coexistence

New Radio operating in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) and Wi-Fi employ different contention parameters and channel-occupancy durations, which can produce severe coexistence imbalance. This correspondence develops a fairness-guided deep Q-network (DQN) that adjusts the NR-U transmission opportunity (TXOP) using the observed...

Po-Heng Chou, Yi-Fang Yu, Shou-Yu Chen et al. · 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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