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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

CANDO: Conservative Action-Noise Directional Optimization for Residual Reinforcement Learning

Pretrained generative policies provide strong behavior priors for robot control, but adapting them efficiently with online reinforcement learning remains difficult. A central challenge is how to improve a frozen generative policy without destroying the structure learned from offline demonstrations. Noise-space residual...

Zeyu Gao, Chengkai Hou, Chaoyue Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

SaMA: Morpho Adaptation via Asymmetric Expansion of Kronecker Product

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has attracted significant attention in the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) landscape. However, its design suffers from two fundamental limitations. First, its invariance manifold induces flat directions in the loss landscape, creating an optimization bottleneck for adaptive optimizers....

An Nguyen, Anh Tong · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Voluntary Servitude: Weaponized Safety Warning Mechanisms for Controlling AI Agents

LLM agents increasingly act on information retrieved from public sources they treat as credible, which turns a manipulated recommendation into a transaction, a dependency, or a decision with physical consequences. The security literature models this threat as instruction injection, in which an adversary writes a comman...

Ilan Zendel, Matan Levy, Stav Cohen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2026

Aligning Training and Rollout Policies for End-to-End FP4 RL on Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

In this work, we study end-to-end FP4 reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language models. Recent work on FP4 RL has introduced effective recovery recipes that restore accuracy under aggressive low-precision quantization for dense models, but we find that the same approach yield...

Hei-Yi Mak, H. Le, Mehran Taghian Jazi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Anchor: Augmented Cross-Layer Recurrent State for Long-Context Retrieval in Test-Time Training

Parameter-efficient linearization turns a pretrained autoregressive Transformer into an efficient model by hybridizing sliding-window attention (SWA) with a constant-size recurrent memory. But does every layer's recurrent state contribute to long-context retrieval? Investigating an SWA and Test-Time Training (TTT) hybr...

Vimal William, Yuanzhe Li, Danella Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Coarse Semantic Blocks for Efficient Training-Free Sparse Attention

We introduce a training-free sparse attention method that builds a prompt-specific key index to accelerate both prefill and decoding. The method clusters the keys into large semantic blocks that group tokens from noncontiguous positions. Each query position selects blocks by scoring their centroids and attends to the o...

Sosuke Kobayashi, Shoichiro Yamaguchi, Seiya Tokui · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

What Is the Influence of Task Order in Continual Learning? An Empirical Study and Order-Aware Evaluation for Motion Forecasting

Aggregate scores for continual learning algorithms rest on a distribution over task orders that is rarely stated. We formulate algorithm comparison as an expectation over a declared order distribution, which separates training variation from order variation, and apply it to motion forecasting with four road-layout task...

Zirui Li, Yunlong Lin, Haohan Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Reciprocity Can Erase Direction:tructural Boundaries and Controlled Utility of Magnetic Graph Networks

Magnetic graph networks encode direction through phase, but a learned graph can erase the intended directional mechanism before prediction. We characterize this failure for support-based magnetic Laplacians. Exact identities relate imaginary energy and distance from zero phase to amplitude-weighted reciprocity. Top-$k$...

Dawei Han, Zicheng Wang, Yaoxing Ren et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

OmniST: Topology-Invariant Spatiotemporal Forecasting with Guaranteed-Coverage Uncertainty at Unseen Sensor Locations

Standard spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks need a fixed-size adjacency matrix, coupling model weights to a specific sensor count N; they cannot produce any output at a sensor absent from training. We present OmniST, a topology-invariant forecaster whose computation has zero structural dependency on the number...

Praveg Vashishtha · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

LIRA: A More Interpretable Dynamic Loss-Informed Rank Allocation for Low-Rank Adaptation

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has become a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for large pretrained models. However, standard LoRA typically assigns a fixed rank profile despite layer- and stage-dependent adaptation needs, while recent adaptive-rank variants often rely on heuristic or first-order signals th...

Sihao Wang, Bozheng Li, Xuemiao Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

GC-MoE: Overlapping Expert-Parallel Token Dispatch with FP8/FP4 Grouped GEMM via CUDA Green Contexts

Under expert parallelism, mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers pay all-to-all token dispatch, grouped GEMMs, and a combine step in every layer. In decode each rank holds only 1-256 tokens: dispatch latency and weight traffic dominate while tensor-core utilization is inherently low. In fused operators such as DeepGEMM's Mega...

Yong Li, Kan Liu, Tao Lan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Impact of Input Resolution in Mammographic Mass Detection: A Controlled Multi-Architecture Study

Deep-learning-based mass detectors usually downsample mammograms, trading fine image detail for lower computational cost. However, published studies cannot reveal how much accuracy this trade-off sacrifices, since they also differ in architecture, preprocessing, and evaluation protocol. In this work, we isolated the ef...

Kaan Buyukdemirci, Emine Ulku Saritas · 0 citations

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Making machines that can listen

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