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Chinese Retailers Pay for AI Tools While Shoppers Still Chase Subsidies
During Singles’ Day, chat assistants can steer orders with coupons, while merchant software already bills for design and operations work. Platforms are monetizing existing budgets faster than they are monetizing consumer trust.
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## [2.45.4](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.45.3...n8n@2.45.4) (2026-10-26) ### Bug Fixes * **core:** Recreate removed n8n-sandbox sandboxes and rerun workspace setup ([#41919](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41919)) ([11e279a](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/11e279a51d497f8d96f5f9f90bb314dda4f6a49e)) * **core:** Start sub-workflow error workflow when a pre-run check fails ([#41977](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41977)) ([9595142](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/95951428c765f3f0b1da9f341a6ab8c75673385a)) * **editor:** Match navigation plus button hover styling ([#41910](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41910)) ([471c006](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/471c006fdd46091659f3e1d28d989702049489f0)) * **editor:** Point migration report docs link to the
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## [2.45.4](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.45.3...n8n@2.45.4) (2026-10-26) ### Bug Fixes * **core:** Recreate removed n8n-sandbox sandboxes and rerun workspace setup ([#41919](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41919)) ([11e279a](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/11e279a51d497f8d96f5f9f90bb314dda4f6a49e)) * **core:** Start sub-workflow error workflow when a pre-run check fails ([#41977](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41977)) ([9595142](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/95951428c765f3f0b1da9f341a6ab8c75673385a)) * **editor:** Match navigation plus button hover styling ([#41910](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41910)) ([471c006](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/471c006fdd46091659f3e1d28d989702049489f0)) * **editor:** Point migration report docs link to the
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## [2.44.7](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.44.6...n8n@2.44.7) (2026-10-26) ### Bug Fixes * **core:** Start sub-workflow error workflow when a pre-run check fails ([#41978](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41978)) ([67d0e65](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/67d0e65f5d5d01d49b1d14ea2c26a6b803bf058b)) * **Email Trigger (IMAP) Node:** Back off reconnects when the server drops each new connection ([#41927](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41927)) ([10a9518](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/10a9518f0d9d470e619b500383b5b76fc1870662)) * **Microsoft SharePoint Node:** Fix the column mapper 403 and empty items in Map Automatically ([#41906](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41906)) ([e67d278](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/e67d278ef0ae3c15493e74813ecce972e384ff1
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## [2.44.7](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/compare/n8n@2.44.6...n8n@2.44.7) (2026-10-26) ### Bug Fixes * **core:** Start sub-workflow error workflow when a pre-run check fails ([#41978](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41978)) ([67d0e65](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/67d0e65f5d5d01d49b1d14ea2c26a6b803bf058b)) * **Email Trigger (IMAP) Node:** Back off reconnects when the server drops each new connection ([#41927](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41927)) ([10a9518](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/10a9518f0d9d470e619b500383b5b76fc1870662)) * **Microsoft SharePoint Node:** Fix the column mapper 403 and empty items in Map Automatically ([#41906](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/41906)) ([e67d278](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commit/e67d278ef0ae3c15493e74813ecce972e384ff1
Which Answer Did the Seventeen-Year-Old Write? A Behavioral Case Study of Author-Age Misattribution, Miscalibrated Confidence, and Non-Corrective Self-Explanation in Six Frontier Language Models
arXiv:2610.31946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three students answered the same exam prompt by hand: "What is happiness? Are you happy?" Their ages, recorded at collection, are 17, 28, and 45. The 17-year-old's answer is hedged and formally phrased. Asked to match each answer to an age and gender label, most frontier language models confidently assign it to an adult. This paper reports a structured case study of that failure across six models: Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, GPT-4o (2024), and DeepSeek V4. We ran 1,081 API sessions and scored 3,225 responses across six experimental conditions that manipulate framing, disclosure format, and audience-awareness instruction. Three of six models perform at or near chance (1/3) on the matching task while reporting 73-88%
RSI-Opt: Recursive Self-Improvement Optimizer Agents For Model Training
arXiv:2610.32026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional neural-network training typically follows a predefined optimization recipe, motivating a LLM agent that monitors training dynamics and adjusts optimizer settings as training progresses, but a fixed agent policy does not accumulate experience across runs. We introduce RSI-Opt, a plug-and-play Recursive Self-Improvement Optimizer Agents which evolves the knowledge that guides this process: a prompt, a playbook of procedures, a library of tested optimizer code, and a decision cadence. A meta-agent rewrites this policy using evidence from earlier runs, and an archive retains evaluated policies for further evolution. Across 5 generations on three training tasks, the meta-agents develop reusable procedures and code and conduct their ow
