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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The belief-action gap in language model agents

Language model (LM) agents can fail for different reasons, requiring different explanations and interventions. We study how state beliefs, action values, and action preferences interact as LM agents reason and commit to decisions in text-rendered grid worlds. We estimate task-relevant beliefs using report-based and rep...

Ayse Sila Okcu, Weisheng Wang, Tongmeng Xie et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Reinforcement Learning In Partially Verifiable Environments for Colon Cancer Treatment Planning

Clinical decision-making is a sequential process of information collection, clinical inference, and forecasting under partial observability, often without a uniquely correct treatment decision. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong medical question-answering capabilities but extending these advances to...

Li-Ching Chen, Andrés Franco Valiente, Yuta Ishiyama et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

On Making $\mathrm{SE}(2)$-Invariant Networks Optimal

Respecting a-priori known symmetries of underlying data is a key principle in designing efficient neural architectures. Convolutional neural networks are a canonical example, encoding translation equivariance. Extending this inductive bias to richer symmetry groups such as $\mathrm{SE}(2)$ in the most effective way pos...

Tomáš Karella, Emily Shinkle, Alice E. A. Allen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ClearNav: Perception-Aligned Quadrotor Flight Using Differential-Physics

Autonomous quadrotor flight in cluttered environment is an key capability for tasks like inspection and search. Navigation policies trained in simulation and transferred to hardware can fly at high speed in open space, but they can still collide as obstacle clearance shrinks. We attribute most of these collisions to a...

Aditya Azad, Arthur Huang, Guan-Rui Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-View Time-Frequency Diffusion for Extreme-Aware Time-Series Generation

Generating realistic time-series requires faithfully reproducing rare but high-impact extreme events. Existing approaches often rely on specialized representations or extreme-focused training objectives, which may restrict the diversity of captured extremes or compromise overall distributional fidelity. We propose Cros...

Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu, Guang Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning to Detect Shifts in Unstructured Data Streams via Monitoring-by-Betting

Continuous monitoring of generative AI systems requires detecting distribution shifts in the unstructured data they ingest and generate. Existing monitoring methods typically control false alarms by requiring the discrepancy measure used to detect shifts to be *pre-specified*. However, for unstructured data, pre-specif...

Siyu Zhou, Jialin Ouyang, Fan Xia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Market Meta-Learning for Electricity Price Forecasting

Day-ahead (DA) electricity price forecasting is usually posed per market, with a separate model fitted to each grid's own history. This caps accuracy: statistical and tree-based baselines saturate, while higher-capacity sequence models need more training data than a single market's few years of hourly prices can supply...

Delaram Pirhayatifard, Terrence Alsup · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mitigating Black-Box Score-Based Query Attacks via Gradient Confusion

Score-based black-box adversarial attacks pose a serious threat to deployed machine learning systems by exploiting repeated model queries to craft adversarial examples, requiring neither access to model parameters nor architecture. Existing defenses predominantly rely on stochastic output perturbations, which fail to p...

Ali Javeri, Javad Hezareh, Radin Shahdaei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HASTE: Hierarchical and Attribute-aware Supervision for Generative Recommendation

Generative recommendation models have shown promising results by representing items as semantic IDs and generating these IDs autoregressively. We introduce an approach showing that explicitly incorporating hierarchical and attribute-level supervision into generative recommendation can simultaneously improve training ef...

Tripti Shukla, Shwetha Somasundaram, Akshat Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Statistical Mechanics of Attention

We revisit the statistical mechanics of Transformer attention via modern Hopfield models. We present a free-energy formalism to characterize parameter regimes and critical thresholds for robust attention inference. The resulting free-energy landscape incorporates randomness in query states and attention weights. Attent...

Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Yu-An Chen, Maojiang Su et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Joint Embedding with Dynamic Integration network (JEDI-net)

Deep learning has become the dominant form of machine learning due in part, to its ability to automatically engineer complex meta features from data. However, even deep learning features can perform erratically because of unobserved latent factors. incorporating latent factor information explicitly, can improve perform...

Rishav Mukherjee, Jeffrey Ahearn Thompson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring Learned Equivariance: An Information Theoretic Approach

Learning symmetries through data augmentation offers an alternative to architectural equivariance, but does not guarantee that a network respects those symmetries. Measuring learned equivariance is especially difficult for intermediate representations, whose group actions are not specified. In a finite discrete setting...

Claire Schlesinger, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Robin Walters · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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