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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VH-GPO: Verified Handoff for LLM Agent Reinforcement Learning

Group-relative reinforcement learning methods such as GRPO train large language model (LLM) agents by comparing rollouts for the same task. When every trajectory in a group fails with the same reward, relative advantages collapse toward zero, leaving no useful learning signal. A frozen teacher can recover from a studen...

Haoze Li, Peng Zhou, Peiyuan Wu et al. · 0 citations
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SemTree: Judge-Aware Semantic Decision Trees for Inspectable and Repairable Rule Decisions

Rule decisions such as content moderation, advertising compliance, and eligibility checks combine several conditions, exemptions, and missing-information cases, and an error can be fixed only once the failing condition is known. We introduce SemTree, a framework that represents a rule decision as a semantic decision tr...

Jin-Cheng Gao, Wei Ding, Shuo Sun · 0 citations
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Enhanced Trading Systems with Intelligent Market Analysis

This paper proposes a hybrid reinforcement learning trading framework integrating intraday market data with transformer-based financial sentiment signals. The system extracts sentiment dynamics and semantic event clusters from financial news and incorporates them into a PPO-based trading agent. Experiments on intraday...

Vedanth Padmaraman, Shreen Anand, Vamshi Vishruth J et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SharedSAE: a unified sparse dictionary across u-net blocks and denoising time for diffusion models

Concept representations in diffusion models drift across network depth and denoising time, yet existing sparse autoencoders offer only per-block or per-timestep dictionaries, leaving no single feature dictionary for localization and intervention in the network. We present Shared Sparse Autoencoder (SharedSAE), which le...

Longhao Lei, Lan Yao · 0 citations
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Splicing Hints into Reasoning Traces: Learning from Demonstrator Failures

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves mathematical reasoning when a final answer can be checked, but a correct answer does not certify the derivation behind it, and proof problems offer no answer to check. Replacing the check with a reasoning model as an in-loop verifier faces a fundamental obstacle:...

Hamed Mahdavi (Pennsylvania State University), Pouria Mahdavinia (Pennsylvania State University), Majid Farhadi (Google) et al. · 0 citations
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GameSmith: Scaling Zero-Sum Self-Play with Synthesised Games

Post-training large language models (LLMs) on two-player zero-sum games provides a verifiable reward, and the gains have been shown to transfer to general reasoning. Existing pipelines, however, rely on a handful of hand-written games and on advantage estimators tied to them, so both the supply of games and the advanta...

Weixian Waylon Li, Jiaxin Zhang, Han Zhou et al. · 0 citations
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Posterior Flow Matching

Flow matching learns how to transport noise toward data, but its mean prediction does not directly report the endpoint uncertainty remaining at an intermediate state. This paper introduces Posterior Flow Matching (PFM), a general generative modeling framework that learns conditional velocity means and componentwise var...

Chenrui Ma, Xi Xiao, Lin Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Predict Before You Modify: Learning Improvement Dynamics for Self-Evolving Agents

Self-evolving agents improve through repeated cycles of modification and evaluation. However, existing methods receive feedback on modifications only after costly evaluations, and aggregate scores may obscure distinctions between failures that require different repairs. We introduce predictive self-evolution through an...

Zixuan Xie, Chang Xu, Yuhua Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MRFlow: Mechanism-Structured Residual Flow Matching for Virtual Cell Perturbation Prediction

Predicting cellular responses to chemical and genetic perturbations is a central test for AI virtual cells, yet many single-cell models reduce each condition to an average expression shift. This target is misaligned with perturbation biology: rare states, resistant subpopulations, and context-dependent effect sizes may...

Hao-Jie Yang, Ran Su · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Latent Algorithmic Structure Precedes Grokking: A Mechanistic Study of ReLU MLPs on Modular Arithmetic

Grokking-the phenomenon where validation accuracy of neural networks on modular addition of two integers rises long after training data has been memorized-has been characterized in previous works as producing sinusoidal input weight distributions in transformers and multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). We find empirically t...

Anand Swaroop · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EmoXpt: Analyzing Emotional Variances in Human Comments and LLM-Generated Responses

The widespread adoption of generative AI has generated diverse opinions, with individuals expressing both support and criticism of its applications. This study investigates the emotional dynamics surrounding generative AI by analyzing human tweets referencing terms such as ChatGPT, OpenAI, Copilot, and LLMs. To further...

Shireesh Reddy Pyreddy, Tarannum Shaila Zaman · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MFG: Multi-turn Feedback Guided Molecular Optimization

Multi-objective molecular optimization is a critical process in drug discovery that aims to modify a given molecule to simultaneously improve multiple properties while maintaining a similar overall structure. This process often requires iterative modifications guided by computational or experimental feedback. Recent la...

Trieu Nguyen, Frazier N. Baker, Ruo-Xi Gao et al. · 0 citations

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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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