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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning to Detect Shifts in Unstructured Data Streams via Monitoring-by-Betting

Continuous monitoring of generative AI systems requires detecting distribution shifts in the unstructured data they ingest and generate. Existing monitoring methods typically control false alarms by requiring the discrepancy measure used to detect shifts to be *pre-specified*. However, for unstructured data, pre-specif...

Siyu Zhou, Jialin Ouyang, Fan Xia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Market Meta-Learning for Electricity Price Forecasting

Day-ahead (DA) electricity price forecasting is usually posed per market, with a separate model fitted to each grid's own history. This caps accuracy: statistical and tree-based baselines saturate, while higher-capacity sequence models need more training data than a single market's few years of hourly prices can supply...

Delaram Pirhayatifard, Terrence Alsup · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mitigating Black-Box Score-Based Query Attacks via Gradient Confusion

Score-based black-box adversarial attacks pose a serious threat to deployed machine learning systems by exploiting repeated model queries to craft adversarial examples, requiring neither access to model parameters nor architecture. Existing defenses predominantly rely on stochastic output perturbations, which fail to p...

Ali Javeri, Javad Hezareh, Radin Shahdaei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HASTE: Hierarchical and Attribute-aware Supervision for Generative Recommendation

Generative recommendation models have shown promising results by representing items as semantic IDs and generating these IDs autoregressively. We introduce an approach showing that explicitly incorporating hierarchical and attribute-level supervision into generative recommendation can simultaneously improve training ef...

Tripti Shukla, Shwetha Somasundaram, Akshat Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Statistical Mechanics of Attention

We revisit the statistical mechanics of Transformer attention via modern Hopfield models. We present a free-energy formalism to characterize parameter regimes and critical thresholds for robust attention inference. The resulting free-energy landscape incorporates randomness in query states and attention weights. Attent...

Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Yu-An Chen, Maojiang Su et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Joint Embedding with Dynamic Integration network (JEDI-net)

Deep learning has become the dominant form of machine learning due in part, to its ability to automatically engineer complex meta features from data. However, even deep learning features can perform erratically because of unobserved latent factors. incorporating latent factor information explicitly, can improve perform...

Rishav Mukherjee, Jeffrey Ahearn Thompson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring Learned Equivariance: An Information Theoretic Approach

Learning symmetries through data augmentation offers an alternative to architectural equivariance, but does not guarantee that a network respects those symmetries. Measuring learned equivariance is especially difficult for intermediate representations, whose group actions are not specified. In a finite discrete setting...

Claire Schlesinger, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Robin Walters · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training

Neural surrogates for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are usually trained on synthetic data from numerical simulators. As models grow and scaling laws demand larger datasets, the cost of data generation often outweighs the training cost and becomes the bottleneck in the scaling quest. Unlike data in other domains...

Paul Setinek, F. Paischer, Nils Thuerey et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FreeSolo: Linear-time Sparse Attention with Zero-Shot Length Extrapolation

Linear-time sequence models typically store long-context information in a recurrent state. A fixed-size state limits how much information can be stored, while hybrid architectures that add full attention for better recall incur quadratic sequence cost. Alternatively, sparse attention with continued pretraining (CPT) ca...

Zekun Shi, Alastair James Arthur Price · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generative Flow on Symbolic Abstractions for Embodiment Capability Discovery

Achieving complex, long-horizon robot behavior remains challenging because successful execution depends on skills grounded in a robot's physical affordances. Existing training-task distributions are often handcrafted or sampled from large language models (LLMs), relying on semantic plausibility rather than embodiment-s...

Youwei Yu, Lantao Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gradient Routing Localizes and Removes Unintended Behaviors in RL

We propose a mitigation to reward hacking in reinforcement learning. Our setup involves a misspecified reward function that gives rise to unintended behavior, and a monitor used to detect unintended behavior. As with frontier AI systems, the monitor makes systematic errors. Consequently, using the monitor for data filt...

Jake Ward, Shawn Hu, Aria Wong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SPLICE: Sparse Physics Library Identification and Compositional Expansion

Neural operator splitting composes a library of neural operators, one per physical mechanism, into zero-shot simulators of new equations. Existing approaches, however, require these mechanisms and their labels to be specified in advance. We ask whether a pretrained library can instead be adapted and grown from unlabele...

Lucas Thil, Jesse Read, G. Doquet 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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