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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Evaluating LLM-based Agents for Multi-Turn Conversations: A Survey

This survey examines evaluation methods for large language model (LLM)-based agents in multi-turn conversational settings. Using a PRISMA-inspired framework, we systematically reviewed nearly 250 scholarly sources, capturing the state of the art from various venues of publication, and establishing a solid foundation fo...

Shengyue Guan, Jindong Wang, Jiang Bian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Auto-AdvER: Disentangling Condition, History, and Commercial Offers in Automotive Advertisements

This paper presents a case study on the development of Auto-AdvER, a specialised span-labelling schema, along with its corresponding dataset for the textual car advertisement domain. Developed with industry needs in mind, Auto-AdvER is designed to enhance text mining analytics in this domain and contributes a linguisti...

Filippos Ventirozos, Ioanna Nteka, Tania Nandy et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Atomic Security Concerns: Towards a Foundational Language for Security Knowledge Representation

Cybersecurity governance, risk management, compliance, and security architecture rely on numerous concepts, including security properties, domains, controls, risks, implementation measures, capabilities, and compliance requirements. Although these concepts are widely used, they are often represented through heterogeneo...

Hanane Houmani · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can JEV Support Clinical Trial Criteria Assessment?

Clinical trial prescreening requires distinguishing unmet conditions from insufficient evidence in patient records. Given patient records, criterion questions, and predefined answer options, we retrospectively compared JEV, a non-generative decision model returning native option probabilities, with schema-constrained Q...

Mengxian He, Ziyue Gao, Chun Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quantitative Generalization Bounds for Multi-Layer Transformers: A Few Long Strings can Beat Many Short Ones

Transformer-based language models exhibit an astonishing capacity to generalize to longer and more difficult problem instances than those seen in training. However, theoretical understanding of this phenomenon still lags behind. Unlike most machine learning models, the generalisation abilities of transformers inherentl...

Marius Henry, Michael Rizvi-Martel, Michael Hahn · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MiRL: Error-Targeted Reinforcement Learning for Correcting Terminal Agent Misbehaviors

Error-targeted learning gives a legible way to improve a model: identify specific weaknesses of the model, train the model to fix these weaknesses, and check whether the weaknesses are fixed. We study how to apply error-targeted learning to terminal agents, which solve long-horizon tasks specified in natural language b...

Runchu Tian, Zaid Khan, Zun Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Integrate the Reward, Don't Sample It: Window Likelihood for Interruptions and Backchannels in Full-Duplex Speech Models

A full-duplex spoken dialogue model must yield when the user cuts in and hold when the user merely backchannels. Sequence-level RL with a timing reward (GRPO) is the usual recipe; we test its whole-rollout form on four open models and find two failures. A binary window reward gives zero advantage on exactly the windows...

Guoqiang Hu, Lichao Zhang, Yizhou Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

S3AC: Stabilized, Selective, and Scalable Actor-Critic for LLM Reasoning

Critic-free methods are widely used in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, avoiding difficult and costly critic training. Common alternatives lack token-level credit assignment and typically rely on grouped rollouts to estimate prompt-specific baselines. A cr...

Shuo Shen, Guangran Cheng, Chengqi Lyu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GPDPO: Learning from Reward Conflicts via Group Pareto-Dominance Policy Optimization

Multi-reward reinforcement learning offers a promising framework for aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse objectives, but conflicting reward signals can induce ambiguous update directions and hinder stable optimization. Existing approaches address such conflicts through reward reweighting, gradient coordi...

Zixuan Xu, Haoxuan Chen, Jiangxin Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Skill$^{\infty}$: Recursive Self-Improvement for Agent Skill Optimization

Recursive self-improvement (RSI), in which a system also improves the way it improves, is a long-standing aspiration on the path to AGI. Language agents increasingly store procedural knowledge in reusable skills. Optimizing skills offers a direct way to achieve RSI, because the optimization procedure itself can be enco...

Wangcheng Tao, Zhanglu Yan, Han Wu 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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