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#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

CIM-Embed: Learning Instruction-Conditioned Multimodal Embeddings for Clustering

CIM-Embed is presented, a framework for learning instruction-conditioned multimodal embeddings for clustering, and Frozen product-trained encoders improve out-of-domain conditional grouping, while controlled transfer experiments distinguish partition transfer from instruction response.

Ying-Hua Xu, Peng-Yang Xie, Yan-Xiang Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DeciCAD: Harness-Grounded Learning of Action Policies for CAD Agents

Large Language Model agents operate through closed-loop action policies whose decision space is defined by an agent harness. We investigate how this operating space shapes agent behavior and policy learning in computer-aided design (CAD), a professional domain characterized by persistent state, geometric constraints, a...

Yu-Feng Peng, Yi-Xin Zhang, Zi-Yi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

The Self-Improvement Problem

A standard decidable regime used in practice is identified under which exhaustive simulation yields a terminating search procedure with the desired guarantees, and the limit of this recovery is shown: a chain of accepted updates can raise the bounded score in every round while the true score falls.

Brian B. Moser, Stanislav Frolov, T. Nauen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LoopAhead: Speculating Ahead for Faster Decoding in Looped Language Models

Looped Transformers improve parameter efficiency by repeatedly applying the same Transformer layers. However, generating each token still involves sequential computation and repeated access to model weights, leading to high decoding latency. Recent pipelined self-speculative decoding methods reduce this delay by drafti...

Zi-Xuan Liu, Nan Xue, Rui Bao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ClaimScope: Label-Blind Witness Verification for Mathematical Claim Auditing

Mathematical agents are commonly evaluated by answer accuracy or proof acceptance. We introduce ClaimScope, a 72-task benchmark for auditing proposed claims through a verdict, scope, counterexample, and repair. Tasks cover optimizer-state transport, finite-horizon affine recurrences, and exact $2\times2$ linear algebra...

Mushir Akhtar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Guided LLM Reasoning for Error Diagnosis in Vehicle Routing Problems

Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) are fundamental to many real-world applications. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred progress in solving these NP-hard problems. However, most existing approaches assume that input instances are error-free, neglecting the presence of faults commonly encountered i...

Ni Zhang, Jianan Zhou, Yue-Jiao Gong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mine, Sample, Render: Test-Time Diversity Alignment Of Generative Models

Modern generative models produce high-quality individual outputs but struggle to sample diversely, even when explicitly instructed to do so. We introduce MINE-SAMPLE-RENDER (MSR), a test-time approach that externalizes the diversity into an explicit, corpus-derived sampling procedure. Our pipeline (i) mines an interpre...

Kostas Triaridis, Morris Sharp, Nebojsa Jojic · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kolab: Benchmarking Human-Agent Collaboration in Long-Horizon Workflows

When humans collaborate with AI agents on long-horizon tasks, what happens to the agents' contributions? For solving long-horizon tasks, humans place greater importance on ongoing interaction with AI agents (e.g., revising plans) than on an agent's ability to complete the task in a single attempt. However, most agentic...

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Patricia Anugrah Setiani, Ruizi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probe-and-Resume: When and How to Evaluate Agent Execution

Test-time search can improve agent performance by exploring alternative actions and using a critic to select promising branches. We study this approach in terminal-based computer-use environments, which expose only a partial view of a large underlying state, and find that the Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) configuratio...

Jiakai Xu, Tiancheng Ge, Tujie Guan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Athanor: An Agent-Native System for Autonomous Post-Training Research

Recursive self-improvement, in which AI systems build stronger AI systems, is one promising route to superintelligence. We study a weaker form that can be measured today: frontier agents post-training a small raw base model with public data, as a test of their research potential. We build Athanor, an open agent-native...

Yufa Zhou, Yichen Wang, Jiakun Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LEV: Thinking Fast and Deep with Looped Decision Models

Decision models answer typed questions about an input with one probability per option, computed in a single forward pass without generating text. Like the fast System 1 of dual-process theory, they answer at once, but their depth is fixed at training time, so they spend the same computation on easy and hard questions....

Dingjie Song, Zhiling Yan, Yuxuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Defining and Generating Compositional Structure

Compositional structure is pervasive in nature and across scales: atoms combine into molecules, molecules into cells, and cells into organisms, while further compositional hierarchies appear within each level. More broadly, compositionality, the reuse and recombination of parts into novel structures, is a fundamental s...

Eric Elmoznino, Tejas Kasetty, B. A. Y. Arcas 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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