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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data is introduced, an initial proof-of-concept towards realizing a more general approach to pretraining, and whether zero-shot performance on natural data improves predictably with self-play compute is tested.

Aditya Cowsik, Kfir Dolev, Michael Y. Li et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Augur: A Synthetic Decision Lab for Rehearsing Reactions to Product and Policy Changes

This work assembles Gold-50, fifty real product and policy episodes whose real-world outcome is known, adjudicated against the public record, and scores the five-way release verdict against it, finding most of the measured gap between frontier cloud models and open-weight models fine-tune and serve offline is attributa...

Rahul Khedar, M. Malhotra, A. Karn · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

PUBG Ally: A Conversational Embodied Agent as an AI Teammate

PUBG Ally is introduced, an embodied agent for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS that can reason, act autonomously, and play alongside players as a voice-enabled teammate that combines agentic tool use with real-time game control.

Pubg Ally Team Irene Chen, Y. Cho, Seung-Jun Chung et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learning to Ideate for Scientific Impact

This work constructs a large-scale dataset from over 100K computer science papers, and trains a goal-conditioned reward model to predict citation-impact labels from research goal and idea pairs, and uses this reward to align an idea generator through supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning.

Shubham Kale, Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi S. Patwardhan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

iCoder-27B: Recursive AI-Led Development of Frontier Industrial Coding Model

The results chart an engineering path toward recursive self-improvement, in which humans distill the principles of model building, agents operationalize them through evidence-driven experimentation, and each generation of AI becomes a more capable architect of the next.

Cheng Yang, Jiayang Lyu, Shang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

PartHackBench: Certified Equal-Progress Stress Tests for Partial-Credit Tool-Agent Evaluation

PartHackBench provides a certified control for testing whether evaluator credit changes while all benchmark-defined task-relevant progress remains fixed, and provides a certified control for testing whether evaluator credit changes while all benchmark-defined task-relevant progress remains fixed.

Hong-Ye Yang, Zhi Xie, Sheng-Jun Xiong · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Delay-of-Gratification as a Multi-Agent Survival Micro-benchmark for Long-Horizon LLMs: Social Exposure, Personas, and Tool Use Budgets

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-turn agents that must sustain goals, use tools, and adapt to other agents over extended interactions. However, existing research lacks auditable, multi-turn, multi-factorial experiments that quantify LLM behavior under explicit constraints, with time-resol...

Olga Manakina, Igor Bogdanov, Chung-Horng Lung · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures

RLCDAlignBench is presented, which benchmarks Jev on ten alignment failures: sycophancy, jailbreaks, deception, prompt injection, hallucination, privacy violation, social bias, reward hacking, concealing uncertainty, and power seeking.

Ruo-Qi Guo, Yi Liu, Ge-Lei Deng et al. · 6 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Policy as Code: A Coroutine-Bridge Harness for Fast-Reasoning Reliability on CAR-bench

CAR-bench evaluates whether tool-using agents stay reliable under real-world uncertainty, executing every tool inside the evaluator so that each tool-result exchange is a separate agent round-trip. A conventional next-action agent can batch parallel tool calls, but a chain of dependent calls costs it one model call per...

I. Matveev · 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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