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Intent-Driven Dynamic Chunking: Segmenting Documents to Reflect Predicted Information Needs

Intent-Driven Dynamic Chunking (IDC) is introduced, a novel approach that uses predicted user queries to guide document segmentation and aligning document structure with anticipated information needs significantly boosts retrieval performance, particularly for long and heterogeneous documents.

Christos Koutsiaris · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

An Empirical Study of Reward Specification and Benchmark Reliability in GRPO-based LLM Unlearning

This work compares four reward designs that span lexical suppression, anti-refusal shaping, rubric-based broad answering, and an explicit refusal contrast, and shows that optimization success is not equivalent to behavioral unlearning: RWKU forget scores, held-out completion audits, terminal training-rollout audits, and training dynamics can point to different conclusions.

Rubén Balbastre, J. Orduña, M. Perez · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Domain-Adapted Molecular Language Models for Efficient Search of Make-on-Demand Libraries

Pretrained molecular language models are increasingly used as molecular encoders for learning structure-property relationships. However, their practical suitability for molecular discovery within and beyond their pretraining domain remains unclear. Herein, we systematically benchmark four molecular language models across six virtual molecular libraries spanning drug discovery, organic materials, and catalysis. Native molecular language model embeddings show substantial variation in discovery performance across libraries, whereas molecular fingerprints provide a consistently strong and robust baseline. Consistent with a potential domain-representation mismatch, we show that explicit domain adaptation substantially improves representation performance. Fine-tuning molecular language model encoders on structures from the target virtual library consistently improves sample efficiency, with several adapted encoders emerging as the top-performing representations across the benchmark tasks. These results show that molecular representation quality depends strongly on the target domain and that explicit adaptation can improve the practical utility of molecular foundation models. More broadly, our findings establish domain-adapted molecular representations as a promising strategy for sample-efficient adaptive decision making in virtual screening and self-driving laboratories.

Henrik Wille, Luis-Finley Schütz, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

J-Miner: Recovering Executable Decision Knowledge from Language-Model Classifiers

J-Miner is introduced, which mines text-level named concepts by aggregating vocabulary-aligned internal signals across layers and token positions, and uses the classifier's own predictions to learn executable decision rules over them, and shows that task-specific decision knowledge can be faithfully represented in an explicit, executable form and reused beyond the classifier in which it was learned.

Yunfan Gao, Xinyi Huang, Tao Sheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Cross-Model Memory Transfer via Target-Side Reader Adaptation

The results suggest that Engram can serve as a reusable external knowledge artifact, provided that the target has access to a compatible reader interface and target-side adaptation can further improve alignment when direct reader reuse is insufficient.

Mingyuan Li, Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

A neurosymbolic agent that factors long-horizon household tasks into task-directed visual exploration and constrained symbolic planning and evaluates executable continuations using a domain-independent planning heuristic is presented.

Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

EgoCITE: Context-Augmented Indexing and Time-Aware Retrieval for Long-Horizon Egocentric Memory

This work introduces EgoCITE (Egocentric Context-augmented Indexing and Time-aware Evidence retrieval), a long-horizon agentic memory framework for egocentric QA that improves accuracy over agentic memory baselines by at least 4.4--14.2% while achieving 36$\times$ lower cost than long-context LLM agents.

Le Zhang, Ke Sun · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2026

SLAI T-Rex: Full-Parameter Post-training of the DeepSeek-V4 Family on Ascend SuperPOD

This work demonstrates a full-stack pathway from efficient trillion-parameter model post-training on Ascend infra to domain-specialized Flash models for solver-grounded mathematical modeling, advancing frontier-model systems for complex reasoning.

Dongfang Li, Xiaodong Luo, Ruoyu Sun et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 27, 2026

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 20, 2026

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.