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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AgentHop: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Agentic Multi-Hop Scientific Question Answering

AgentHop, a diagnostic benchmark of 1,011 multiple-choice questions paired with a controlled seven-tool sandbox under fixed token, turn, and tool-call constraints, and the full benchmark set and the harness are released to support diagnostic agent benchmarking.

Chanhee Park, Jeongho Yoon, Sun Han et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Zero-Shot Cue-Grounded Topic Segmentation of Spoken Documents

Topic segmentation structures spoken documents into coherent sections, facilitating navigation and downstream understanding. The appropriate granularity can vary substantially, ranging from broad thematic shifts to fine-grained subtopics. Existing LLM-based segmenters, however, often struggle to adapt to this variation...

Suhwan Choi, Myeongho Jeon, Myungjoo Kang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Coding Agent Memory Post-training: Unlocking the Memory Potential of Pre-trained File Operations for Long-Horizon Tasks via Reinforcement Learning

Language-model agents increasingly tackle long-horizon tasks whose interaction histories exceed the model's active context. Recent work has begun to use reinforcement learning to make memory control part of the policy, often relying on predefined memory tools within domain-specific training environments of relatively s...

Li-Rui Luo, Ke-Long Mao, He-Ming Xia et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Just-In-Time Agent Memory with Runtime Agentic Research

Just-In-Time Agent Memory (JAM), a trainable framework for query-conditioned context construction at runtime, is proposed, where it achieves stronger task performance than AOT-style memory systems while remaining substantially more efficient than prior trained agentic memory approaches.

Bing-Yu Yan, Chao-Fan Li, Hong-Jin Qian et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Harness Beats Scale, and When Reading Beats Both

We describe our system for DocSem, the document-grounded quantitative reasoning shared task at DocInsights 2026, and analyze why it succeeded on labeled data and failed on the test set. The pipeline pairs hybrid block retrieval with Program-of-Thoughts (PoT) generation executed in a sandboxed interpreter, self-consiste...

Ivan Bondarenko, Nikolay O. Nikitin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PlaylistEval: Can Video-Language Judges Be Trusted at Day Scale and Beyond?

Video-language models are increasingly used as judges of video understanding, both for evaluating model outputs and for training reward models. Whether their judgments remain reliable when the evidence is buried in day-long videos has yet to be established. Existing benchmarks cannot answer this. Their videos are typic...

Shayekh Bin Islam, Hwanjun Song · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Dr.Credit: Rubric-Grounded Process Credit Assignment for Deep Research Agents

Analysis of rubric-grounded credit suggests more efficient evidence acquisition and higher-quality reports under limited research-turn budgets, motivating the extension of rubric-grounded process supervision to a broader range of rubric-based tasks.

Ying-Jian Zhu, Zhen-Yi Wang, Jia-Xing Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ReScraper: Unified Scraping and Cleaning of Web Data for Effective LLM Pretraining

LLM pretraining corpora are normally cleaned by a stack of hand-written heuristics. A heuristic scraper extracts the main content from HTML, and dozens of rule-based filters then clean it, so corpus quality is capped by the coarseness and accuracy of the rules. In this work, we propose ReScraper, a unified language mod...

Zichun Yu, Jiarui Yan, Shlok Sanghvi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

LLMs are not stochastic parrots: Evidence for meaning-mediated abstraction from conlang-like tasks

The strong version of the stochastic parrot argument claims that, although large language models (LLMs) may exceed rote regurgitation, they cannot move beyond statistical pattern matching into abstraction or reasoning, remaining ontologically near the lower bound of pattern reuse despite producing alluringly fluent tex...

J. Zimmerman, C. Beauregard, Tabia Tanzin Prama et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Toward a Graded Measure of Belief Stability in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate how people access and reason with information, yet factual reliability is usually evaluated one judgment at a time. We introduce graded belief stability, a relational measure of how well a belief persists within an LLM's broader belief system. Unlike individual belief p...

Samantha Dies, Branden Fitelson, Tina Eliassi-Rad · 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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