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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MWOP: Modality-aware Width-wise Operation Pruning for Efficient MLLMs

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) incur substantial inference costs when processing long visual-textual sequences. While existing operation compression methods exploit modality-level redundancy, they largely treat computation within attention heads and shared feed-forward network (FFN) channels as unified units,...

Xu-Dong Wang, Hao Wu, Hao-Zhe Hu et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Generalization Is Stability, Not Accuracy: Multi-Axis Evaluation of LLMs

Generalization in large language models (LLMs) is the ability to produce consistent and semantically stable outputs when the same input is expressed in different ways. Existing work typically evaluates generalization through aggregate accuracy on a single prompt format, task, or set of variations, which conflates robus...

Nagham Omar, Mahmoud Jabarin, M. Rozenshteĭn et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LLM-Assisted Discovery of Typed Semantic Links for Ontology Network Construction

This work proposes an end-to-end framework for ontology network construction that automates the discovery and generation of both intra-domain and inter-domain relationships, and highlights the necessity of LLM-based reasoning over concept roles and domain semantics for accurate relationship construction.

Nouha Hayouni, Sheeba Samuel, Alsayed Algergawy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Science Utopia? Closed-Loop LLM Simulation of Academic Research Ecosystems

Scientific progress emerges from a longitudinal ecosystem in which researchers, institutions, funding agencies, collaboration networks, and the scientific literature co-evolve. As AI becomes increasingly involved throughout the scientific research cycle, understanding these interconnected and evolving processes becomes...

Yiqiao Jin, Yiyang Wang, Lucheng Fu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ReCast: Contract-Preserving Protection for Fixed-Interface Multimodal Reasoning

Remote multimodal models offer strong numerical reasoning capabilities over charts and speech, but sending private inputs risks exposing sensitive content. Text-only sanitization cannot directly satisfy fixed media interfaces, while identity anonymization leaves the underlying task content exposed. We introduce ReCast,...

Bing-Chen Pei, Li-Chong Chen, Bing Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Temporally-Resolved Token Attribution Reveals the Generation Dynamics of Diffusion Language Models

This work presents Diffusion Layer Integrated Gradients (DLIG), a token attribution method for diffusion language models (DLMs) that extends Integrated Gradients (IG~\cite{sundararajan2017axiomatic}) to arbitrary layers and denoising steps. DLIG attributes a DLM's progressive commitment to a self-generated or fixed com...

Darpan Aswal, C\'eline Hudelot · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Madeleine: Learning Involuntary Recall for Conversational Memory from Simulated Lives

A long-term conversational assistant must recall the right memory at the right moment, yet the memory that matters most is often not similar to what the user says now. Current systems recover such associations by letting an LLM reason at write or read time, at a cost of hundreds to over a thousand LLM calls per memory...

Zhi-Yun Shi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Capturing In-Context Learning Dynamics with Task Operators

In-context learning (ICL) enables language models to perform new tasks from demonstrations without weight updates. However, every ICL inference requires processing the full set of examples, resulting in inefficient deployments, and how ICL works mechanistically is not fully understood. Prior work compresses ICL into fi...

Guang-Zhi Xiong, Zheng-Hao He, Bo-Han Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

It Takes Workflows to Evolve Better Workflows

Tackling complex real-world tasks can exceed the capabilities of a single large language model (LLM), motivating the use of multi-agent workflows that coordinate specialized agents to work together on these tasks. Recent methods train LLMs to construct better workflows from execution outcomes, but they optimize only th...

Xue-Hang Guo, Hao-Yu Wang, Hai-Feng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Groundability, Not Scale Alone: When Weak Reviewers Can Audit Strong Coding Agents

Coding agents can return plausible patches that omit required behavior. These failures are hard to review because long traces and confident summaries often hide what was missed. We ask when a nominally weaker reviewer can reliably decide whether a patch solves its issue. We study 411 execution-labeled traces from three...

Jun-Yu Guo, Shangding Gu, Ming Jin et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Distilling Directional Verification

Directional verification mitigates the transfer of errors from teacher-generated answers to students by providing more accurate training targets, and introduces directional label distillation, in which frozen teachers score candidate answers in that known direction and the best-scoring candidate becomes the student's t...

Jungseob Lee, Sugyeong Eo, Seongtae Hong 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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