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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Decision-Sufficient State Representations: Measuring and Reducing Write-Time Regret

Long tasks produce more history than an LLM agent can hold in its context, and more than it uses reliably even when the history fits. A growing line of work therefore has agents carry a short written state instead: at every step a writer rewrites the state, and a reader acts from the state alone. Steps stay cheap, but...

Bingyu Shen, Bo-Yang Li · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Re-derivability Decides What a Staged Agent Pipeline Recovers After an Upstream Fault

One variable sets what an upstream fault costs a staged pipeline of language-model agents: re-derivability, how much of what a stage needs it can rebuild from the original problem. Grounding an inspector agent in that problem is worth +0.608 [+0.517, +0.700] to +0.358 over a blind one on four open-weight backbones serv...

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

CLAIRE: A Schema-Grounded Hybrid Workflow for Healthcare Administrative Form Completion

CLAIRE (Clinical Language and Agentic Intelligence for Reasoning and Entry), a hybrid workflow that separates field-state discovery, source-to-field mapping, deterministic validation, bounded correction, escalation, and audit tracing, is developed and evaluated.

Garapati Keerthana, Manik Gupta · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Adaptive Consistency Graph for Long-Horizon Agents

The Adaptive Consistency Graph (ACG) is introduced, which incrementally organizes execution evidence and its provenance in a persistent graph, then constructs a temporary requirement-centered view for each decision under a bounded context budget.

Jie-Cong Wang, Hao Peng, Zhan-Yi Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Retrospective Distillation Attribution via Normalized Response Similarity

Auditing publicly released descendants of distilled models spanning diverse post-training objectives, SCOUT consistently identifies the distillation source and tracing teacher-associated *syntactic signatures* along training trajectories reveals that they emerge during distillation and persist through subsequent prefer...

Minwoo Jang, Jaechang Kim, Minhyeon Oh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MassAlloc Attention: Let Attention Allocate Its Own Compute

MALA, a fused attention primitive that preserves score access to every legal causal interaction and uses normalized contribution to allocate post-score computation, indicates that allocating post-score computation according to normalized attention contributions can retain the evaluated capabilities of FullAttn while re...

Jing-Ze Shi, Zhang-Yang Peng, Xian-Duo Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

IGSD: Environment-Verified Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search Agents

Information-Gain-Gated Self-Distillation (IGSD) is proposed, which verifies on-policy token proposals with environment feedback before distillation, and supports environment-verified hindsight as an effective approach to reliable action-level supervision for search agents.

Ang-Qing Jiang, Gao-Ming Zhang, Chao-Qun Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PULSE: Identifying Demonstration-Utility Features with Sparse Autoencoders

This work introduces PULSE (Paired Utility Localization over Sparse Encodings), an SAE-based framework for identifying model-internal features associated with demonstration utility and using them for demonstration selection, and PULSE-Retriever, which converts its magnitude into a feature-relevance mask for scalable po...

Chen-Duo Hao, Chuan-Bao Gao, Pin-Jun Zeng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ForkLeft: Entropy-First Rollouts for Prefix-Aligned Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Distillation

ForkLeft, a distillation framework that resolves a fundamental mismatch between autoregressive teacher predicts from a left prefix and NTP teacher under the same context, is introduced, showing that DLMs can learn NTP-style reasoning without sacrificing native parallel generation.

Jun-Ming Liu, Ji-Cheng Wang, Yifeng He 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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