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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kolibri: A Sovereign European Model on the Pareto Frontier

This report introduces Kolibri, an English-German mixture-of-experts transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters per token, released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence. We built Kolibri for sovereign and specialised deployment, with a particular focus on German and on regulated domains...

Aleph Alpha, :, Moritz Althaus et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Knowing When to Stop: The Evidence-Action Gap in Coding Agents

Coding agents are trained to complete tasks, and they keep trying even when the environment makes completion impossible. The evidence that only outside help can restore progress usually appears within a few steps, yet agents rarely act on it: they over-persist, attempt undesired workarounds, and claim success the recor...

Tianyu Chen, Xinran Zhao, Vijay Viswanathan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Machine-Readable Operator Manuals over the ISO 11783 Network for Offline, Multilingual LLM Assistance

If agricultural machinery is to support intelligent, offline assistance, then the system must access technical documentation dynamically. In this paper, the Semantic Synchronization of operator manuals over ISO 11783-based CAN buses is analyzed, defined as the process that brings the local knowledge base of a tractor-s...

T. Oksanen, Julius Gun · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SWE-Clar: Can Coding Agents Clarify Incomplete Client Requirements and Deliver Greenfield Software?

SWE-Clar, a benchmark grounded in real, high-value client commissions to evaluate requirement clarification and code implementation in this setting, comprises 100 tasks based on real software development jobs on Upwork, each with at least US\$4,000 in total payments.

Jia-Lei Li, Ding-Xian Wang, Xiao-Yan Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

What the Query Remembers: Query Abstraction Governs Lexical and Dense Retrieval of Classical Arabic Poetry

This work benchmarking nine dense encoders and BM25 over two corpora, three indexing modes and two evaluation protocols for Classical Arabic poetry shows that which retriever wins is governed by how much of a poem's wording the query still carries.

Omar Farouk Zouak, S. Mani, Larbi Said Chikh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distributional Alignment of LLMs and Its Generalization Properties

Large language models are increasingly used to simulate and probe human behavior, e.g., for surveys. For these applications, a key property is that outputs satisfy distributional alignment: to match its output distribution with some reference (in this case, human) distribution. An obstacle in achieving distributional a...

Nelson Jo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Target Selection to Condition Reuse: Auditing Residual Interventions in Tool-Use Models

Activation interventions can make a language model produce a target answer, but can the model use the intended condition in other computations? We study this question in Qwen3.5-27B on tool-use tasks where time or permissions determine eligibility and selection. Across 32 fresh worlds, two case-specific residual-writin...

Tianda Sun, Dimitar Kazakov · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

An Agentic Approach with Evidence-Grounded Verification for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning in Conversation

Target prompt adaptation outperforms the frozen static pipeline on all four MLLMs, and matches or outperforms undifferentiated reflection baselines on each of them: VideoLLaMA3-2B, Phi-3.5-vision-instruct, Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct, and InternVL2.5-38B.

Elyas Rashno, Farhana H. Zulkernine · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Structured Generation: Can Graph-Based Reasoning Resolve Ambiguity?

Structured generation is typically formulated as a deterministic mapping from input to a single structured output. This assumption is fundamentally misaligned with natural language, which often admits multiple structurally distinct yet semantically valid interpretations. As a result, existing methods rely on single-ref...

Ratun Rahman, Atit Pokharel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Validating the Comparison, Not Just the Scorer: Why Overall Accuracy Can Mislead in Interactive LLM Evaluation

Many LLM studies compare how models respond to different follow-up prompts. For example, one prompt may neutrally ask a model to reconsider, while another insists that an invented film really exists. The difference is used to measure the effect of conversational pressure. An automatic scorer then labels whether each re...

Ancil Crayton · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do "True" and "False" Add Up to One? Complement Consistency in LLM-Agent Opinion Simulations

In LLM-agent opinion simulations, each agent reports the probability that a claim is true after seeing its own previous probability and the probabilities reported by its neighbors, and that number becomes its state in the next round. If the number describes the agent's position rather than the sentence it was shown, th...

Anouar Imel, Jin Qi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ActionRAG: Evidence-Refining Graph Diffusion for Long-Term Memory in LLM Agents

LLM agents need long-term memory that can recover precise and mutually consistent evidence from growing interaction histories, particularly when answers depend on relations among facts rather than isolated semantic matches. Current memory pipelines remain vulnerable at two stages: indexing errors can fragment repeated...

Navyansh Mahla, Sashank Vandrangi · 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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