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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HERO: Hierarchical Evidential Reasoning Optimization for Radiology Report Generation via Reason-then-Summarize

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced Radiology Report Generation (RRG), yet aligning them through reinforcement learning (RL) remains challenging due to heterogeneous medical supervision. Vanilla Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) assigns uniform credit across the entire generatio...

Kun Zhao, Guodong Liu, Hui Ji et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring all the noises of LLM Evals

Applying well-established statistical methods effectively to LLM evals requires consideration of model correlations and prediction noises. Leading evals often ignore data noise, have low statistical power, or make unnecessary trade-offs. We define and measure three types of noise: 1) prediction noise from generating di...

Sida I. Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neural Evidence and Behavioural Welfare Economics: When Can Neuroeconomics Inform Policy?

Neuroeconomics appears to offer welfare economics an evidential supplement, since neural data may help distinguish choices that express genuine preferences from choices distorted by addiction, framing or self-control failure. This paper asks when such evidence can legitimately inform welfare judgements for policy. It d...

Louis Yiven Zhu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UnSAMv2: Self-Supervised Learning Enables Segment Anything at Any Granularity

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or selecting from pre-generated masks - to achieve the desired level of detail. This proc...

Junwei Yu, Trevor Darrell, XuDong Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Naga: Vedic Encoding for Deep State Space Models

This paper presents Naga, a deep State Space Model (SSM) encoding approach inspired by structural concepts from Vedic mathematics. The proposed method introduces a bidirectional representation for time series by jointly processing forward and time-reversed input sequences. These representations are then combined throug...

Melanie Schaller, Nick Janssen, Bodo Rosenhahn · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2025

Energy-Efficient Deep Learning Without Backpropagation: A Rigorous Hardware-Validated Benchmarking Study of Forward-Only Algorithms

Faster convergence is the remaining target for an end-to-end gain in forward-only deep learning, and a pre-registered ablation identifies gradient detachment, not MF's auxiliary losses, as the dominant factor tested.

Przemysław Spyra, W. Dzwinel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Function-Centric Perspective on Flat and Sharp Minima

Flat minima are strongly associated with improved generalisation in deep neural networks. However, this connection has proven nuanced in recent studies, with both theoretical counterexamples and empirical exceptions emerging in the literature. In this paper, we revisit the role of sharpness in model performance and exa...

Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams, Helen Yannakoudakis · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Batch Bayesian Active Learning with Partial Batch Label Sampling

Over the past couple of decades, many active learning acquisition functions have been proposed, leaving practitioners with an unclear choice of which to use. Bayesian active learning offers principled objectives with explainable intuition, including Expected Error Reduction (EER), Expected Predictive Information Gain (...

Kangping Hu, Stephen Mussmann · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Langevin Thompson Sampling from A Stochastic Approximation Perspective

Langevin-based Thompson Sampling (TS) methods for multi-armed bandits use likelihood gradients to approximate posterior samples when exact sampling is intractable. As new rewards arrive, the posterior changes, and these methods run an inner Markov chain to approximate the updated target. To simplify this repeated sampl...

Weixin Wang, Haoyang Zheng, Guang Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Frequency-Aware Model Parameter Explorer: A new attribution method for improving explainability

State-of-the-art attribution methods such as AttEXplore rely on adversarial sample generation that applies an all-pass filter across the frequency spectrum: they perturb all frequencies of the input image alike, from the low frequencies that carry coarse shape to the high frequencies that carry edges and textures. Howe...

Ali Yavari, Alireza Mohamadi, Elham Beydaghi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PPGFlowECG: Latent Rectified Flow with Cross-Modal Encoding for PPG-Guided ECG Generation and Cardiovascular Disease Detection

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical gold standard for cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment, yet continuous monitoring is constrained by the need for dedicated hardware and trained personnel. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is ubiquitous in wearable devices and readily scalable, but it lacks electrophysiological spe...

Xiaocheng Fang, Jiarui Jin, Haoyu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

One Size Does Not Fit All: Distribution-Guided Tensor-Wise Adaptive Sparsification for Model Merging

Merging multiple task-specific fine-tuned checkpoints into a single multi-task model provides an attractive alternative to joint multi-task training. To mitigate cross-task interference, a common strategy is to sparsify task vectors before aggregation. However, many widely used methods rely on a uniform global sparsity...

Yingfeng Luo, Dingyang Lin, Junxin Wang et al. · 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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