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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning

Evaluator-guided reasoning presents a local control problem at every step: trust the current answer, return a fallback, or spend more inference. We formulate this choice as a compute-aware three-action controller, scoring terminal actions by predicted answer success and expansion by a rollout-based continuation-success...

Wei-Da Liang, Kenji Kawaguchi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Reality Outpaces Cognition: A New Scaling Principle for Reliable Intelligence

This paper challenges the understanding capabilities of existing AI paradigms and emerging world models by asking a fundamental question: How quickly can reality change before an intelligent system can no longer reliably perceive, reason, and act? We formulate this as a theory- and model-agnostic challenge in which sys...

Ahsan Adeel, Talha Bin Riaz · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AlphaDiana: A Measurement System for Agents in Verifiable Reasoning Tasks

Agents pair reasoning models with harnesses that organize model calls, execute tools, load skill instructions, and retain history in memory. Understanding agent performance requires linking execution conditions to outcomes, behavior, and resource use. We introduce AlphaDiana, a measurement system with modular interface...

Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Weikai Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Value-Informed Schedule Trimming for Accelerated Sequential Monte Carlo Guidance in Discrete Diffusion

Reward-guided discrete diffusion enables test-time alignment with downstream objectives, but applying Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) guidance at every denoising step is computationally expensive. Active guidance steps require additional reward evaluations and, for gradient-based proposals, value-gradient computations. Sp...

Jaehyeon Kim, Ziseok Lee, Siyoung Choi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating Model Capabilities After Benchmark Saturation

Rapid advances in AI capabilities are causing benchmarks to saturate. Once several models approach perfect scores, a benchmark loses its power to differentiate between them, and with it its utility for informing AI safety cases and frontier policies. Yet benchmark items produce far more information than the scores we t...

Morio Hamada, Jehyeok Yeon, Matteo Migliarini et al. · 0 citations

LIME: Learning Intent-aware Camera Motion from Egocentric Video

LIME is proposed, a vision-language camera-motion generator that combines an autoregressive observation-gain output with a continuous flow-matching pose head that learns intent-conditioned camera motion from passive egocentric video, turning ordinary human recordings into supervision for a reusable active-perception pr...

Bo-Yang Sun, Jiajie Li, Yung-Hsu Yang et al. · 3 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

X-Safe: Embodiment-Agnostic Safeguarding for Robot Arm Manipulation Policies via Action Masking

Ensuring safety of learning-enabled robotic manipulation across diverse embodiments and tasks still requires significant manual engineering. For collision avoidance, existing approaches typically rely on embodiment-specific learned safety approximations or simplified robot models together with stopping-based fallback c...

Alex Beaudin, Hanna Krasowski, Kartik Nagpal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PoLAR: Factorizing Extent and Mode in Latent Actions for Robot Policy Learning

Robot actions vary in both extent and mode: how much change they produce and what kind of change they produce. A latent action space that reflects this structure may make it easier for downstream policies to map latent actions to robot actions. However, existing latent action methods typically rely on visual reconstruc...

Youngjoon Jeong, Jihwan Yu, Minsoo Jo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Driving, Fast or Slow? Neuro-Symbolic Guidance for Motion Prediction in Multi-Modal Ground Mobility

Accurate and interpretable motion prediction for heterogeneous traffic spaces, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and trucks, is essential for safe autonomous navigation. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art approaches remain predominantly black-box, lacking explicit encoding of the regulatory and behavioral constraints...

Simon Kohaut, Felix Divo, Julius Hahnewald et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint May 2026

A finite-element-inspired bipartite graph learned simulator for manufacturability assessment in large-deformation sheet forming

CAtt-BiGNN, a cross-attention-based bipartite graph neural network for coupled nodal-elemental learning, encodes FE-guided state organisation and information flow without imposing equilibrium or constitutive constraints is proposed.

Ying Zhao, Hao-Ran Li, Hao-Su Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MOCHA: Multi-Objective Chebyshev Annealing for Agent Skill Optimization

LLM agents organize behavior through skills -- structured natural-language specifications that govern how an agent reasons, retrieves, and responds. Unlike monolithic prompts, skills are multi-field artifacts with platform limits: descriptions are indexed for routing, instruction bodies are loaded into a shared context...

Md Mehrab Tanjim, Jayakumar Subramanian, Branislav Kveton et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Far Are We From True Auto-Research?

Recent auto-research systems can produce complete papers, but feasibility is not the same as quality, and the field still lacks a systematic study of how good agent-generated papers actually are. We introduce ResearchArena, a minimal scaffold that lets off-the-shelf agents (Claude Code using Opus 4.6, Codex using GPT-5...

Zhengxin Zhang, Ning Wang, Sainyam Galhotra et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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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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