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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

COBALT: Contextual Bandit Learning with Offline Trajectories for Multi-Turn Code Generation

Training large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn code generation typically relies on online reinforcement learning (RL), in which models learn from repeatedly generated online rollouts. Although effective, online RL can be costly and unstable. In this paper, we present contextual bandit learning with offline trajec...

Ziru Chen, Dongdong Chen, Ruinan Jin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Preference-Conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Decision Making in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

A central difficulty in applying reinforcement learning to real-world applications such as autonomous driving is that conventional scalar reward formulations obtained by aggregating multiple often competing objectives may obscure the structure of their trade-offs. These challenges are particularly relevant to decision-...

Deepthi Pathare, Leo Laine, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Theory of the Mechanics of Information: Generalization Through Measurement of Uncertainty (Learning is Measuring)

Traditional machine learning relies on explicit models and domain assumptions, often limiting flexibility and interpretability. We introduce a "model-free" framework of instance-based learning using surprisal (information theoretic uncertainty) to directly analyze and perform inferences from raw data, eliminating distr...

Christopher J. Hazard, Michael Resnick, Jacob Beel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ABLEIST: Intersectional Disability Bias in LLM-Generated Hiring Scenarios

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly under scrutiny for perpetuating identity-based discrimination in high-stakes domains such as hiring, particularly against people with disabilities (PwD). However, existing research remains largely Western-centric, overlooking how intersecting forms of marginalization--such...

Mahika Phutane, Hayoung Jung, Matthew Kim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Discovering Phase Space Structure in Learned Hamiltonian Systems

Mechanics-inspired neural dynamical models improve interpretability and physical consistency, but they usually assume a known configuration space, fixed physical parameters, and deterministic prediction from a prescribed initial condition. We introduce Structured Phase Space GAN (SPS-GAN), a conditional generative mode...

Yulong Yang, Jiayin Liu, Vineet Bansal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Regression-adjusted Monte Carlo Estimators for Shapley Values and Probabilistic Values

With origins in game theory, probabilistic values like Shapley values, Banzhaf values, and semi-values have emerged as a central tool in explainable AI. They are used for feature attribution, data attribution, data valuation, and more. Since exact computation can require exponential time, research has focused on effici...

R. Teal Witter, Yurong Liu, Christopher Musco · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UniConFlow: A Unified Constrained Flow-Matching Framework for Certified Motion Planning

Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation across various tasks. Yet, most existing approaches remain limited in handling multiple types of constraints, such as collision avoidance, actuation limits, and dynamic consisten...

Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Dian Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Physics-inspired Generative AI models via real hardware-based noisy quantum diffusion

Quantum Diffusion Models (QDMs) are an emerging paradigm in Generative AI that aims to use quantum properties to improve the performances of their classical counterparts. However, existing algorithms are not easily scalable due to the limitations of near-term quantum devices. Following our previous work on QDMs, here w...

Marco Parigi, Stefano Martina, Francesco Aldo Venturelli et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Auditing Prompt Injection Defenses Before They Reach Users: What Strong Adversaries Reveal

Large language models are increasingly deployed in user-facing products that handle sensitive personal data while interacting with untrusted external content. This makes them a prime target for prompt injection attacks, in which an adversary injects malicious instructions in that content to hijack the model. Fine-tunin...

Xiaoxue Yang, Bozhidar Stevanoski, Matthieu Meeus et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Heterogeneity-Aware Client Sampling for Optimal and Efficient Federated Learning

Federated learning (FL) commonly involves clients with diverse communication and computational capabilities. Such heterogeneity can significantly distort the optimization dynamics and lead to objective inconsistency, where the global model converges to an incorrect stationary point potentially far from the pursued opti...

Shudi Weng, Chao Ren, Ming Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Understanding Transformer-based Vision Models through Inversion

Understanding the internal mechanisms of deep neural networks remains a central challenge in machine learning. In computer vision, one promising yet only preliminarily explored approach is feature inversion via inverse networks, which reconstructs images from intermediate representations using trained inverse networks....

Jan Rathjens, Shirin Reyhanian, David Kappel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conditional Vendi Score: Prompt-Aware Diversity Evaluation for Generative AI Models and LLMs

Generative models guided by text prompts are widely evaluated for fidelity and prompt alignment, yet their ability to produce diverse outputs remains underexplored. Existing diversity metrics such as Vendi and RKE, which are based on the von Neumann and R\'enyi entropies of kernel matrices, were developed for unconditi...

Mohammad Jalali, Azim Ospanov, Amin Gohari 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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