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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Activation Flow: Manufacturing Activations for Steering

Activation Flow (ActFlow), which manufactures activations from correct labels without fine-tuning, scores higher than the smallest-norm rule in 16 of the 18 combinations of locked model and $k, and its steering direction is nearly orthogonal to the honest difference-in-means direction.

Hong-Fu Tan, Linh Le, David Williams-King · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Users Change Their Minds: Measuring and Repairing Intent Drift in LLM Agents

Intent drift is established as a measurable multi-turn failure mode and explicit state maintenance as a partial mitigation and IntentFlux is introduced, an executable benchmark that converts verifiable tasks into dialogues with controlled intent changes while preserving their original graders.

Yan-Jie Zhang, Bo-Wen Cao, Zi-Xin Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learning an Anchored Prompt Space for Continual Adaptation of Large Language Models

Experiments on the TRACE benchmark across three Qwen3 model scales show that LAPS consistently outperforms distillation-based, prompt-based, and joint prompt--parameter adaptation baselines, improving average performance while reducing forgetting.

Rong-Guang Ye, Zhan Zhuang, Yi-Chen Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Explaining Textual Entailment with Lexical Entailments: Using LLMs to Supply Lexical Relations for Formal Proofs

The results show that the proposed task remains challenging even for hosted proprietary LLMs, and that their contribution to theorem proving is moderate: generated relations are often only partially sound and may be tailored to the specific NLI problem rather than representing generally valid lexical knowledge.

Jorryt de Jong, Steve Moraca, Ettore Cesari et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Automatic Speech Recognition for the Basa\`{a} Language: A Low-Resource Approach

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) has revolutionized the way humans interact with machines, but these advances have disproportionately benefited a small fraction of the world's languages.

Sophie Gertrude Ngo Mock, C. M. Varmantchaonala, Paul Dayang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Black-Box Auditing of Epistemic Reliability in Multi-Agent Debate Distillation

This work proposes ER-Audit, a two-stage black-box auditing framework that compares frozen verifier checkpoints before and after adaptation, and introduces two evaluation benchmarks pairing monitored and hidden task prompts grounded in shared contexts.

De-Rui Wang, Ze-Wei Shi, Rayne Holland et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

What Can a Leaderboard Certify? Compositional Controllability for Fair Evaluation and Training of Biomedical Literature-Review Agents

This work introduces compositional controllability to address compositional controllability in pipeline performance, and bounds the gap between observed and controlled score differences using only nuisance outside the window.

Zhao-Wei Han, Xiang Zhang, Lingxiao Guan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TRAP: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Memorization in Language Models

TRAP, a one-sided penalty on tokenwise TRA that acts only where the target model pulls ahead of its reference, brings memorization near the level of an untrained model at little utility cost, where generic regularizers barely move and differential privacy gives up most of what fine-tuning bought.

Muhammed Ustaomeroglu, Zi-Yue Xu, Han-Shen Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Supporting and Performing Culture from the Inside

This framework is adopted to systematically analyse assumptions in recent research on culture in NLP along the full pipeline of task selection, data collection, system design and evaluation.

Lea Frermann, Steven Bird · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Typed Decision Models: An Early Evidence Audit and Evaluation Checklist

This work reviews 28 papers posted between 19 and 24 September and relates their findings to earlier work on label-probability classification, constrained decoding, reranking, calibration, and model cascades and uses recurring weaknesses in these studies to derive a 14-item evaluation checklist for future TDM work.

Li-Juan Tang, Yue-Meng Zheng · 3 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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