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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Information-Geometric First-Passage Monitoring of Distributional Stability in Stochastic Systems

Runtime monitoring of stochastic systems must distinguish nominal distributional relaxation from regime departure while controlling repeated-test false alarms under explicit validity assumptions. This paper links relative-entropy dissipation, information geometry, and sequential inference in a bounded first-passage mon...

Hikmat Karimov, Rahid Zahid Alekberli · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Characterizing Model-Native Skills

Skills are a natural unit for describing what a language model can do and how its behavior can be changed. However, existing characterizations rely on human-written taxonomies, textual descriptions, or manual profiling pipelines--all external hypotheses about what matters that need not align with the model's internal r...

Feiyang Kang, Mahavir Dabas, Myeongseob Ko et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System

Enterprises commonly deploy heterogeneous database systems, each of which owns a distinct SQL dialect with different syntax rules, built-in functions, and execution constraints. However, most existing NL2SQL methods assume a single canonical dialect (e.g., SQLite) and struggle to produce queries that are both semantica...

Xiang Zhang, Hongming Xu, Le Zhou et al. · 0 citations

ILRR: Inference-Time Steering Method for Masked Diffusion Language Models

This work introduces Iterative Latent Representation Refinement (ILRR), an efficient framework for steering DLMs using a reference text as a high-level semantic blueprint and introduces Spatially Modulated Steering, an extension that enables long-form generation to be guided by shorter references by regulating intensit...

Eden Avrahami, Eliya Nachmani · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

HumanAgencyBench: Scalable Evaluation of Human Agency Support in AI Assistants

As humans delegate more tasks and decisions to artificial intelligence (AI), we risk losing control of our individual and collective futures. Relatively simple algorithmic systems already steer human decision-making, such as social media feed algorithms that lead people to unintentionally and absent-mindedly scroll thr...

Benjamin Sturgeon, Daniel Samuelson, Jacob Haimes et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2025

TempCore: Are Video QA Benchmarks Temporally Grounded?

This work introduces Frame Selection Sensitivity (FSS), a per-sample diagnostic that measures how much VLM accuracy changes when the most relevant frames are replaced with the least relevant ones, and constructs TempCore, compact evaluation subsets that isolate temporal samples from existing benchmarks.

Hyunjong Ok, Jaeho Lee · 3 citations

Calpric: Inclusive and Fine-grain Labeling of Privacy Policies with Crowdsourcing and Active Learning

Calpric, which combines automatic text selection and segmentation, active learning and the use of crowdsourced annotators to generate a large, balanced training set for privacy policies at low cost, and produces models that are accurate over a wider range of data categories, and provide more detailed, fine-grain labels...

Wen-Jun Qiu, David Lie, Lisa M. Austin · 6 citations

Connect the Dots: Training LLMs for Long-Lifecycle Agents with Cross-Domain Generalization Via Reinforcement Learning

This work presents a general framework for training large language models (LLMs) to "Connect the Dots", a meta-capability required by long-lifecycle agents, and presents proof-of-concept implementations of the CoD framework, including a GRPO-style RL algorithm with fine-grained credit assignment.

Yan-Xi Chen, Wei-Jie Shi, Bo Hu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond Forgetting: Representation Misdirection Elicits Controllable Side Behaviors and Capabilities

We consider Representation Misdirection (RM), a class of large language model (LLM) unlearning methods that achieve forgetting by redirecting the latent representations of forget-samples toward a target vector. Despite being important, the roles of the target vector used in RM, however, remain underexplored. Here, we a...

Tien Dang, The-Hai Nguyen, Dinh Mai Phuong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Ground-Truth Subgraphs for Better Training and Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Augmented LLMs

Retrieval of information from graph-structured knowledge bases represents a promising direction for improving the factuality of LLMs. While various solutions have been proposed, a comparison of methods is difficult due to the lack of challenging QA datasets with ground-truth targets for graph retrieval. We present Synt...

Alberto Cattaneo, Carlo Luschi, Daniel Justus · 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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