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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating Trajectory Features for Routing Final-Layer Attention

Attention routing requires a signal that predicts the value of attention on the current prefix. We evaluate whether hidden-state extrapolation error, curvature and error change improve this prediction beyond uncertainty, one-step displacement, position and state projections. Paired executions of the final attention lay...

Yuan Yao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Best-of-N policy evaluation for inference-time alignment

Best-of-N (BoN) is a common inference-time alignment method that selects the highest-scoring response among N samples from a reference model. Evaluating BoN policies from logged data is challenging under sample-only access because standard off-policy estimators require density ratios that depend on unavailable response...

Jonas Schweisthal, Yuxin Wang, Athiya Deviyani et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

An Informational Curse of Horizon in Goal-Conditioned Policy Learning

This work identifies an additional informational curse of horizon in goal-conditioned policy learning, where increasing the goal relabeling horizon can significantly reduce policy generalization and performance, and finds that distilling the input Jacobians of short-horizon policies into long-horizon policies yields si...

John L. Zhou, Yuxuan Dong, Jonathan C. Kao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Conditional Accuracy Profiles: Diagnosing LLM Judges across Deployment Conditions

LLM-as-judge is now a standard tool for scalable evaluation, but judge performance is still often summarized by a single accuracy number. This aggregate view hides the deployment conditions under which a judge succeeds or fails. We introduce \textbf{Conditional Accuracy Profiling} (CAP), a post-hoc diagnostic framework...

Wen-Qi Li, Bin Liu, Min-Di Ruan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Consistent Distribution Matching for Data-Free Diffusion Distillation

Flow and diffusion models suffer from slow inference due to computationally expensive numerical integration. Distillation provides a promising way for a student model to learn from a teacher's dynamics, enabling one-step or few-step generation. However, existing methods often depend on curated distillation datasets, co...

Yu-Xiang Fu, Qi Yan, Zike Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

CurveTQ: Rotation-Free Trellis Quantization of LLM Weights via Curvature-Weighted Search

The best two-bit weight quantizers for large language models, such as QTIP and Proteus, rotate each weight matrix by a random orthogonal transform, which must be undone at every decoding step, then encode it with a trellis or lattice code under a Euclidean search; the layer Hessian enters only through error feedback be...

Guan-Hua Ding, Zi Wang, Rui-Chao Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Patient, Place, Prior (P$^3$): What Counts as Personalization in Medical World Models?

An audit asking whether a forecast benefits from the patient's longitudinal imaging history, benefits from patient-matched externally supplied spatial support (Place), and gains predictive value beyond a population-average prediction under matched support and context (Prior) is introduced.

Xing-Rui Gu, Han Gu, Yu-Xiang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LayerRoPE: Dynamic Depth-wise Magnitude & Angular Superposition

As data propagates through a Transformer, the norm of its hidden states grows by orders of magnitude with depth, a phenomenon framed as 'curse of depth' and nearly universally treated as a pathology to be suppressed. We take the opposite view. Across 16 pre-trained LLMs from 9 families, spanning dense, mixture-of-exper...

Shikhar Srivastava, Christopher Kanan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lower Bounds for Parallel Diffusion Sampling

Standard diffusion samplers generate samples through repeated evaluations of a learned score function. Parallel sampling methods seek to accelerate generation by trading additional evaluations for fewer sequential rounds. This raises the question of how much sequential dependence is unavoidable, even when many score qu...

Yiwen Kou, Yimeng Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Spatial Induction Heads: In-Context Learning of Multidimensional Cellular Automata

Induction heads provide a mechanistic account of in-context learning in sequential data, but existing theory largely assumes that the context relevant to a prediction forms a contiguous block. In multidimensional data, serialization breaks this assumption by scattering spatial neighbors across distant positions in the...

Kimia Kazemian, Menghan Xu, John Thickstun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Convex-Concave Reinforcement Learning

The per-iteration program is solved with sequential convex programming (SCP), the standard solver for difference-of-convex problems, and convergence guarantees under mild conditions are given, bridging the difference-of-convex optimization and RL literatures.

Shripad Deshmukh, Yaswanth Chittepu, Dhawal Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MaRK: Markov-adapted Recurrent Kernels for Dynamic Operator Conditioning in State Space Models

State Space Models (SSMs) offer an efficient alternative to Transformers for sequence modeling, yet conditioning pre-trained SSMs for iterative generation typically operates outside the recurrent operator, through input injection or activation modulation. While such mechanisms expose the model to conditioning informati...

Syed Ibrahim Omer, Ginny Y. Wong. Xiangyu Zhao · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

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.

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