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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Counting Clues: A Lightweight Probabilistic Baseline Can Match an LLM

Large language models (LLMs) excel on multiple-choice clinical diagnosis benchmarks, yet it is unclear how much of this performance reflects underlying probabilistic reasoning. We study this through questions from MedQA that ask for the most likely diagnosis. We introduce Frequency-Based Probabilistic Ranker (FBPR), a...

Furong Jia, Yuan Pu, Finn Guo et al. · 0 citations

SELF: A Robust Singular Value and Eigenvalue Approach for LLM Fingerprinting

Experimental results demonstrate that SELF maintains high IP infringement detection accuracy while significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines in reducing false positives and showing strong robustness against various downstream modifications, including quantization, pruning, and fine-tuning attacks.

Han-Xiu Zhang, Yue Zheng · 4 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-User Poisoning: User-Task Boundary Failures in Multi-User Collaborative Language Agents

Language agents are moving from single-user assistants to shared collaborators in workspaces, forums, and group chats. A shared agent observes interleaved messages from multiple users, maintains persistent context, and executes tool actions, creating a boundary problem absent from standard single-user agents: the agent...

Atharv Singh Patlan, Peiyao Sheng, S. Ashwin Hebbar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Embarrassingly Simple Data Selection Strategy for Million-Scale Multi-Modal Instruction-Tuning

Recent research demonstrates that pretrained large language models (LLMs) require minimal but carefully curated data for instruction-tuning. Building on LLMs, multi-modal models further contend with far larger data volumes, heterogeneous sources, and cross-modal alignment, amplifying both the necessity and the complexi...

Mengyao Lyu, Yan Li, Huasong Zhong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HateSense: Hierarchical Sentiment Analysis Framework for Hate Speech Detection: Implementing Binary and Multiclass Classification Strategy

Hate speech detectors must separate hateful posts from the far more common offensive but non-hateful ones, and two popular ideas for doing so are hierarchical (coarse-to-fine) classification and sentiment features. We revisit our earlier transformer-based framework, which combines both ideas, and test each component in...

Faria Naznin, Md Touhidur Rahman, Shahran Rahman Alve · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Fairness Definitions in Language Models Explained

Language Models (LMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Despite these advancements, LMs can inherit and amplify societal biases related to sensitive attributes such as gender and race, limiting their adoption in real-world applications. Therefore, fairness...

Zhipeng Yin, Zichong Wang, Avash Palikhe et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can LLMs Uncover Hidden Physical Laws through Free Exploration?

Scientific discovery often begins with an unexpected observation that prompts a new research question. In a world with altered physical laws, can large language models (LLMs) notice unexpected behavior, such as heavier objects falling more slowly, and discover the law through experiments without being told what to inve...

Zhen Yang, Wen Wang, Xander Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Follow the Gradient: Tracing Safety Degradation Back to Training Data

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on instruction data can quietly erode their safety, even when no training example looks harmful. Because this safety-degrading data looks benign, standard content filters struggle to catch it. We tackle this problem by developing SimpleLoRIF, a scalable gradient embedding method...

S. Reddy, Amro Abbas, Anshuman Suri et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Test-Time Communication in Trading Agent Swarms

Communication between agents has mostly been studied on tasks with a shared objective and fast, clear feedback. Trading has neither: each agent manages its own account, with decisions being scored by markets late and noisily. A trading swarm is thus a population of independent decision-makers rather than a team, for wh...

Avid Fayaz, Harry Zhang, H{\aa}vard Alstadheim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Representing the Unseen: Rethinking Visual Imagination for Spatial Reasoning

Visual world models increasingly support spatial reasoning by generating RGB views of unobserved states. However, RGB has become the default interface largely because it is well suited for visual generation, rather than necessarily being the most effective representation for downstream reasoning. Different spatial ques...

Zengqi Zhao, Zun Wang, Shoubin Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Where Should the Evaluation Budget Go in LLM-Driven Agent Scaffold Evolution?

This work proposes \method, an evaluation allocation framework that combines sparse search-time feedback with targeted final confirmation and achieves higher mean performance than full evaluation in most settings while using approximately half as many evaluation cells.

Si-Chun Luo, Yi Huang, Mu-Kai Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Aligning Large Language Models for Safety in African Languages: A Case Study of Hausa

Safety alignment research for large language models (LLMs) remains concentrated on high-resource languages, leaving open how existing alignment methods perform in low-resource, culturally distinct settings. We study this question for Hausa, a language spoken by more than 200 million people across West Africa. We introd...

Valdini Douglace Lemofouet, Blessing Ngozi Uzor, P. Anyanwu 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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