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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ICLHerd: Herding-Based Data Selection for LLMs with In-Context Learning as a Proxy

Data selection plays a central role in modern large language model training, as the quality of training data strongly influences downstream performance. A common approach is to curate a development set that encodes the desired skills (e.g., reasoning or multilinguality) and select data that are similar to them. Existin...

Yu-Qiao Wen, Li-Li Mou · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Joint Constraint Aggregation for Qualifier-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented QA

Retrieval-augmented QA can fail even when the correct answer is in the retrieved evidence. This can happen when a competing answer satisfies some, but not all, of the question's requirements and is mentioned frequently in the retrieved documents, which can make it appear to be the best-supported answer. To test whether...

Jennifer Hsia, Zachary C. Lipton, Aarti Singh · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Discrete Neural Interlingua for Ontology-Agnostic EHR Modeling

MEDIATOR is introduced, a discrete ontology-agnostic tokenizer that maps any clinical concept expressed as text into a shared vector-quantized codebook, turning EHR harmonization into open-vocabulary tokenization without manual mappings or a fixed vocabulary.

Tong Ding, Cai-Wei Tian, Dongmin Bang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Cross-Lingual Reusability of LLM Pipelines: Financial Extraction, Multilingual Reasoning, and Semantic Screening

Together, these results support qualified reuse of English-built pipelines, but per-domain, per-language validation remains necessary--neither semantic similarity nor self-reported confidence reliably predicts cross-lingual accuracy.

J. Choi, Sherin V. George, Jia-Yang Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SZED at ArGuard Shared Tasks: Multi-Task Label-Attention and Cross-Modal Fusion for Arabic Hateful Meme Detection

We present SZED's submission to ArGuard 2026 Track A: Arabic hateful meme detection. The task has two parts: binary classification (A1) and fine-grained multi-label tagging (A2). For A1, we fuse MARBERTv2 and CLIP ViT-L/14 embeddings, comparing concatenation, self-attention, and ensemble heads. For A2, we use a multi-t...

Selma Khelili, Zohra Abdeli · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GRaSP: Latency-Aware Optimization for Geo-Distributed Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly served across geo-distributed cloud and edge infrastructures, where wide-area latency, cross-region egress cost, and data-residency rules compete with retrieval quality. Conventional pipelines rank by semantic similarity alone and ignore where content lives, inflatin...

Hardik Ruparel, Raj Kumar Pandey, Pramod Kumar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

PW-Pruning: Phase-Aware Expert Selection for Speech-Centric Omni-Modal Models

This work proposes PW-Pruning, a phase-aware extension of DO-ACP that constructs separate importance-weighted kernels for acoustic-prefill and teacher-forced answer tokens, then combines phase-weighted log-determinant marginal gains to select one static expert bank.

Jun-Jie Cao, Feng-Ping Tian, Wen-Jie Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Toolflation: Seller Agents Distort Tool Markets Through Spontaneous Generative Engine Optimization

Agents are starting to sell to other agents. Seller agents write the listings of tools, services and products, and buyer agents read these listings when they choose what to use. We show that seller agents told only to be selected more often practice generative engine optimization on their own, and that this distorts th...

Zhenwei Tang, Di Bai, Jintao Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Building Telecom Language Models with RSOD: Domain Data, Specialist Post-Training, Memory-Conscious Distillation, and Networking Evaluation

Telecom language models must combine broad networking knowledge with specialist behavior across routing, broadband services, access technologies, and operational diagnostics while remaining practical to deploy as a single model. We present an end-to-end framework that builds source-grounded synthetic training data from...

Anil Srirangapatna Nagesh, Nitin Gupta, Anuj Taneja et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Lost in Recovery: Demystifying Recovery Behavior of Computer-Use Agents via Goal-Oriented Action Replay

Recent advances in large (vision) language models have enabled computer-use agents that automate digital workflows via fine-grained keyboard and mouse operations. However, such agents remain fragile in long-horizon settings, where errors accumulate and executed actions leave unintended side effects, making the ability...

Byeonghun Bang, Sangwoo Park, Jinheon Baek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ACE-Compression: An Ability-Centric Evaluation of Compressed Large Language Models

Model compression makes large language models deployable, but today's evaluation tells an incomplete story. Standard practice measures retained task performance and stops there. This misses a critical fact: compression perturbs the distributed knowledge embedded across billions of weights, and task scores alone cannot...

Jia-Hui Ning, Liang Chen, Yu-Chen Liang et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22, 2026

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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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