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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Principled Under Pressure: Post-Training Decides Whether LLMs Act on Their Own Moral Judgment

Language models increasingly act as agents. An agent that says an action is wrong and then takes it anyway is a different failure from one that does not know better, and evaluations of stated values cannot see it. We build a pre-registered panel of 248 scenarios across five kinds of pressure. Each scenario is posed twi...

Orion Reblitz-Richardson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DeltaTTT: Layerwise Optimization for Nonlinear Recurrent Memory

Sequential test-time training adapts a memory network through successive updates, each computing an inner-loop gradient based on the network's previous state. Intuitively, this state dependence should allow each update to account for what the memory has already learned and better incorporate new information. However, w...

Yi-Ning Li, Dong-Chen Han, Jie Fu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Align, Then Correct: Training-Free Two-Stage Low-Rank Compensation for Extremely Quantized Large Language Models

Low-rank quantization error compensation (LQEC) recovers the accuracy lost under aggressive weight quantization by attaching a closed-form rank-$r$ adapter beside each frozen quantized weight, without any training. We show that existing compensators are limited by two shared simplifications. They calibrate symmetricall...

Seobin Song, Geonho Lee, Janghwan Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Symphony for Text Generation: Benchmarking Clinical Note Generation

Ambient documentation systems are rapidly gaining adoption, yet their impact on clinical note quality remains poorly characterized. We introduce MedConv, a multilingual dataset of 300 clinical encounters in English, Danish, and German, and use it alongside the Ambient Clinical Intelligence benchmark (ACI-BENCH) to comp...

Daniel Varab, Victor Petr\'en Bach Hansen, Asbj{\o}rn W. Helge et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

A Broader Look at Model Merging: Rethinking Implicit Regularization Induced by Task Arithmetic

Model merging aims to build a multi-task model cheaply by combining the weights of individual task-specific models. To perform well across multiple tasks, most existing merging methods use an additional dataset to find the coefficients for the best linear combination of task-specific weight updates. However, we identif...

Sin-Han Yang, Shih-Cheng Huang, Chieh-Yen Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Lost in the bf16 Cast: Exporting Ternary Language Models Can Revert Most Low-Learning-Rate Code Changes

In two model families, randomized interventions on the initial distance from the threshold support distance-dependent selection of the codes that fine-tuning changes, and in two model families, randomized interventions on the initial distance from the threshold support distance-dependent selection of the codes that fin...

Avichal Sahai, Nishant Raj, Animesh Srivastava · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

$\alpha$Transfer: Coefficient Transfer for Efficient Model Merging

Model merging offers a promising solution for combining multiple fine-tuned checkpoints into a single model through parameter arithmetic. However, finding optimal merging coefficients requires an extensive search that becomes prohibitively expensive as models scale in both size and number, due to high memory requiremen...

Shih-Cheng Huang, Zhi Rui Tam, Chieh-Yen Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TRACE: Rollout-Guided Quantization-Aware Training for FP4 Reinforcement Learning of MoE Language Models

Reinforcement learning (RL) for post-training large language models (LLMs) incurs substantial computation and memory overhead during rollout generation, which motivates low-precision rollout for efficient RL training. However, existing FP4 RL methods suffer from a key limitation: they primarily optimize quantization ac...

Xin Wang, Hao Yu, Zhengyang Zhuge et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Improving Synthetic Data Generation for Argument Mining via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Argument Mining (AM) is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of high-quality structure-annotated datasets. While LLMs have shown promise in synthetic data generation, producing synthetic AM data that is both structurally accurate and sufficiently diverse remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we r...

Zhijun Zhang, Qianlong Wang, Keyang Ding et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Stateless Language Agents: Scaling Long-Horizon Automated Research

This work introduces Stateless Language Agents (SLAs), built on the principle of stateful search with stateless agents, and evaluates SLA against three recent frameworks on software engineering, kernel optimization, and algorithm design at budgets of up to one billion tokens.

Qizheng Zhang, Chang Ji, I. Sun et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AlignQuant: Tile-Aligned Mixed-Precision Quantization for Efficient LLM Generation

Fine-grained mixed-precision quantization promises efficient large language model inference, but local precision choices can conflict with regular GPU storage and computation units. This precision-boundary mismatch limits the translation of compression into practical acceleration. We introduce AlignQuant, a post-traini...

Han-Zhi Zhang, Qiao Zhang, Qing-Lei Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Stepped MoE: Segment-Level Routing with Configurable Inference Complexity

Training large language models (LLMs) is resource-intensive, and adapting them for diverse deployment scenarios with varying computational constraints remains challenging. While elastic architectures enable flexible model deployment and sparsely activated models allow input-adaptive computation, existing approaches tre...

Arnav Kundu, Zhao-Yang Xu, Bai-Ru Hou 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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