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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking the Tradeoff Between Temporal Encoding and Nonlinear Computation in Spiking Language Models

Spiking language models face a tradeoff between representing continuous semantic features over short temporal windows and retaining costly nonlinear attention operations. We introduce Spora, which jointly designs spike encodings and attention operators. Binary temporal weights let $T$ spikes represent compositional val...

Hanfei Liu, Shuchang Feng, Yanxia Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RFChipAgent: Multi-Agentic AI Flow for Analog/RF Chip Design

Analog/RF circuits remain the critical interface between digital computation and the physical world, and emerging standards from Wi-Fi 7 to 6G place stringent demands on them, yet analog/RF design remains one of the most labor-intensive steps in chip development. We present RFChipAgent, a first-of-its-kind multi-agent...

Awani Khodkumbhe, Yunfei Feng, Raj Rangarajan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Real Long-Term Memory for AI: A 50-Million-Token Window That Is Faster and Cheaper Than Recompute

A large language model can only use the text that fits in its context window, and it recomputes its internal key-value (KV) state for a prompt every time the prompt is sent. We test a memory layer, the public package galahad-kv, that saves the KV state of each block of about 16,000 tokens to encrypted local NVMe disk a...

Sietse Schelpe · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime

Language models trained with long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning can generalize knowledge through reasoning, express precise actions, and pursue goals over many steps, raising the ceiling on what an embodied agent can understand and decide. Physical interaction, however, remains the domain of action policies, w...

Gengze Zhou, Yicong Hong, Jiazhao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MemoWM: How World Models Change What Agents Need to Remember

Long-term agents face growing storage demands as they accumulate experience. World models capture reusable regularities that can reduce the information stored for each experience. We formulate the problem of memory allocation conditioned on a world model and introduce MemoWM, a framework that uses shared predictions to...

Bingfan Zeng, Zhisheng Chen, Chenbo Sang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Clarify, Then Focus: Statement Normalization for Conversation Analytics at Scale

Enterprise conversation analytics asks many questions of millions of interactions. Each question can require reconstructing what people mean and identifying which information matters, repeating costly interpretive work across the same transcripts. We propose a simple principle: clarify the text, then focus the reader....

Mikhail L. Arbuzov (Independent researcher), Karan Dave (Independent researcher), Evgeniya Dontsova (Independent researcher) et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conversational Task Disambiguation over Tabular Data: Leakage-Aware Formulation, Benchmark Suite, and Training

Conversational task disambiguation over tabular data uses dialogue to resolve missing information about a user's intended task before producing a solution over tables or databases. Existing evaluation and training lack a leakage-aware foundation. Task success mixes the agent's disambiguation and solution-generation cap...

Nafiseh Ghoroghchian, Luis Scoccola, Tina Sedaghat et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors

In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for only a limited range of traits, including preferences for animals (e.g., owls) and malicious personas. These traits can also be elicited wit...

Jan Dubi\'nski, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jan Betley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Nullify: Null-Space Activation Steering for Training-Free LLM Unlearning

Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably internalize substantial amounts of sensitive or private information during pre-training, while LLM unlearning aims to selectively erase specific knowledge to prevent privacy leakage with minimal loss of model utility. However, existing methods struggle to balance forget quality w...

Wei Zhai, Xiang Liu, Qiang Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond the Ergodic Wall: A Discrete Geometric Physics Sandbox for Analysing AI Scaling Limits and Complexity Collapse

This paper exposes the ergodic ceiling and thermodynamic inefficiency of current deep learning, which converges to a statistical average of historic human knowledge. True semantic novelty requires a path-dependent, spatiotemporally bounded observer (a Data LifeCone) to inject non-ergodic insight, achieving KL divergenc...

Simon Richard Daniel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Log-Odds to Shapley Values: An Explanatory Geometry for the Weighted Naive Bayes Classifier

This paper studies the construction of an explanatory space for a weighted naive Bayes classifier from the supervised representation induced by the model. We start from the classical supervised distance based on conditional log-likelihoods and introduce a discriminative reformulation based on log-odds, which is more di...

Vincent Lemaire, Fabrice Cl\'erot · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Coverage-Aware Reasoning with Medical Tokens for Diagnosis Prediction

Large language models (LLMs) offer promising potential for next-visit diagnosis prediction, owing to their ability to integrate longitudinal clinical evidence and reason over it in natural language. However, reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning commonly rewards each trajectory according to the correctness of its fi...

Kaisong Zhang, Haotian Fang, Junmeng Zhou et al. · 0 citations

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Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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