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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ThinkJev: One Thought, Every Budget for Calibrated Typed Decisions

ThinkJev builds a fast and a slow system from one open hybrid-thinking model that can answer directly or after a thought, and chooses when to think from System 1's confidence alone saves less, because the decisions System 1 is least sure of are often not the ones thinking fixes.

Xiao-Lu Ding, Kai-Rui Yang, Dong-Dong Liu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Agentic University: Collaborative Agents for Personalized Learning

Large language models support personalized tutoring, content generation, and adaptive learning paths. However, capability development requires these resources and interactions to form a coherent learning process that evolves with the learner. A central challenge is to align goals, activities, and assessment while using...

Jing-Ru Fan, Tian-Le Zhou, Yu-Jie Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Reasoning or Pattern Exploitation? Mechanistic Insights from RL-Trained Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly described as acquiring"reasoning"skills after reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. However, whether these gains reflect genuine reasoning or more superficial adaptations remains underexplored. In this work, we probe LLMs trained in a finite and exhaustively analy...

Aishik Nagar, Cheston Tan · 0 citations

Spatio-Temporal Audio Language Modeling for Dynamic Sound Sources

ST-AudioQA, a spatio-temporal audio QA dataset and benchmark built from first-order ambisonic (FOA) renderings of static and moving sound sources, and ST-Audio Encoder, which jointly learns event semantics and time-resolved source trajectories, and ST-AudioLM, which exposes these audio tokens to an LLM for spatio-tempo...

Hyun-Bin Oh, Kazuki Shimada, Yuhta Takida et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMs Can Leak Training Data But Do They Want To? Evaluating Memorization Propensity in LLMs

Large language models can reproduce training data, but memorization evaluations mostly measure whether models can be made to do so, not whether they do so without adversarial prompting. We introduce PropMe, a framework that pairs a capability evaluation (prefix attacks) with non-adversarial propensity evaluation, and a...

Gianluca Barmina, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke Poech · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Streaming Communication in Multi-Agent Reasoning

Multi-agent reasoning systems adopt a generate-then-transfer paradigm that forces end-to-end latency to scale linearly with pipeline depth. We introduce StreamMA, a multi-agent reasoning system that streams each reasoning step to downstream agents as soon as it is generated, pipelining adjacent agents and thus reducing...

Zhen Yang, Xiaogang Xu, Wen Wang et al. · 0 citations

Does The Way You Plan Matter? An Empirical Study of Planning Representations for LLM Web Agents

PlanAhead is introduced, a static planner-executor framework that evaluates the impact of plan representation on agent performance and shows that both, the plan formulation and the underlying LLM generating the plan, significantly influence web-agent robustness and task success.

Alejandra Zambrano, Sara Vera Marjanovic, Imene Kerboua et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Geometry of Learning: Read-Write Asymmetry Across Training

Pretraining and alignment update the same transformer weights, and we ask in which directions each stage changes them. The residual stream gives every matrix a shared coordinate system, in which a weight change can be compared with the principal subspace of the activations the matrix reads and with the prediction subsp...

Valeria Ruscio, Keiran Thompson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Scoring-Rule Sensitivity in LLM Evaluation: Evidence from Indian Financial Regulatory Text

A benchmark leaderboard reports one accuracy number, but that number is a joint product of a model and a scoring rule. We ask what changes when only the rule changes, and find that model ordering is highly sensitive to it. IndiaFinBench is a 406-item expert-annotated benchmark over SEBI and RBI regulatory text covering...

Rajveer Singh Pall · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Latent Abstraction for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, mitigating hallucinations, and improving factuality. However, existing systems rely on generating natural language queries at each hop and maintaining a strict architectural separation...

Ha Lan N. T, Minh-Anh Nguyen, Dung D. Le · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkipCat: Rank-Maximized Low-Rank Compression of Large Language Models via Shared Projection and Block Skipping

Large language models (LLM) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, their substantial parameter sizes pose significant challenges for deployment on edge devices with limited computational and memory resources. Low-rank compression is a promising approach to address this issue, as it...

Yu-Chen Lu, Sheng-Feng Yu, Hui-Hsien Weng 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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2026

AI model decodes the language cells use to communicate

A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 15, 2026

Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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