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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Representable but Unlearned: Encoding Rank and the Interaction-Prediction Floor

Input encodings can restrict which measured contrasts a predictor can jointly reproduce, even when no single contrast is forced to vanish. We compute the attainable contrast space from an encoder's equivalence classes and a fixed contrast design, without labels, loss, or a fitted model; projecting the recorded contrast...

Zahra Khodagholi, Niloofar Yousefi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

PreviewDiff: Multimodal Critic-Guided Search over Diffusion Latents

Diffusion models can produce striking images and videos, but they still struggle with the compositional details that make a generation faithful to a prompt, such as object counts, attribute binding, spatial relations, and temporally grounded actions. A common way to improve prompt satisfaction is to spend more compute...

Vighnesh Subramaniam, B. Katz, Brian Cheung et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Draft in Parallel, Condition Through Depth: Adjacent Causal Injection for Speculative Decoding

DSpine is proposed, a drafter with causal conditioning injection throughout the backbone: at every layer, gated adjacent injection writes each predecessor's predicted feature into its successor, so the causal conditioning chain unfolds over network depth while all positions update in parallel.

Hao-Hui Zhang, Ke-Yu Chen, Hao-Cheng Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata

This work test the reasoning capabilities of Neural Cellular Automata, networks of recurrent cells that use strictly local connectivity and asynchronous updates, and shows that NCAs are robust reasoners capable of dynamically modulating compute to recover efficiently from damage, and that they can scale to solve reason...

Mayalen Etcheverry, Pietro Miotti, Aidan Sirbu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ThinQuant: Scalable Rotation Learning for Weight and Activation Quantization of LLMs

ThinQuant is introduced, a data selection procedure which reduces the required number of calibration data points and an exact reduction of the associated optimization on this reduced calibration set using an efficient ADMM algorithm that iteratively employs thin matrix updates at every step, hence the name ThinQuant.

Mehdi Makni, Ryan Lucas, R. Mazumder · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

LoopICL: Looping a single transformer block to solve tabular tasks

LoopICL, a looped transformer whose core design decouples parameter count from computational depth, is introduced, a looped transformer whose recurrent design enables users to also trade off inference cost and performance, providing a resource-aware TFM.

Amir Rezaei Balef, Katharina Eggensperger · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PHASE: A Physiology-Guided Hierarchical Foundation Model for Intracranial EEG

Beyond task performance, PHASE learns to encapsulate the physiological characteristics clinicians recognize, from seizure onset and its propagation to anatomical region identity, even though its pretraining contains no ictal recordings or anatomical labels.

Yi-Peng Zhang, Chen-Da Duan, Yuan-Yi Ding et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FLOORA: A Human-Aligned Domain-Specific Language Model for Architectural Design

This work introduces FLOORA (Floor Layout Optimization with RL Alignment), a family of small domain-specific language (DSL) models for architectural layout generation that outperforms much larger frontier models, and suggests that similar domain-specific recipes may be useful in other engineering domains with structure...

S. Rezaei-Shoshtari, Patryk Wozniczka, Shu Ishida et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Understanding Decision-Making Mechanisms in Neural Routing Solvers

Three representative autoregressive NCO models spanning two encoder-decoder configurations are investigated, suggesting that AM and POMO predominantly follow a persistent geometric pattern throughout solution construction, whereas LEHD contains linearly accessible information about multiple future actions.

Fatemeh Askari, Mazdak Teymourian, Mohammad Izadi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Improving scalable oversight with co-trained monitors

Worker-monitor setups are a promising approach to AI oversight, but training workers against fixed monitors can incentivize monitor evasion. We study whether this failure mode can be avoided by co-training the monitor alongside the worker, and explore both supervised and self-supervised approaches. In the supervised se...

Joseph H. Rudoler, Kevin Tan, Benedict Tessler et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

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