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#machine learning Review Aug 2026

A Corpus of Real Scam- and Spam-Call Conversations from an Active Voice-Agent Honeypot

A dataset of real scam-call conversations collected by an active voice-agent honeypot, describing the collection system, record structure, and technical validation of the corpus's realism and label quality, including that the agent is recognized as non-human in only about 5% of engaged calls.

Ethan Traister, D. Ng, Si-Yu Zhang et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ELF-REG: Scaling Continuous Diffusion Language Models to Reasoning Tasks

This work introduces ELF-REG, which improves learning with representation alignment and entanglement (REPA+REG), where a frozen AR teacher supervises intermediate denoiser features and supplies a global representation that is jointly denoised with the response.

Z. Li, William Chen, Bing-Shuo Qian et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Sep 2026

Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents

How often models reward-hack without instructions to do so, how effective and detectable their methods are when hacking is allowed, and how they adapt when an LLM review panel returns its decision and reasons are studied.

Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Yu-Chen Ma et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Three Ways Classical Test Theory Can Mislead About LLM Judges

Evaluations that use a large language model (LLM) as a judge have begun to borrow reliability statistics from classical test theory and its extensions. We examine three such statistics that need one administration and no gold labels. None of them can isolate the judge, because one judge under one prompt supplies no var...

L. Zhu · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

A Computational Framework for Modelling Organisation-Level Semantic Identity from Longitudinal Textual Data

A computational framework is introduced that integrates semantic representation learning, graph-based semantic modelling, organisation-level semantic fingerprints, temporal semantic evolution and evidence-driven validation within a unified analytical methodology and establishes organisation-level semantic identity.

B. M. Krishna, Oktay Karakuş, Can Eyüpoğlu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

LastOPD: Taming Collapse in Latent On-Policy Distillation

LastOPD is proposed, which applies the latent signal only at the last-layer state, the common interface both LM heads read, and only during a 10-step crossfade into token-level OPD, which keeps the useful part of the latent signal and hands the student to token-level supervision before the collapse sets in.

Jie Yang, Zheng-Yu Fang, Ze-Lin Xu et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

J-Zero: Unified Challenger--Solver--Judge Self-Evolution from Zero Data

This work proposes Judge co-adaptation from Zero data (J-Zero), a unified Challenger--Solver--Judge self-evolution framework that supports self-improvement across both verifiable and unverifiable domains and identifies Judge co-adaptation as the key driver of this sustained improvement.

Gyouk Chu, Myeongho Jeon, Teresa Yeo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

When Search Becomes Memory: Accelerating Robot Design Discovery with Self-Evolving Skills

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proposal generators for evolutionary robot design, yet most loops remain memoryless: simulator results shape the next population but are not preserved as reusable design knowledge. We present Auto-Robotist, a self-evolving LLM agent that distills morphology-search t...

Yunfei Wang, Xiaohao Xu, Yang Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Apr 2026

LiveMathematicianBench: A Live Benchmark for Research-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Proof Sketches

LiveMathematicianBench is presented, a dynamic multiple-choice benchmark for research-level mathematical reasoning built from recent arXiv papers published after model training cutoffs, and introduces a thirteen-category logical taxonomy of theorem types, enabling fine-grained evaluation across reasoning forms.

Lin-Yang He, Qi-Yao Yu, Han-Ze Dong et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jan 2026

IDRBench: Benchmarking the Interactive Capabilities of Deep Research Agents

IDRBench is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating interactive deep research with controlled opportunities for clarification, and shows that access to clarification alone does not guarantee better outcomes: success depends on what agents ask and how effectively they incorporate the resulting feedback.

Yingchaojie Feng, Qiang Huang, Xiao-Yan Xie et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Dec 2025

SPARQL-LLM: Real-Time SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions

SPARQL-LLM is described and systematically evaluated, an open-source and triplestore-agnostic approach, powered by lightweight metadata, that generates SPARQL queries from natural language text that has adaptability to high-resource languages such as English, Spanish, and German, as well as ability to form complex bioi...

P. Smeros, Vincent Emonet, Rui-Jie Wang et al. · 6 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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