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Patient, Place, Prior (P$^3$): What Counts as Personalization in Medical World Models?

Longitudinal models forecast how a patient's imaging state evolves, but accuracy does not show whether the patient's observed trajectory drives the prediction. A population-average forecast may be useful but cannot establish a patient-specific world-model claim. We introduce Patient, Place, Prior (P$^3$), an audit aski...

Xingrui Gu, Hanxue Gu, Yuxiang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LayerRoPE: Dynamic Depth-wise Magnitude & Angular Superposition

As data propagates through a Transformer, the norm of its hidden states grows by orders of magnitude with depth, a phenomenon framed as 'curse of depth' and nearly universally treated as a pathology to be suppressed. We take the opposite view. Across 16 pre-trained LLMs from 9 families, spanning dense, mixture-of-exper...

Shikhar Srivastava, Christopher Kanan · 0 citations
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Lower Bounds for Parallel Diffusion Sampling

Standard diffusion samplers generate samples through repeated evaluations of a learned score function. Parallel sampling methods seek to accelerate generation by trading additional evaluations for fewer sequential rounds. This raises the question of how much sequential dependence is unavoidable, even when many score qu...

Yiwen Kou, Yimeng Wang · 0 citations
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Spatial Induction Heads: In-Context Learning of Multidimensional Cellular Automata

Induction heads provide a mechanistic account of in-context learning in sequential data, but existing theory largely assumes that the context relevant to a prediction forms a contiguous block. In multidimensional data, serialization breaks this assumption by scattering spatial neighbors across distant positions in the...

Kimia Kazemian, Menghan Xu, John Thickstun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Convex-Concave Reinforcement Learning

Policy learning drives many of the most consequential and heavily-invested applications of reinforcement learning today. Yet the core optimization problem it rests on (maximizing expected return) is notoriously non-convex, even under a direct policy parameterization, and the field has largely responded by avoiding it:...

Shripad Deshmukh, Yaswanth Chittepu, Dhawal Gupta et al. · 0 citations
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MaRK: Markov-adapted Recurrent Kernels for Dynamic Operator Conditioning in State Space Models

State Space Models (SSMs) offer an efficient alternative to Transformers for sequence modeling, yet conditioning pre-trained SSMs for iterative generation typically operates outside the recurrent operator, through input injection or activation modulation. While such mechanisms expose the model to conditioning informati...

Syed Ibrahim Omer, Ginny Y. Wong. Xiangyu Zhao · 0 citations
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U-Space: Uncovering When and Why Uncertainty Arises in Language Models

Large language models are informing decisions with ever-higher stakes. As the consequences of their errors grow, a central question becomes harder to ignore: how much can we trust an individual answer? Yet recognizing when to defer remains difficult because language models can present incorrect conclusions with fluent...

Tobias Braun, Nils Loose, Alexander Herzog et al. · 0 citations
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Talking with Language Models

When we interact with large language models (LLMs), are we having a conversation? They are designed to invite us to treat them as intelligent interlocutors who remember, act, and make commitments. But appearances deceive. We introduce the artifactual stance, a framework that reconceives human-AI interaction as artifact...

James Ravi Kirkpatrick, Alexandru Radulescu, Rachel Katharine Sterken · 0 citations
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Careful Judge: Safe and Efficient Human-AI Collaborative Decision Making

In human-AI collaborative decision making, human review can prevent unsafe AI decisions, but each human judgment is costly. Treating human intervention after AI abstention as a one-off fallback misses the opportunity to improve future AI decisions for greater automation, yet AI adaptively learning from selectively quer...

Chenyu Zhang, Rachel Luo, Boyi Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Quad-State Safety Evaluation of Open-Weight Large Language Models on Non-Canonical Inputs

Standard safety evaluations of large language models assess harmful requests written in canonical plain text, while models in real-world deployment routinely receive inputs containing emojis, altered spellings, encoded strings, and character-level variations. This work introduces the Adversarial Surface-Form Robustness...

P. Maddula · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Algorithmic Scratchpads and Curriculum Staging for Arithmetic Reasoning in Tiny Transformers

Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently struggle with deterministic multi-step algorithmic tasks such as multi-digit multiplication and long division. In this paper, we investigate the mechanics of multi-step arithmetic in compact "Tiny" Transformers (~10.6M non-embedding parameters, 49.3M total) trained...

Sourabh Kasliwal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LASER: Latent Space Adjoint Matching for Support-Constrained Entropy-Regularized Offline RL

While offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy optimization from static datasets without costly online interaction, it remains bottlenecked by the risk of executing out-of-distribution (OOD) actions. Recent approaches mitigate this by learning a behavior-cloning policy through flow matching and then performin...

Songyuan Zhang, Oswin So, Eric Yang Yu et al. · 0 citations

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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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