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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Toward Alignment Scaling Laws: A Framework and First Preregistered Measurements

Whether alignment gets easier or harder as models grow is often argued from isolated findings, as if alignment were one property. We treat it as a family of measurable scaling relations: for each risk category r, the alignment burden needed to hold a fixed safety target is modeled as B_r(N)=a_rN^alpha_r, with N a capab...

Jeremy Canale · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Perturbation Magnitude: Direction-Dependent Responses in Multimodal Geometric Representations

Geometric alignment scores based on Gram determinants provide a compact way to model higher-order consistency among modalities, yet how such scores respond to modality degradation is poorly understood. This paper asks whether the response of a multimodal geometric score is determined primarily by the magnitude of the p...

Yongsheng Luo, Wengan He, Yu Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

X-OPM: Explainable Automatic Digital On-Chip Power Modeling for Enhanced Robustness

Proactive power management systems reduce processor dynamic power through runtime power prediction and power-aware scheduling. Accurate, stable and low-overhead digital on-chip power meters (OPMs) are crucial for improving the prediction quality. Recent studies have explored various modeling methods, including using li...

Jing-Bo Jiang, Xi-Zi Chen, Jian Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Information-Dense Synthesis for Molecular Discovery

Machine learning can accelerate molecular discovery by designing molecules and planning experiments. However, many scientific challenges demand molecules with very rare properties, and in this sparse setting, existing algorithms offer little gain over random guessing. We propose a method to efficiently search large reg...

Kasper K. Jakobsen, Eli N. Weinstein · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UNREAL: Unifying Retrieval and Long-Context with a Single Model

Long-context inference and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) handle evidence selection at vastly different scales, from a single long prompt to an entire corpus. We ask whether a single model-internal mechanism can select evidence across this range. We introduce UNifying REtrieval And Long-Context with a Single Mode...

Edan Kinderman, Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agentic AutoRAG: RAG Pipeline Optimization through Reasoning-Driven Agents

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a widely used approach for grounding large language models (LLMs) in external knowledge. However, configuring a pipeline is an expensive hyperparameter optimization problem over many interacting choices, from chunking and embedding model to reranking and generation. Existing opti...

Lasse B. Strand, Robert Jakob, Kevin O'Sullivan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Knowing When Not to Answer: Cross-Domain and Multi-Turn Generalization of Latent Underspecification Signals

Large language models routinely answer questions that cannot be answered from the information given, and in dialogue they answer before enough has been said. Unanswerability is linearly decodable from hidden states, but it is unclear which of its forms share a representation and whether the signal is useful in dialogue...

Jerzy Kami\'nski, Ilya Galyukshev, Artem Kuznetsov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

High-Dimensional Statistical Inference for Sparse Support Vector Machines

Using a replica-symmetric high-dimensional characterization, we develop an inferential framework for sparse support vector machines when the sample size and number of features grow proportionally. The main challenge is the nonsmooth hinge loss, which prevents direct application of debiasing arguments developed for smoo...

Peng Zeng, Hanwen Huang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

DIPrune: Task-Aware Token Pruning with Dual Importance for Efficient Multimodal Language Models

Recent training-free pruning approaches for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) effectively cut computational overhead by exploiting visual redundancy or text-vision attention. However, they frequently suffer from semantic degradation due to their task-agnostic design or unreliable attention estimates. Based on ou...

Shuo Yang, Chang-Bai Li, Lin-Lin Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Machine Learning for German Redispatch Forecasting under Data Delays and Temporal Distribution Shift

Public redispatch records provide empirical data for grid congestion forecasting, but delayed reporting, zero-inflated distributions, and temporal shift present major modeling challenges. We assess the accuracy and reliability of probabilistic machine-learning forecasts using published German transmission records under...

Faraz Shamim (KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Nepal), Faris Shamim (OTH Regensburg) · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Standardization Trap: Certifying Joint Label Processing in Tabular Foundation Models

Linear regression and kernel smoothing offer tractable explanations of in-context learning: in both, the features determine the weight assigned to each context label. However, whether this fixed-weight account describes pretrained tabular foundation models (TFMs) remains unclear. Testing this account using derivatives...

Duong Nguyen, N. Chesneau, Milan Bhan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CoDe-LoRA: Mitigating the Orthogonality Dilemma in Continual Learning of LLMs via Knowledge Consolidation and Decoupling

Continual learning (CL) is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to sequentially adapt to evolving tasks. To mitigate catastrophic forgetting, recent advances implement low-rank adaptation with orthogonal projections (e.g., O-LoRA) to isolate task parameters. However, we reveal that such strict geometric constrain...

Maoqi Liu, Quan Fang, Yufei He · 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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