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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Audit-First VAPO: Risk-Certified Selective Updates under Imperfect Verification

This work introduces Audit-First VAPO, which separates discrete directional admission from continuous magnitude control, and evaluates two models on two reasoning benchmarks against static RLVR, matched-random selection, confidence thresholding, noise correction, and verifier augmentation.

Miao-Bo Hu, Shu-Hao Hu, Xiao-Bo Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Probe to Act: Elevating Browser-Use Agent via Active Visual Probing

Investigation to Act (P2A) is introduced, an active probing framework for the browser-agent loop that addresses an asymmetric bridge between symbolic DOM hypotheses and screenshot layout by rendering on-demand symbolic DOM structure back into pixels.

Ke-Liang Li, Heng Wang, Chen Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ParaAgent: Reinforcing Parallel Acting in Open-World Tool Environments

Language model agents are increasingly deployed in open-world tool environments, which require balancing exploring unknown capabilities and exploiting known ones. Existing methods face a performance-efficiency tradeoff: they either rigidly decouple exploration and execution or interleave them without coordination. We a...

Shengbin Yue, Hongru Wang, Siyuan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MetaBench-Harness: Unlocking End-to-End Optimization of Benchmark Harnesses

This work proposes to optimize the benchmark generation workflow itself end to end with MetaBench-Harness, a dual-loop search framework that enables multi-dimensional evolution, steadily improving evolution reasonableness, benchmark competency, and evaluator robustness across successive rounds.

Xuan-Jun Chen, Hua-Hsuan Chen, Wei-Chung Lu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TraceDance: An Automated System for Building Agent Behavior Benchmarks from Real-World Agent Deployment Traces

An agent can complete a task while exhibiting undesirable behavior during execution. Developers need tests for the specific behaviors encountered in deployment, beyond fixed benchmark suites. We present TraceDance, an agent system that constructs targeted benchmarks from deployment traces for user-specified undesirable...

De-Hai Min, Dao-An Zhang, Yiming Zeng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SeOPD: Self-Evolving LLMs via Online Policy Distillation from Self-Generated Chain-of-Thought

This work proposes Self-Evolving Online Policy Distillation (SeOPD), which enables LLMs to distill and internalize information generated by their own chain of thought (CoT), thereby improving both non-thinking and deep-thinking capabilities.

Xiao-Shu Chen, Si-Hang Zhou, K. Liang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Trust and Task Completion in the World of Consumer AI Agents

An evaluation is built that scores trust and completion on the same runs, in a simulated world of businesses with their own websites, inboxes, and phone lines, and of people who write back, to measure Fo, Wajo's personal assistant, against a base model with basic instructions on three foundation models, and against the...

Jeroen Olieslagers, Eduardo E. P. Pujol, Gal Zahavi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Planner-as-Router: Joint Plan-Time Model Routing for Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent Workflows

PaR stays on the observed cost-accuracy frontier, matches a sink-frontier heuristic in accuracy at comparable cost and a faithful FrugalGPT cascade at lower cost, and cuts cost 44% against all-frontier routing while giving up 2.9 points of accuracy.

V. Singh, Preeti Priyam, Gautam Bhowmick · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Logical subspace in LLMs

The minimal viable subspace (MVS) method, which searches for the lowest-rank activation subspace at a layer that preserves task performance when everything outside that subspace is ablated, suggests a functionally localizable core machinery for logic akin to that in the human brain.

Hope H. Kean, Enric Boix-Adserà · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Decomposition Tax: LLM Pipelines Lose Up to 40 Accuracy Points at Their Own Interfaces

A four-stage LLM pipeline gives up as much as 40.5 accuracy points at its own interfaces (gemma-3-12B on MATH-500, Holm-corrected p = 1.66e-19; the largest tax in the primary family). We hold model, problem, stages, stage prompts and completion budget fixed, vary only whether each stage can still see the original probl...

Tian-Qi Bu, Yu-Dong Peng, Jun-Teng Tu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Overwhelmed by Choice: Studying LLM Decision Making at Scale

It is shown that strong small-option performance does not necessarily imply robust large-scale candidate comparison and that hierarchical partitioning and permutation-based inference improve accuracy by roughly 20 percentage points at $N=160$ on both HotpotQA and MIMIC.

Yu-Chi Lin, Aryan Seth, A. Aravind et al. · 1 citation

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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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