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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PreView: Enhancing GUI Grounding with Preprocessed Views and Cues

GUI grounding requires locating small controls in cluttered screenshots and identifying which control a natural-language instruction refers to. Cropping and enlargement can expose local detail, but the resulting image may still leave ambiguity about the intended target. We propose PreView, an auxiliary preprocessor tha...

Wenjun Hou, Kaishuai Xu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Model-Theoretic Formalization of AlKhwaremis ilm alfaraid

This paper presents a model theoretic and computational formalization of AlKhwarizmis treatment of inheritance within the framework of Computational Fiqh. We first show that every inheritance configuration in a specified class is representable as a finite system of rational linear equalities and inequalities, and that...

Elnaserledinellah Mahmoud Abdelwahab · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SkillShift-Bench: Benchmarking Skill Learning under Environment Evolution for Web Agents

Skill learning enables web agents to reuse prior experience for long-horizon interactive tasks. However, learned skills are typically evaluated in closed environments, overlooking the fact that real-world web deployment involves continuous shifts in invocation context, perceptual grounding, and execution feasibility. T...

Bo-Yu Chen, Zhi Zhou, Yu-Feng Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Implicit Beliefs as Scalable Process Rewards for Strategic Persuasion

Training large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn strategic persuasion faces two coupled obstacles: (i) realistic simulation of psychologically grounded persuadees, and (ii) dense, faithful supervision for credit assignment in strategic dialogues. Outcome-only rewards are sparse and uninformative about which convers...

Minqian Liu, Yuexi Shen, Heajun An et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Novel or Not? PatEx-Gym: Agentic Prior-Art Search for Novelty Assessment in Patent Examination

Patent examination is a challenging real-world task that requires agents to discover sparse prior art, iteratively refine queries, inspect technical evidence, and produce novelty assessments documented in Office Actions (OAs) across heterogeneous scientific and technical domains. However, existing benchmarks largely fo...

Qiyao Wang, Xinyi Chen, Hongbo Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Of Chains and Gains: What Reinforcement Learning changes on Reasoning-based Image Quality Assessment

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved the performance of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on image quality assessment (IQA). Existing approaches often attribute these gains to improved reasoning before scoring, supported by increasingly plausible Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, whether...

Yi-Xuan Li, Yuxuan Jiang, Han-Wei Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Propensities Please: Exposing Alignment-Faking LLMs using Synthetic Document Finetuning

Alignment evaluations aim to assess whether large language models would engage in dangerous misaligned behaviour. Misaligned and evaluation-aware models might engage in alignment faking, where they pursue a hidden goal, but conceal this behaviour when they suspect effective oversight such as during training, evaluation...

Ardy Haroen, Florian Lorkowski, Samuel Nellessen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LLMs Can Tackle High Energy Theoretical Physics, yet Gaps Remain: Part I, Quantum Field Theory

Beyond math and code, Large language models (LLMs) are beginning to tackle problems that have traditionally required substantial training for theoretical physicists, but it remains unclear how far this capability extends and where it might break. As a first step toward pushing LLMs in high-energy theoretical physics, w...

Tong Liu, Bohan Li, Gongrui Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Speculative Forking: Turning Idle Wait into Parallel Exploration for Repository Environment Setup

Before developers can use a software project, they must first get it to run. This often requires installing the right language runtime, system packages, build tools, and test commands. Recent LLM-based agents automate environment setup by inspecting a repository, writing setup scripts, running them, and repairing the r...

Yuling Shi, Mingchu Zhong, Zhensu Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prospect Theory in Large Language Models: A Meta-Analysis of Loss Aversion, Diminishing Sensitivity, and Probability Weighting

Prospect theory splits risky choice into three parts: loss aversion, measured by the relative weight of losses to gains, $\lambda$ (e.g., $\lambda = 2$ implies that losses weigh twice as much as gains), diminishing sensitivity to the size of outcomes (i.e., the curvature and linearity of the value function), and the no...

Adi Tarabeih · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Multimodal Framework for Measuring Creator Communication on Short-Form Video

Short-form video combines speech, imagery, and on-screen text, creating challenges for systematic content analysis. We present a five-stage multimodal framework for measuring creators' themes and communication strategies at scale. The framework integrates platform metadata, speech transcripts, and vision-language descr...

Julie R. Ancis, Michael Fire, Omer Tarshish · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Lessons from Luck: Do LLM-Written Lessons Carry Chance into an Agent's Next Decision?

Self-improving agents write lessons from the outcomes of their runs; when outcomes are noisy, a lesson can carry chance into later decisions. We measure one link of this chain in a registered study. In 256 synthetic worlds, each a recurring task with two interchangeable tools of recorded reliability, a scripted previou...

Kazuki Nakayashiki · 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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