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EnSIMem: Entity-Structured Indexing for Long-Term Agent Memory

Results show that entity-structured indexing and episode-level provenance provide a reliable foundation for long-term memory in agents, and EnSIMem achieves high answer accuracy while maintaining compact, evidence-focused contexts.

Xuan-Yu Meng, Xing Fan, Xin-Yi Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CAVEAT: Towards Robust Computer-Use Agents in Incentive-Misaligned Environments

CAVEAT-Harness is developed, which targets failures and raises the optimal purchase rate by up to 80.0 percentage points, and targeted post-training further improves a smaller open model, to establish incentive robustness as a distinct challenge for delegated agents and diagnose failure modes.

Yuxuan Li, Will Epperson, W. Deng et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Quieter Than the Room: Representation Drift and Task Robustness in Speech Encoders

Non-speech interference can change a speech representation without causing comparable task loss. We test eight frozen encoders on four tasks, adding non-speech sounds throughout recordings, during speech, or in pauses. Under whole-recording interference, embedding drift tracks task loss across seven sounds, with mean S...

Vsevolod Kovalev, Pranay Manocha · 0 citations

ContraVis: Evidence-Grounded Visual Analytics for Contradiction Review in Legal Contracts

ContraVis is presented, a visual analytics system for human-in-the-loop contradiction analysis in legal contracts that models contracts as typed paragraph graphs that combine explicit contractual references with semantic relationships between paragraphs.

Luis Santé, Paula Lima, M. Rocha et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Text Scores Do Not Establish Performance on Lexically Non-Diagnostic Speech Tasks: A Qwen2-Audio Quantization Case Study

Text-output scores alone do not show whether quantization preserves performance on speech tasks whose target labels cannot be recovered from the transcript. We evaluate fixed mixed 4/8-bit Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct allocations averaging 6 and 7 bits per parameter on 508 English-to-German FLEURS utterances and on 512 RAVD...

Meng-Zhe Geng, Jin-Xin Ji, Jun-Hao Xu · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Cross-Scale Transfer Learning for Depression Severity Prediction: From PHQ-8 to HAMD-17 Across Languages and Clinical Paradigms

A sequential low-rank adaptation protocol for cross-scale transfer that attains the best point-estimate MAE, RMSE, and macro-$F_1$ on both 0.6B and 1.7B backbones, outperforming target-only training and non-LLM baselines.

Wen-Jie Feng, Sahba Zojaji, Satoshi Nakamura · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Digital diglossia: Arabic between X and Facebook

The study concludes that the diglossic use of SA and CA contributes to the growing body of research on digital discourse, unveiling that the digital age reshapes but does not erode diglossic boundaries, giving rise instead to a reconfigured digital diglossia.

Fahad Saud Al Hussen, Mohammed Q. Shormani · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Towards Efficient Reasoning: Learning Causal Shortcuts for Diffusion Language Models

This work introduces a step-by-step token extraction procedure to extract causal shortcuts from data, and applies parallel prioritized masking on these tokens during training to enable efficient and accurate convergence to correct answers via causal shortcuts.

Dian Jin, Kai-Rong Han, Bao-Hong Li et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Complementary Roles of Activation and Parametric Memory in Few-Shot Learning

At test time, large language models (LLMs) can encode historical information in activation memory (i.e., KV caches) and parametric memory (i.e., updated parameters). While activation memory is generally considered effective for factual recall and parametric memory for learning new tasks, their interplay remains unclear...

Miao-He Niu, Run-Song Zhao, Xin-Yu Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Poetry: Can Large Language Models Generate Classical Arabic Maqamat?

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in creative text generation, yet their ability to produce culturally grounded and stylistically constrained literary forms remains underexplored. Prior work has focused largely on modern language varieties and poetry, while classical prose traditions such as ma...

AbdulRahman A. Morsy, Aya Zirikly Department of Computer Science, School Of Electrical Engineering 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.

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