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#artificial intelligence Review Open access Jul 2025

A Survey of Explainable Reinforcement Learning: Targets, Methods and Needs

This paper focuses on a sub-domain of XAI, called eXplainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL), which aims to explain the actions of an agent that has learned by reinforcement learning, and proposes an intuitive taxonomy based on two questions, based on the target that the method explains.

Léo Saulières · 8 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NeuralDMD: Interpretable Neural Representation of Dynamics from Sparse and Noisy Measurements

Many challenges in scientific imaging involve solving ill-posed inverse problems, where the goal is to recover spatio-temporal fields from indirect, noisy, and highly sparse measurements - often without access to ground truth data or reliable simulators. To address this challenging scenario, we present NeuralDMD, an in...

Ali SaraerToosi, Renbo Tu, Esther Y. H. Lin et al. · 0 citations

GARG-AML against Smurfing: A Scalable and Interpretable Graph-Based Framework for Anti-Money Laundering

This paper introduces GARG-AML, a novel graph-based method that quantifies smurfing risk through a single interpretable metric derived from the structure of the second-order transaction network, and demonstrates the scalability of GARG-AML on large random networks, and its performance on two open-source money launderin...

Bruno Deprez, B. Baesens, Tim Verdonck et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GVPO: Group Variance Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Post-Training

Post-training plays a crucial role in refining and aligning large language models to meet specific tasks and human preferences. While recent advancements in post-training techniques, such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), leverage increased sampling with relative reward scoring to achieve superior performan...

Kaichen Zhang, Yuzhong Hong, Junwei Bao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gabor-Enhanced Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Fast Simulations of Acoustic Wavefields

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have gained attention for solving partial differential equations, including the scattered Helmholtz equation, due to their flexibility and mesh-free formulation. However, their performance suffers from low-frequency bias, particularly in high-frequency wavefield simulations, lim...

Mohammad Mahdi Abedi, David Pardo, Tariq Alkhalifah · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What is causal about causal models and representations?

Causal Bayesian networks are often described as causal because they support reasoning about interventions. Yet interventions are defined in the mathematical model, whereas the resulting model predictions concern the effects of actions in the real world. Consequently, whether and how a causal model makes falsifiable pre...

Frederik Hytting J{\o}rgensen, Luigi Gresele, Sebastian Weichwald · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Negative Prompting for Concept Suppression: Unconditional Anchoring and Localized Guidance

Text-to-image diffusion models have rapidly transitioned from research prototypes to widely deployed tools. Along with their impressive capabilities, these models can also generate harmful or undesirable content (e.g., NSFW imagery), motivating practical mechanisms for removing such concepts. Negative prompting, which...

Anubhav Jain, Takashi Shibuya, Yuya Kobayashi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Paint Outside the Box: Synthesizing and Selecting Training Data for Visual Grounding

Visual grounding aims to localize the image regions based on a textual query. Given the difficulty of large-scale data curation, we investigate how to effectively learn visual grounding under data-scarce settings in this paper. To address the data scarcity, we propose a novel framework, POBF (Paint Outside the Box and...

Zilin Du, Haoxin Li, Jianfei Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep conditional distribution learning via conditional F\"ollmer flow

We introduce an ordinary differential equation (ODE) based deep generative method for learning conditional distributions, named Conditional F\"ollmer Flow. Starting from a standard Gaussian distribution, the proposed flow could approximate the target conditional distribution very well when the time is close to 1. For e...

Jinyuan Chang, Zhao Ding, Yuling Jiao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-Based UAV Pathfinding for Obstacle Avoidance in Stochastic Environment

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents without a centralized planner. Although reinforcement learning provides a plausible...

Qizhen Wu, Kexin Liu, Lei Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Accelerated Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization: Escape Trajectories From Strict Saddle Points and Convergence to Local Minima

This paper considers the problem of understanding the behavior of a general class of accelerated gradient methods on smooth nonconvex functions. Motivated by some recent works that have proposed effective algorithms, based on Polyak's heavy ball method and the Nesterov accelerated gradient method, to achieve convergenc...

Rishabh Dixit, Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Waheed U. Bajwa · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Teaching LLMs to Recommend and Defer in Underrepresented Epilepsy Care

Specialist epilepsy expertise is scarce in resource-constrained settings. Clinical decision-support systems must adapt to local prescribing practices and recognize when specialist review is needed. We study pediatric epilepsy care in Uganda, predicting anti-seizure medication regimens from longitudinal clinic notes. Ge...

Shreyas Rajesh, Kartik Sharma, Tonmoy Monsoor 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.

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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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