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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UniW(A)M: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts Framework for World and World-Action Models

World models (WMs) and world-action models (WAMs) focus on future world prediction and executable action generation, respectively. Although these models learn shared physical dynamics and interaction semantics from embodied trajectories, they are typically trained in isolation, which restricts knowledge reuse between p...

Jingbo Xu, Jianjie Fang, Zhuohang Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GeoReader: Learning Latent Geometry for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with metric and multi-view relationships that remain implicit in RGB observations. Geometry foundation models recover this structure from RGB, but existing methods either fuse the estimated features with visual tokens and learn to use them from question answering alone, or align V...

Rong Li, Shi-Jie Li, Jiangyong Huang et al. · 0 citations
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Just Respect the Semantics: Image-Token Compression via Pre-LLM Semantic Variable-Resolution Tokenization and In-LLM Relevance Pruning

Image-token compression must reduce computation without hurting the semantics. We introduce Varest, guided by semantic fungibility: tokens within a coherent semantic region can be summarized coarsely, while object boundaries and literal text require finer distinctions. Object and text localizers guide variable-resoluti...

Tianhao Fu, Austin Wang, Charles Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ProAS: A Progress-Aware Advantage Shaping Framework for Multi-Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Progress-Aware Advantage Shaping (ProAS) is proposed, a plug-and-play framework that leverages a dynamically evolving Agentic Reference Graph (ARG) to achieve fine-grained credit assignment via Masking Unreasonable Incentives (MUI) and Asymmetric Penalty Redistribution (APR).

Bowen Ding, Ming-Da Wan, Yu-Han Chen et al. · 0 citations
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Model-Based Online Decision Making via Generative Trajectory Planning

Online decision-making faces a tension between efficient inference and long-horizon reasoning. Value-based methods rely on short-horizon bootstrapping that limits the propagation of long-term information, while trajectory optimization methods plan explicitly but must solve a high-dimensional optimization problem at eve...

Haldun Balim, Yilun Du, Na Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kwai Summary Attention V2 Technical Report

Summary-token architectures such as Kwai Summary Attention (KSA) compress distant context into learnable Summary token per chunk, and hybrid variants interleave these layers with full attention to retain exact access to the original text. In such hybrid KSA-Full architecture, the interleaving inserted summary tokens ar...

OneRec Team, Chenglong Chu, Guohong Mu et al. · 0 citations
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AMemOps: Evaluating Memory Updates in Long Audio Streams

Audio memory must recognise recurring sources across acoustic changes while keeping their attributes up to date. Overall accuracy does not reveal how these demands interact. We introduce Audio Memory Operations (AMemOps), a benchmark for latest-attribute retrieval, preservation of unchanged attributes and absent-source...

Peiwei Chang, Li Zhang, Mark D. Plumbley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tiny Recursive Message Passing

Message passing neural networks have shown remarkable performance in algorithmic and constraint reasoning, due to their ability to encode the structure of the task directly in the architecture. Recent work has shown that better results can be achieved using recursive transformers trained with deep supervision and trunc...

Tommaso Salvatori, Matteo Forasassi, Alexis Toumi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Geometric Calibration of Supervised Fine-Tuning

Recent studies investigate the weight geometry through its spectral structure, which characterizes how the weights transform different input directions. Within this view, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is shown to induce dense updates that perturb the spectral geometry of pre-SFT weights along their principal directions,...

Jian-Zhu Bao, Jia-Chen Gu, Qing-Yuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Does self-distillation improve reasoning?

Self-distillation is an emerging approach that trains a model to imitate its own predictions when conditioned on privileged information, such as correct answers or environmental feedback. Recent methods have reported better sample efficiency and generalization than reinforcement learning (RL), but it remains unclear wh...

J. Adhinarta, Raina Wu, Ashutosh Sharma et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PhysicsSliders: Learning Physical Controls for Audio Foley Generation

Physical properties provide intuitive controls for sounds made by interacting objects. The challenge is to make a generative model respond predictably to these controls, both individually and in combination. We present \method\ (PXS), trained on simulated contact sounds with 15 material, geometry and contact parameters...

Peiwei Chang, Yongqiang Chen, Yuelan Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ACCRUE: Continual Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Robot Foundation Models

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves robot foundation models (RFMs) beyond their demonstrations, but real-world deployment demands more: learning new tasks efficiently while retaining previously acquired behaviors. Existing continual RL methods on top of VLAs mitigate forgetting but rely on on-policy upda...

Changyeon Kim, Kimin Lee, Yashraj Narang 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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