Modern web agents built on large vision-language models process webpages, select relevant UI elements, and translate model outputs into browser actions. Existing visual red-teaming approaches use adversarial visual content to manipulate this process. However, they primarily target model inference and do not explicitly...
Wan-Jing Han, Levi Taiji Li, Mu Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) counseling requires patient responses that reflect underlying cognitive states such as beliefs, coping strategies, and readiness for change. Although large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent text, they often fail to produce cognitively coherent and clinically realistic patient behav...
Thushara Manjari Naduvilakandy, Hyeju Jang, M. Al Hasan· 0 citations
As data propagates through a Transformer, the norm of its hidden states grows by orders of magnitude with depth, a phenomenon framed as 'curse of depth' and nearly universally treated as a pathology to be suppressed. We take the opposite view. Across 16 pre-trained LLMs from 9 families, spanning dense, mixture-of-exper...
Shikhar Srivastava, Christopher Kanan· 0 citations
Task-oriented conversational agents remain fragile under real world conversation scenarios as they rarely follow a predictable script, especially when users exhibit non-cooperative behavior. Existing function-calling benchmarks often emphasize successful, cooperative interactions and underrepresent adversarial conversa...
Arkajyoti Chakraborty, Aryan Tayal, Ishika Agarwal et al.· 0 citations
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Multilingual LLM benchmarks omit Slovak, a morphologically rich West Slavic language of five million speakers, or cover it only by machine translation. We present sk-bench, a native-first Slovak benchmark with 30 datasets (33 scored task variants) across ten skill categories. Eleven resources are introduced or first pa...
Marek Šuppa, Ivan Vykopal, Andrej Ridzik et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 Conf...· 0 citations
Large language models are informing decisions with ever-higher stakes. As the consequences of their errors grow, a central question becomes harder to ignore: how much can we trust an individual answer? Yet recognizing when to defer remains difficult because language models can present incorrect conclusions with fluent...
Tobias Braun, Nils Loose, Alexander Herzog et al.· 0 citations
The artifactual stance is introduced, which describes human–AI interaction in terms of their design and affordances, rather than potential intentional attitudes, and reframes puzzles about AI reference, the persistence of supposed interlocutors, and responsibility for AI-generated text.
James Ravi Kirkpatrick, Alexandru Radulescu, R. Sterken· Inquiry· 0 citations
Standard safety evaluations of large language models assess harmful requests written in canonical plain text, while models in real-world deployment routinely receive inputs containing emojis, altered spellings, encoded strings, and character-level variations. This work introduces the Adversarial Surface-Form Robustness...
Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) agents trains one policy on trajectories generated by another: rollouts come from stale checkpoints, and the inference engine's probabilities differ from the trainer's even at identical parameters. Standard remedies either clip importance ratios, w...
FinVector-Market-4B adapts Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B with rank-16 LoRA on a 22,000-example corpus for structured financial tasks. We evaluate the base and adapted models on the same 600-example benchmark under implicit and explicit JSON-schema contracts. Supplying the schema alone raises base-model JSON validity from 0% to 91.3%...
Pretraining strategies significantly impact the quality of language models, yet existing comparisons of Masked Language Modeling (MLM), Whole Word Masking (WWM), and MacBERT-style replacement have focused primarily on base-scale models (>=110M parameters). This paper presents a controlled comparison of these three stra...
Low-rank compression reduces the cost of pretrained language models by replacing linear transformations with low-rank factorizations. However, conventional methods use a fixed rank allocation during inference, assigning the same amount of compute regardless of the input token. We introduce Low-Rank Conditional Computat...
T. Fontanari, Maximo Eduardo Rulli, Federico Alvetreti et al.· 0 citations
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.