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Better with Experience: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Evidence-Grounded Health Community Notes

EvoNote is introduced, an agentic framework that enables health Community Notes generation to self-evolve through an evolving experience memory of prior misinformation correction episodes, positioning self-evolving note generation as a promising paradigm for scalable health misinformation governance.

Zi-Hang Fu, Fan-Xiao Li, Jianyang Gu et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agentic Clustering: Controllable Text Taxonomies via Multi-Agent Refinement

Recent text-clustering methods use large language models to propose a cluster taxonomy from a corpus and then assign each text to it. These pipelines are fundamentally programmatic: the sequence of LLM calls and the rules for stopping, merging, and splitting clusters are fixed in code in advance, so they generalise poo...

Simon L\"owe, Emily Silcock · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning to Retrieve: Dual-Level Long-Term Memory for Text-to-SQL Agents

Interactive text-to-SQL agents solve database tasks through multi-turn interactions involving schema exploration, query execution, feedback interpretation, and decision revision. Long-term memory helps agents reuse past experiences, but existing retrieval methods remain limited. Static methods use fixed similarity heur...

Yibo Wang, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Philip S. Yu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Lingual Steering for Figurative Language Generation

Cross-lingual activation steering has been studied mainly for language-agnostic properties such as factual knowledge and reasoning. Its transferability remains unclear for figurative language, whose expressions are often tied to a particular language. In this work, we study cross-lingual steering of figurative language...

Linfeng Liu, Tiffany Zhan, Louie Hong Yao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Improving Language Models with Bidirectional Evolutionary Search

Search has been proposed as an effective method for self-improving language models and agentic systems, both for post-training sample generation and for inference. However, widely used methods such as best-of-N sampling and tree search face two fundamental limitations: they are guided by sparse verification signals, an...

Guowei Xu, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Escape the Language Prior: Mitigating Late-Stage Modality Collapse in Audio Reasoning via Modality-Aware Policy Optimization

Audio and omni-modal large language models exhibit impressive cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, standard reinforcement learning methods such as GRPO do not explicitly weight individual tokens by their dependence on the non-text source modality. This exacerbates \textit{late-stage modality collapse} during ex...

Cihan Xiao, Yiwen Shao, Chenxing Li et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Selective Latent Thinking: Adaptive Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains

Explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning substantially improves the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), but incurs high inference cost due to lengthy autoregressive traces. Existing latent reasoning methods offer a promis- ing alternative, yet they often treat reasoning as uniformly compressible, causin...

Hui Xie, Jie Liu, Ziyue Qiao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Policy Distillation via Capability-Selective Subspace Projection

Self-distillation bootstraps large language models (LLMs) by training on their own generations. However, existing methods either rely on external signals to curate self-generated outputs (e.g., correctness filtering, execution feedback, and reward search), which are costly and unavailable for the best-performing fronti...

Guangya Hao, Hanxue Liang, Yitong Shang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PQR: A Framework to Generate Diverse and Realistic User Queries that Elicit QA Agent Failures

Evaluating LLM-based agents remains challenging because identifying meaningful failure cases often requires substantial human effort to design realistic test scenarios. Prior works primarily focus on automatically discovering agent failures induced by adversarial users, while overlooking queries with real user intents...

Yunan Lu, Luigi Liu, Omar Yahia et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Soohak: A Mathematician-Curated Benchmark for Evaluating Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs

Following the recent achievement of gold-medal performance on the IMO by frontier LLMs, the community is searching for the next meaningful and challenging target for measuring LLM reasoning. Whereas olympiad-style problems measure step-by-step reasoning alone, research-level problems use such reasoning to advance the f...

Guijin Son, Seungone Kim, Catherine Arnett et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Source or It Didn't Happen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Citation Hallucination Detection

Large language models are increasingly used in scientific writing, yet they can fabricate citation-shaped references that appear plausible but fail bibliographic verification. Existing detectors often reduce verification to binary found/not-found decisions and rely on brittle parsing or incomplete retrieval, offering l...

Mingzhe Li, Zhiqiang Lin, Shiqing Ma · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Shared Latent Structure of LLM Psychometric Responses

Human psychometric questionnaires are increasingly used to characterize large language models (LLMs), but it remains unclear what exactly their responses reflect. To answer this question we analyze responses from 50 LLMs across 45 questionnaires spanning multiple psychological domains using psychometric methodology. We...

Hubert Plisiecki, Sabina Siudaj, Kacper Dudzic 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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