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#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Act First, Reason Later: Accelerating On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents via Reference-Conditioned Inverse Dynamics

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains multi-turn language agents with dense teacher supervision on student-generated responses. However, standard think-then-act rollouts require lengthy reasoning before each short action, delaying environment transitions and experience collection. Generating actions directly reduces this...

Zubin Zheng, Jiahao Wu, Shaofeng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Fractional State Space Transition for Long Sequence Modeling

State Space Models (SSMs) compress sequence history into a bounded recurrent state, making the resulting memory law a central architectural choice for long-context performance. Most modern SSMs rely on ODE-based dynamics that lead to exponential forgetting, limiting their ability to retain information over broad tempor...

I. Kobyzev, Abbas Ghaddar, Ali Nasiri-Sarvi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

When Trees Are Not Enough: Learning Mixed-Topology Feature Graphs with Adaptive Graph Sparse Autoencoders

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) expose interpretable features in large language model activations, yet existing structured SAEs impose single-parent trees or forests, while post-hoc graphs permit multiple parents but neither guide feature learning nor ensure reliable relation recovery. We introduce the Adaptive Graph Sparse...

Xiaozuo Shen, Yifei Cai, Tian Tan et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

FORUM: Frozen Outputs Reconciled Using Model Agreement for Visual Grounding

ForUM is presented, a training-free test-time fusion of frozen MLLMs guided by two fixed geometric rules: agreement-based selection keeps the region supported by the most distinct models, and medoid localization returns an actual member box instead of a coordinate average, so one loose prediction cannot shift the answe...

Taiyo Sato, Takamasa Sanda, Keisuke Maeda et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Storage Is Not Strategy: State-Conditioned Support Control for LLM Unlearning

Many localized large language model (LLM) unlearning methods select a small parameter subset from a localization signal and keep it fixed during optimization. The parameters most associated with a target, however, need not be the best ones to update, and candidate interventions can change value as optimization proceeds...

Tian-Hao Qian, Zi-Ming Hong, Chong-Yang Gao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

LongHarness Bench: Stress-Testing Language Model Harnesses for Long-Context Reasoning

Language-model (LM) harnesses enable LMs to operate effectively over long contexts using additional compute. However, existing long-context evaluations are insufficient for distinguishing modern harnesses, reflected by saturated accuracy across harnesses and largely similar evaluation costs. In this paper, we introduce...

Quang Hieu Pham, Thuy Duong Nguyen, Jocelyn Qiaochu Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

MERGE: Multi-LLM Ensemble for Retrieval via Generative Enrichment

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to enrich user queries in information retrieval (IR) so that a standard retriever such as BM25 can bridge vocabulary gaps with the target corpus. Any single LLM, however, is limited by its training data and architectural biases, and its enrichment behavior depends on h...

Tzu-I Ho, Yung-Yu Shih, Shang-Yu Su et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Authority Bias in Language Models: Source Deference and User Agreement Are Not Interchangeable

Language models tend to agree with whatever a user asserts, and post-training increasingly targets this sycophancy so that models evaluate claims on their merits rather than deferring to the user. Yet the same models are far more compliant when a wrong answer is attributed to a verified source, which is how retrieval r...

Abhinav Kumar, Paras Chopra · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Pretraining Latent Information Feedback Transformers with Teacher Supervision

Transformer language models (LMs) are feed-forward: deep-layer representations are never fed back to shallower layers, and the only pathway for information to flow downward across generation steps is the decoded token. This narrow channel forces models to recompute intermediate results and to discard alternative contin...

Dor Tirosh, Ido Amos, Mor Geva · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Nov 2024

AI Agentic Architectures for Autonomous Data Engineering Pipelines

This study delves into the notion of AI agentic architectures for autonomous data engineering pipelines and investigates the potential benefits of intelligent agents in enhancing automation, resilience, and decision-making processes in contemporary data ecosystems.

Harsh Verma · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access 2025

Policy Drift in Learning AI Agents: A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Security Degradation

Policy drift takes shape through a nonlinear differential equation - framed within the policy state space - with support from Lyapunov stability concepts alongside bifurcation methods alongside bifurcation methods, and the Intent Drift Rate appears: a concrete number per dialogue turn built as the time-based change in...

Harsh Verma · 1 citation

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Estimating suicide risk from text

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