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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do bots feel bad? Assessing empirical evidence for functional valence in LLMs

Do LLMs have valenced states, i.e. states that feel pleasant or unpleasant? Recent empirical work has claimed to show that LLMs possess functional valenced states (e.g. ``functional pleasure and pain'' [Ren et al. 2026], ``functional emotions'' [Sofroniew et al. 2026], and ``functional welfare'' [Han et al. 2026]) that...

Iwan Williams · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Vision-Language Agents Can Learn in Their Own Latent Worlds

Learning from experience is essential for building the next generation of agents that continually expand their capabilities. Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) already internalize rich world knowledge, yet this knowledge is rarely leveraged to drive policy improvement through online interaction. Realizing this po...

Haoxi Li, Sikai Bai, Jianfei Ma et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Natural Hard-Negative Mining from Positives for Instruction-Following Retrieval

The proposed Natural Hard-Negative Mining (NHNM), which promotes convertible negatives under query-compatible instructions and repurposes original positives as natural instruction hard negatives, produces compact, high-contrast supervision aligned with the pretrained retrieval space.

Chao-Lang Li, Jing-Yu Li, Zhao-Cheng Du et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Noise Steering: Exploiting Wake Steering and Acoustic Directivity for Noise-Constrained Wind Farm Control via Reinforcement Learning

Existing noise mitigation strategies for wind farms usually consist in reducing turbines power output, without accounting for the wake interactions between them and the noise emission directivity. This leads to over-conservative policies and unexploited wind power. Yet, turbine yaw can simultaneously affect wake intera...

M. de Frutos, Baptiste Corban, C. Monroc et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RubricAtlas: Mining Type-Level Rubrics from Expert Reports to Evaluate Deep Research Agents

Deep research agents conduct multi-step Web searches and synthesise retrieved information into analytical reports. Evaluating these outputs requires checking which analyses they deliver, beyond the presence of relevant facts. Query-specific binary rubrics make individual requirements explicit, but task-level checklists...

Delphine Wang, Si-Nuo Wang, Rui Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GUI-JEPA: Candidate-Conditioned JEPA Latents as a Fast Action Policy for Mobile GUI Agents

Mobile GUI agents are typically fine-tuned 7B-scale vision-language models (VLMs) that generate each action as text. However, these VLMs decode every action token by token, and even agents that score candidate actions keep a large language model or VLM in the loop, making them slow and memory-hungry. To address these i...

Bingchao Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Shunyu Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evolving Agent Teams

The rapid progress of software engineering agents drives interest in applying them to open-ended problems such as GPU kernel optimization. However, we find that existing coding agents converge to local optima on real-world, expert-written kernels (e.g., FlashInfer). We introduce Evolving Agent Teams, a multi-agent fram...

Shiyi Cao, Ziming Mao, Dacheng Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Conservative Policy Iteration For Zero-Sum POSGs

An approximate policy-iteration algorithm for finite-horizon zs-POSGs that alternates local policy improvements, conservative updates, and persistent exploration and is competitive at small horizons and often improves the runtime-exploitability trade-off at larger horizons compared with PBVI, HSVI, and CFR+.

E. Escudie, M. Sabatelli, J. Dibangoye · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When the Critic Falls Behind: Co-Evolving Rubrics and Harnesses for Continual Agent Self-Improvement

Autonomous agents increasingly depend on harnesses that govern interaction, memory, tools, and execution around large language models (LLMs). While recent work has begun to evolve these harnesses from execution experience, the supervision used to guide evolution often remains relatively static, making it difficult to t...

Hao Chen, Yu-Kun Yan, Zi-Yu Han et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

An Incremental Knowledge-Graph Learner Digital Twin for Evidence-Grounded Early Warning

An incremental Learner Digital Twin for evidence-grounded early warning is introduced, implemented as a lightweight knowledge graph that can be routed through a semantic and provenance-aware representation while preserving predictive performance and adding traceability, verifiability, and evidence-grounded explanation.

N. Lê, Marie-Hélène Abel, B. Laforge · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dependency Graphs of Mathematical Arguments: Representation, Structural Measurement, and Proof Review

We propose a source-grounded framework for representing and measuring mathematical arguments with assistance from large language models. It includes numbered and unnumbered statements, equations, assumptions, and constructions, distinguishing source occurrences from contextual states and inference records. Proposed dep...

Eunji Park · 0 citations

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