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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Baseline Severity: Temporal and Disease-Specific Predictors of Depression Outcomes Following Mindfulness Interventions

Depression severity among patients with chronic or acute medical conditions is influenced by a complex interaction of baseline psychological state, demographic characteristics, clinical context, and engagement with behavioral interventions. This paper presents an interpretable machine-learning analysis of a multi-cente...

Muhammad Jawad Chowdhury, S. Salehin, Akib Jayed Islam · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SciExam for ENSO: Can AI Agents Build Climate Models?

Language-model agents are increasingly asked to carry out open-ended scientific research, yet their results are usually graded against a known answer, a rubric, or a language-model reviewer, none of which can tell whether a new scientific model is valid. The AI Science Exam for El Nino-Southern Oscillation (SciExam for...

Yinling Zhang, Langchen Liu, Dongbin Xiu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SOTA: Stock Options Trading Agents Guided by Option-Implied Return Distributions

As option markets grow and AI advances, agentic systems for option trading are gaining increasing attention. Language-model-based agents can reason over contextual information such as news, but option trading presents a particularly challenging decision problem: a single stock can have thousands of contracts, and the a...

Yi-Zhen Xie, Meng-Yang Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AI Safety Considerations for Agents With Limited Time to Act

In the wake of the increasingly public discussion about AI alignment, recent work has tried to propose specific AI architectures that behave safely. However, the proposed arguments that seemingly demonstrate proved alignment mostly neglect the environment the agent needs to act in. We discuss theoretical bounds for age...

Leo Zeitler, Jack Richings, Victoria Nockles · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GAGR-Lab: Evaluating Joint Spatial-Geometric and Analytic Function Reasoning

Joint spatial-geometric and analytic function reasoning requires translating a perceived spatial configuration into a symbolic function whose executed curve satisfies geometric constraints. We present GAGR-Lab, a framework for measuring this capability through Cartesian game scenes, explicit function semantics, and aut...

Jingyao Zhang, Yun Li, Lu Han · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Think Before You Paint: Recursive Latent Reasoning for Diffusion Models

Diffusion models generate realistic images but often fail on visual reasoning tasks, such as filling in a Sudoku or drawing the path through a maze. When a discrete symbolic representation is available, recursive methods such as the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) solve even hard instances of these puzzles. We ask how such...

Pawe{\l} Skier\'s, Ma{\l}gorzata Grzanka, Wojciech Masarczyk et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Do Agentic LLMs Decide to Call Tools? A Tool-Call Vector Shaped by Suppression

Tool calling, invoking external tools on demand, is central to agentic LLMs, yet the mechanism that decides whether a model calls a tool or responds directly remains poorly understood. Agentic prompts are long and heavily scaffolded, combining role instructions, tool schemas, format templates, and the user's request ac...

Xijie Gong, Tingxu Han, Jiahao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Plausible Hierarchies to Useful Taxonomies: Evaluating Agentic Harnesses on Customer Feedback

Taxonomies are the symbolic representations through which AI systems organize evidence, aggregate patterns, and answer questions over large document collections. Over customer feedback, the category tree decides how every record is counted and routed, which problems get seen, and which team owns them. Agentic harnesses...

Prabhath Chellingi, Raviraja G, Viraj Bagal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SearchWorld: Spatial Value-Grounded Imagination for UAV Object Search via World Models

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object search involves a closed loop of perception, decision-making, and action under partial observability. Urban environments pose several challenges: large search areas and narrow egocentric views limit coverage, dense 3D geometry constrains safe motion, and open-world instru...

Ya-Tai Ji, Zheng-Qiu Zhu, Yong Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RT-Safe: Benchmarking Agent Safety in Real-Time Embodied Environment

Rapid progress in AI agents has brought growing attention to agent safety, with extensive evaluation focused on digital environments. As agents move into the physical world, embodied safety becomes increasingly important: failures can cause human injury and costly hardware damage. Beyond selecting safe actions, embodie...

Tianruo Rose Xu, Jiawei Ren, Yichi Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Winner's Curse in LLM Self-Improvement Loops: Selection Noise, Lock-in, and Acceptance Rules

Self-improving LLM systems propose changes to themselves and keep those that score better on a small evaluation set. We treat this keep-if-better step as selection under measurement noise, model the correlated errors of the candidates in a single decision, and study empirically what happens when the evaluation set is r...

Litao Hu, Yutong Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CM-DPO: Constraint-Margin Direct Preference Optimization for LLM Planning

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) treats all constraint violations equally: a $1 budget overshoot and a $1,000 overshoot induce the same training signal. It is also susceptible to length and style bias when preference pairs come from different model families. We introduce Constraint-Margin DPO (CM-DPO), which replac...

Rabimba Karanjai, Qun Gu, Hemanth Hegadehalli Madhavarao 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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