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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PSI-Bench: Interpretable and Clinically Meaningful Evaluation of Depression Patient Simulators

Patient simulators are gaining traction in mental health training by providing scalable exposure to complex and sensitive patient interactions. Simulating depressed patients is challenging, as safety constraints and high patient variability complicate simulations and underscore the need for simulators that capture dive...

Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Shuhaib Mehri, Tse-An Hsu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

$\pi^2$: Structure-Originated Reasoning Data Improves Long-Context Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

We study a QA curation pipeline for improving long-context complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Our approach, $\pi^2$, constructs high-quality reasoning data through rigorous QA curation: 1) extracting and expanding tables from Wikipedia, 2) from the collected tables together with relevant metadata, gener...

Quyet V. Do, Thinh Pham, Nguyen Nguyen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MDKeyChunker: What Does One LLM Call per Chunk Buy for Markdown Retrieval?

Markdown carries structure a parser reads for free: headers, section paths, and block boundaries. Many RAG pipelines also spend LLM calls per chunk on generated metadata. We ask what one LLM call per chunk buys over that free structure. MDKeyChunker splits Markdown into header-led chunks without splitting any block; ma...

Bhavik Mangla · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

COMIC: Agentic Sketch Comedy Generation

We propose a fully automated AI system that produces short comedic videos similar to sketch shows such as Saturday Night Live. Starting from character references, the system employs a population of agents loosely modeled on roles in real production studios and structured to optimize the quality and diversity of ideas a...

Susung Hong, Brian Curless, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jan 2026

Vulnerability of LLMs'Stated Beliefs? LLMs Belief Resistance Check Through Strategic Persuasive Conversation Interventions

A systematic evaluation of LLM susceptibility to persuasion under the SMCR communication framework highlights substantial model-dependent limits of current robustness interventions and offers guidance for developing more trustworthy LLMs.

Fan Huang, Haewoon Kwak, Ji-Sun An · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ATOD: An Evaluation Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Agentic task-oriented dialogue (TOD) requires systems to track concurrent goals, dependencies, and long-horizon state. We examine goal-lifecycle recovery from fixed dialogue trajectories. ATOD contains 1,000 synthetic dialogues annotated for six advanced-TOD properties, and ATOD-Eval defines metrics for dependency-sens...

Yifei Zhang, Hooshang Nayyeri, Rinat Khaziev et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Symphonym: Universal Phonetic Embeddings for Cross-Script Toponym Matching

Matching place names across writing systems is a persistent obstacle to integrating multilingual geographic sources, from modern gazetteers to medieval itineraries and colonial-era surveys. Existing approaches rely on language-specific phonetic algorithms or on romanisation that discards phonetic information, and none...

Stephen Gadd · 0 citations

EulerESG: Automating ESG Disclosure Analysis with LLMs

EulerESG combines (i) dual-channel retrieval and LLM-driven disclosure analysis over ESG reports, and (ii) an interactive dashboard and chatbot for exploration, benchmarking, and explanation.

Yi Ding, Xu-Shuo Tang, Zheng-Yi Yang et al. · 5 citations · ⚡1

Oolong: Evaluating Long Context Reasoning and Aggregation Capabilities

The data and evaluation harness for Oolong is released, a benchmark of long-context reasoning tasks that require analyzing individual chunks of text on an atomic level, and then aggregating these analyses to answer distributional questions.

Amanda Bertsch, Adithya Pratapa, Teruko Mitamura et al. · 39 citations · ⚡11
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MCA: Modality Composition Awareness for Robust Composed Multimodal Retrieval

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP aligning modality-specific embeddings with contrastive learning, recent multimodal large langu...

Qiyu Wu, Shuyang Cui, Satoshi Hayakawa et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?

Hybrid thinking enables LLMs to switch between reasoning and direct answering, offering a balance between efficiency and reasoning capability. Yet our experiments reveal that current hybrid thinking LLMs only achieve partial mode separation: reasoning behaviors often leak into the no-think mode. To understand and mitig...

Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Xianxuan Long et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following

Autonomous agents executing human instructions must operate reliably even when instructions are incomplete. While recent approaches improve detection of missing information, detection alone is insufficient: agents often proceed to execution even after recognizing underspecification, leading to incorrect or unsafe actio...

Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti 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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