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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Fisher information and the geometry of memorization in neural networks

A fruitful approach towards understanding generalization in machine learning involves characterizing how models separate generalizable structure from idiosyncratic or even corrupted features of training data. Fisher information has emerged as a diagnostic tool for this separation, leveraging loss geometry to distinguis...

Daniel T. Bernstein, Chase Goddard, L. di Carlo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

WildTrace: Evaluating Training Data Detection in Realistic Large-Scale LLM Post-Training

Although post-training significantly enhances model performance, the use of massive undisclosed data raises concerns about benchmark contamination and copyright infringement. This drives growing interest in training data detection for post-trained models. Existing evaluations for training data detection often leverage...

Hengxiang Zhang, Junxian Liu, Hongxin Wei · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PID-Gated Continual Prompt Adaptation Under Noisy Feedback

Deploying LLM agents in non-stationary environments requires continually revising their instructions as the task drifts, yet rewriting after every reported mistake can turn noisy feedback into persistent errors. This raises an often-overlooked scheduling question in prompt adaptation: when should feedback trigger a las...

Zhentao Xu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dream2Discern: Learning from Hard Latent Variants for Runtime Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems

Reliable deployment of LLM-based multi-agent systems calls for runtime auditors that predict terminal outcomes from observed execution prefixes. These auditors typically learn from a limited corpus of trajectories with verified outcomes. Expanding this corpus requires costly execution and verification, yet broader fail...

Boxuan Zhang, jianing Zhu, Xiaotian Han et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Autoregressive Decoding as a Martingale: Characterizing the Stochastic Dynamics of LLM Generation

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of language tasks. At their core, autoregressive LLMs are conditional probability models that learn to approximate the next-token distribution given the preceding context. Despite this probabilistic nature, the stochastic dynamics of auto...

Xia-Hui Zhu, Zhen-Yi Qi, Wan-Wei Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When Does Compensating Inherited Quantization Error Help? Mean-Square Guarantees for Layer-Wise Quantization and Their Limits

Layer-wise post-training quantization methods let each layer compensate for the quantization error inherited from earlier layers. We ask under what assumptions such compensation guarantees a network output error no larger than without it. For linear networks of any depth, with the required calibration Gram matrices inv...

Tian-Hao Guo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unfair and Unsafe: Everyday Bias Triggers Emergent Misalignment

Emergent misalignment (EM) occurs when fine-tuning a language model to a narrow task makes it misaligned on unrelated ones. Because organizations now routinely fine-tune models on their own data, it matters which kinds of training data cause EM. So far, studies have induced EM with data containing recognized safety fai...

Alex Mart\'i Guiu, Nicolas Zumarraga, Kevin O'Sullivan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Hardware-Assisted Multi-Stage Ransomware Detection with Adaptive Machine Learning

This paper proposes an novel framework that couples software-level scanning with hardware-level microprocessor activity monitoring to achieve efficient ransomware detection and mitigation and provides trace-level interpretability that explains the underlying decision process.

Salma Aboelmagd, Md Rakibul Ahasan, Zhi-Xin Pan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DiffNash: Finding Nash Equilibrium in High-Dimensional Continuous Action Spaces with Diffusion Policies

Computing equilibria in high-dimensional continuous games requires learning and representing rich, multi-modal strategy distributions, something conventional neural policies struggle to achieve. Diffusion models offer a natural solution, but standard diffusion training requires direct samples from a fixed target distri...

Hai-Chuan Wang, Anagha Satish, Jia-Le Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Scalable Weak-to-Strong Verifier Hardening for Agent Environments

Agent environments are essential for large language model (LLM) development. They use programmatic verifiers to turn complex outcomes into rewards. Verifiers can be attacked into awarding full credit to cheating agents without completing the intended task, causing inaccurate evaluation and misalignment in training. As...

Chong-Fang Zeng, Zi-Qian Zhong, Ke-Xun Zhang et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gen Through the Lens: Camera-Controllable Video Generation via Cross-Coordinate Conditioning Fusion

We present Gen Through the Lens, a camera-controllable image-to-video generation framework that synthesizes videos from a given reference image while enabling realistic and physically consistent camera operations. Unlike previous models that treat camera motion as abstract conditioning or rely on a single coordinate sy...

Shuai Li, Jinxu Xiang, Xinyuan Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Make Every Expansion Count: Learning to Search Efficiently in LLM Code Repair

Large language model (LLM) code-repair systems fix faulty programs by repeatedly generating and testing revisions. Each revision is costly, making the choice of which repair to pursue important for efficiency. Existing search policies rely on test pass rates and search statistics, ignoring the details of test failures...

Elad Sharony, Ido Greenberg, Jialin Song et al. · 0 citations

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