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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Feature Policy Unlearning Mitigates State Hallucination in Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation by leveraging rich representations from pretrained vision-language models. However, their deployment in real-world environments remains limited by recurring unreliable behaviors. In this work, we study state hallucination, a re...

Jiho Lee, Jeongeun Park, Heayoun Choi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Correspondences as Decisions: JevNexus for Decision-Centric Schema Matching

Schema matching increasingly uses generative language models to rerank retrieved column candidates, although the underlying task is a bounded correspondence decision. We present JevNexus, which combines typed pairwise decisions with schema/instance evidence and invokes listwise refinement only when the evidence disagre...

Run-Ze Li, Han-Chen Wang, Ying Zhang et al. · 0 citations
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MORA: Modeling Observed Changes for Drift-Robust Time-Series Anomaly Detection

Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) identifies deviations from patterns learned from historical data. In non-stationary settings, distribution drift and true anomalies can cause similar local changes, making it difficult to tell whether a deviation reflects abnormality or evolving context. Existing methods typically a...

Xu-Dong Mou, Tie-Jun Wang, Rui Wang et al. · 0 citations
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DSReg: Provably Recovering Individual World Latents without Reconstruction

Methods that recover individual latent variables of the world, from nonlinear ICA to dictionary learning and causal representation learning, anchor the latents to observations through reconstruction, auxiliary supervision, or distributional asymmetries such as non-Gaussianity. Methods without these anchors, including j...

Yujia Zheng, David Klindt, Randall Balestriero et al. · 0 citations
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GeoPrior-Mamba: Structured Process Priors with Mamba for Fine-Resolution XCO2 Reconstruction

Reconstructing fine-resolution column-averaged dry-air CO2 (XCO2) fields from sparse satellite observations requires models to infer spatial structure that is only weakly constrained by direct measurements. Existing learning-based methods typically treat environmental covariates as ordinary numerical inputs and must th...

Zhao Meng, Yinan Cai, Siru Zhong et al. · 0 citations
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Shared Geometry As A Rosetta Stone: Cross-Modal Alignment Without Paired Data

Multimodal representations enable zero-shot classification and retrieval, but aligning independently trained models usually requires large amounts of paired data. Yet, the Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that models trained on different modalities may converge spontaneously toward a shared representation ge...

Dominik Schnaus, Thomas Dag\`es, Daniel Cremers et al. · 0 citations
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Multimodal LLMs Can Learn to Read Brain Signals: A Vision--Language Model for Unified Multi-Task EEG Decoding

Learning EEG representations that generalize across cognitive tasks, subjects, and recording conditions remains a key challenge in electroencephalography (EEG) decoding. Recent advances in foundation models have improved EEG decoding performance, yet a fundamental open question remains: how to effectively interface neu...

Parastoo Azizeddin, Omid Sharafi, M. Shanechi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

OnlineQAT: On-Policy Distillation for Ultra-Low-Bit Large Language Models

Quantization-aware training (QAT) can recover much of the accuracy lost when large language models are compressed below four bits. Existing re- covery stages, however, are commonly optimized on fixed completions or teacher-generated answers, whereas the deployed quantized model condi- tions on prefixes generated by its...

Wen-Jun Wang, He-Ping Li, Yang-Gan Gu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shared Low-rank Basis Factorization for Data-free Mixture-of-Experts Compression

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language models decouple capacity from compute through sparse routing, but their large parameter count creates storage and serving challenges. We analyze three MoE compression families: expert pruning, expert merging, and weight reconstruction, and derive structural error bounds showing t...

Tianxiao Cao, Jiahe Shao, Yuning Qiu et al. · 0 citations
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Visual Jev Rewards: Reference-Bound Verification for Multi-Subject Image Generation

Multi-subject image generation requires rewards that verify whether requested attributes, actions, and relations hold for the specified reference subjects. Subject presence alone does not establish that the correct subjects participate in a requested interaction. We present reference-bound Visual Jev rewards that turn...

Baoteng Li, Wenzhuo Wu, Kongming Liang et al. · 0 citations
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Denoising Blocks, Not Tokens: Efficient Compressed Continuous Diffusion with Branching Token Realization

Diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text through iterative parallel refinement, offering the potential for higher throughput than autoregressive (AR) decoding. However, most DLMs still maintain one generative state per token, so every denoising step processes a state sequence as long as the output sequence, limit...

Xinsong Feng, Peng Du, Zhizhuo Yang et al. · 0 citations
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Kuration SDK: Addressing the Virtual2Real Gap via Data Curation

Benchmarks for measuring the quality of action-conditioned world models are still evolving and shifting away from visual similarity-based metrics to action-semantic and physically-grounded metrics. However, for domain and task-agnostic action-conditioned world model training, existing benchmarks provide a limited signa...

Nirmit Desai, Eric Song, Mayank Sengupta 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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