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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SwarmRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Scientific Agent Swarm

SwarmRSI is introduced, a framework that evolves scientific agent swarms for recursive self-improvement and proposes Feedback-Guided Swarm Mutation to refine hypotheses and their implementations using experimental feedback from other agents and Complementary Swarm Recombination to reuse retained hypotheses and compleme...

Qian-Ru Meng, Xi Zhang, Konstantinos Papakostas et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

TreeFlex: Agents Navigating Their Own Search Trees

A ReAct-style agent accumulates observations, intermediate results, and failed attempts in a single context. As this context grows, stale and off-path information consumes its limited capacity and obscures relevant evidence, making focused reasoning increasingly difficult. We introduce TreeFlex, a framework in which th...

Dong-Zhuo Li, Fang-Zhou Cheng, Wei-Wei Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MultiPartyTurnBench: Benchmarking Floor Control in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue

Full-duplex speech systems must decide when to enter, hold, or relinquish the conversational floor, even as multiple speakers overlap or backchannel without taking it. Existing evaluations study dyadic turn-taking or end-to-end agent behavior, but lack a unified, controlled evaluation of genuine floor transitions again...

Puneet Mathur, Dinesh Manocha · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLM-Based Policy Compliance Verification of Loan Applications

Banks rely on extensive internal policy frameworks to ensure that corporate lending decisions comply with regulatory requirements and internal risk standards. Reviewing loan applications against these policies is a largely manual and knowledge-intensive process, which can lead to overlooked policy violations or excepti...

Florentina Voboril · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering

This study investigates how the design of textual interfaces affects prompt optimization for multimodal reasoning, on the audio-visual question answering task, and highlights textual interface design as an important factor in making prompt optimization effective for omni-modal reasoning systems.

Yi Wang, Tian-Zi Wang, Tong Lei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

LintEval: Benchmarking LLMs on Linter-Guided File Refactoring

Linters are widely used in code maintenance and real-time IDE editing to surface lint alerts related to performance, style, error-prone, and other patterns in source files. However, existing code benchmarks do not explicitly evaluate linter-guided file refactoring, where models must reduce lint alerts in source files w...

Tong-Wei Deng, Jin-Yu Zhu, Yue Cao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SEA-HELM Audio: Evaluating Multilingual ASR-LLM Pipeline Performance Across SEA-HELM Subsets

We introduce SEA-HELM Audio, a Southeast Asian (SEA) multilingual evaluation framework that extends the text-based SEA-HELM benchmark to assess performance degradation in cascaded automatic speech recognition and large language model (ASR-LLM) pipelines. Using synthesized speech, we compare speech-input and text-input...

Yixian Tan, Aulia Adila, Jonathan Heng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

This work generates concise rules that express relations between perception to action and uses Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to train Qwen2.5 and Llama3 models across four ToM benchmarks, suggesting that explicit rules help models bridge the reasoning gap in ToM and support knowledge transfer across models.

Soyoung Oh, Nursulu Sagimbayeva, N. Jennings et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mitigating Video Hallucinations via Attention-Guided Representation Perturbation

Video large language models (Video LLMs) often generate responses unsupported by the input video. Contrastive decoding (CD) can mitigate these hallucinations, but its effectiveness depends on how the negative branch weakens visual evidence. Existing methods rely on predefined perturbations or masking guided by question...

Zhi-Xi Cai, Ruo-Qi Yuan, Xin-Cheng Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

$\tau$-Emotion-Bench: Exposing the Interaction Fragility of LLM Agents through Real-World User Emotions

In long-horizon tool-calling tasks, LLM agents can fail not only because of tool-use errors, but also because of ineffective interaction with users. Yet existing benchmarks largely assume cooperative and behaviorally stable users, leaving the effect of emotional variation on agent reliability underexplored. We introduc...

Rishitosh Kumar Singh, Amir Saeidi, Shamanthak Hegde et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities

Post-training often improves the performance of large audio-language models on audio understanding and reasoning benchmarks. However, these improvements may reflect adaptation to specific question formats, such as multiple-choice questions, rather than genuine advances in audio understanding and reasoning capabilities....

Hua-Hsuan Chen, Xuanjun Chen, Wei-Chung Lu 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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