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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Discrete Flow Matching for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Many reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have discrete action spaces, but most generative policy methods based on diffusion and flow matching are designed for continuous control. Meanwhile, generative policies usually rely heavily on offline datasets and offline-to online RL is itself challenging, as the policy must impr...

Fairoz Nower Khan, Nabuat Zaman Nahim, Peizhong Ju · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multimodal synthesis of MRI and tabular data with diffusion in a joint latent space via cross-attention

We propose a multimodal latent diffusion model that jointly synthesizes volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tabular clinical data within a shared latent space via cross-attention. This approach enables coherent joint representation learning of MRI and tabular modalities for generative modeling. Our model ut...

Daniel Mensing, Jan Kapar, Jochen G. Hirsch et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AdaGamma: State-Dependent Discounting for Temporal Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning

The discount factor in reinforcement learning controls both the effective planning horizon and the strength of bootstrapping, yet most deep RL methods use a single fixed value across all states. State-dependent discounting is a natural way to adapt temporal credit assignment to local state structure, but naively learni...

Yaomin Wang, Jianting Pan, Ran Tian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

Selective Successor Eligibility Traces for RLVR

This work proposes Selective Successor Eligibility Traces (S-trace), an critic-free eligibility trace method that enables more effective credit assignment and establishes an upper bound on its discrepancy from the raw eligibility traces-based policy gradient estimator.

Chao-Li Mou, Xin-Ning Chen, Zhan Zhuang et al. · 5 citations

Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning

Refining Compositional Diffusion (RCD) is proposed, a training-free guidance method that steers compositional sampling toward high-density, globally coherent plans and demonstrates that RCD consistently outperforms existing methods.

Kyowoon Lee, Yunhao Luo, Anh Tong et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dependency Parsing Across the Resource Spectrum: Evaluating Architectures on High and Low-Resource Languages

Transformer-based models achieve state-of-the-art dependency parsing for high-resource languages, yet their advantage over simpler architectures in low-resource settings remains poorly understood. We evaluate four parsers---the Biaffine LSTM, Stack-Pointer Network, AfroXLMR-large, and RemBERT---across twelve typologica...

Kevin Guan, Happy Buzaaba, Christiane Fellbaum · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PermaFrost-Attack: Stealth Pretraining Seeding(SPS) for planting Logic Landmines During LLM Training

Aligned large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, and their reliance on web-scale pretraining creates a subtle but consequential attack surface. We study Stealth Pretraining Seeding (SPS), a threat model in which adversaries distribute small amounts of poisoned content across stealth w...

Harsh Kumar, Rahul Maity, Tanmay Joshi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Single-Model Optimization: Preserving Plasticity in Continual Reinforcement Learning

Continual reinforcement learning must balance retention with adaptation, yet many methods still rely on \emph{single-model preservation}, committing to one evolving policy as the main reusable solution across tasks. Even when a previously successful policy is retained, it may no longer provide a reliable starting point...

Lute Lillo, Nick Cheney · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dive into Claude Code: The Design Space of Today's and Future AI Agent Systems

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that can run shell commands, edit files, and call external services on behalf of the user. This study describes its architecture by analyzing the publicly available source code and comparing it with two independent open-source AI agent systems, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, that answe...

Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Xinyi Shang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CMP: Robust Whole-Body Tracking for Loco-Manipulation via Competence Manifold Projection

While decoupled control schemes for legged mobile manipulators have shown robustness, learning holistic whole-body control policies for tracking global end-effector poses remains fragile against Out-of-Distribution (OOD) inputs induced by sensor noise or infeasible user commands. To improve robustness against these per...

Ziyang Cheng, Haoyu Wei, Hang Yin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Process Rewards for Outcome-Guided Reasoning Steps in LLM Reinforcement Learning

Mathematical reasoning in large language models has improved substantially with reinforcement learning using verifiable rewards, where final answers can be checked automatically and converted into reliable training signals. Most such pipelines optimize outcome correctness only, which yields sparse feedback for long, mu...

Mohammad Rezaei, Jens Lehmann, Sahar Vahdati · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TopoPilot: Reliable Conversational Workflow Automation for Topological Data Analysis and Visualization

Recent agentic systems demonstrate that large language models can generate complex codebases from natural language prompts. Despite this progress, they present reliability concerns for scientific visualization due to invalid operations, subtle errors, and failure to resolve underspecified inputs. These challenges are c...

Nathaniel Gorski, Shusen Liu, Bei Wang · 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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