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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Activation Steering with Jungian Cognitive Functions

Controlling combinations of personality-related tendencies is important for adapting large language models to diverse interaction needs. But successful single-trait steering does not establish how to construct interventions for joint targets, or whether existing trait directions adequately represent them. We introduce...

Liu Zai, Yumeng Wang, Junchen Fu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Automatic Thematic Indexing of Large Literary Corpora: A Machine Learning Approach to Voltaire's Complete Works

Thematic indexing -- the practice of assigning structured conceptual labels to sections of text -- is essential to scholarly access in large-scale literary and historical editions, yet it remains a largely manual, labour-intensive process. This paper explores the application of machine learning to automatic thematic in...

Miguel Arana-Catania, Gillian Pink, Glenn Roe · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Phone Segmentation and Recognition through Phonological Activation Mapping

Phone segmentation and recognition are inherently related tasks, yet modern approaches typically model them separately. We argue that phonetic structure is already latent in the representations of self-supervised speech models (S3Ms), so one only needs to steer them to solve both tasks. We leverage S3M-based Phonologic...

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Kwanghee Choi, Stephen McIntosh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Ember: A Kilobyte-State Optimizer for Token Interfaces

Language models learn continuous programs over discrete symbols, with the embedding table and LM-head acting as the read/write interface between them. We show that this interface has gradient geometry distinct from dense hidden weights which can be exploited to improve the Pareto frontier across supervised finetuning,...

Kathan Shah · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Federated Learning with Energy-Based Structured Probabilistic Inference

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their local data. However, heterogeneity in client data and the presence of unreliable or adversarial updates make effective server aggregation challenging, motivating methods that adapt client contribution...

Dario Fenoglio, Daniil Kirilenko, Martin Gjoreski et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Error-Conditioned Neural Solvers

Neural surrogate models offer fast approximate mappings from PDE parameters to solutions, but they typically treat solving as a purely statistical task: once trained, they struggle to correct their own constraint violations and extrapolate beyond the training distribution. Recent hybrid methods promote physical correct...

Haina Jiang, Liam Wang, Peng-Chen Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Clicks to Intent: Cross-Platform Session Embeddings with LLM-Distilled Taxonomy for Financial Services Recommendations

Sequential user behavior modeling is widely adopted in industrial recommender systems; however, significant gaps remain in financial services, where pre-login web interactions and authenticated in-app experiences differ drastically. Specifically, pre-login web users typically explore new products, whereas logged-in app...

Dianjing Fan, Yao Li, Kyaw Hpone Myint et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning with a Single Rollout via Pass@k Policy Optimization

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) typically requires multiple rollouts per prompt to estimate relative credit, incurring substantial sampling cost and exacerbating training asynchrony. This limitation is particularly severe for scientific reasoning agents, where each trajectory may involve long-horizon reasonin...

Fengdi Che, Yang Liu, Lei Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Sparsity-Storage-Accuracy Tradeoff in Parsimoniously Activated Dictionary Learning

Dictionary learning has long been studied from both optimization and probabilistic perspectives. While formulations with element-wise sparsity regularization (e.g., L1-based sparse coding) admit well-established probabilistic interpretations, many structured variants that impose global constraints lack a clear and trac...

Zihui Zhao, Yuanbo Tang, Yang Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Human-like autonomy emerges from self-play and a pinch of human data

Self-play reinforcement learning has recently emerged as a way to train driving policies without any human data. It uses cheap, large-scale simulations to substitute expensive, large-scale human driving demonstrations. A key limitation of this approach is that policies trained through pure self-play can learn effective...

Daphne Cornelisse, Julian Hunt, Zixu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Data-Aware Model Merging in the Essential Subspace for Multi-Task Knowledge Aggregation

Model merging enables training-free multi-task learning by aggregating knowledge from models fine-tuned from a shared checkpoint, but their task updates can interfere. Using proxy data, we find that task updates induce output shifts whose energy concentrates in a few dominant directions, while many low-energy direction...

Longhua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Retrievable Gradients: Continual Post-Training Without Cumulative Weight Drift

Continual post-training enables models to absorb emerging knowledge after deployment, but repeatedly updating shared parameters can accumulate weight drift, potentially causing catastrophic forgetting and degrading general capabilities. Retrieval-augmented generation avoids such parameter drift, yet often lacks the dep...

Weihang Su, Jiacheng Kang, Jingyan Xu et al. · 0 citations

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