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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SuperAI: Merging Capabilities Across Heterogeneous Foundation Models

Enabling the reuse and composition of knowledge and capabilities distributed across foundation models is an important step toward building scalable artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, architectural differences and incompatible representations make it difficult to transfer and integrate these capabilities thr...

Jingtong Dou, Chuancheng Shi, Wenhua Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SocraticRepair: Planning-Guided Socratic Tutoring for Program Debugging and Misconception Repair

Large language models are increasingly used in computer science education. However, the teaching abilities of even the most powerful LLMs are limited: they tend to reveal the solution prematurely and may lose focus on the learner's current debugging objective. To address this, we introduce SocraticRepair, a planning-gu...

Mykhailo Kopytskyi, Jianhua Yang, Mir Seyedebrahimi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Belief Embedding Tree Search

Beliefs in a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) are posterior distributions over the hidden state given the agent's history of actions and observations. They summarize everything the history says about the state, so planning in a POMDP is planning in a Markov decision process (MDP) over beliefs. Belie...

Christopher Solinas, Radovan Halu\v{s}ka, Martin Schmid et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AlphaRLM: Aligning Language Models for Literature-Grounded Symbolic Factor Discovery

Formulaic alpha mining seeks to discover executable expressions that capture predictive market signals in a vast, noisy search space. Recent LLM-based approaches use prompting, iterative search, or seed-factor evolution, leaving direct factor construction through policy learning less explored. To address this, we intro...

Jie Huang, Yuecheng Hong, Yao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

What Survives When Activation Steering Is Used as Memory

Activation steering has recently been used as a memory for skills: past experiences of an agent are stored as steering vectors and retrieved later. Facts and preferences about the user are assumed to need text instead. We test that assumption with a training-free activation memory beside a frozen LLM. The change an exp...

Vedant Jumle · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Bridging Risk Approximation Gaps in Model Predictive Task Sampling via In-Context Modeling

This work formalizes failure modes, derives lagged-risk decompositions that expose the resulting temporal bias, and recasts risk prediction as an in-context sequence modeling problem, and yields more reliable difficulty estimates and consistent performance gains across robust Meta-RL, DR, and prompt curriculum RL post-...

Jia-Rong Wen, Qing-Chao Tao, Kai-Yu Zhang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MARL-BattleGrounds: A Novel JAX-native Benchmark for Heterogeneous and Competitive Multi-agent RL

We present MARL-BattleGrounds (MARL-BGs), an easy-to-use JAX-native benchmark for heterogeneous and competitive multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), designed to be sample-efficient, computationally efficient, and researcher-centric. MARL benchmarks are typically simple and efficient, like SMAX, where winning redu...

Ulixes Tariq Hawili, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Yoann Altmann et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CESNET-TimeSeries26: A Multi-Year Network Traffic Time Series Dataset for Annual Seasonality, Concept Drift, and Long-Term Anomaly Detection

Forecast-based models are fundamental to network traffic management and anomaly detection. However, it is essential to evaluate these forecasting models over extended periods of time in order to assess their adaptability to unexpected phenomena and shifts in underlying patterns. This kind of long-term evaluation requir...

Josef Koumar, Karel Hynek, Kamil Jerabek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shaping Latent Mixture-of-Experts: From Expert Geometry to Layerwise Capacity Allocation

Fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) models commonly increase expert count by narrowing each expert, treating expert shape as a by-product of routing granularity. LatentMoE moves expert computation into a lower-dimensional space, exposing the input dimension and intermediate width of each expert as explicit design cho...

Yaoxiang Wang, Kai Zhang, Ruobing Xie et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Decoupling Knowledge Forgetting and Refusal Learning in MLLM Unlearning

Current evaluations of multimodal unlearning typically focus on whether a model stops outputting target information. This surface-level criterion, however, masks two critical failure modes. First, knowledge suppression techniques often induce confabulation, leading the model to hallucinate facts about the unlearned sub...

Hao-Dong Chen, Sheng-Tao Wen, Dong Liang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CB-Agent: Concept-Based In-Context Learning for Sequential Action Selection

In-context learning (ICL) allows large language models to use demonstrations without updating their parameters. For interactive agents, demonstrations are trajectories of reasoning, actions, and observations that illustrate how to complete a task. Reusing demonstrations in new situations is challenging: directly inputt...

Qingyue Zhang, Huaze Tang, Minyu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ConicFlow: constrained Inference-time optimal control for flow matching models

We propose ConicFlow, which frames constrained sampling from a flow matching model at inference time as an optimal control problem that balances deviation from the pretrained trajectory against reward, subject to hard terminal constraints. We discretize this problem and adapt receding-horizon control, optimizing only a...

Shervin Khalafi, Kasra Fallah, Sung Cho et al. · 0 citations

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