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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Metagame of Interpretability and Meta-Attributions

How can an arbitrary attribution method be generalized from first principles to capture interactions? We answer this with the metagame, a conceptual framework for quantifying second-order interaction effects of model explanations. We cast the attribution value $\phi_i$ of feature $i$ as a cooperative game among the oth...

Hubert Baniecki, Przemyslaw Biecek, Fabian Fumagalli · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RamanBench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Machine Learning on Raman Spectroscopy

Machine Learning (ML) has transformed many scientific fields, yet key applications still lack standardized benchmarks. Raman spectroscopy, a widely used technique for non-invasive molecular analysis, is one such field where progress is limited by fragmented datasets, inconsistent evaluation, and models that fail to cap...

Mario Koddenbrock, Christoph Lange, Robin Legner et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Packets to Patterns: Interpreting Encrypted Network Traffic as Longitudinal Behavioral Signals

Human behavior is difficult to observe continuously at scale, yet it leaves measurable traces in everyday device use. We test whether encrypted smartphone network traffic---a ubiquitous, always-on, passive sensing modality---can passively capture behavioral patterns related to sleep, stress, and loneliness. We model sh...

Rameen Mahmood, Omar El Shahawy, Souptik Barua et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Clinical Point Cloud Paradigm for In-Hospital Mortality Prediction from Multi-Level Incomplete Multimodal EHRs

Deep learning-based modeling of multimodal Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has become an important approach for clinical diagnosis and risk prediction. However, due to diverse clinical workflows and privacy constraints, raw EHRs are inherently multi-level incomplete, including irregular sampling, missing modalities, a...

Bohao Li, Tao Zou, Junchen Ye et al. · 0 citations
#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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

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

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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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