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Multiscale Fresh Tea Leaves Sorting Device with Drum-axial Airflow Coupling: Design and Performance Test

To address the problems of low sorting accuracy and poor operation stability caused by physical leaf entanglement in traditional drum screening of fresh tea leaves, a multiscale fresh tea leaf sorting system with drum-axial airflow coupling based on intelligent control was designed. The axial moving distances of fresh...

Ruiyun Fan, Jingjian Zhu, Xu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Open access Nov 2026

Exception handling bugs in Python: An empirical study of root causes, fix patterns, and anti-patterns

Analysis of exception handling bugs in Python projects reveals systematic relationships between root causes and repair strategies, indicating that exception handling bugs often follow predictable patterns.

Jairo Souza, Eric Coelho, J. Correia et al. · 0 citations

Constitutional Midtraining: Content Presence Drives Alignment Gains

Post-training alignment is often shallow, eroding under fine-tuning. It remains untested as to whether constitutional midtraining interventions can produce durable alignment when cleanly isolated from post-training. We build a 394M-token constitutional corpus from Anthropic's Constitution and apply constitutional midtr...

D. Cho, Cameron Tice, Bernie Hogan et al. · 3 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5, 2026

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…

GPT-Lab Nov 3, 2026

Sovereignty Is the Option to Leave

Is your company’s AI sovereign? A practical guide for CIOs on AI vendor lock-in, EU Data Act switching, cloud sovereignty, and testing your exit plan before you need it. The post Sovereignty Is the Option to Leave appeared first on GPT-Lab.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 30, 2026

From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence

Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any circumstances. The post From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence appeared first on Microsoft Research.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 29, 2026

Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97

Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how people use AI at work and improving extended-range weather forecasting. The post Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97 appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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