InferSlice: A Reference Architecture for SLO-driven LLM Inference over a Telco Wide-Area Network
arXiv:2610.32638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM inference is increasingly deployed as a core service for enterprise and interactive applications, but sovereignty, compliance, latency and resource-locality requirements can limit the suitability of centralised cloud deployments. Telco operators offer geographically distributed compute and network infrastructure for addressing these constraints. However, existing LLM serving frameworks are designed for tightly coupled data centres and provide limited support for coordinating geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources. We present InferSlice, a reference architecture for Service-Level Objective (SLO)-driven LLM inference over a telco infrastructure, integrating network slicing, GPU partitioning, elastic serving and observability
Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads
arXiv:2610.32632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RISC-V is emerging as a candidate architecture for high-performance computing (HPC), but its competitiveness against established x86 and Arm processors remains difficult to assess because existing studies use different platforms, workloads, and methodologies, and rarely consider energy efficiency. Our work provides an evaluation of contemporary HPC RISC-V, Arm, and x86 processors using a common software stack and methodology. We characterize the Sophgo SG2044 and compare it with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ across four HPC benchmarks (STREAM, HPL, HPL-MxP, and HPCG) and four representative applications (iPIC3D, PLUTO, OpenFOAM, and llama.cpp). The version of HPL-MxP linked to OpenBLAS built and used for this wo
Bounding Queue Waits for Fair Scheduling of Bursty HPC Workloads via Hierarchical Algorithms
arXiv:2610.32027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: HPC clusters are shared among many projects, each holding an allocation of node-hours, and ensuring fairness is becoming harder. Foundation models workflows and automated pipelines have made job submissions bursty and concentrated among a few heavy users, so occasional users absorb queueing delays created by frequent ones, with no indication of how long their jobs will wait. Existing schedulers either forget past usage, protect only the job at the head of the queue, or assume that running jobs can be preempted. We propose HyDRA, a Hybrid Deadline and Ranking-Aware scheduler that enforces fairness among users while bounding the queue wait of every job. HyDRA assigns each job a deadline on arrival based on its size, the priorities of its projec
DraMaze: A Multi-Agent Pipeline with Future-Aware Memory for Diverse Microdrama Script Generation
arXiv:2610.32002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of microdramas has increased demand for high-quality script production. Long-form microdrama script generation with LLMs requires both diverse plot progression and long-range narrative coherence. Our observations reveal that candidate continuations increasingly concentrate on fewer narrative mechanisms as generation progresses, while conventional retrieval may reinforce trope reuse and overlook historical information essential to future plots. To address these challenges, we propose DraMaze, a multi-agent pipeline that explores diverse causal paths through trope memory-guided evolutionary tree search and mutation. It further constructs a Backward Narrative Dependency Tree to organize, retain, and retrieve historical memories
POS-Signature Demonstration Retrieval for In-Context Dependency Parsing
arXiv:2610.31966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demonstrations for in-context learning are often retrieved by semantic similarity, which may be a poor proxy for relevance in structured prediction. We study demonstration selection for Universal Dependencies parsing with a POS-signature policy that represents sentences with weighted part-of-speech statistics and retrieves three length-compatible, gold-parsed examples from the labeled training split. We evaluate two open-weight language models without fine-tuning on all 2,077 sentences of the UD English Web Treebank test set, comparing the policy with shot- and format-matched fixed and semantic three-shot baselines, as well as zero-shot, chain-of-thought, and critique-refinement systems. POS-signature retrieval yields the highest labeled atta
Tradeoff-Aware Territory Design: A Multi-Objective Decision System for Enterprise Customer-to-Seller Allocation
arXiv:2610.31701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise customer journeys are shaped not only by product experiences and marketing, but also by recurring resource-allocation decisions. In B2B go-to-market (GTM) organizations, territory carving determines which accounts receive seller coverage, which seller-account relationships are preserved, and how limited field capacity is distributed. Yet the process often remains manual, making it difficult to compare opportunities, value continuity, and evaluate tradeoffs among growth, balance, capacity, and feasibility. We present a production decision system for tradeoff-aware customer-to-seller allocation in enterprise GTM planning. It integrates three components: a multidimensional account-value layer that combines predictive signals to score
