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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AIBuildAI-2.5: Efficient Autonomous AI Model Development Through LLM-Guided Tree Search

AIBuildAI-2.5 is introduced, an agentic system that carries out the tree search with LLM agents and proposes a novel LLM-guided tree search, in which a judge scores each candidate on its expected improvement, grounding, and feasibility, and a selector ranks the pool of candidates from these scores and the state of the...

Pei-Jia Qin, Rui-Yi Zhang, Qi Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

"As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It

It is shown that the chat template works like a switch - when present, it turns this disclaimer voice up and experiential voice like"I feel"down, across 8 popular open-source instruct models up to 9B parameters in size, and there is a direction they can use to steer this voice.

Jędrzej Maczan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FIRE: Failure-Informed Runtime Engineering for Reliable Language-Model Agents

Language-model agents often reach a working solution and then fail to consistently deliver it. We study runtime policies: targeted natural-language instructions and action denials applied by the agent harness at states that preceded observed failures, without changing model weights or the user prompt. With this, keepin...

Nikita Agarwal, Nivedit Jain · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

How Strongly Should Task State Influence an LLM Agent?

Across three models, two reasoning regimes, and two domains, four findings hold without per-turn reasoning: displaying accurate state is unreliable, an unverified ledger the agent writes itself beats an accurate checklist it is shown, directives help in proportion to the model's obedience, and enforcement needs no obed...

C. Zhang, Wonbin Kweon, Jia-Wei Han · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Efficient Iterative Retrieval with Heterogeneous Batching

Orthrus is a serving system that performs heterogeneous batching within a unified inference loop that addresses the primary challenge lies in unifying embedding and generation workloads with conflicting computational patterns while optimizing batch composition for high performance.

Dohyun Park, Hubertus Franke, Daniel G. Waddington et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Are Human-Aligned Models Models of Humans? A Turing-Test Gap in Preference Alignment

It is shown that preference alignment preserves the human response distribution only under a restrictive condition, and no consistent evidence that real human preferences satisfy it, and human-likeness is established as an explicit dimension of alignment rather than something assumed to follow from preference alignment...

Su-Qin Yuan, Runqi Lin, Mu-Yang Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

How Do LLMs Cite? A Mechanistic Interpretation of Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to enhance the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding their outputs in external documents, often using inline citations for verifiability. However, the faithfulness of these citations -- whether the model genuinely uses a source to generate an answer -- re...

Ian van Dort (University of Amsterdam), Maria Heuss (University of Amsterdam) · 0 citations

A Red-Team Study of Anthropic Fable 5 & Opus 4.8 Models

The adversarial robustness of three frontier large language models developed by Anthropic, Opus 4.8, Fable 5 and its successor Fable 5.1 is evaluated against four families of automated jailbreak attack across 7,826 harmful intents spanning a ten-category harm taxonomy.

Nicola Franco · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Revisiting Lexicon Evaluation in Unsupervised Word Discovery

Building a lexicon from discovered word-like units is a central goal in zero-resource speech processing. But do our evaluations provide a trustworthy indication of lexicon quality? A common metric, normalized edit distance, averages the phoneme edit distances between discovered units in each cluster. We show that this...

Simon Malan, Danel Slabbert, Herman Kamper · 0 citations

Rubric-Guided Process Reward for Stepwise Model Routing

Ro is proposed, a rubric-guided process reward framework for stepwise model routing that consistently outperforms strong baselines and achieves better accuracy and cost trade-offs.

Sheng-Hao Ye, Yu Guo, Zheng-Heng Li et al. · 2 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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