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#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

ActICL: Post-Training for Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning

Multimodal in-context learning (ICL) is an important capability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Its performance is closely tied to the demonstrations it uses, making demonstration retrieval a core problem for ICL. Common methods use fixed scoring methods to retrieve all the demonstrations at once, which ma...

Yanshu Li, Rui-Xiang Tang, Junyi Jessy Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Seeing, Maintaining, and Learning: The Evolution of Multimodal Agent Memory

Multimodal models and agents have emerged to enable AI systems to learn from and interact with the real world more like humans by integrating information across multiple modalities. However, enabling multimodal agents to continually acquire useful information from complex, heterogeneous multimodal data remains a signif...

Ming-Hao Guo, Qing-Yue Jiao, Xiu-Jin Liu et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VLX-Go: Robust Embodied Tracking through Multi-Stage Learning and On-Policy Refinement

Embodied visual tracking requires a robot to identify a designated target from visual observations and control its own motion to follow that target through an environment. Following an isolated person is a comparatively simple demonstration of embodied visual tracking, but following the intended person among distractor...

Kyusong Lee, Heting Ying, Tiancheng Zhao · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Truthful and Expected-Payment-Optimal Model Routing in Graph-Based Agentic Workflows

Assigning routine tasks to cheaper large language model (LLM) providers can reduce generation cost, but switching providers may require processing accumulated context again. Keeping dependent tasks with the same provider can instead reuse eligible context. Graph-based workflows therefore couple routing decisions across...

Jia-Yuan Liu, Ming-Yu Guo, Jia-Rui Gan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MemeTrace: A Multimodal LLM-Based Agent for Safety-Aware Meme Provenance Analysis

Online memes are often carriers of unsafe content such as disinformation and propaganda. Their rapid evolution in response to news events and strong dependence on contextual information make it difficult for platforms and moderators to detect and moderate them effectively. Moreover, existing moderation studies typicall...

Bo Shao, Yihan Ma, Yiting Qu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ListQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating List-Formatted Factual Knowledge Retrieval in Large Language Models

Many real-world questions demand not a single fact but an organized collection of them, yet existing factual knowledge benchmarks almost exclusively target single answer retrieval. We introduce ListQA, a benchmark of 9,045 human-curated, cross-validated questions (audited error rate of 1.7%) that require LLMs to recall...

Mayank Kulkarni, Rakesh Vaideeswaran · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

DivAlgo: A systematic evaluation of algorithmic diversity for code generation models

The DivAlgo benchmark is proposed, a large-scale dataset constituting algorithmically diverse solutions to programming problems that is significantly less diverse than human solutions and introduces a lightweight similarity metric to enable large-scale evaluation.

Anubhav Jangra, S. Muresan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Plant Memory: Technical Language Processing and a Verified Maintenance Ontology for Agent-Accessible Failure Knowledge from SAP PM Work Orders

Maintenance work orders are the largest written record of how industrial equipment fails, yet in most plants they are close to unusable for analysis. Short texts are abbreviated and misspelt, asset identity is buried in free text, work-type labels contradict the work described, and the fields that matter most for relia...

Akash Raj · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been widely applied in embodied agents and robotics for vision tasks. However, MLLMs suffer from limitations in spatial reasoning and perception. Post-training techniques have shown promise for improving these capabilities; yet, there are limited data-driven surveys of such...

Mahdieh Mallahnezhad, Masoud Jafaripour, Mohamadali Tofigh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GroundGUI: GUI Grounding by High-Quality Data and Distillation-to-Reinforcement Learning

The Distillation-to-Reinforcement Learning (D2RL) method is proposed to address the limited generalization of supervised fine-tuning and the sparse reward problem in reinforcement learning, and produces substantial gains over models trained on open-source datasets, with performance comparable or even superior to models...

Qing-Song Xie, Jia-Hao Tian, Jia-Cheng Tang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Manac\'a-1B-Instruct-2: Reproducible Safety Alignment for a Native Brazilian-Portuguese LLM. Negative DPO Results, a Controlled Composition Scan, and a Silent Failure Mode of the LLM Judge

Brazilian Portuguese remains underserved by open-source language models, and the few that are safety-aligned rarely document what did not work or validate comparisons with statistical significance. We present Manac\'a-1B-Instruct-2, the second-generation post-training alignment of Manac\'a-1B (1.72B parameters, trained...

Bruno Leonardo Santos Menezes, Carlos Leonardo Souza Cardoso, Fabio Andr\'e Machado Porto · 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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