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A new research paper proposes learning to select poison sets rather than sampling them at random, aiming to strengthen backdoor poisoning attacks on large language models. Backdoor poisoning attacks add poisoned examples…
Injecting tool-derived context directly into grep output eliminated the tool-adoption problem for coding agents, with all 99 files surfaced by the annotations opened and 92 receiving patches, according to a blog post by …
A September 11, 2026 arXiv paper shows that permutation-based model confidentiality in hybrid fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) inference fails, with d+1 admissible queries per linear layer enabling exact recovery of a …
A paper posted to arXiv (arXiv:2609.13171v1) formulates derivative fidelity as a failure mode of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), showing that multilayer perceptrons trained only on function values for sin(x) an…
A study comparing traditional machine learning models against LLM-generated rule-based systems for heart disease prediction on the UCI Heart Disease dataset found that traditional models consistently outperformed the LLM…
A study posted to arXiv proposes a hybrid Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN)-Transformer model to predict the probability of collision (PoC) expected in the next Conjunction Data Message (CDM) update for the same close…
A new arXiv paper (2609.13194v1) reports that exact polynomial invariants, canonicalised as reduced Gröbner bases over Q, are more useful for diagnosing faults in reinforcement learning simulators and world models than f…
Researchers introduced SPICE (Simple Polysemantic Feature Interpretation via Clustering-based Explanation), a framework for analyzing polysemanticity in deep vision architectures, detailed in arXiv paper 2609.13198v1. SP…
A new arXiv paper (2609.13201v1) models AI-generated text and images as anomalies linked to main data points and derives bounds on the minimum size of a strongly dissimilar decomposition of random datasets using redundan…
A controlled study across several versions of two major tabular foundation model (TFM) families found that feature engineering gains are concentrated in earlier model generations and become negligible for the strongest m…
Researchers introduced embedding-based partial information decomposition (ePID), a scalable pipeline that compresses nonfocal symptoms into a low-cardinality discrete embedding to compute a tractable two-source PID, acco…
A new arXiv paper, arXiv:2609.13204v1, introduces GradRepair-ODE, a reliability framework that checks, repairs, and rejects gradients in neural ODE training at the optimizer step. Across six synthetic ODE systems, GradRe…
Researchers introduced ReCAST (Reward Credit ASsignment across Timesteps), a method for per-reward, timestep-dependent credit assignment in diffusion reward fine-tuning, detailed in arXiv paper 2609.13425v1. ReCAST uses …
Researchers introduced MACCHIATO, a specialized training algorithm that jointly constructs an explicitly structured ReLU-MLP from partial truth-table observations and an explicit Boolean circuit over signed literals with…
A new analysis method called Elo-per-token measures how large language model agents allocate test-time compute as they revise solutions, use tools, explore alternatives, and decide when to stop, addressing the difficulty…
A training-free, CPU-only lexical prompt-compression pipeline reduced prompt tokens by a mean of 40.3% (sigma = 9.2) while holding BERTScore-F1 at 0.876 against original-prompt output, according to an arXiv paper (2609.1…
Token merging speeds up multilingual speech recognition in the Whisper model family with almost no loss in transcription accuracy across sixteen languages and three model sizes, according to an arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.13…
Researchers introduced TestHallVQA, a multi-image visual question answering benchmark built from scientific exams that combines document-level scale with human-examination difficulty, according to the arXiv paper 2609.13…
A new arXiv paper, RFCLLM, evaluates how well large language models reason about network protocol state machines, testing 16 protocols across 4 tasks and 1482 task queries. The study compares each LLM's implicit finite-s…
A maxillofacial cone beam CT report generation system scored 0.4122 against a composite objective that weights 80% on large language model factual entailment and 20% on lexical overlap, versus 0.2909 for a report selecte…