HyScale: Scaling Long-Context Training for Learned Sparse Attention
arXiv:2610.32057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HyScale, a long-context training system for learned sparse attention. Learned sparse attention is a promising architecture for million-token contexts, widely adopted in production since DeepSeek-V3.2. Selection, however, grows into the training bottleneck. For each query, it scores every previous token whereas sparse attention reads only $k$; worse, current systems materialize a full score table and repeat selection during recomputation. Our key insight is that the output of selection is not an activation, but rather a set of indices. Building on it, HyScale introduces HyTopK and selection replay. HyTopK finds each query's exact top-$k$ on the fly without a score table, while selection replay reuses forward-pass selection in recomp
Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection in English and Mandarin
arXiv:2610.31808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patronizing and condescending language (PCL) is a form of harmful language that belittles and assumes pity for vulnerable groups, reinforcing negative societal stereotypes. However, unlike overt hate speech, it is often difficult to detect, even for human judges. This paper proposes a system for the automated detection of PCL. Our first approach uses static word embeddings and a convolutional neural network for classification, while our second approach uses pre-trained BERT embeddings fine-tuned for the PCL task. Our second approach was considerably more successful, and achieved an F1 score of 0.528 over the development set.
A new arXiv paper proposes an intelligent agent framework for traceable multimodal emotion reasoning, supporting evidence verification and prompt repair without weight updates.
On October 26, 2026, arXiv published a preprint paper (ID 2610.31685v1) that proposes a traceable multimodal emotion‑reasoning intelligent agent architecture based on frozen large models. By leveraging modality‑specific perception agents, an integration agent, an MLLM critic, and an evidence‑verification stage, the framework achieves error attribution and adaptive optimization of the prompt space, improving the F‑score for emotion recognition across several open‑source multimodal large models (with 2B–38B parameters) by 0.6–2.2 points on the MER2025 dataset.
Why it matters：This study addresses the trade-off between high instruction fine-tuning costs and the non‑debuggable pipeline of intelligent agents in current multimodal emotion‑reasoning systems by proposing the first end-to-end interpretable framework that integrates evidence citation, certainty verification, failure attribution, and targeted prompt repair. All improvements are implemented without modifying model weights and have been empirically validated across four open-source MLLMs of varying scales, demonstrating both methodological innovation and practical engineering utility.
Permission to Retry: A Study of Authorization and Recovery in AI Agent Workflows
arXiv:2610.31916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A durable agent can resume a consequential action while its authority changes and the action's external outcome remains uncertain. We study execution-time reliability of tool-using AI agents, isolating recovery decisions from language-model behavior. Checkpoint state, permission to dispatch, evidence of an external effect and permission to reconcile are distinct obligations. We present a finite conformance study that checks these obligations through histories scored against a provider effect ledger hidden from the recovering application. A prospectively frozen campaign executes 336 histories on native LangGraph and Temporal hosts, crossing 14 schedules, three provider contracts and four matched application policies. All 168 paired host cells
Spatial Heuristic Strategy based Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Online 3D Bin Packing
arXiv:2610.32241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional heuristic methods have accumulated mature experience in core objectives, such as space utilization and layout compactness of 3D bin packing, relying on artificially designed rule-based logic. However, they exhibit obvious limitations in generalization ability and adaptability to dynamic scenarios. Diffusion reinforcement learning, which integrates the spatial search capability of reinforcement learning and the data distribution modeling capability of diffusion learning, has achieved certain progress in action distribution modeling and decision compliance constraints. Nevertheless, there remain issues including insufficient perception of the spatial topological structure in 3D bin packing and limited layout optimization capability.
DriveMind: Mind-Evolving Belief Tracking for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2610.32069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can perceive a traffic scene, reason about it, and propose a driving action within a single model. However, existing MLLM-based drivers reason from scratch at each frame and commit to a single explanation, discarding earlier hypotheses about the scene. When the scene is ambiguous, the agent locks in on the wrong interpretation and acts on it before evidence accumulates. In this paper, we propose DriveMind, an MLLM-based driving framework that keeps several hypotheses about the scene alive at the same time and updates their weights as new frames arrive. Inspired by particle filtering, DriveMind propagates each hypothesis through a VLM, scores it against the current observation, and resamples to m