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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Grounding Large Language Models in DSGE Simulators for Policy Generation and Forecasting

Large language models can produce economic policy responses that sound reasonable, but this does not show that their actions are consistent with economic dynamics. We test this by placing an instruction-tuned language model inside six Snowdrop-backed dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) simulators. At each tur...

Aditya Dubey, N. Gupta, Vinti Agarwal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Answer Confidence: A Controlled Audit of Self-Knowledge in a Black-Box Decision Model

Decision models return probabilities intended for routing, abstention and automated action. Calibration makes those probabilities useful on average, but does not establish whether low confidence reflects chance or missing knowledge, nor whether confidence falls when a model moves beyond what it knows. We audit this dis...

Sharath M Shankaranarayana, Davor Runje, Jan Jannink · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

R-GroundBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for R-Group Groundingin Markush Molecular Editing

Recent advances in AI for scientific discovery enable molecular understandingand design, yet reasoning over incomplete chemical representations remainsunclear.Markush structures, which encode molecular families through variable R-groupplaceholders (\textit{R\textsubscript{1}}, \textit{R\textsubscript{2}}, \textit{X}, e...

Xin Wang, Zichuan Ying, Xinna Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Backdoor Purification for LoRA-Tuned LLMs via Null-Space Projection

With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, the risk of backdoor attacks has become more severe. Existing backdoor purification methods typically rely on at least one of the strong assumptions, such as prior knowledge of triggers, access to clean reference...

Jian-Wei Li, Jung-Eun Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Ontology-Grounded, Reasoner-Verified Benchmarks for Evaluating LLM Reasoning in Scientific AI

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly underpin scientific AI applications that reason over structured knowledge, from biomedical question answering to materials informatics. However, their logical reasoning often falls short, producing factual inaccuracies unacceptable in these settings. Reliable evaluation remains...

Nishtha N. Vaidya, S. Grimm, T. Hubauer et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Backdoor Containment via Expert Quarantine and Shutdown in LLMs

Backdoored large language models (LLMs) can behave normally on benign inputs while producing attacker-specified outputs under hidden triggers. Existing defenses span four stages--prior-training, in-training, post-training, and inference-time--and share one of two underlying strategies: either suppress backdoor learning...

Jian-Wei Li, Min-Seon Kim, Jung-Eun Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When More Data Is Not Enough: The Context-Sufficiency Frontier in Generative AI Personalization

Personalization has long relied on customer data to infer what an individual is likely to value. We call this customer evidence: the customer's historical behavior and preferences. Generative AI extends personalization by allowing providers to supply changing situational information at the moment a response is produced...

Merieme Askour, Ayoub Merimi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Agent Evaluation Reliability: More Tasks Won't (Always) Fix An Agent Leaderboard

Agent evaluations are increasingly used to compare LLMs and inform deployment decisions, yet ranks can reflect not only the model but also the effects of the evaluation conditions such as the scaffolds or tasks. This makes reliability claim-dependent: an evaluation that reliably ranks deployed systems may not reliably...

Michael Hardy, Ruhana Azam, Anka Reuel et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CompMat-Bench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Computational Materials Science

CompMat-Bench is introduced, a benchmark of 94 tasks derived from recently published computational materials studies, each asking agents to complete a step toward achieving the study's scientific goal, and provides a basis for comparing agents on the steps of real materials research and for analyzing agent failure mode...

Chen-Mu Zhang, Levi Felix, Jun-Jie Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Benchmarking Prompt Optimization of Large Language Models With Chess

A chess benchmark built from 1,118 Lichess puzzles is introduced to study APO for frozen LLMs: it is used to evaluate six APO algorithms on eight target models, measuring not only baseline strength but also how much each model responds to optimization and whether optimized prompts transfer across models and to game pla...

Timothée Lesort, Alejandra López de Aberasturi-Gómez, Tristan Karch et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ContractRL: Shielded Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Auditable Tool-Call Repair

Structured tool calls often fail after only a small number of fields violate a schema or an execution contract. Regenerating the complete object enlarges the action surface and makes repeated repair difficult to audit. We introduce ContractRL, a contract-constrained sequential repair protocol that models verifier-guide...

Miao-Bo Hu, Shu-Hao Hu, Xiao-Bo Guo et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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