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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Group-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) has significantly enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) in agentic scenarios. To achieve finer-grained policy updates, recent agentic RL frameworks have shifted from trajectory-level to step-level training. However, long-horizon agentic RL suffers from severe reward sparsity and...

Yunan Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PE-MHL: Physics-Encoded Modular Hybrid Layers for Scalable Learning of Complex Systems

Hybrid models that combine physics-based and data-driven components have shown strong potential for achieving accuracy and interpretability in control applications. While recent methods have made progress in incorporating physical consistency, challenges remain in scalability, robustness to noise, and control of model...

Ismail Hassaballa, Mircea Lazar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CauTion: Knowing When to Trust LLMs for Ensemble Causal Discovery

Causal discovery from observational data remains challenging due to the fundamental limitations of purely statistical methods, such as statistical distinguishability within equivalence classes and sensitivity to finite sample sizes. While large language models (LLMs) offer a promising source of domain knowledge to comp...

Bo Peng, Kaiwen Wu, Sirui Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TASER: Task-Aware Stein Regularisation for Geometry-Driven Smoothness

Deep neural networks remain sensitive to distribution shifts, motivating regularisation informed by data geometry. We introduce TASER (Task-Aware Stein Regularisation), a compact training-time framework that couples model derivatives to density scores by penalising the Langevin Stein operator. We establish a weighted S...

Micha{\l} Kozyra, Gesine Reinert · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FormInv: A Measurement Protocol for Semantic Invariance in Mathematical Reasoning Benchmarks

A paraphrase-quality audit of MathCheck (ICLR 2025) detected 4 semantically incorrect paraphrases in 129 groups (3.1%); removing them drops GPT-4o from rank 2 to rank 4 and elevates Claude Haiku and DeepSeek V3 above it. Cross-model unanimity found these errors automatically for under $10; in our own dataset the same p...

Nishal Thomas, Noel Thomas · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Human-Centered Learning Mechanics: Observable Entropy Control under Protected-Risk Constraints

Entropy reduction is not a safety criterion: it can leave predictions unchanged or accompany increasing risk for a protected group. We study entropy-regulated learning under separately specified task, risk, and intervention constraints. A noise-calibrated log-determinant functional yields an exact spectral force formul...

Kim Phuc Tran · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Graph Transductive Sharpening: Leveraging Unlabeled Predictions in Node Classification

In the transductive setting, where the full graph is observed but node labels are only partially available, progress in semi-supervised node classification has largely focused on architectural innovation. In this paper, we revisit an orthogonal axis: the training objective. We start from a simple observation: transduct...

Brown Zaz, Mar Gonz\`alez I Catal\`a, Ferran Hernandez Caralt et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Complete Characterization of Learnability for Adversarial Noisy Bandits

We study adversarial noisy bandits given a known function class $\mathcal{F}$. In each round, the adversary selects a function $f \in \mathcal{F}$, the learner chooses an arm, and then observes a noisy reward determined by the chosen arm and the function $f$. The goal is to minimize the cumulative regret $R(T)$, define...

Steve Hanneke, Kun Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

STRIDE: Reasoning-Aware Training for Time Series Forecasting

Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) excel at numerical forecasting but operate as black boxes lacking qualitative reasoning. Conversely, applying LLMs directly to temporal data introduces a modality gap: text tokenizers fragment continuous numerical values, degrading mathematical relationships and exploding sequence...

Md Atik Ahamed, Mihir Parmar, Palash Goyal et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Training-Induced Escape from Token Clustering in a Mean-Field Formulation of Transformers

Transformers perform inference by iteratively transforming token representations across layers. This layerwise computation has been studied empirically, and recent mean-field theories of Transformer dynamics explain how attention can drive token distributions toward clustering. However, existing analyses treat model pa...

Noboru Isobe, Daisuke Inoue, Masaaki Imaizumi · 0 citations

MOSAIC: Module Discovery via Sparse Additive Identifiable Causal Learning for Scientific Time Series

MOSAIC (Module discovery via Sparse Additive Identifiable Causal learning), a sparse temporal VAE that integrates temporal CRL identifiability with support recovery over observed variables, enabling interpretable discovery of latent mechanisms in scientific time series.

Shichen Fan, Nour Elhendawy, Jianle Sun et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Regime-Conditioned Evaluation in Multi-Context Bayesian Optimization

Published transfer-BO comparisons often estimate an average treatment effect of acquisition choice over hidden regime variables, while practitioners need the conditional effect for their specific prior quality, budget ratio, and metric. An audit of 40 transfer-BO papers from NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, UAI, TMLR, JML...

Noel Thomas · 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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