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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Bi-CamoDiffusion: A Boundary-informed Diffusion Approach for Camouflaged Object Detection

Bi-CamoDiffusion is introduced, an evolution of the CamoDiffusion framework for camouflaged object detection. It integrates edge priors into early-stage embeddings via a parameter-free injection process, enhancing boundary sharpness and preventing structural ambiguity. An optimization objective that unifies spatial acc...

Patricia L. Suarez, Leo Thomas Ramos, Angel D. Sappa · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BONSAI: Bayesian Optimization with Natural Simplicity and Interpretability

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular technique for sample-efficient optimization of black-box functions. In many applications, the parameters being tuned come with a carefully engineered default configuration, and practitioners only want to deviate from this default when necessary. Standard BO, however, does not aim...

Samuel Daulton, David Eriksson, Maximilian Balandat et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Attention-Mass Condensation for Sparse Decoding

Attention-mass concentration creates an opportunity for sparse decoding, but retained mass alone does not guarantee a stable greedy decision: retrieval error, omitted value directions, and recursive decoding all matter. We formalize this distinction with an exact omitted-mass identity and a sufficient downstream margin...

Jorge L. Ruiz Williams · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multiparameter Uncertainty Mapping in Quantitative Molecular MRI using a Physics-Structured Variational Autoencoder (PS-VAE)

Quantitative imaging methods, such as magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF), aim to extract interpretable pathology biomarkers by estimating biophysical tissue parameters from signal evolutions. However, the pattern-matching algorithms or neural networks used in such inverse problems often lack principled uncertainty...

Alex Finkelstein, Ron Moneta, Or Zohar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continuous-Utility Direct Preference Optimization

Large language model reasoning is often treated as a monolithic capability, relying on binary preference supervision that fails to capture partial progress or fine-grained reasoning quality. We introduce continuous utility direct preference optimization (CU-DPO), a framework that aligns models to a portfolio of prompt-...

Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Emily Fox · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Order-Optimal Sample Complexity of Rectified Flows

Recently, flow-based generative models have shown superior efficiency compared to diffusion models. In this paper, we study rectified flow models, which constrain transport trajectories to be linear from the base distribution to the data distribution. This structural restriction greatly accelerates sampling, often enab...

Hari Krishna Sahoo, Mudit Gaur, Vaneet Aggarwal · 0 citations
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Scaling Legal AI: Benchmarking Mamba and Transformers for Statutory Classification and Case Law Retrieval

Statutory corpora and judicial decisions are growing faster than legal professionals can read them, while individual judgments often exceed the context limits of standard encoder models. Transformer architectures dominate legal NLP benchmarks, but their quadratic attention complexity can require truncating or fragmenti...

Anuraj Maurya · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

APE: Selective Fine-tuning with Acceptance Criteria for Language Model Adaptation

We present Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine-tuning method for adapting large language models that systematically explores parameter modifications while maintaining model stability. Inspired by evolutionary optimization principles, APE evaluates multiple candidate parameter updates through fine-tuni...

Javier Mar\'in · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning in the Recurrent State: Gradient Descent with Linear Recurrent Networks

In-context learning lets a sequence model adapt to a new task from examples in its input. A prominent line of work shows how self-attention can be constructed to implement gradient descent on a linear predictor fit to the in-context examples during the forward pass. State-space models (SSMs) and other linear recurrent...

Yudou Tian, Neeraj Mohan Sushma, Harshvardhan Mestha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Speech Emotion Recognition Using CNN and Its Use Case in Digital Healthcare

The process of identifying human emotion and affective states from speech is known as speech emotion recognition (SER). This is based on the observation that tone and pitch in the voice frequently convey underlying emotion. Speech recognition includes the ability to recognize emotions, which is becoming increasingly po...

Nishargo Nigar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Insights Generator: Systematic Corpus-Level Trace Diagnostics for LLM Agents

Diagnosing failures in LLM agents remains largely manual. Practitioners inspect a small subset of execution traces, form ad-hoc hypotheses, and iterate. This process misses patterns that only emerge across trace populations and does not scale to production corpora where individual traces span tens of thousands of token...

Akshay Manglik, Vijay S. Kalmath, Jason Qin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prototype-Based Knowledge Guidance for Fine-Grained Structured Radiology Reporting

Structured radiology reporting promises faster, more consistent communication than free text, but automation remains difficult as models must make many fine-grained, discrete decisions about rare findings and attributes from limited structured supervision. In contrast, free-text reports are produced at scale in routine...

Chantal Pellegrini, Adrian Delchev, Ege \"Ozsoy et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 7, 2026

Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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