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#small language model Preprint Oct 2026

ActionOPD: Distilling Decisions, Not Tokens

This work introduces ActionOPD, an action-level on-policy distillation method motivated by maximizing expected teacher-action likelihood at student-encountered states, and establishes ActionOPD as a promising approach to agent distillation.

Hui-Ning Yuan, Xiang-Min Yi, Ze-Lai Xu et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Oct 2026

When Extremists Enter LLM Societies: Investigating Extreme Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

This work introduces EXAM, an EXtremist Agent Modeling framework that capable of configuring extremist agents for specific tasks and precisely controlling their population proportion, spatial distribution, interaction protocols, and measurement interfaces.

Guo Chen, Huai-Jin Xie, Zi-Wen Li et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Oct 2026

Paraphrase Consensus Is Not Self-Consistency: Instruction Reliance and Robustness in VLA Policies

Vision-language-action policies fine-tuned on LIBERO are trained and evaluated on the same ten instruction strings, and rewording the instruction changes base OpenVLA's success by -38.0 points, although the stronger policies lose a much smaller fraction of it than base OpenVLA.

Han-Long Li, Si-Han Tan, Takeshi Ashizawa et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Artificial intelligence in functional gastrointestinal disorders: From symptom recognition to personalised management

Functional gastrointestinal disorders, now termed disorders of gut-brain interaction, are heterogeneous conditions shaped by psychological, physiological, microbial, and environmental factors.Diagnosis and treatment remain difficult because symptoms overlap, trajectories fluctuate, and no single objective biomarker exi...

Han-Run Wang, He-Lei Wang · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Oct 2026

Psychological resilience and burnout in nursing interns versus registered nurses: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Burnout is a common, serious occupational mental-health problem in nursing, and psychological resilience is a modifiable factor that may be associated with lower burnout. Whether this association holds equally across the education-to-practice transition, from interns to registered nurses, is unclear, and the...

Xiaomei Chen, Yiyun Zhang, Fangfang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Grading Real Coursework with a Local Language Model

Grading programming coursework is challenging work, and sending student work to a commercial API raises privacy problems for a university. We built a grading system that runs entirely locally and tested it on 125 real submissions from six different laboratory exercises for which two instructors had already marked every...

Ádám Domonkos, Péter Ekler · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

The image of scientists among neurodivergent children: a pilot study

Abstract This pilot study aimed to explore how a specific group of neurodivergent students in the 4th and 5th grades of elementary school represent scientists through drawing. To this end, the Draw-a-Scientist Test (DAST) was administered to 7 neurodivergent children with a diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who...

Antonia Maria Alves da Silva, Ygor Raphael Gomes Eloy, Henrique Luis do Carmo e Sá et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Oct 2026

Gender differences in body appreciation beyond binary comparisons: A comprehensive, preregistered multivariate 4-level meta-analysis across 75 nations.

Body appreciation has received a good deal of research attention due to its role in the promotion of well-being and adaptive eating. Prior meta-analytic evidence has pointed to small gender differences in body appreciation (favoring men), but the rapidly expanding literature and growing recognition of gender diversity...

David Frohnmayer, Can Evenkamp, Melissa P. Kunzi et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

The Synthetic Imputation Approach: Using LLMs to Generate Synthetic Texts for Underrepresented Categories in Supervised Classification Tasks

Abstract Annotated text data are central to many empirical applications in political science, yet many annotation tasks involve categories that are sparsely populated. These low- N categories pose problems for both encoder-only and decoder-only (generative) Transformer large language models (LLMs), leading to low perfo...

Joan C. Timoneda · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Authorship Attribution in Arabic: Teaching Companion

This teaching companion accompanies Chapter 8, Authorship Attribution in Arabic: From Stylometric Methods to Large Language Models, prepared for the edited volume Arabic Digital Humanities (John Benjamins). It provides an illustrated teaching guide, Python and R scripts, fixed evaluation folds, corpus and excerpt manif...

George K. Mikros · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

DB-HSM: LLM-driven semantic boundary debugging for network intrusion detection

Machine-learning intrusion detectors reach high average accuracy yet fail consistently on a small set of flows near the decision boundary, where benign and attack traffic overlap in feature space. These errors matter operationally, and standard remedies stop short: adversarial training adds perturbations whose gradient...

Zeru Wang, Tadiwa Elisha Nyamasvisva · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Confidential Narrative Intelligence on a Local AI Box: Epistemic Symmetry Theory with Algebraic Mixture-of-Experts Routing

Financial institutions want to read the narrative of markets with language models, but much of what matters most — internal research, positions, committee notes, client communications — cannot leave their perimeter. This report describes how Epistemic Symmetry Theory (EST), a framework that detects regime changes in ma...

Giovanni P Barabino · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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