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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating Causal Reasoning in LLMs: A Case Study in the Challenges of Procedural Generation

This paper examines what can be reliably inferred when LLMs perform well on test sets produced by CLadder and finds that even simple models such as random forests perform well on CLadder-generated data sets after training on a sample of generated data.

Justin Clarke, Isha Karn, Patrick Murray et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SkillMem: Compact External Skill Memory for Latent Multi-Agent Reasoning

SkillMem is introduced, which represents each reusable skill as a small external latent memory and makes it directly available during latent multi-agent reasoning, showing that compact procedural memories can be reused without sacrificing the efficiency of latent multi-agent reasoning.

Yuxuan Zhu, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Pin-Yu Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Understanding Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers

An evaluation framework is developed that distinguishes solution quality from execution failures, including numerical inaccuracies, constraint violations, and output-format errors, and demonstrates that iterative refinement substantially improves reliability and extends the range of problem dimensions over which LLMs p...

Ling-Yun Guo, Ali Bereyhi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ThinkJev: One Thought, Every Budget for Calibrated Typed Decisions

ThinkJev builds a fast and a slow system from one open hybrid-thinking model that can answer directly or after a thought, and chooses when to think from System 1's confidence alone saves less, because the decisions System 1 is least sure of are often not the ones thinking fixes.

Xiao-Lu Ding, Kai-Rui Yang, Dong-Dong Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Amortized Localized Posterior Inference for Model Calibration with Application to an Ocean Turbulence Closure

An application to the k-$\epsilon$ turbulence closure in a single-column ocean model, with atmospheric surface forcing as context, shows that localized posterior calibration reduces temperature and zonal-velocity errors relative to deterministic and global-posterior calibration.

Exaucé Luweh Adjim Ngarti, É. Arnaud, Leonardo Nicoletti et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Latent Prediction Yields Cross-Subject Alignable Representations in Sensory-Evoked fMRI

Decoding sensory-evoked functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is a central analytical tool in cognitive neuroscience. Here we ask whether self-supervised learning (SSL), which has been scarcely explored in this domain, can yield representations that support strong downstream performance. To do so, we adapt...

Serwan Jassim, Victoria Bosch, Daniel Anthes et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Pretraining Knows What, Simulation Teaches How: Compositional Generalization in a Sim-Trained Robot Agent

Zero-real Agent Policy (ZAP), a recipe that teaches a small off-the-shelf vision-language model to control a robot via a simple tool harness, uses a pretrained 27B parameter model to bootstrap world understanding and reasoning, followed by supervised fine-tuning and GRPO on simple simulated tasks to teach it how to mov...

Benjamin Pikus, D. Saunders, Mircea Mironenco et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Fidelity Training Reshapes Uncertainty Decomposition in Atomistic Models

Multi-fidelity training, which combines abundant low-fidelity data with scarce high-fidelity labels, is increasingly common in atomistic modeling, but its effect on predictive uncertainty remains largely unexplored. We investigate this question using deep ensembles of mean-variance MACE models trained on ANI-1x, contra...

Matteo Tolloso, Davide Bacciu, Luigi Bonati · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SEEK: Skill Extraction with Evolving Knowledge against Frontier Science Agents

Science agents increasingly package domain expertise as reusable skills that plan analyses, select tools, and execute workflows. This modularity creates a confidentiality risk: the interactions that deliver a skill's capability can also reveal the skill itself. We build an extensible benchmark of 40 protected skills ac...

Cheng Gui, Xiang Zheng, Yutao Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

First-Order LoRA Training with Phone NPUs

On-device fine-tuning lets a large language model (LLM) learn from its user's private data without uploading it. Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces the trainable parameters, but each first-order training step still multiplies by the frozen base-model weights during the forward pass, activation recomputation, and input-...

Xu Zheng, Wei Cheng, Zhuomin Chen et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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