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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution: Tracing Training Influence to Learned Behavioral Policies

While existing data attribution methods can identify which training examples build specific mechanistic circuits, they cannot explain how training data shapes the behavioral decisions a model learns. We introduce Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution (SMDA), a framework that attributes training pairs to the interpretab...

Reza Habibi, Darian Lee, Magy Seif El-Nasr · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Calibration for High-Sparsity LLM Pruning: From Single Sources to Capability Coverage

Post-training LLM pruning relies on a small calibration set, usually chosen heuristically and judged by WikiText perplexity or by mean accuracy on general-domain commonsense benchmarks. This single-axis view hides capability-specific effects: at 60\% sparsity, strategies separated by $2.85$ points in averaged commonsen...

Hu Xu, Zhaolong Xing, Congcong Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMSurgeon: Diagnosing Data Mixture of Large Language Models

The pretraining data mixture of Large Language Models (LLMs) constitutes their "digital DNA", shaping model behaviors, capabilities, and failure modes. Yet this composition is rarely disclosed, making post-hoc auditing of data combination or provenance difficult. In this work, we formalize Data Mixture Surgery (DMS): g...

Yaxin Luo, Jiacheng Cui, Xiaohan Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ChaosBench-Logic v2: Evaluating LLM Logical Reasoning over Dynamical Systems at Scale

Standard accuracy on binary reasoning benchmarks hides critical failure modes: prior collapse, inconsistency under paraphrase, and inability to reason about parameter-dependent dynamics. We present ChaosBench-Logic v2, a 40,886-question benchmark over 165 dynamical systems with 27 FOL predicates and 78 axiom edges, tog...

Noel Thomas · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Plan Before You Trade: Inference-Time Optimization for RL Trading Agents

Reinforcement learning agents for portfolio management are typically trained and deployed as static policies, with no mechanism for policy adjustments using price forecasts at inference time. We propose FinPILOT (Financial Plugin Inference-time Learning for Optimal Trading), a plugin inference-time policy optimization...

Eun Go, Rohan Deb, Arindam Banerjee · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CRAFT: Forgetting-Aware Intervention-Based Adaptation for Continual Learning

Large language models (LLMs) can learn new tasks through fine-tuning, but learning tasks sequentially often leads to catastrophic forgetting of earlier ones. This paper proposes CRAFT, a continual learning framework that keeps model weights frozen and instead learns low-rank interventions on hidden representations. Sim...

Md Anwar Hossen, Fatema Siddika, Juan Pablo Munoz et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TensorDex: A Compact, Tensor-Centric Storage System for Modern AI Models

Modern model hubs store hundreds of petabytes of large language models (LLMs), with fine-tuned variants dominating the storage footprint. These variants contain substantial cross-model redundancy that delta compression can exploit by storing only the difference between a target and a reference model. However, compressi...

Tingfeng Lan, Zirui Wang, Yunjia Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Not To Interfere: Adapting Experts For Model Merging

Model merging has shown that multitask models can be created by directly combining the parameters of different models that are each specialized on tasks of interest. However, models trained independently on distinct tasks often exhibit interference that degrades the merged model's performance. To solve this problem, we...

Pratik Ramesh, George Stoica, Arun Iyer et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ReText: Text Boosts Generalization in Image-Based Person Re-identification

Generalizable image-based person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to recognize individuals across cameras in unseen domains without retraining. While visual features are sensitive to domain shifts, natural language descriptions remain consistent across domains, regardless of lighting changes and other biases. Since well-...

Timur Mamedov, Karina Kvanchiani, Anton Konushin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Product Interaction: An Algebraic Formalism for Deep Learning Architectures

Modern neural architectures are largely developed as distinct empirical constructions, despite recurring principles across convolutional, attention, state-space, and equivariant models. We introduce Product Interactions, an algebraic formalism that unifies these architectures under a common construction principle and t...

Haonan Dong, Chun-Wun Cheng, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scientific feedback reveals productive regimes beyond training conventions

Human-imposed design conventions can restrict the alternatives represented in scientific training data and shape the search preferences learned by generative models. We show that scientific performance feedback can redirect the learned search distribution toward productive regions beyond those conventions, without expl...

Yoon Pyo Lee, Samrendra Roy, Souvik Chakraborty 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

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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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