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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Repulsive Population Policy Gradients for Behaviorally Diverse Reinforcement Learning

This work introduces RePPO, which adapts PPO to jointly optimize a compact population of diverse, high-quality policies using a population-dependent, dynamically shaped reward, and shows that directly optimizing compact populations with RePPO provides a scalable approach to QD-RL across increasingly complex domains.

Saeed Hedayatian, Harsh Shah, Celine Mneimneh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reliability-Aware Short-Term Glycemic Risk Prediction Using an Anchor-Based Comparative Framework of Sequence, Multimodal, and State-Updating Digital-Twin Models

Anticipating short-term hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic risk is essential for proactive diabetes management. However, existing machine learning approaches often use inconsistent evaluation protocols and emphasize predictive performance over reliability. This study introduces an anchor-based benchmarking framework integr...

Pir Bakhsh Khokhar, Carmine Gravino, Fabio Palomba · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Enhancing Clinical Classifier Robustness with Deep Representation Learning Based OOD Detection on DNA Methylation Data

DNA methylation (DNAM) array-based tumor classification is a powerful clinical diagnostic tool, but models trained on fixed reference cohorts can produce faulty predictions for tumor types not represented in the training distribution. We propose an end-to-end deep representation learning-based out-of-distribution (OOD)...

Md Zahangir Alom, Quynh T. Tran, Breuer Alexandar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

BUSTA: Teaching Small Language Models to Reason About Binary Execution

This work examines whether a targeted LLM training approach can transfer distinct RE skills to open models via inverse basic-block execution: given an x86-64 basic block and a desired output register state, the model predicts the input register values that produce it.

Ritika Poddar, Aidan Fennelly, Deirdre Murphy et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Freeze, Don't Clone: Fine-Tuning with Expressive Policies Without Retaining Offline Data

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning uses offline pretraining to accelerate subsequent online learning. While many methods assume the offline dataset remains available throughout fine-tuning, there are many settings where this is not the case. Prior work attributes failures in this setting primarily to critic recal...

Sami Nur Islam, Johan Obando-Ceron, Doina Precup et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Structure, Not Sequence: Tracking and Validating Folding Mechanisms in ESMFold's Trunk with Sparse Autoencoders

Structure predictors like ESMFold fold proteins using neural network computation and have transformed structural biology. However, the driving mechanism from amino-acid (AA) sequence to 3D structure is insufficiently understood, and biological meaning remains locked in the dense network. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have...

Bo-Han Liu, Xiao-Han Fan, Wenqian Ye et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Base Models Can Detect Hidden Intentions that Prompted Classifiers Miss

The Persona Selection Model (PSM) posits that post-training selects a persona the model learned during pre-training. Work on subliminal learning has shown that models can impart covert signals (like "love of owls") into semantically unrelated outputs like strings of numbers, and that students trained on these outputs i...

Oz Amram · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling and Renormalization in Neural Networks: An Effective Renormalization-Group Description of Grokking

Grokking is a delayed transition from memorization to generalization in deep neural networks (NNs). We examine whether scaling and renormalization group (RG) theories can describe this dynamics, establishing a quantitative physical framework for neural generalization transitions. For modular addition on a two-layer NN,...

Min Chen, Jun-Qin Wang, Ze-Guan Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dirichlet Process Mixtures within Semiparametric Bayesian Networks: A Novel Conditional Density Estimation Approach

Semiparametric Bayesian networks (SPBNs) are flexible probabilistic graphical models for representing joint distributions of continuous variables through lower-dimensional conditional probability distributions (CPDs). Existing SPBN models use kernel density estimators (KDEs) for non-parametric CPD modeling, but their o...

Victor Alejandre, Pedro Larra\~naga, Concha Bielza · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Much Does the Hint Matter? Scope Conditions for Hindsight Self-Distillation in Financial Reasoning

Financial institutions operating under data-residency constraints are restricted to open-weight models small enough to locally host, which trail frontier systems on multi-step quantitative reasoning. On-policy distillation narrows such gaps by supervising a student on its own rollouts, but traditional OPD requires a st...

Johnny Yu, Cyril Gorlla · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rollback: Experience Backtracking in World Models for Policy Improvement

This work introduces Rollback, a policy improvement paradigm that turns world models from passive simulators into counterfactual engines, and builds a scalable training system that unifies distributed world-model search with asynchronous real-robot execution, forming a self-reinforcing cycle.

Jia-Yi Luo, Yang Zhang, Li-Liang Chen 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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