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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Agent-Editing World Model: Rethinking World Modeling for LLM Agents

This work proposes the Agent-Editing World Model (AEWM), which models how reasoning and actions shape future task progress rather than simulating tool responses, and combines AEWM with EditAct, which integrates these capabilities with real execution.

Shuang Sun, Guo-Xin Chen, Fan-Zhen Meng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Fine-Tuning LLMs for Translation: General Forgetting Mitigation Does Not Preserve MT-Specific Instruction Following

Elastic Weight Consolidation preserves general capabilities best in both stages; on the 8B Spanish model the average score on general benchmarks drops 1.7 points versus 11.0 for standard fine-tuning, yet its scores for formality and grammatical gender control remain close to standard fine-tuning.

Niklas Scholz, David Thulke, Abdallah Nasir et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Predicting Quantization Price for Selecting PTQ Configurations Before Deployment

Weight-space post-training quantization is formulated as pre-deployment configuration selection using priced layer-output error and a trace reduction then yields a calibration-time price table and a budgeted price-guided selector, making fixed-geometry bit allocation a special case rather than the organizing problem.

Jun-Bin Qiu, Jian Mu, Wei-Tong Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Tensor Decomposition of Transformer Key-Value Caches: Spectral Structure and Format Comparison

The key-value (KV) cache of autoregressive transformers can be viewed as a fourth-order tensor spanning attention heads, tokens, features, and grouped layers. We measure the singular-value spectra of all four mode unfoldings on Mistral-7B-v0.3 and LLaMA-2-13B and compare four standard tensor decompositions: Tucker, CP,...

Rahul Krishnan, Volker Schulz · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Risk-Controlled KV-Cache Eviction: From Memory Budgets to Risk Targets

This work reformulates eviction as a deployment risk-control problem: a material degradation occurs when eviction lowers task utility by more than a deployment-specified tolerance relative to full-KV inference on the same request, and deployment risk is the population frequency of such events.

Beomgu Kang, Sojin Yun, Hojoon Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Aug 2026

From Sentiment Classification to Actionable and Responsible Feedback: A Scoping Review and Evidence Map of NLP in Student Evaluation of Teaching, 2015-2026

The findings are descriptive and do not support causal claims of progress: technological coexistence and uneven reporting are part of the map, but the A2+ to A3+ cliff is the contribution, not a quality ladder.

Jeffrey D. Eicher, Rafael da Silva · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

DeltaS: Reading the Gated Linear Attention State for KV Cache Eviction in Streaming Video

DeltaS is proposed, a query-agnostic, training-free method that retains video chunks inducing larger normalized state change, or state drift, in a controlled comparison with the budget and retention policy held fixed, which suggests that the two memories of hybrid architectures can work cooperatively.

Taeyoun Kwon, Seungjin Kim, Hyeonyu Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Attention Routing Stabilizes Early: Working-Set Inference for Recurrent Language Models

This work introduces WISE (Working-set Inference with Support Exploitation), a training-free method that uses unrestricted attention during early recurrent steps to discover a block-structured working set, then reuses its support in later steps while keeping attention weights and recurrent refinement dynamic.

Ke Wan, Chen Chen · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Giving Credit Where It's Due: Redundancy-Aware Learning for Efficient Reasoning

This work introduces RECAP (REdundancy-aware Credit Assignment via Propagation), which addresses this limitation by assigning credit where it is due based on both a step's downstream role in the reasoning structure and its contribution to solving the problem correctly.

Yu-Qing Zhou, Hong Wang, Man-Qing Mao 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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