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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Sapien: A Stateful Policy Engine for Autonomous AI Agents

Contextual security defenses prevent AI agents from taking rogue actions by synthesizing a task-specific policy and enforcing it on the agent's tool calls. In multi-step tasks, however, which actions are valid often depends on what the agent has already done and learned. We present Sapien, a policy engine for enforcing...

CO Tiffany, Wen Zhang, E. Bagdasarian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Legal Research Bench: Measuring End-to-End Reliability in Long-Horizon Legal Research Agents

Legal research is a core and time-consuming legal workflow. Lawyers must identify controlling authority, verify that it remains valid, reconcile statutes and cases, and synthesize a grounded answer. Language model agents are a natural fit for this retrieval-intensive workflow, and automating even part of it would be va...

К. А. Дроздов, Oliver Chen, Langston Nashold et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Frozen Scenes, Shifting Winners: Configuration Fragility in Text-to-3D Evaluation

Can a text-to-3D leaderboard change when every generated scene stays fixed? We audit this question for rendered-image evaluation, where camera settings and caption wording become part of the measurement protocol. Across 300 frozen scenes from six generators, we vary eight render and caption factors for 19 alignment eva...

Anson Y. Lam, Shuqing Li, Michael R. Lyu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ContractRL: Shielded Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Auditable Tool-Call Repair

Structured tool calls often fail after only a small number of fields violate a schema or an execution contract. Regenerating the complete object enlarges the action surface and makes repeated repair difficult to audit. We introduce ContractRL, a contract-constrained sequential repair protocol that models verifier-guide...

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

Characterizing a Configuration Where Inference-Time PRM-Pruned Fragment Grafting Is Inert: Evidence from Three Reasoning LMs

Diversity collapse in parallel chain-of-thought has motivated inference-time interventions built on a natural design: when a process reward model (PRM) prunes a chain, its high-PRM prefix is extracted and grafted verbatim as an in-context demonstration into a still-decoding sibling. We isolate this mechanism, PRM-Prune...

Khawaja Murad Ul Hassan, Mehran Ebrahimi · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Robust Wake-Up Word Detection by Two-stage Multi-resolution Ensembles

Voice-based interfaces rely on a wake-up word mechanism to initiate communication with devices. However, achieving a robust, energy-efficient, and fast detection remains a challenge. This paper addresses these real production needs by enhancing data with temporal alignments and using detection based on two phases with...

Fernando L\'opez, Jordi Luque, Carlos Segura et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Using Fine-Tuned LLMs to Identify Indicators of Vulnerability in UK Police Incident Logs

Purpose: Understanding how much of routine policing involves vulnerable people could inform resourcing, training, and multi-agency response, yet administrative data provide limited insight. We explore whether an LLM-based classification pipeline, developed on open-source US police data, can be adapted to estimate the p...

Sam Relins, Daniel Birks · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Dominant Self-Conditioning Direction Drives Repetition in Unconditional Continuous Diffusion Language Models

Continuous diffusion language models offer an alternative to autoregressive generation, but their generations may suffer from repetition. We find that unconditional generations from ELF, a recent family of continuous diffusion language models, are more repetitive than human text, while Gen-PPL, a common likelihood-base...

Shuai Zhang, Zijie Chen, Huachuan Qiu 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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