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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CodeWalk: Generating Coding Benchmarks by Walking a Problem Graph

High-quality coding problems are expensive to collect. Benchmarks such as SWE-bench rely on substantial human curation, while synthetic alternatives typically rely on costly model generation and validation. In this work, we show that new coding problems can be created at almost no cost by composing existing ones. We fo...

Jiaxin Fang, Runyuan He, Arnav Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ZOIF: Zeroth-Order Influence Function Estimation for LLM Data Selection Using Only Forward Passes

Influence functions enable principled data selection for large language models (e.g., identifying influential training samples for model editing, debugging, or efficient fine-tuning). However, scaling IFs to LLMs is hindered by the intractability of billion-scale Hessian matrices and the prohibitive memory overhead of...

Li-Song He, Yun-Xuan Jiang, Hai-Shan Ye et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Anchor-and-Harvest Curriculum: A Fully Unmasked Non-LLM Curriculum for Craftax

We introduce Anchor-and-Harvest Curriculum (AHC), a domain-informed, rule-based training system for Craftax-Full. AHC combines achievement-oriented tasks, harvested initial-state progress, difficulty adaptation, bounded selection, and original-task practice. It uses no LLM inference and keeps all 43 actions available....

Jiayu Zhu, Luyuan Li, Yuyuan Shi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Accuracy and Uncertainty in Machine Deception Detection (Research White Paper)

A deception detector is only as useful as the trust its alarms deserve. Like a polygraph, detectors that read a language model's internal activations can catch deceptive responses that look honest. Yet current detectors depend on which layers they read, weaken on broader tests, and do not state how certain their alarms...

Heng-Sheng Chang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

WisdomNet: trustable machine learning toward error-free classification

Misclassification is a critical problem in many machine learning applications. Since even the classifier models with high accuracy (e.g., > 95%) still introduce some misclassification error, it may not be possible to rely on the output of a classifier. In this paper, we introduce trustable learning, which prompts the l...

Truong X. Tran, Ramazan S. Aygun · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Protein Crystallization Segmentation and Classification Using Subordinate Color Channel in Fluorescence Microscopy Images

The accuracy of detecting protein crystals for fluorescence microscopy images is very critical for high throughput and automated systems. Although the trace fluorescent labeling method could highlight protein crystals, reflection and emission from the fluorescence dye is not always due to crystal regions. Therefore, th...

Truong X. Tran, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. Aygun · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LeHami: Symplectic Latent Dynamics for World Models

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn world models directly in latent space, but unconstrained autoregressive predictors may contract the latent distribution over long rollouts. We introduce Symplectic Hamiltonian JEPA (LeHami), which replaces the standard predictor with an action-conditioned Hamiltoni...

Romina Yalovetzky, Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun · 0 citations
#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 Oct 2026

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

This paper makes the following key observations: Shallow exits are consistently more robust to jailbreak attacks than deeper ones; Exit depth affects how easily the adversarial suffix can be optimized, with deeper exits reaching lower attack loss; and adversarial suffixes affect utility uniformly across exit depths.

Lass Najmuldeen, Seyedhamidreza Mousavi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review 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 Réveillard, Alexandre Proutière 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

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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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