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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Stepwise Intrinsic Rewards for Reasoning in Large Language Models

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a widely used paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) and Vision-language models (VLMs). Sparse binary outcome rewards, however, score only final correctness and cannot identify which intermediate steps contributed to it; in multimodal tasks,...

Xiangwei Wang, Wei Wang, Ken Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Apr 2025

SkillFlow: Scalable and Efficient Agent Skill Retrieval System

SkillFlow demonstrates that framing skill acquisition as an information retrieval task is an effective strategy, and that the practical impact of skill-augmented agents hinges on corpus coverage and skill quality, particularly the density of runnable code and bundled artifacts.

Fang-Zhou Li, Pagkratios Tagkopoulos, Ilias Tagkopoulos · 21 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Evaluating Cultural Awareness of LLMs for Haitian Creole

This work presents the first systematic evaluation of cultural awareness in LLMs for Haitian Creole, a language spoken by millions but severely underrepresented in digital resources, using a benchmark of culturally salient prompts curated by native speakers in a text infilling setting.

Christelle Clervilsson, Yan-Zhu Guo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents

LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferences quietly fix what gets bought and what it costs. Hotel booking is a clean instance: a high-volume choice settled on a few comparable attributes, where the pick reveals...

Pavel Kireyev · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ViSTA: A Simple Bridge Extends Visual Alignment to Clinical Time-Series Understanding in Multimodal LLMs

ViSTA is introduced, a compact adapter that incorporates irregular numerical measurements into a pretrained vision-language model's chart representations and extends pretrained language models to numerical prediction and temporal questions.

Jun-Yi Gao, Yu Shi, Ping-Zhao Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Towards Mitigating Fabricated Consensus: The Active Provenance Gate for Multi-Agent Debate Synthesis

Large language model-based multi-agent debate (MAD) systems are being increasingly used as complex decision pipelines in distributed processes. However, their final synthesis phase still remains inadequately controlled. Even with detailed debate logs, summarizing models are prone to fabricating smoothly written debate...

Jakub Mas{\l}owski, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Intent2Tc: Automated Intent-to-Traffic Control Translation with Language Models

Intent2Tc is presented, a closed-loop language-model-driven framework that translates business-level traffic-shaping intents into declarative sub-intents and subsequently into validated, executable Linux traffic control (tc) configurations and demonstrates the practical applicability of the proposed framework.

Andrea Masini, Sudipta Acharya, P. Bellavista et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MoSAR: Mixture of Semantic Attention Regimes for Learning Adaptive and Approximable Attention Geometries

Mixture of Semantic Attention Regimes (MoSAR) is introduced, which learns such an adaptive, controlled-decay geometry over query--key interactions, suggesting that it is not only adaptive, but also amenable to low-cost approximation at inference time.

M. Paolicelli, Alessandro Petruzzelli, Alessandro Francesco Maria Martina 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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