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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

FoundPDE: A generative foundation model for data-driven symbolic discovery of partial differential equations

By amortizing symbolic discovery across equation families, FoundPDE shifts PDE discovery from per-dataset search toward a reusable pretrained model that extends to new physics with limited additional data, a step toward foundation models that uncover interpretable governing laws directly from scientific data.

Lang-Chen Liu, Jun-Ling Luo, Min Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Policy Discrepancy: Capability-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) integrates domain specialists into a shared student, but determining how strongly each teacher should supervise remains challenging. Existing discrepancy-based allocation can assign strong supervision even when the student already matches or exceeds the teacher's task perform...

Xuanfeng Yang, Le Gui, Jiaming Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Expert-Guided Rubrics as Dense Reward Signals for Reinforcement Learning in Non-Verifiable Domains

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in non-verifiable domains such as financial services, where they must interpret user intent, rewrite queries, and retrieve information under domain-specific constraints. Although reinforcement learning (RL) can train such agents from the conseq...

Ashish Bansal, Hossam Amer, Keerat Kaur Guliani et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Steerable Pluralistic Policy Alignment from Anonymized Crowd Feedback

Pluralistic alignment requires AI systems to learn from diverse populations whose preferences may reflect heterogeneous or even conflicting objectives, and to personalize their behavior to individual users. Existing approaches in pluralistic alignment often assume access to annotator identities and rely on powerful pre...

Akansha Kalra, Ellen R. Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Adaptive Multi-Token Prediction: How far should we go?

Multi-token prediction (MTP) can accelerate language-model decoding by drafting several tokens and verifying them in a single target-model pass. However, the best speculation horizon changes with context: longer drafts offer greater amortization when reliable, but can waste compute on suffixes discarded after a rejecti...

E. Anand, M. Parwani, Xin-Yuan Cao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evolving Semantic Indexes for Generative Retrieval

Generative retrieval (GR) casts search and recommendation as autoregressive generation of discrete semantic identifiers (SIDs). SID design largely determines GR quality, but its discrete, interdependent components (SID construction, collision handling, decoding, and training) cannot be optimized end-to-end with gradien...

Jinming Nian, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Henry Tsai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

OptScientist: Automated Discovery of Optimization Laws

Many scientific phenomena are best understood as outcomes of underlying optimization problems, yet automated scientific discovery has largely focused on recovering equations that describe observed input-output patterns. We introduce OptScientist, a novel automated framework for discovering compact symbolic optimization...

Zhenyao Ma, Yue-Yue Liang, Jian-Qiao Zhu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Building Telecom Language Models with RSOD: Domain Data, Specialist Post-Training, Memory-Conscious Distillation, and Networking Evaluation

Telecom language models must combine broad networking knowledge with specialist behavior across routing, broadband services, access technologies, and operational diagnostics while remaining practical to deploy as a single model. We present an end-to-end framework that builds source-grounded synthetic training data from...

Anil Srirangapatna Nagesh, Nitin Gupta, Anuj Taneja et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lost in Recovery: Demystifying Recovery Behavior of Computer-Use Agents via Goal-Oriented Action Replay

Recent advances in large (vision) language models have enabled computer-use agents that automate digital workflows via fine-grained keyboard and mouse operations. However, such agents remain fragile in long-horizon settings, where errors accumulate and executed actions leave unintended side effects, making the ability...

Byeonghun Bang, Sangwoo Park, Jinheon Baek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SAPD: Learning from Agent Experience without Environment Interaction

Step-Advantage Policy Distillation (SAPD) is proposed, a method for learning from offline trajectories using relative step advantages, allowing the student to generate responses conditioned on recorded histories, and introduces relative step advantage signals to stabilize training.

Jun-Cheng Diao, Hai-Bin Wang, Wei Shi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Give the Model a Finger: Developmentally Aligned Evaluation of Counting in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) are exact on small sets and drift into estimation on larger ones, a profile reminiscent of children before they master counting. Children cross the barrier with epistemic actions: pointing at each item while reciting number words, moving counted items aside, partitioning the array. We give...

Ying-Xin Jia, Hui Geng, Wen-Xin Yang et al. · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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