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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

TasteRoute: Personalized Routing for Video Generation

Rapid progress in video generation has led to a plethora of models that differ substantially in capability and generation cost. This raises a natural question: can each request be efficiently routed to an appropriate model? We find that even when the consensus of the other annotators is used as an oracle, it agrees wit...

Zhi Rui Tam, Chao-Chung Wu, Sin-Han Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Off-Policy Merging Beats On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continual Learning

A long-standing goal of AI is a model that can continually learn and improve itself. On post-trained models, supervised finetuning (SFT) on new data often causes poor generalization and catastrophic forgetting. As such, the conventional wisdom is that on-policy training is a prerequisite for continual learning. In prac...

C. Wu, Thomas T. C. K. Zhang, Aditi Raghunathan · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Selecting Long-Horizon Trajectories for Reliable and Efficient Terminal-Agent Training

Terminal agents are commonly trained by imitating long teacher trajectories, yet how much of each trajectory to supervise remains unexplored. We study the \emph{supervision horizon}, the number of trajectory tokens retained for training, and show that it is a key design axis for reliability and cost. Reliability improv...

Cuong Dang, Just Anh Hoang, Ruo-Xi Jia · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CLARA: Can AI Assess Developmental Appropriateness in Children's Stories?

Assessing the developmental suitability of children's narratives is important for educational recommendation and developmental literacy research, yet such assessment typically relies on subjective and difficult-to-scale human judgment. This raises an important question: Can AI systems approximate human developmental ju...

Sijing Yin, Zirui Wang, Qian Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Knowing the Rules, Applying the Rules: Evaluating Language Models on Traditional Chinese Bazi

Knowing domain rules does not guarantee applying them to a case. We study this distinction in traditional Chinese Bazi through 3,000 Chinese multiple-choice questions spanning 14 Theory and 11 Case categories. Six endpoint systems are evaluated, with primary results reported on a 2,492-item model-informed refinement. T...

Jiu-Lin Li, Ping Huang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Expanding LLM Reasoning

Extra inference compute is usually spent on sampling more reasoning chains. We study where inside an existing chain an additional continuation should begin. We define expansion utility, the change in correctness from restarting a chain at a stored step, and measure it at every eligible step for nine models on six bench...

Rian Atri, Evan Luo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Can Prosodic Style Be Inferred from Text Alone? Evidence from Unsupervised Acoustic Clusters

Much of expressive text-to-speech research rests on an untested assumption that written text carries enough information to select an appropriate prosodic style for its delivery. Text-predicted style models improve listener preference, and expressive-appropriateness evaluation presupposes that context constrains style,...

Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiao-Song Yang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Don't Judge an LLM Only by Its Activations: Discovering Suppressed Safety Features via Counterfactual Activation Potential

Mechanistic interpretability has emerged as the primary means to understand safety behavior of LLMs. However, existing tools primarily focus on the activating neurons or features of a model. The role of the remaining large set of inactive components is invisible to such methods. This work demonstrates that the inactive...

Swadesh Swain, Sanghamitra Dutta · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

What Does a Harness Repair? A Preregistered Study of Visibility, Baseline Adequacy and Evaluation Defects

Harness search keeps a change to the prompts, reasoning switches, token budgets or parsers around a frozen model if the change raises a score. Such a gain can come from answers the parser could not read before, a weak comparison, or a defect in the evaluation. We preregistered a study of where these gains come from, wi...

Bowen Xu, Boyu Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GNN-CB: A Graph Neural Network Competition Benchmark for Human and LLM Evaluation

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on coding and reasoning benchmarks; however, their ability to solve graph-structured machine learning problems remains largely unexplored. In particular, no benchmark currently evaluates whether LLMs can autonomously solve end-to-end Graph Neural Network...

M. Hossen, Tasneem Selim, Gurur Gamgam et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When Verifiable Counts Depend on Wording: Auditing Wording Robustness in Instruction Following

Verifiable instruction-following benchmarks often express each constraint through one fixed template. We test whether scores remain stable when the operational requirement is unchanged but its wording varies. We introduce WISE, a matched evaluation suite and reporting protocol instantiated on exact word count, keyword...

Qi Zhan, Seoyeon Jang, Zi-Han Dong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ReMAP: Restoring the Perceptual Cycle with Reasoning-Time Latent Visual Memory

As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) reason for longer, attention to the initial visual input diminishes, weakening visual grounding. Visual memory reintroduces visual evidence during reasoning. We conduct a controlled analysis of visual memory along three axes: curation, organization, and access. We find that l...

Hao-Wen Jiang, Zhan-Yu Guo, Chen-Wei Wu 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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