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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Towards the Automatic Synthesis of Interpretable Chess Tactics

State-of-the-art reinforcement learning agents are capable of outperforming human experts at games like chess, Go and StarCraft II. These agents do not simply take advantage of their digital hardware in being able to react and calculate faster than humans, but employ better strategies that lead to more victories. Inter...

Abhijeet Krishnan, C. Martens · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Explainable Representations of Complex Game-playing Strategies

As part of learning to play complex games, human players develop develop abstractions for concepts and strategies of gameplay consistent with game rules to improve their performance. These concepts are applied to explain other players' actions, and to inform their own actions in-game. Understanding other players' strat...

Abhijeet Krishnan, Colin M. Potts, Arnav Jhala et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Asymptotic Analysis of Empirical Risk Minimization on Entry-wise i.i.d. Heavy-Tailed Data

Many real-world datasets exhibit unusually large values far more frequently than predicted by Gaussian models. Heavy-tailed distributions capture this behavior, yet evaluating learning performance under them remains challenging because rare, large feature entries retain non-vanishing effects even in high dimensions. Ev...

Kaito Takanami, Takashi Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Kabashima · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explicit Asymptotic Bounds for Sequential Calibration Beyond $T^{2/3}$

Probability forecasts are calibrated when predicted probabilities match empirical outcome frequencies: among events assigned a probability $p$, we'd hope that the fraction of positive outcomes is close to $p$. We study the problem of sequential forecasting of binary outcomes. The classical $O(T^{2/3})$ bound on expecte...

Eric Dai, Maxwell Fishelson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Explore, Then Commit: Measurement-Efficient Scientific Law Discovery with Language Models

An explore-then-commit protocol in which a large language model proposes hypotheses, a programmatic planner gathers measurements, and a fresh prompt synthesizes the final law from fixed observations is evaluated, supporting the complete protocol as a promising measurement-efficient configuration.

Kautik Mandve, Dileepa Fernando · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Grasp Targeting from Point Clouds for Log Pile Clearing on a Hydraulic Crane

In mill yards, log loaders clear dense piles by a sequence of bundle grasps: hundreds of logs rest in contact, and each removal changes the pile available to the next grasp. A learned policy chooses where to place and orient the grapple from unsegmented point clouds and runs on a trailer-mounted hydraulic forestry cran...

George Sideris, Lucas Bessai, Heshan Fernando et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Linear Fitness Subspace in Protein Language Models Enables Sample-Efficient Directed Evolution

Model-guided directed evolution seeks to identify high-fitness protein variants under limited oracle budgets. Protein language models (PLMs) provide rich representations for this task, but task-agnostic zero-shot scores can be misaligned with a target assay, while supervised search in high-dimensional embedding spaces...

Si-Yuan Ma, Can-Ran Xiao, Zi-Kai Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Modeling Latent Disturbances for Robust Decision-Making in World Models

In this paper, we study robust decision-making in the latent space of world models (WMs). Robust optimization is a mathematical framework where, given explicitly specified dynamics and physically meaningful disturbances, a robot can select actions that remain effective even under worst-case disturbances. However, apply...

Junwon Seo, Andrea Bajcsy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Robot Is Not Its Description: GaugeBench for Representation Robustness in Morphology-Aware Policies

A robot description does more than specify a physical mechanism: it also encodes arbitrary conventions, such as joint-axis direction, joint-angle zero, and the order and names of links and joints. Morphology-aware policies consume interfaces built from these descriptions, yet cross-embodiment evaluation typically chang...

Rahath Malladi, Arshia Sangwan, Rajesh K. Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BiGym 2.0: Benchmarking Learned and Agent-Developed Policies for Humanoid Household Manipulation

Humanoid household manipulation requires the arms to act while the body balances, steps and changes posture. We present BiGym 2.0, an adaptation of BiGym for the Unitree G1 across 20 household tasks using a unified whole-body controller for demonstration and evaluation. The suite provides 60 native human virtual-realit...

Zexi Zhang, Zecheng Zhu, Zidong Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Recurrent Looped Transformer

State tracking requires an update at every input, but the depth a Transformer applies to each token is fixed regardless of sequence length. We introduce the Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT), which splits its layers between a parallel causal encoder and a recurrent decoder. At each token, the decoder merges the encode...

Yi-Fan Zhang, Ji-Chen Feng, Shi-Han Qin · 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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