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Contextual Causality with Large Language Models: A Survey

Understanding contextual causality is critical for large language models (LLMs), as it enables them to accurately identify causal relations in specific situations and support more reliable decision-making. Despite its significance, a systematic exploration of contextual causality with LLMs is still lacking. To fill thi...

Yi-Heng Zhao, Jun Yan, Chengming Hu · 0 citations
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Functional Emotion Without Character: Large Language Models, Aristotelian Disposition, and the Limits of Behavioral Alignment

Debates about whether artificial systems can feel are often forced between two unsatisfactory positions: behavioral equivalence is treated as sufficient for emotion, or phenomenal consciousness is treated as a prerequisite that makes the question empirically inaccessible. This article develops a structural alternative....

Marzieh Zare · 0 citations
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Used, Mentioned, or Condemned? A Controlled Contrast-Set Diagnostic for the Use-Mention Distinction in Code-Mixed Hinglish Misogyny Detection

Lexicon-driven misogyny detectors cannot, by construction, distinguish a slur used against a woman from the same slur mentioned in counter-speech ("don't call her that") -- yet exactly this distinction governs whether moderation protects or silences the people discussing abuse. We study this problem in code-mixed Hingl...

Ashanvi Yadav, Shubham Bhardwaj · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Which Part of the Context Layer Does the Work? Separating Semantic Content from Retrieval Scaffolding in Text-to-SQL Agents

Context layers, curated documentation that an analytics agent fetches at query time, produce large accuracy gains on text-to-SQL benchmarks. A with/without comparison cannot say which part of the layer does the work: the semantic content, the retrieval scaffolding that delivers it, or the pre-computed views that usuall...

Qing Ye · 0 citations
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Deep Persona: A Psychologically Grounded Architecture and Evaluation Framework for Role-Playing Agents and Simulations

Deep Persona is introduced, a psychologically grounded, three-layered architecture that organizes personas into hierarchical levels of observable expression, latent beliefs, and core motivational drives, for constructing highly convincing role-playing agents.

Rotem Dror, Zohar Elyoseph, Yuval Haber et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

A Tutorial on Prompt Engineering: From Messy Thoughts to AI Workflows

This paper treats prompt engineering as a discipline for turning informal human intent into structured AI work specifications. It develops the practice as a sequence of reusable design moves: define the work, construct only the context the answer depends on, choose a role, or a moderated panel of roles, as an attention...

Erfan Loweimi, Hadi Daneshvar, Samira Loveymi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Checkpoints Are Not Enough: Trust Calibration in CoSLR, a Human-AI System for Systematic Literature Reviews

CoSLR is presented, a Human-AI collaborative multi-agent system that supports the SLR workflow through a modular three-phase pipeline using large language models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and that places explicit, mandatory human checkpoints on the path between generated output and its acceptance.

Aidul Islam, M. Sami, Muhammad Waseem et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Do Chess Explanations Reflect Model Decisions? Behavioral and Token-Level Tests of LLM Reasoning Faithfulness

Across 200 Lichess endgame puzzles, linguistic plausibility, consistency with a generated action, and solution correctness are distinct properties in chess, showing that Fluent chess explanations can influence action preferences and support a coherent move narrative while providing only limited evidence of faithful rea...

Angelina Parfenova · 0 citations
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Replay-Gated Neural Execution: Decoupling Persistent Behavioral Specifications from Neural Realizations in Frozen Language Models

Input-conditioned neural interventions raise a runtime question: what persists when one behavioral specification admits multiple actions whose validity depends on execution state? We introduce replay-gated neural execution, separating five objects: a persistent behavioral predicate, its state-indexed certified realizat...

Xianliang Zeng, Zhanzhan Zhao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

H2LooP Telecom Model v1: From Telecom Comprehension to Autonomous Issue and PR Resolution

We present H2LooP Telecom Model v1, a domain-specialized large language models fine-tuned for the telecommunications industry. We release two domain-adapted model variants serving complementary use cases: a comprehension-focused variant for telecom domain question answering and reasoning, and an agentic variant for aut...

Amit Singh, Vedant Nipane, Mayank Goel 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.

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