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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

To Call or Not to Call: Diagnosing Intrinsic Over-Calling Bias in LLM Agents

LLM agents exhibit a consistent tendency to over-call, invoking tools even in situations where none is needed. On the When2Call benchmark, six models from three families show high call accuracy but much lower no-call accuracy, leaving overall accuracy in the 55%-70% range. We trace this to an Intrinsic Bias Hypothesis...

Wei Shi, Ziheng Peng, Sihang Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Stochastic Penalty-Barrier Method for Constrained Machine Learning

Constrained Machine Learning (CML) enables fairness-aware training, physics-informed neural networks, and integration of symbolic domain knowledge into statistical models. In this work, we introduce the Stochastic Penalty-Barrier Method (SPBM) for CML problems. SPBM extends classical penalty and barrier methods by inco...

Adam Bos\'ak, Andrii Kliachkin, Gilles Bareilles et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Behavioral Guarantees for Proxy-Based Unlearning

This paper proposes a framework generalizing recent proxy-based unlearning methods and proves theoretical guarantees about the behavior of the resulting unlearned model: upper bounds on its Kullback-Leibler divergence to the ideal posterior distribution of the retain data. We model approximate unlearning as a constrain...

Virgile Dine, Teddy Furon · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MSPR: Multi-scale Predictive Representations for Goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning

This paper investigates robust representation learning in offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL). Particularly in sparse reward scenarios, learning representations that align state and goal latents is a challenge, as the encoder can learn goal-agnostic features that destabilize policy learning. We addre...

Valliappan Chidambaram Adaikkappan, Sai Rajeswar, Pietro Mazzaglia et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Observable Neural ODEs for Identifiable Causal Forecasting in Continuous Time

Causal inference in continuous-time sequential decision problems is challenged by hidden confounding and partially observed states. We show that, under explicit structural assumptions, observability of the latent state enables identification of dynamic treatment effects through a continuous-time conditional front-door...

Jennifer Wendland, Nicolas Freitag, Maik Kschischo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can an MLP Absorb Its Own Skip Connection Exactly?

The benefits usually attributed to skip connections are optimization-theoretic: a smoother loss landscape and better gradient propagation. We ask a representational question instead: given a residual block x -> x + MLP(x), does a residual-free MLP of the same width compute the same function? The answer is no, unconditi...

Antonij Mijoski, Marko Karbevski · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sinkhorn doubly stochastic attention rank decay analysis

The self-attention mechanism is central to the success of Transformer architectures. However, standard row-stochastic attention has been shown to suffer from significant signal degradation across layers. In particular, it can induce rank collapse, resulting in increasingly uniform token representations, as well as entr...

Michela Lapenna, Rita Fioresi, Bahman Gharesifard · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Apr 2026

One-Shot Localisation of the Global Minimum of a Noisy One-Dimensional Function: An Iterative Neural Minimizer Compared with Set Transformers and Classical Estimators

The Neural Function Minimizer is introduced, an iterative model that walks a position across the domain and, at every step, reads the samples near that position and attends to all twenty of them, and is compared with two Set Transformers of the same size, one that answers with a single point and one that answers with a...

Qusay Muzaffar, D. Levin, Michael Werman · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission Leveraging Mixture-of-Experts Mechanism

Deep learning based semantic communication has achieved significant progress in wireless image transmission, but most existing schemes rely on fixed models and thus lack robustness to diverse image contents and dynamic channel conditions. To improve adaptability, recent studies have developed adaptive semantic communic...

Haowen Wan, Qianqian Yang · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Mar 2026

Quality-Controlled Active Learning via Gaussian Processes for Robust Structure-Property Learning in Autonomous Microscopy

This work introduces a gated active learning framework that combines curiosity driven sampling with a physics-informed quality control filter based on Simple Harmonic Oscillator model fits, allowing the system to automatically exclude low fidelity data during acquisition.

Jawad Chowdhury, G. Narasimha, Jan-Chi Yang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federated Mixture-of-Experts Alignment on Mobile Edge Networks under Data Heterogeneity

The growing demand for on-device large language model (LLM) services on mobile edge devices has driven the adoption of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, which scale model capacity with limited computation. Since fine-tuning MoE-based LLMs relies on privacy-sensitive local data, federated learning (FL) offers a na...

Zihan Fang, Qianru Wang, Haonan An et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dual-Modality Multi-Stage Adversarial Safety Training: Robustifying Multimodal Web Agents Against Cross-Modal Attacks

Multimodal web agents that process both screenshots and accessibility trees are increasingly deployed to interact with web interfaces, yet their dual-stream architecture opens an underexplored attack surface: an adversary who injects content into the webpage DOM simultaneously corrupts both observation channels with a...

Haoyu Liu, Dingcheng Li, Lukas Rutishauser 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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