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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Collaborative Reasoning Distillation via Cross-Feedback and Coherent Curation

Reasoning capabilities are critical for advancing Large Language Models, yet current approaches either require massive computational budgets or struggle to effectively distill reasoning to smaller models. Standard distillation methods rely on outcome-based rewards, failing to distinguish between sound reasoning and luc...

Tae-hong Kim, Seunggeun Cho, Dong-Su Han · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Align Before You Combine: Reference Space Calibration for Supervision Without Ground Truth

We introduce a calibration-first framework that produces supervision scores without access to ground-truth labels or a shared annotation space. Our framework aligns subset-specific scorers using a synthetic ordinal reference space before fusion. This reference space is constructed from ordered calibration features that...

Jackson Eshbaugh, Jorge Silveyra · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Safe on Average, Unsafe in the Tail: When Is the Episodic-Cost Tail Controllable?

Safe reinforcement learning seeks policies that maximize return while satisfying constraints on cumulative cost. Most methods impose these constraints on expected episodic cost. Consequently, standard evaluations report mean episodic cost without characterizing how cost is distributed across episodes. A policy that sat...

Samuel Tetteh, Cody Fleming · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SpatialUQ: Post-Hoc Uncertainty Quantification from Spatial Consistency in Black-Box Vision Models

Clinical vision models are often deployed as frozen black boxes with no access to internals, retraining, or ground truth at inference time. We introduce \textbf{SpatialUQ}, a post-hoc uncertainty method using only output probabilities. It measures the Jensen-Shannon divergence between the global prediction and the mean...

Md Kawsher Mahbub, Milon Biswas, Mirza Niaz Morshed et al. · 0 citations
#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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

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
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

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

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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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