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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Step Towards Forgetting: Optimiser History and the Loss of Answer Mass

During fine-tuning, a language model can assign less probability to previously learned answers even when the current gradient acts to preserve that probability. With momentum, each update also carries gradients computed at earlier model states, and these stored contributions can push the model in the opposite direction...

Valeria Ruscio, Seth Nabarro, Keiran Thompson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SYNLAT: Syntax-Aligned Text-Latent Compression for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

This work introduces SynLat, a text-latent CoT framework that aligns compression boundaries with syntactic structure through non-overlapping Syntax-Aligned Units (SAUs) and generates mixed reasoning from only the question and requested compression level at inference.

Yi-Feng Zhao, Hong-Jun Yu, Shi-Bo Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Score Is Not the Structure: Brain Alignment and Cross-Lingual Transfer

Similarity scores are often offered as evidence that a model shares structure with the brain or across languages. We ask what such a score reads when that structure is removed, or when the instrument measuring it does not work, in two settings. Across seventeen languages, a grammaticality probe transfers worse between...

Saman Rahbar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Do Motion Tokenizers for Co-Speech Gesture Generation Encode Gesture Semantics?

Discrete motion tokenizers encode motion as atomic units and are widely used for co-speech gesture generation. It remains unclear which motion properties, especially those relevant to gesture semantics, are recoverable from these codebooks. We probe a reconstruction-trained codebook using 19 co-speech gesture descripto...

Varsha Suresh, Divij Jain, Jia Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Pushback Paradox: A Two-Probe Diagnostic for Language Model Compliance

Are language models compliant with user instructions? A model that always complies can be stopped but also exploited, while one that always resists can be neither exploited nor stopped. We contribute an open two-probe benchmark that can place any language model on this spectrum. In the active probe, a user instructs th...

Stefan Bühler, David Exler, M. Reischl et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Language models can notice an impossible engineering problem yet still report it as solved

Language models draft engineering calculations, but answer accuracy does not show whether they reject an impossible problem. We tested 14 models on 30 pairs of mechanics problems, each with a valid version and one made impossible by changing a given value or assumption. Two independent solvers verified every answer key...

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mind the Execution Gap: Action-Semantic Mismatch in World-Model Control

This work introduces two lightweight execution-consistent interfaces, Future-Sequence for TD-MPC2 and Applied-Action Feedback for DreamerV3, that correct future-action timeline mismatch between imagined and executed action sequences without modifying the pretrained world models.

Sheng-Tao Wen, Xiang Chen, Yu Tian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

What Did the Agent Actually Do? Evidence-Grounded Oversight for Long-Horizon Agents

As agents take on long-horizon tasks, users shift from making individual decisions to overseeing autonomous execution. Yet the volume of agent activity and the fragmentation of supporting evidence make it difficult to determine which decisions warrant user verification. We study monitors that identify consequential dec...

Zhong-Xiang Sun, Jia-Hao Yan, Hong-Kang Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Do Small Language Models Learn to Negotiate? A Controlled Scaling Study of RL-Trained Sellers

LLM agents are starting to own the full customer experience. Soon, LLMs may be selling and buying on behalf of companies and customers respectively. Small models are more cost-efficient at scale, but can reinforcement learning train them into competent sellers? We train four Gemma 4 checkpoints (2.3B to 31B effective p...

Pedro Tabacof, Sagar Joglekar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Judged Useless, Queried Anyway: Tool-Using Agents Rarely Turn Their Own Evidence Judgments into Stopping Decisions

An agent whose tool keeps returning nothing useful should stop relying on it. In a retrieval environment with controlled source failures, we separate how agents judge results from what they do. We compare stopping at the same step after longer and shorter runs of results the agent judged useless; this contrast is zero...

Chubin Zhang, Zheng-Lin Wan, Xing-Rui Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MS-Exam-Gen: Source-Grounded Benchmark Construction for Evaluating LLMs on Textual Multiple Sclerosis MRI Knowledge

Biomedical large language model (LLM) evaluation requires auditable assessment of narrow, evolving, source-grounded subspecialty knowledge. Multiple sclerosis MRI (MS-MRI) provides a high-stakes textual-knowledge test case because correct reasoning requires current diagnostic criteria, standardized acquisition and repo...

Abdul Basit, M. Hanif, Muhammad Shafique · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Nash Equilibrium Text: A Game-Theoretic Decoding Framework for Text Generation

Text revision has become an integral component of large language models. This paper formulates revision such that it admits a Nash equilibrium: Token positions are players, vocabulary items are actions, and each player's utility is the language model's log conditional probability. We motivate the revision by showing th...

Alireza Jafari, Arman Adibi, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh et al. · 0 citations

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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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