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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MRCert: Towards Post-deployment Patch Robustness Certification for Adversarially Patched Samples via Type-specific Masking

In post-deployment time, inputs to deep learning models may or may not be adversarially patched. Patch robustness certification on such inputs within a patch bound can verify their label benignity and should retain high prediction accuracy. However, existing smoothing-based and masking-based recovery defenders cannot a...

Qilin Zhou, Zhengyuan Wei, Haipeng Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science

AI foundation models pretrained on weather and climate data are increasingly fine-tuned to Earth science tasks well beyond weather forecasting. Their development and adoption are outpacing the scientific community's ability to evaluate them. These models are judged almost entirely by benchmark skill metrics, which meas...

Makoto M. Kelp, Amirhossein Arzani, P. Castellanos et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Freeze the Decoder, Heal the Encoder: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for SVD-Based KV-Cache Compression

Comparing parameter-efficient fine-tuning recipes under a single, shared learning rate is a common but flawed practice: when the arms being compared have very different trainable-parameter counts, a shared rate can simultaneously depress the larger arms'means and inflate their variance, manufacturing a large, seemingly...

Yu-Feng Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning

In self-supervised contrastive learning, negative pairs are typically constructed using an anchor image and a sample drawn from the entire dataset, excluding the anchor. However, this approach can result in the creation of negative pairs with similar semantics, referred to as "false negatives", leading to their embeddi...

Vicente Balmaseda, Bokun Wang, Ching-Long Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

HRIL: Learning Multimodal Synergy via Higher-Order Tensor Modeling

Higher-order Representation and Information Learning (HRIL), which constructs an empirical cross-moment tensor over modality embeddings to represent multi-way interactions and employs Tucker decomposition to obtain a core tensor, complemented by a synergy-aware regularizer that prevents energy concentration and preserv...

Qun Dai, Liang-Jian Wen, Jiang Duan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

OnTrack: Real-Time Monitoring and Intervention in LLM Agent Trajectories via Streaming Structure-Aware Optimal Transport

Agents are deployed in applications from trip planners and stock trading to IT incident triage. In most cases, LLM agents work autonomously with minimal rule-based safeguarding, leading to cost and safety issues from irreversible actions. Recent works resolve this either by using a safeguard agent to monitor behavior o...

Babak Barazandeh, C. Swanson, Chinmay Kulkarni et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Overcoming Prior Barriers: Supervised Fine-Tuning under Long-Tail Distribution

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) adapts pretrained large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, but the required concepts can receive substantially different levels of pretrained support. Frequent concepts are more likely to be well learned, whereas rare concepts may remain weakly represented. We introduce a novel not...

Haohui Wang, Jiahao Xu, Wangzhi Zhan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Prior or Feedback? What an LLM Uses When Adapting Neural Operators

Do LLM scientific agents rely only on their initial task context, or do they adapt their decisions in response to experimental feedback? We study this question in neural operator adaptation, where a large language model (LLM) selects fine-tuning configurations under a limited trial budget. Across transfers within and b...

Julian Chan, Javier Mora Jimenez · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning to Plan by Looking Back: Hindsight Hierarchies for Training Reasoning Models

We introduce a self-improvement loop for reasoning models based on the following observation: Even when the difficulty of a problem exceeds the model's current solving abilities, an additionally supplied solution might enable the model to extract useful solution ideas in hindsight. We operationalize this by jointly tra...

Lars Simon, Holger Eble, Manuel Radons · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks

Learning to act in unfamiliar environments requires agents to infer how the world works and revise that understanding as new evidence arrives. Yet limited observations can support multiple world models that explain past interactions but predict different outcomes in unseen states. We introduce Memento 3, building on th...

Hao-Yu Zhao, Zhengxu Yu, Zhi-Yuan He et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RouterInterp: Understanding Superposed Specialisation in Mixture of Experts Routing

Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) models scale more efficiently than dense models by routing tokens to modular expert networks that are only active for processing a fraction of tokens. A leading hypothesis for the performance of MoE models is that each expert specialises in a single, coherent domain. However, interpretab...

Ilya Lasy, Nora Yinuo Cai, Kola Ayonrinde · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Internalizer: Portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping for Very Large Language Models

Hypernetworks that map a context directly to a LoRA adapter let a large language model carry that context in its weights, but prior work has demonstrated them only on base models of up to 14 billion parameters. We present the Internalizer, a state-of-the-art, portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping hypernetwork that gene...

Peter Devine, Nick Ryan, Benjamin Sirb et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

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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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