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Overview of BioASQ 2026: The fourteenth BioASQ Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering

This paper presents an overview of the fourteenth edition of the BioASQ challenge, organized in the context of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2026. BioASQ is an international challenge series that supports progress in biomedical language processing tasks ranging from semantic indexing and inform...

Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara et al. · 0 citations

LEAP: Learned Block-wise Evidence Retrieval for Long Audio-Video Perception

Hour-scale audio-visual question answering is constrained by a context dilemma: dense whole-recording encoding rapidly exhausts context limits, whereas uniform temporal compression severely dilutes fine-grained acoustic and visual evidence. We introduce LEAP, a framework where the model retrieves its own evidence witho...

Ju-Yi Lin, Zhi-Qiang Lao, Jia-Li Cui et al. · 0 citations

OPSRD: On-Policy Self-Role Distillation

OPSRD is introduced, which uses a fixed expert role as privileged teaching context for on-policy self-distillation without reference solutions for on-policy self-distillation without reference solutions.

Wei-Jie Ren, Yan-Wen Zhang, Hao Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When a Kindergartener Solves Calculus: Measuring Capability Leakage in Role-Prompted Reasoning Models

Injection is proposed, an inference-time intervention that combines explicit, role-specific capability guidelines with a guiding prefilled response prefix that improves role-capability alignment across models, reducing above-role accuracy by up to 0.562 while preserving in-role accuracy with a marginal drop of less tha...

Pakhapoom Sarapat, Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Kunat Pipatanakul et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Stress-Testing LLM Lie Detectors: Role-Play Failures and Spurious Correlations

Lie detection probes aim to predict from a language model's internal states whether its output is truthful or dishonest. However, role-play complicates what"truth"means for an LLM: language models can adopt a wide range of personas that take very different claims to be true, including personas whose beliefs clearly con...

Maximilian von Klinski, S. Lapuschkin, W. Samek et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ShieldCLIP: Selective Safety Alignment for Harmful Content Mitigation in Multimodal Foundation Models

Multimodal encoders such as CLIP underlie many downstream systems, but their web-scale training data embed harmful associations that safety alignment must suppress without unnecessarily changing benign representations. Because ethical and practical constraints prevent collecting real unsafe content at scale, existing d...

Tobia Poppi, Silvia Cappelletti, Samuele Poppi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SEPAL: Separated Expert Pairs with Answer-Level Fusion for Reliable LLM Collaboration

Multi-agent collaboration lets large language models (LLMs) improve question answering through deliberation and feedback. Yet shared discussion couples correction with exposure to the same mistakes, which can erode the diversity needed for voting. Self-consistency offers sampling diversity without feedback, while singl...

Wei-Jie Ren, Yan-Wen Zhang, Hao Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Zero-Compute Cross-Lingual Transferability Estimation Using Typological Feature Proxies

Cross-lingual transfer describes how knowledge in a source language benefits a target language. Measuring it quantitatively requires broad multilingual pre-training, as prior work has done with cross-lingual transfer matrices. We ask whether transfer is predictable from freely available typological features, and whethe...

Dalton Raphael Harmsen, Swier Garst, Thomas van Osch et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Speculative Safety Honeypot: Toward Proactive Defense Against Multi-turn Agent Attacks

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in complex environments, multi-turn interaction attacks have become a significant security challenge. Existing detection methods typically rely on historical context. However, this retrospective logic struggles to identify deep malicious intents that are sp...

Ze-Zhong Wang, Xue-Yang Tang, Rui Lian et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Speech to Editable Concepts: Probing Emotion Recognition with Concept Bottleneck Models

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of assigning emotion labels to utterances. Early systems relied on acoustic features, whereas recent approaches combine multiple modalities, most commonly speech and text. Still, performance remains poor on many datasets. Large language models (LLMs) have therefore attracted...

He-Zhao Zhang, Thomas Hain · 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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