Agent skills that record procedural instructions are increasingly mined from execution traces rather than curated by hand. Skill-mining pipelines often use known task outcomes or feedback to guide skill construction. In production, reliable information on whether a run has succeeded may be unavailable. We study how the...
Yue Ran Kang, Colton Mikolajczyk, Chhaya Methani et al.· 0 citations
Multi-agent debate (MAD) has emerged as an effective paradigm to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and is increasingly being extended to multimodal settings. However, existing multimodal MAD frameworks typically expose agents to the same fixed visual input, ignoring substantial variatio...
Khanh K. Nguyen, Van Dai Do, Tien-Thuy Nguyen et al.· 0 citations
AI agents that send emails, edit files, and make purchases must decide when to act on their own and when to check with the user first. This decision is usually evaluated by showing a model a proposed action, asking whether it should proceed, and scoring agreement with human labels. We introduce DelegationBench to test...
This work introduces TeleTune, a framework for learning a textual skill library from offline logs without recorded goals, cannot be replayed during optimization, and may interleave tasks, and analyses show skill optimization and workflow-based retrieval are complementary.
J. Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen et al.· 0 citations
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The architecture of modern LLMs consists of a profound cognitive polarization. LLMs possess implicit intuition encoded in their parameters, yet rely on a disconnected, explicit mechanism to access the outside world. Agentic frameworks have not bridged this gap; instead, models are often compelled into pathological "ind...
Most Large Language Models exhibit a fundamental tension between two sequential tasks, such as logical reasoning and safety alignment. The high-variance internal states required for sophisticated Chain-of-Thought (CoT) deduction can geometrically interfere with latent representations encoding safety constraints. We ide...
Overall, monitorability disposition is identified as a new contributing factor to model monitorability: when sufficiently strong, it keeps models seeking monitorability throughout inference.
Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) generate text through iterative block denoising, and multi-branch speculative decoding accelerates this process by verifying a main branch together with multiple draft branches in a single forward pass. While prior DLLM acceleration methods primarily exploit temporal redundancy a...
Chung-En Ho, Wei-Yu Sun, Cheng-Jhih Shih et al.· 0 citations
AI agents based on foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities to perform complex open-ended tasks. However, they face some common challenges in practice: (a) agent behavior can deviate drastically even for semantically similar tasks, leading to catastrophically propagated errors; (b) high cost and la...
Peng Qi, Chunliang Lyu, Gang Li et al.· 0 citations
A verifier for an agent faces rules of two kinds: the ones a fixed check can settle and the ones that require a judge. A team that derives its own checks fixes that split up front. Where the requirements come from outside, as in finance, healthcare and law, the agent enforces rules it did not write, so the split falls...
Agents are entering finance, healthcare and law, sectors where a violation leaves no lexical signature and carries real penalties. Whether an omission is material, or a disclosure sufficient, depends on what the response left out. Probing such an obligation means finding responses one minimal edit from flipping complia...
Multi-agent debate can improve reasoning, yet often fails to beat simple majority voting. We argue that successful debate requires two distinct mechanisms: proposal supply must surface a correct answer, and readout must identify that answer when voting misses it. We formalize the first requirement through recoverable h...
Zihao Zhao, Tunyu Zhang, Haizhou Shi et al.· 0 citations
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.