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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

From Copying to Composition: How Language Models Develop In-Context Learning

In-context learning (ICL) allows language models to adapt their behavior from instructions and demonstrations in a prompt, but accuracy alone does not reveal how contextual information controls their predictions. We study the acquisition and trainability of ICL with a controlled diagnostic that separates copying a near...

Minglai Yang, Xin-Yu Guo, Ren-Xiong Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Neural Supervised Clustering for Learning Individualized Treatment Rules with Many Treatments

Learning an individualized treatment rule (ITR) with many treatments requires estimating treatment-specific effects from limited observations per arm. Treatments with similar conditional responses can share information, but linear contrast models may miss nonlinear heterogeneity. We propose nonlinear supervised cluster...

Da-Xin Huang, Yi-Xin Yuan, Yi-Fan Dai et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Similar Models, Broken Odds: Where Luce's Axiom Fails in Chatbot Arena

Chatbot Arena ranks language models with the Bradley-Terry model, which gives each model one score and so assumes Luce's choice axiom. Choice theory predicts where this fails: near-copies are told apart more decisively than their scores imply. On 1.8 million Arena votes, votes between versions of one model are 1.37 tim...

S. Bakshi, Apurba Bose, Aishwarya Bose et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Revisiting Generative vs. Dense Retrieval: A Static Value Prior Reverses the Gap

Generative retrieval (GR) has emerged as a strong candidate generator for sequential recommendation as language models and semantic-item identifiers have improved. However, GR is not a uniformly stronger replacement of dense retrieval (DR) in online retail candidate generation. We examine their differences on two Amazo...

Ren-Bo Tu, Yang Liu, Shu-Ying Sun · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conformalized Physics-Informed Weak Regression for Parameter Estimation in Epidemic Models

Compartment models of infectious diseases are often linear in coefficients that are physical parameters or products or ratios of them. We exploit this with closed-form least squares and equip the estimates with distribution-free uncertainty. Physics-informed regression (PIR) fits the parameters to finite-difference der...

Allan Peter Engsig-Karup · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Smart Alone, Blind Together: Why Accuracy Fails to CertifyTheory of Mind in Multi-Agent Teams

Coordinators that act on what they infer about teammates are usually certified by the accuracy of those inferences. We argue that accuracy is the wrong certificate, for two reasons. First, the accuracy needed to act depends on what a wrong action costs, so the bar belongs to the deployment, not the module. Second, a mo...

Will Beaumaster, Paul Schrater · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Optimization for One, Feasibility for Most: Decoupling Optimization from Feasibility in Chance-Constrained Programs

Chance-constrained stochastic programs (CCSPs) require solutions that satisfy uncertain constraints with high probability. Standard approaches either embed scenarios directly into optimization by considering sample average approximation (SAA)-based reformulations, growing prohibitively expensive and often failing to fi...

Justin Dumouchelle, Shunyu Yao, Beste Basciftci et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

How Far Can Coding Agents Go in Visual Generation?

Modern image generation largely relies on specialized generative models that leave the process of image construction implicit in learned parameters. We explore an alternative: general-purpose coding agents that construct images through executable programs. Our study of zero-shot drawing on AgentDrawBench, a 200-prompt...

Heng-Guang Zhou, Yuan-Hao Ban, Jia-Qi Feng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Discrete Diffusion Models are Minimax Optimal Under Sparsity

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a leading alternative to autoregressive models for generating text and other categorical data, yet their theoretical foundations remain less developed than those of their continuous counterparts. For continuous diffusion models, a prominent line of theory suggests that these mo...

Luca Blunda, Tyler Farghly, Umut Simsekli et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Discovering Undisclosed Concepts in LoRA Adapters for Diffusion-Based AIGC Models

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has made diffusion model personalization affordable and widely shareable, but it also creates moderation risks when harmful or problematic content is not faithfully disclosed. Hence, it is desired to develop a mechanism that, given a LoRA adapter, discovers the concept it was trained to gener...

Yupeng Qiu, Han Fang, Dhananjai Sharma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Virtual-Alloy Physics-Aware Semantic System for extrapolative prediction of perovskite solar cells

Existing machine-learning models for perovskite solar cells struggle to predict devices made from new materials. Most treat device layers as arbitrary categorical labels and represent perovskite absorbers either through featureless composition vectors or through rigid crystal graphs that require a pre-solved unit cell....

Qiwei Han, Chi Zhou · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Limits of Statistical Assurance for Embodied and Agentic AI under Adaptive Adversaries

Finite safety assessments cannot exclude an adversary that preserves unattacked behavior until certification and activates afterward. We characterize this limitation for embodied and tool-use AI. An adversary that matches the complete observation law until observable, irrevocable certification and retains intervention...

Inderjeet Singh · 0 citations

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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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Google DeepMind Blog Nov 3, 2026

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