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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Groupwise Agentic Grading and Advantage Redistribution for Code Agent RL

Reinforcement learning (RL) for code agents often uses executable tests to provide binary rewards. With these rewards, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) assigns identical advantages to test-passing trajectories within each rollout group, overlooking differences in implementation quality and adherence to task re...

Jin-Hao Dong, Liang Zhao, Zi-Hao Yue et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Language as an Independent Information Layer: A Conceptual Model of Communication, Cognition and Decision-Making

A new concept for designing corporate knowledge bases is proposed that integrates the probabilistic vector space of a corporate vocabulary, reflect-ing industry specifics, subject focus, terminology, and culture, with traditional ontological modeling, and enables the efficient extraction of knowledge from accumulated c...

A. Alifanova, E. Benderskaya · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Masking Frequent Tokens Sharpens Direct Preference Optimization

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) aligns language models by optimizing over sequence-level sums of token-wise implicit reward differences. However, we identify a pervasive pathology in this formulation: a disproportionately small subset of high-frequency token types dominates cumulative sequence scores while appeari...

Harshvardhan Saini, Samyak Jha, Yiming Tang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Before Answering: Evidence Sufficiency under Size-Matched Memory Construction

Agents that answer questions from compressed or retrieved memory must recognize when the evidence a query needs is no longer in memory. Benchmarks for this task usually create insufficient-evidence examples by deleting supporting passages. We show that this construction leaks the label through memory size: on MuSiQue,...

Joyanta J. Mondal, Md. Shifatul Ahsan Apurba, Mridul Banik et al. · 1 citation

The Judge Is Not Its Twin: Post-training makes a model's writing more predictable but barely moves its taste, as a judge, toward predictable writing

Language models are now routinely graded by other language models. If post-training makes a model's own writing more predictable, it may also teach the same model, acting as a judge, to reward predictable writing, so that progress on creativity would be invisible to automated evaluation. We follow two open model famili...

Arman Nik Khah, Arvin Bahreini · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Recipe-Matching, Not Equivalence

Only on MathNet-Retrieve could an inversion, benchmark score up and real retention down, to one edit of a training file be pined, and three trained models are released.

A. Habibullah, M. Alshiekh, Yazan Alshoibi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

The Temporal Tug-of-War: Visualizing and Detecting RAG Conflicts in Diffusion Models via Trajectory Variance

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) introduces a specific failure mode in discrete diffusion language models: when retrieved context contradicts parametric knowledge, the iterative denoising process becomes a visible battleground between competing knowledge sources. We identify temporal semantic divergence as an obser...

Sravan Karthick T, Pranav Darshan, Pranav A et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Distributional sentiment modeling and anomaly detection for consumer complaint assessment

This study links sentiment extraction, bounded response modeling, and anomaly detection in a unified framework for consumer complaint assessment and finds that negative sentiment intensity is not a sharp classifier of outcomes on its own; combined with monetary and categorical attributes, it isolates unusually severe c...

Pei-Heng Gao, Chen Yang, Shi-Min Zhang · 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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