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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Harness Engineering for Software Engineering via Modular Executable Dev-Primitives

Large language models (LLMs) equipped with terminal access have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks. However, existing agents remain brittle on long-horizon workflows, where they must repeatedly reconstruct program state scattered across source files, configurations, tests, depende...

Hai-Bo Jin, Xin-Jie Li, Peng Kuang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Oct 2026

ThinkFuse: Trajectory-Aware Test-Time Fusion for Small Reasoning Models

Small reasoning models (SRMs) have shown strong performance on complex reasoning tasks by generating extended chain-of-thought trajectories, but they often fail to recover once their reasoning enters an erroneous path. Existing test-time fusion methods rely on local fusion signals to determine when to trigger fusion, w...

Myunghoon Kang, Jungseob Lee, Jaehyung Seo et al. · 3 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Old Facts Return: Re-Reads, Reverts, and the Limits of Temporal Memory

A memory system can retire an obsolete value and later restore it merely because the same old statement appears again. A re-read of an old source and a genuine revert can produce the same observed sequence of values while requiring opposite current answers. We study this ambiguity on 130 extractor-selected atomic trans...

Neeraj Yadav (Called It Inc.) · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Where Rules End and Judges Begin: Measuring the Judgment Boundary in Multi-Agent Systems Security

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) engage tools, share memory, and delegate tasks, often encountering adversarial content. Current defenses for MAS are typically evaluated in isolation, focusing on one attack type at a time, which can lead to costly and hard-to-audit outcomes. This study organizes defenses into five p...

Shaswata Mitra, Raj Patel, Subash Neupane et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Loud and Clear: Dynamic Activation Steering for Improving Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environments

Speech becomes less intelligible in noisy environments, and humans naturally adapt their voice to compensate. Inspired by this behavior, we investigate whether a text-to-speech (TTS) model can be guided to produce more intelligible speech using activation steering, without retraining. We focus on two characteristics of...

Ş. Akti, Alexander H. Waibel · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Novel Sentence Stress Detection Framework Leveraging Auxiliary Word-Stress Modeling and Loss Optimization

Prosodic stress is a crucial aspect of automatic pronunciation assessment (APA), encompassing both sentence stress detection (SSD) and word stress detection (WSD). SSD highlights semantically salient words that shape discourse meaning, while WSD identifies the primary stressed syllable within each word to ensure lexica...

Tien-Hong Lo, Fong-Chun Tsai, Ting-An Hung et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LOGIC: An LLM Benchmark for Intent-Grounded Change Impact in Aerospace Electrical Systems

Aerospace electrical-design revisions can contain multiple genuine changes, although an engineering request may authorize only a subset. Propagating every detected difference can therefore produce overly broad impact reports. We present LOGIC, a controlled benchmark and evaluation framework in which locally deployable...

Muhammad Faraz Shoaib, Muhammad Qasim, Raisulhaq Mohammed Rizwan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Disentangling Models from Personas in Heterogeneous LLM Simulations

Multi-agent simulations with large language models (LLMs) often operate networks of agents with a single base model. This overlooks the inter-model effects which may dominate engagement dynamics in real-world deployments. To show this, we simulate a heterogeneous social network powered by several different base models...

Dani Roytburg, Daphne Ippolito · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Safeguarding LLMs via Model-Agnostic Latent Safety Signals from Dark Knowledge

LLMs have advanced rapidly, raising growing concerns about their safety. Recent work has proposed approaches to detect and defend against attacks including defenses at decoding stage that leverage models'hidden states. However, existing decoding-stage defenses suffer from two limitations. First, they introduce a trade-...

Wonjun Lee, Kyungsik Yang, Gaeun Ji et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On Open-Ended Information Seeking for Information Elicitation Agents

Information elicitation is an open-ended information-seeking problem in which an interaction can unfold in many potentially valuable directions, requiring an elicitor to continually determine which information to pursue as new information emerges. In agentic elicitation, these decisions may be delegated to a foundation...

Victor De Lima, Grace Hui Yang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Auditable Claims about AI Agents

Organizations make claims about their AI agents: a person approves every external email, every action is logged, an evaluation shows the agent is safe to deploy. Article 12 of the EU AI Act requires high-risk systems to allow the automatic recording of events but does not say which records settle a given claim. The pos...

Yue Zhao, Jiate Li, Li Li 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.

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