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#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

An Empirical Study of Agent Skills'Downstream Utility

Agent Skills package procedural guidance and resources for reuse, but a relevant Skill does not necessarily improve task performance. Existing studies characterize Skill content and evaluate downstream performance, yet provide limited explanations of how utility depends on content, execution configuration, and multi-Sk...

Yu Cheng, De-Hai Zhao, Zhong-Xin Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Route-Verify-Vote: Procedure-Conditioned Self-Consistency for Mixed-Domain Reasoning

This work introduces Route-Verify-Vote (RVV), a framework for procedure-conditioned self-consistency that uses language models without parameter updates that supports domain-specific reasoning procedures and answer-set disagreement as useful tools for allocating inference-time computation in mixed-domain reasoning.

Xin-Chen Xiao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Accelerating Floating-Point Satisfiability Solving via Gradient Normalization

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are foundational to software verification, program analysis, and compiler testing, particularly over the theory of Quantifier-Free Floating-Point (QF_FP). While recent optimization-based SMT solvers have successfully applied gradient descent to continuous relaxations of logi...

Yuan-Zhuo Zhang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do AI weather models miss extremes?

AI weather models are often reported to underestimate extremes, but most evidence concerns deterministic regression models verified against reanalysis. We evaluate twelve physical and AI forecast models against ECMWF IFS using ten months of European station observations. The evaluation covers 10 m wind, 2 m temperature...

Marvin Vincent Gabler, Roberto Molinaro, Niall Siegenheim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Post-Grokking Collapse at the Representation-Readout Interface in Muon-Trained Transformers

Muon-trained modular-arithmetic transformers can lose accuracy while retaining linearly decodable task information. Adjacent swaps localize five captured unnormalized failures to AdamW readout updates. Multiplying the actual readout displacement by the large feature mean produces a class-dependent logit offset shared a...

Ali Janati, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Anass Belfatmi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Token-Level Off-Policy Learning for Faithful Generation Under Distribution Shift

We propose Token-Level Off-Policy Labeling (TOPL), an off-policy training paradigm that reframes post-training as a token-level correctness prediction task. Our key intuition is that by training the model to distinguish good and bad tokens in a response, we naturally guide the model towards generating good tokens, whil...

Zitong Huang, Gustavo Lucas Carvalho, Deqing Fu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SAE++: Cascaded Sparse Autoencoders Learn Multi-Level Visual Concepts in Multimodal LLMs

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language tasks, yet their internal visual representations remain difficult to interpret. Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) provide a scalable way to decompose dense model activations into sparse, interpretable features. However, existing S...

Yusong Zhao, Hengyi Wang, Tanuja Ganu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enhancing Spectral Embedding through Robust and Flexible Knowledge Transfer in Electronic Health Records

We propose a spectral-based, unsupervised representation learning framework to derive low-dimensional embeddings for clinical concepts and patients in rare disease cohorts from electronic health records, where data are high-dimensional but sample sizes are limited. To overcome this challenge, we incorporate a knowledge...

Feiqing Huang, Zongqi Xia, Rong Ma et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces

Reasoning-trained language models can perform, zero-shot, multi-label tasks that require selecting a small set of relevant labels from a universe of thousands to hundreds of thousands of candidates. We ask how they do it mechanistically, and whether the mechanism can be distilled. We make the question measurable by tre...

Debjyoti Saha Roy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FHRFormer: A Self-Supervised Masked Transformer Framework for Fetal Heart Rate Time-Series Inpainting and Forecasting

Approximately 10% of newborns require assistance to initiate breathing at birth, and around 5% need ventilation support. Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring plays a crucial role in assessing fetal well-being during prenatal care, enabling the detection of abnormal patterns and supporting timely obstetric interventions to...

Kjersti Engan, Neel Kanwal, Anita Yeconia et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Neural Scaling Laws for Jet Generation

Recently observed empirical scaling laws describe the performance of foundation-type models as three independent key quantities -- dataset size, compute, and model parameters -- are modified. Extracting these scaling laws informs the training of large complex models for which the tuning of hyperparameters in traditiona...

Oz Amram, Darius A. Faroughy, Tjarko Gerdes et al. · 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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