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preprint2026arXiv

An AI-guided mechanotyping instrument for fully automated oocyte quality assessment

The mechanical properties of oocytes are regarded as important indicators of their developmental potential. During fertilization, deviations from the normal mechanical range can hinder sperm penetration, ultimately reducing fertilization efficiency and compromising embryo quality. However, current methods for measuring oocyte mechanics often suffer from serious cellular damage, low automation levels, and large measurement errors. To address these limitations, we developed an AI-guided micronewton-scale mechanical measurement system for safe and automated oocyte quality assessment. The system integrates voice interaction with automated experimental workflows to control a magnetically actuated microgripper, which applies defined loading forces to induce micron-scale compressive deformation of the oocyte. Combined with AI-assisted object detection and image segmentation algorithms, the system captures cellular deformation in real time, enabling precise calculation of the oocyte's compressive modulus. This measurement system enables automated, quantitative, and non-destructive evaluation of oocyte mechanical properties, providing an effective approach for oocyte quality screening in in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART).

preprint2026arXiv

Entropy Centroids as Intrinsic Rewards for Test-Time Scaling

An effective way to scale up test-time compute of large language models is to sample multiple responses and then select the best one, as in Grok Heavy and Gemini Deep Think. Existing selection methods often rely on external reward models, which requires training a strong reward model and introduces additional computation overhead. As an alternative, previous approaches have explored intrinsic signals, such as confidence and entropy, but these signals are noisy with naive aggregation. In this work, we observe that high-entropy tokens tend to cluster into consecutive groups during inference, providing a more stable notion of model uncertainty than individual tokens. Together, these clusters reveal temporal patterns of model uncertainty throughout the inference process. Motivated by this observation, we propose to use the temporal structure of uncertainty as an intrinsic reward. To this end, we first formalize the basic unit of segment-level uncertainty as the High Entropy Phase (HEP), a variable-length segment that begins at a high-entropy token and ends when consecutive low-entropy tokens appear. We then define the Entropy Centroid, inspired by the concept of the center of mass in physics, as the weighted average position of all HEPs along the trajectory. Intuitively, a lower centroid indicates early exploration followed by confident generation, which we find often corresponds to higher response quality. Based on this insight, we propose the Lowest Centroid method, which selects the response with the lowest entropy centroid among multiple candidates. Experiments on mathematics, code generation, logical reasoning, and agentic tasks, across model scales ranging from 14B to 480B, show that Lowest Centroid consistently outperforms existing baselines and delivers stable gains as model size increases. Code is available at https://github.com/hkust-nlp/entropy-centroid.