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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Gains and Collapse in On-Policy Distillation:A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become an important approach to language model post-training. However, despite its performance gains, OPD can also collapse into excessively long and repetitive generation, and the mechanism underlying these divergent outcomes remains poorly understood. We explain these outcomes through...

Han Cui, Jianhao Yan, Yun Luo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Peer Influence across Heterogeneous AI Models

When two AI agents disagree, who persuades whom? As multi-agent systems increasingly combine language models of different families and sizes, the answer can determine which judgments survive interaction. Measuring persuasion as the probabilistic shift in an agent's decision after a single exchange with a dissenting pee...

Frida Nøhr Laustsen, Marie Haahr Petersen, Victoria Popa et al. · 0 citations
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Verifiable, Articulable, and Tacit Components of Preference

What makes a short story gripping; a news article newsworthy; or a math proof elegant? These constructs resist articulation or verification; their meaning is at least partially tacit. However, modern AI models are improved primarily via articulated constitutions, rubrics and verifiers (i.e. in RLAIF and RLVR); tacit co...

Alexander Spangher, Sheldon Huang, Andreas Haupt et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for a Dysarthric and Tracheostomic Speaker using Artificial Conversations

This work presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system personalized for a Czech speaker with a permanent tracheal stoma and severe dysarthria rendering their speech unintelligible to untrained listeners. We release a public dataset containing 33 annotated hours of the speaker's speech, collected using a novel"...

David Nadrchal, Monorama Swain, Florian Schmid et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Continual Graph Memory for Mathematical Research Agents

Using frontier agent harnesses to tackle mathematical research problems has emerged as an effective means of advancing mathematics. However, solving frontier problems in mathematics may require a massive number of agents working in parallel for extended periods to construct proofs, thereby generating an enormous volume...

Jun-Yi Zhang, Jin-Xi Yu, E. Jiang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

FSPO: Policy-Consistent Risk and Pareto-Feasible Control for Budgeted LLM RL Post-Training

Adaptive LLM reinforcement-learning post-training changes multiple training actuators online, including rollout temperature, group size, clipping, KL regularization, verifier allocation, and update budget. Three coupled issues remain unresolved. A future-risk model trained from behavior trajectories need not estimate t...

Miao-Bo Hu, Shu-Hao Hu, Xiao-Bo Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ROUTEAUDIT: Interaction-Aware Identification for Budgeted Multi-Verifier Routing

Adaptive multi-verifier systems are commonly compared through endpoint quality-cost gaps, even when the verifier catalog, availability, accounting, information filtration, or scorer changes with the policy. We formulate verifier routing as a contract-conditioned identification problem. The contract records request supp...

Miaobo Hu, Shuhao Hu, Xiaobo Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Large language models exhibit unreliable updating of clinical judgment as patient evidence evolves

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored for clinical reasoning, but whether they appropriately revise judgments as patient evidence evolves remains unclear. We evaluated longitudinal belief updating using matched intensive-care trajectories from electronic health records. Across diverse LLMs, conditionin...

Min Zeng, Rui Zhang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

VERSE: Verified Self-Evolving Optimizer for Agent Harnesses

VersE, a Verified Self-Evolving optimizer for agent harnesses, improves all four evaluated harness optimizers on held-out SWE-rebench tasks and newer out-of-distribution tasks in five languages.

Ze-Kai Wang, Ying-Qiang Ge, Ze-Kun Wang et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Right Order, Wrong Scale: Auditing LLM Judges for Occupational AI Measurement

LLM judges are increasingly used to assess whether AI outputs meet workplace requirements, but agreement on response rankings does not establish agreement on acceptance rates or occupational aggregates. We introduce O*NET-BENCH, an audit suite derived from an existing survey of 45,796 worker ratings, and evaluate 33 pr...

Harry Lyu, Neil Thompson · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses

Agent harnesses make many small, typed decisions per task: which model to call, which tool to use, whether retrieved text is relevant, whether an input carries an injection. System-1 decision models answer such questions in a single forward pass with class probabilities, promising large cost and latency savings over LL...

Jia-Wei Li · 11 citations · ⚡1
#natural language process... Open access Oct 2026

Knowledge boundary probing and demand-guided intervention for LLM-based power system code generation

Large language models (LLMs) can turn grid-analysis requests into executable programs for power-system simulation, but utilities and research laboratories often require on-premise deployment. In this setting, first-pass failures frequently arise at an API-knowledge boundary , through hallucinated functions, misused par...

hui wu, Xiaoyang Wang, Zhong Fan · 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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