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#artificial intelligence Preprint May 2026

Diversifying RLVR Rollouts via First-Token Exploration

This work identifies the first token of the response as a structurally distinct target for diversification, largely overlooked in prior work, and finds that the first-token distribution is sharply concentrated and only weakly related to downstream correctness, as lower-probability candidates can yield similarly accurat...

Soeun Kim, Albert No · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Feb 2026

Evaluating Test-Time Scaling of General LLM Agents

This paper systematically investigates two principal test-time scaling axes of LLM agents: sequential scaling through extended interaction and parallel scaling through trajectory sampling, and finds that neither scaling axis can consistently yield meaningful gains from additional test-time compute in realistic environm...

Xiao-Chuan Li, Ryan Ming, P. Setlur et al. · 23 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

STEPQuant: When and Where Errors Matter in Delta-Rule Recurrent State Quantization

STEPQuant is proposed, a spatial-temporal post-training quantization framework for Delta-rule recurrent states that allocates precision according to error magnitude and memory lifetime, and jointly fits key-row and value-column scales based on state distributions and key-row impact on output error.

Bing-Chen Yao, Hao-Bo Xu, Hao-Kun Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies

GEB is introduced, a long-video memory framework that groups visually grounded observations of the same physical instance across clips into retrievable biographies while preserving the context of each moment and demonstrating improvements over prior memory frameworks in both multiple-choice and open-ended question answ...

Hui-Hui Ren, Lei Fan, Henry Pao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

How Local Mixing Encodes Relative Position in Global NoPE Attention

An explanation of how hybrid models of this sort can implicitly encode position at global NoPE layers is developed, and insights are provided for how to encode position in a way that can extrapolate to longer sequence lengths indefinitely.

Cutter Dawes, Nick Alonso, Tomas Figliolia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces

Chain-of-thought traces are widely read as records of how models reach their answers, informing debugging, agent auditing, and claims about reasoning. Testing this interpretation is difficult because natural-language thinking traces are rarely mechanically verifiable. We revisit it in iGSM, a synthetic grade-school mat...

Ratish Puduppully, Pranabendu Misra, Paarth Iyer et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Gender bias across LLMs is common and highly heterogeneous

Bias auditing should be treated as an ongoing, multi-vendor process, rather than a one-time assessment, because gender-related biases are common in LLMs, but their direction and magnitude are highly heterogeneous, to the point that some models behave in diametrically opposite ways to others.

E. Bolzoni, Valerio Capraro · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Dr. OPD: Learning What to Follow for Optimal On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using dense, token-level supervision from a stronger teacher. Vanilla OPD treats all teacher signals equally, assuming that the teacher's supervision is equally important for every token. However, teacher signals at different tokens may have v...

Zhen-Yu Wang, Tian-Ze Wang, Lin-Jun Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Auditable Long-Term Memory: A Deterministic Retrieval Chain Measured at 479/475 of 500 on LongMemEval-S

We evaluate an auditable long-term memory system on LongMemEval-S. Its retrieval chain uses hybrid candidate retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, coverage-first packet compilation, and deterministic reasoning scaffolds; an LLM is used only as a replaceable final reader. The chain places all gold sessions in the candidat...

Christopher J. Chanhnourack · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

$S^3$: Spectral Null-Space Swap Makes Reasoning Models Efficient

This work is the first to unveil the critical role of the null space and harness it for model optimization, and uses a simplified analytical model about optimization to demonstrate why null-space can effectively reduce attention entropy, thereby improving the efficiency of reasoning.

Hong-Bo Ma, Sansheng Cao, Jia-Jun Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

On Trajectory-Aware Training for Masked Diffusion Language Models

PUMBA is introduced, a unified framework for trajectory-aware training that trains the denoiser on consecutive steps of policy-induced trajectories, passes information between steps, and optimizes them jointly by backpropagation through time.

Manuel Madeira, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul 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.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 24, 2026

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

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