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most citedSAND-mask: An Enhanced Gradient Masking Strategy for the Discovery of Invariances in Domain Generalization

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cs.AI2026

AI Research Preference Models

Thomas Simon Foster, Bassel Al Omari, Tingchen Fu +30

AI research agents (AIRA) can now carry machine learning experiments from proposal through implementation and evaluation. Yet progress on frontier tasks is throttled by the cost of…

cs.AI2026

AIRA_2: Overcoming Bottlenecks in AI Research Agents

Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicolas Baldwin, Edan Toledo +22

Existing research has identified three structural performance bottlenecks in AI research agents: (1) synchronous single-GPU execution constrains sample throughput, limiting the ben…

cs.AI2026

AIRS-Bench: a Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents

Alisia Lupidi, Bhavul Gauri, Thomas Simon Foster +34

LLM agents hold significant promise for advancing scientific research. To accelerate this progress, we introduce AIRS-Bench (the AI Research Science Benchmark), a suite of 20 tasks…

cs.LG2026

A Scalable Measure of Loss Landscape Curvature for Analyzing the Training Dynamics of LLMs

Dayal Singh Kalra, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Andrey Gromov +4

Understanding the curvature evolution of the loss landscape is fundamental to analyzing the training dynamics of neural networks. The most commonly studied measure, Hessian sharpne…

cs.AI2025

What Does It Take to Be a Good AI Research Agent? Studying the Role of Ideation Diversity

Alexis Audran-Reiss, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Karen Hambardzumyan +17

AI research agents offer the promise to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. However, the field is stil…

eess.AS2025

Scaling and Distilling Transformer Models for sEMG

Nicholas Mehlman, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Michael Shvartsman +3

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals offer a promising avenue for developing innovative human-computer interfaces by providing insights into muscular activity. However, the limi…