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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SANE: Automated Scorer-Specific Metamorphic Testing for LLM Judges

LLM judges increasingly mediate benchmark evaluation, model selection, data curation, and training. Their decisions are useful only when each judge responds reliably to changes affecting its scoring criterion. Existing methods for reliability testing perturb inputs with known expected effects on judge scores. Prominent...

Ethan Ludwick, Yu-Chung Hsiao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Do I Know What to Say Next? Barenholtz's Autogenerative Theory as an Enrichment of Harrisean Integrationism

Roy Harris's Integrationist linguistics offers a compelling critique of the referentialist tradition embedded deep at the heart of computational approaches to language, arguing that language is not a code that maps onto a pre-given world but a situated, bipartite activity oriented toward prospective joint action. Yet I...

J. Mark Bishop, Stephen J. Cowley · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models

Large audio language models (LALMs) have shown impressive capabilities on diverse audio understanding tasks, ranging from speech transcription to music analysis. However, because LALMs are typically trained to produce text-aligned responses, their hidden states are progressively shaped for text generation rather than f...

Gyojin Han, Dong-Jae Lee, Changho Choi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probing Collision Grounding in Vision-Language Models for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

Safe human--robot collaboration requires more than visual description: a monitor must determine whether the robot body is safely separated, already colliding with the scene or a person, or about to collide. We call this capability collision grounding: binding visual observations to robot body geometry, camera viewpoint...

Jun Wang, Xiaohao Xu, Xiaonan Huang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Efficient Benchmarking Is Just Feature Selection and Multiple Regression

Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's questions. By reframing this problem as an instance of multiple regression with feature selection, we find that existing efficient benchmarking methods can be...

Sam Bowyer, Acyr Locatelli, Kris Cao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep Reasoning in General Purpose Agents via Structured Meta-Cognition

Humans intuitively solve complex problems by flexibly shifting among reasoning modes: they plan, execute, revise intermediate goals, resolve ambiguity through associative judgment, and apply formal procedures to well-specified subproblems. Current LLM agents lack this flexibility, as their scaffolds hard-code such reas...

Dean Light, Michael Theologitis, Kshitish Ghate et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MedAction: Towards Active Multi-turn Clinical Diagnostic LLMs

Most existing LLM diagnoses are evaluated on static, single-turn settings where complete patient information is provided upfront, an oversimplification of real clinical practice. We study active diagnosis: the real-life clinical process of starting from initial observation, ordering tests, interpreting results, and upd...

Hsin-Ling Hsu, Zizheng Wang, Donghua Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Better Reward Models Are Not Always Less Biased: Social Alignment Beyond Standard Reward Benchmarks

Reward models are central to LLM alignment, yet current benchmarks reveal little about how they represent diverse and sometimes competing social preferences. We extend reward model evaluation to four socially consequential domains: bias, safety, morality, and ethical reasoning. Our analysis shows that strong benchmark...

Gayane Ghazaryan, Esra D\"onmez · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

daVinci-Env: Open SWE Environment Synthesis at Scale

Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops for iterative code editing, test execution, and solution refinement. However, existing open-source datasets remain limited in scale and repository diversity, while industri...

Dayuan Fu, Shenyu Wu, Yunze Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MetaKE: Meta-Learning for Knowledge Editing Toward a Better Accuracy-Editability Trade-off

Existing locate-then-edit Knowledge Editing (KE) methods typically decompose editing into two stages: upstream target representation optimization and downstream constrained parameter optimization. The optimization across the two stages is disconnected: upstream applies uniform regularization without observing downstrea...

Shuxin Liu, Di Gao, Ou Wu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MoE-SpAc: Efficient MoE Inference Based on Speculative Activation Utility in Heterogeneous Edge Scenarios

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable scalable performance but face severe memory constraints on edge devices. Existing offloading strategies struggle with I/O bottlenecks due to the dynamic, low-information nature of autoregressive expert activation. In this paper, we propose to repurpose Speculative Decoding (SD) no...

Shuhuai Li, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CrimeNER: Curated Dataset and Methods for Research and Investigation in Language Intelligence

The extraction of critical information from crime-related documents is a crucial task for law enforcement agencies. The extraction of this information can be interpreted as a Named-Entity Recognition (NER) task. However, there is a considerable lack of adequately annotated data on general real-world crime scenarios. To...

Miguel Lopez-Duran, Julian Fierrez, Aythami Morales 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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