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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

TOPPO: Rethinking PPO for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Critic Balancing

Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) and its variants dominate Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) due to their off-policy sample efficiency, while on-policy methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) remain underexplored. We diagnose that PPO in MTRL suffers from a previously overlooked issue: critic-side gradient ill...

Yuanpeng Li, Gefei Lin, Annie Qu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

An Alternative Trajectory for Generative AI

The generative artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is undergoing rapid transformations that threaten its sustainability. As models transition from research prototypes to high-traffic products, the energetic burden has shifted from one-time training to recurring, unbounded inference. This is exacerbated by reasoning...

Margarita Belova, Yuval Kansal, Yihao Liang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

JediKG: Return of the Schema

Benchmark datasets for Knowledge Graph Refinement typically contain only ground facts, discarding the schema available in the source knowledge graph. This limits the evaluation of Neural-Symbolic methods that leverage expressive schemas. We present JEDIKG the first resource that systematically addresses these gaps thro...

Ivan Diliso, Roberto Barile, Nicola Fanizzi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Payoff scaling shapes cooperation in LLM agents across languages

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that negotiate, coordinate, and make decisions on behalf of human users. Understanding how they cooperate is therefore important for AI governance and machine behaviour research. We examine two factors: payoff magnitude and interaction language...

Trung-Kiet Huynh, Dao-Sy Duy-Minh, Thanh-Bang Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Aligning Language Models with General Preferences: An Empirical Study of Direct Nash Optimization

Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) aligns a language model to a general preference function by approximating the Nash equilibrium of a two-player preference game. Its practical variant, DNO-Prct, iterates on-policy sampling, LLM-based rating of the samples together with a teacher's gold response, large-margin preference-pa...

Austin Tsai, Saurav Nanda, Ganapathy Parthasarathy et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Suppressing Misaligned Behaviors in Language Models, Durably

Undesired model behaviors can emerge or re-emerge at any stage of training. Once observed, how effectively can we suppress them? To study this question, we first construct two model organisms--language models deliberately trained to exhibit a specific misalignment--that differ in what triggers the behavior. The narrow-...

Luxi He, Pengcheng Jiang, Jifan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

A simple adaptive accelerated optimistic dual averaging method for unconstrained convex optimization in $p$-norm geometry

Efficient preconditioning plays an important role in large-scale first-order optimization. In this paper, we propose an adaptive accelerated optimistic dual averaging ($\text{A}^2$ODA) method for unconstrained convex optimization that adopts low-cost preconditioning based on $p$-norm geometry for $p\in[2,\infty]$. The...

Bowen Li, Danqing Zhou, Chuan He · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

LoopVQ: Sub 1-bit KV Cache Quantization for Looped Transformers

Looped transformers are a parameter-efficient alternative to standard transformers for language modeling. By reapplying the same layers across multiple loop steps, recent looped language models match the performance of non-looped models several times their size. While this architecture effectively reduces parameter mem...

Minsoo Cheong, Sungjoo Yoo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Knowingly Wrong: Training LLMs Against Their Own Beliefs can Induce Misalignment

Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on harmful data in a narrow domain, such as bad medical advice, can make it broadly misaligned. How realistic this risk is remains unclear, since models are very rarely fine-tuned on explicitly harmful data in practice. In this work, we show that fine-tuning on data the model be...

Ariana M. Villegas-Suarez, Guido Freire, Sohan Venkatesh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Going Deeper With Memories

Byte level language models avoid tokenizer dependence and provide universal coverage, but processing every byte at full resolution is expensive. We introduce DeepMem, a causal multiscale architecture that separates semantic compression from exact byte preservation. A learned invertible subband transform constructs a hi...

Afshin Khadangi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Fairness Metrics based on the AUC in Clinical Predictive AI

Fairness evaluation of clinical prediction models for binary outcomes often involves fairness metrics that compare the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC, or c-statistic) across subgroups. However, the AUC has been shown to be a non-collapsible metric, meaning that its subgroup specific and ove...

Jo\~ao Matos, Ben Van Calster, Richard D. Riley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Basin2Vec: Learning Basin-Centric Embeddings for Scalable Hydrological Modeling

Reliable streamflow prediction across time and in ungauged basins requires representations that capture hydrologically relevant basin characteristics. Existing methods rely on either fixed handcrafted attributes or general-purpose Earth observation embeddings not tailored to basin structure. We introduce \textbf{Basin2...

Muhammad Talha, Xiaofeng Liu, Yuan Yang 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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