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#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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

There are Levels to It: Red Teaming Dialogue With Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Red teaming is essential for securing Large Language Models, yet current automated methods remain limited by templates and single-turn attacks. To simulate the complex, interactive nature of real-world adversarial attacks, we introduce a novel red teaming paradigm designed to maximize expected cumulative harm through s...

Roman Belaire, Arunesh Sinha, Pradeep Varakantham · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks to Reconstruct Local Fields Considering Finite Strain Hyperelasticity

We propose a physics-informed machine learning framework called P-DivGNN to reconstruct local stress fields at the micro-scale, in the context of multi-scale simulation given a periodic micro-structure mesh and mean, macro-scale, stress values. This method is based in representing a periodic micro-structure as a graph,...

Manuel Ricardo Guevara Garban, Yves Chemisky, \'Etienne Pruli\`ere et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Curriculum-Adapted Robust Reinforcement Learning for UAV Deconfliction in Adversarial Environments

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increasingly rely on reinforcement learning (RL) for navigation, yet global navigation satellite system (GNSS) spoofing attacks can induce out-of-distribution observation shifts that corrupt value estimation and degrade mission performance. Existing robust RL methods often lac...

Deepak Kumar Panda, Adolfo Perrusquia, Weisi Guo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RCStat: A Statistical Framework for using Relative Contextualization in Transformers

Identifying which tokens and activations truly influence model predictions is critical for both the efficiency and interpretability of large auto-regressive language models. Yet in practice, token importance is typically inferred from attention distributions that entangle contextual relevance with softmax-normalization...

Debabrata Mahapatra, Shubham Agarwal, Apoorv Saxena et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AI

We propose co-creative learning as a novel paradigm where humans and AI, i.e., biological and artificial agents, mutually integrate their partial perceptual information and knowledge to construct shared external representations, a process we interpret as symbol emergence. Unlike traditional AI teaching based on unilate...

Ryota Okumura, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Akira Taniguchi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GUARD: Guided Unlearning and Retention via Data Attribution for Large Language Models

Unlearning large language models (LLMs) is important due to copyright and privacy concerns. A key challenge is unintended forgetting, where removing data inadvertently impairs model utility. While prior work has focused on architectural innovations, the influence of data-level factors remains underexplored. We introduc...

Peizhi Niu, Evelyn Ma, Boya Hou et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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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