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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Comparative Explainability Framework for DeBERTa-v3 in Zero-Shot Medical Abstract Classification

A comparative explainability framework is presented to audit DeBERTa-v3 under zero-shot classification of medical abstracts. The work addresses the disagreement problem in Explainable Artificial Intelligence, where different attribution methods produce divergent explanations for the same input and prediction. A natural...

Javier Diaz Esteban-Herreros, David Mu\~noz-Valero, Raquel Mart\'inez-Espa\~na et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mingbird: A Local-First Agent Harness Enabling Small Open Models to Complete Real Tasks

Small open-weight models (2-9B) run on ordinary laptops, but under cloud-scale agent harnesses they rarely complete real tasks: tool prefill overflows the context, self-correction diverges, tool demonstrations loop, and tasks are silently abandoned. We present evidence, from a controlled single-machine comparison and o...

Hao Wang, Ting Huang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Counterfactual Auditing of Bias in Open-Source Large Language Models for Clinical Triage

Emergency department (ED) triage is a high-stakes prioritization task in which demographic, socioeconomic, and system-context information may improperly influence acuity assignment. Although open-source large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered for local and privacy-preserving clinical decision support,...

Manar Aljohani, Brandon Ho, Kenneth W. McKinley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generation Provenance Before Behavior Attribution: Auditing Synthetic Speech Research Objects

Attributing model behavior to synthetic training data requires knowing what produced each training item before estimating what that item caused. A waveform-label pair does not preserve this knowledge. We propose a generation-provenance substrate in which a synthetic research object binds source specification, generated...

Sidi Chang, Peiying Zhu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DAYJOB: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Professional Work

Professional work often starts with a brief request that leaves the professional to work out what is needed, which documents matter, and whether the request's premise holds. We introduce DAYJOB, a benchmark of 130 tasks built by professionals in healthcare (50) and finance (80). The tasks are estimated to take a profes...

Stephanie Finley, Liudas Panavas, T. Mikkelson et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SCOPE-AD: Sequential cost-aware ordinal-belief planning with energy-based models for diagnostic agents

Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis requires sequential evidence acquisition under heterogeneous test costs and patient burden. Fixed-modality predictors do not jointly decide which test to acquire or when the available evidence is sufficient for diagnosis. We propose SCOPE-AD (Sequential Cost-Aware Ordinal-Belief Plann...

Ziwen Yu, Ivan Koychev, Elizabeth Coulthard et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Revision-Aware Independent Agent Graphs for Dynamic Reasoning

Conventional reasoning protocols present a fixed, preselected task, so they cannot test whether an agent propagates relevant updates, preserves unaffected work, or reconstructs a historical task binding. We therefore study \emph{dynamic task routing}, in which an event stream revises task bindings and a system must sel...

Yang-Hao Luo, Selim-Antoine Lali, Jeremy Moebel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Empty Commitments: When Agents Promise What They Cannot Deliver

A chatbot that says"I will remind you tomorrow"will not run again until the user writes. We call such a promise an empty commitment: a promise of action after the current turn that nothing in the agent's tools or runtime can carry out. Unlike a broken promise, its emptiness is decided by the agent's configuration at th...

Jia-Qi Tang, Bingyu Shen, Lan Wei et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Final Accuracy: Auditing Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-agent communication aims to help agents benefit from one another's information. Yet improvements in system performance leave a fundamental ambiguity: do they reflect effective communication, a favorable agent architecture, or simply additional reasoning? Because communication methods are commonly evaluated within...

Shi-Xuan Li, Wei Yang, Pei-Yu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Pay for the Fault, Not the Flow: Label-Free In-Flow Multi-Agent Workflow Optimization

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly construct multi-agent workflows that decompose a complex task and assign specialist agents from a pool. However, building such a workflow well remains challenging: how finely to divide the task, which agent to trust with each subtask, and when to create a new specialist are all...

Xue-Hang Guo, Hao-Yu Wang, Sheng-Yu Chen 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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