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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Gated Memory: Admission-Controlled Memory Formation for Conversational AI

Personalized conversational AI relies on long-term memory systems that extract facts from user utterances and store them in persistent vector stores. Despite progress in retrieval, deduplication, and lifecycle management, the formation stage, the moment a fact is first written to storage has received almost no principl...

Preeti Saraswat, Divya Neelagiri, A. Manoj · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SafeInferCom: Safe Inference-Time Compute via Verifier-Guided Mid-Generation Intervention for Robotic Task Planning

Large Reasoning Language Models (LRLMs) enable multi-step reasoning for robotic task planning, but continued reasoning can overwrite valid intermediate plans or leave constraint violations unresolved, reducing planning reliability and wasting inference-time computation. We develop an inference-time monitor that exposes...

Wei-Zhe Xu, Jia-Liang Fan, Meng-Yu Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RAG-Stress: Probing the Limits of Evidence Reliance in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Following retrieved evidence does not guarantee factual correctness: misleading evidence can induce a model to replace an answer it previously gave correctly. Standard accuracy measures obscure this behavior by combining answer replacement with preexisting errors. We introduce RAG-Stress, a controlled diagnostic protoc...

Shun-Yuan Zhou, Hao Chen, Tian-Yu Wang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SFT-as-Context Mitigates Forgetting in Supervised Fine-Tuning

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) equips large language models (LLMs) with specialized capabilities, but often comes at the cost of forgetting the general capabilities of their parent models (i.e., the pretrained models before fine-tuning). This trade-off is especially limiting for queries that require both specialized and...

Ke-Nan Tang, An-Dong Hua, Cheng-Xuan Qian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When Citations Mislead? A Claim-Level Benchmark for Legal Hallucination Detection

Large language models are increasingly used in legal research and drafting, but they can still produce claims that sound convincing without being supported by the cited source. We introduce PARCEL, a benchmark for checking whether a legal claim is supported by the underlying authority. Using recent New York State Court...

M. M. Demir, M. A. Canbaz · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Stochastic Teacher Intervention for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

STI-OPD, a stochastic teacher intervention framework for multi-turn agentic OPD, and an Importance-Weighted Reverse KL objective that corrects the token sampling mismatch between teacher-generated responses and the student policy to preserve the original OPD objective are introduced.

Jun-Nan Liu, Lin-Hao Luo, Zhijun Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Real Long-Term Memory for AI: A 50-Million-Token Window That Is Faster and Cheaper Than Recompute

A large language model can only use the text that fits in its context window, and it recomputes its internal key-value (KV) state for a prompt every time the prompt is sent. We test a memory layer, the public package galahad-kv, that saves the KV state of each block of about 16,000 tokens to encrypted local NVMe disk a...

Sietse Schelpe · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Grammar Concept Annotation at Scale: Deployed Fine-Tuned Small Language Models Outperform Prompted Frontier Models

Corrective feedback is among the best-evidenced drivers of second-language acquisition, yet corrections delivered during lessons rarely accumulate into an actionable view of grammar mastery. Prompted frontier models can provide such a view from learner--tutor lesson transcripts, but they are costly at scale. We close t...

Marjan Celikik, A. Ramallo, Javier Morales · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime

NavGPT-3 is presented, a harness that connects the two models, with an OS-like runtime built above it: reasoning, acting, and monitoring run as threads with their own context, tools, and permissions, while the runtime schedules them and decides which thread controls the robot's motion, so that the robot can react to su...

Geng-Ze Zhou, Yicong Hong, Jiazhao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Clarify, Then Focus: Statement Normalization for Conversation Analytics at Scale

A simple principle is proposed: clarify the text, then focus the reader, sharing this preparation across questions supports an inference pipeline built entirely from small models, making analytics over millions of conversations substantially less expensive.

Mikhail L. Arbuzov, Karan Dave, Evgeniya Dontsova et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conversational Task Disambiguation over Tabular Data: Leakage-Aware Formulation, Benchmark Suite, and Training

Conversational task disambiguation over tabular data uses dialogue to resolve missing information about a user's intended task before producing a solution over tables or databases. Existing evaluation and training lack a leakage-aware foundation. Task success mixes the agent's disambiguation and solution-generation cap...

Nafiseh Ghoroghchian, Luis Scoccola, Tina Sedaghat 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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