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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Probing and Steering for Safety-Relevant Behaviours in Large Language Models

Activation probes are computed directions in a language model's residual stream, used both to detect safety-relevant behaviours and, by adding their direction back into the stream, to steer them, which power an interactive interface through which a user can score and steer text directly.

Nimun Bajwa, Massimo Poesio · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

CTRL-FM: Inference-Time Structural Control for Flow-Based Virtual Sensing under Long-Horizon Node Outages

CTRL-FM, an observation-preserving flow-matching framework that treats structural guidance as an outage-conditioned inference-time decision, is introduced, demonstrating that validating, selecting, and locally adapting structural guidance for each realized outage is more effective than imposing a single global structur...

Boshra Khalili, Andrew Smyth · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Spike-Aware Gradient-Based Mixed-Precision Quantization of Spiking Neural Networks for Vision Applications

A spike-aware gradient-based mixed-precision quantization framework for SNNs that adaptively assigns bit-widths using first-order gradient information, avoiding costly second-order Hessian computations is proposed.

Rajshekhar Rakshit, Devgokul B. V., Rakshitha Kalkura et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GAV: A scientific experimentation environment for PDE agents

Generator-Agent-Verifier (GAV), a scientific experimentation environment that makes new PDE problems verifiable by construction verifiable by construction, is introduced and a theoretical analysis of evaluation reliability and guided development is provided.

Mu-Heng Li, Wen-Long Mou · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Generalizing Metropolis-Hastings for DAG Sampling

This work advances Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms by introducing novel moves that simultaneously resample the parents for multiple nodes of the DAG by introducing duet sampling, a new generalization of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.

Daniele Nikzad, Mikko Koivisto · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SWE-VERIFIER: Selective Verification for Cost-Efficient Coding Agents

SWE-Verifier is introduced, a lightweight generative model that selectively triggers candidate sampling and verification that achieves comparable or higher resolution than the trajectory and all-step baselines at substantially lower cost.

Kai-Jian Zou, V. Chennareddy, Yun-Xiang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Edit, Don't Imitate: Minimal-Edit On-Policy Distillation for Multimodal Reasoning

This work proposes minimal-edit corrective on-policy distillation, a method that preserves on-policy supervision while avoiding full-response imitation, and improves perception-oriented performance, particularly low-level geometric perception, and transfers to external mathematics and perception benchmarks.

Wen Ye, Ai-Lin Deng, Zi-Rui Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Automated screening of privacy risks in medical AI

A lightweight screening tool that uses four small models to identify patients with high risk of exposure before production-model training and assess if flagged patients could be protected without removing their data is developed.

Konstantinos Vrettos, E. Tzanis, H. Kondylakis et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Benchmarking Model Compression Techniques Across Heterogeneous Edge Platforms: A Predictive Maintenance Use Case for Rotating Machinery

A comprehensive comparative analysis of four state-of-the-art model compression techniques applied to a high-performance convolutional neural network for predictive maintenance using a real-world dataset of rotating machinery, equipment typically used in industry.

Matheus C. de Oliveira, Marco Aurélio da Silva Cruz, Regis Cardoso et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Prompt Style Affects AI Accuracy and Speed in Competitive Programming

No single prompt was best: the strongest prompt depended on the task type and on whether results were summarized by the mean or the median, suggesting that, at least for these tasks, prompt style should be matched to the objective rather than treated as universal.

Saad B. Alarifi, Mohammed A. Alam · 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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