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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Steering Fails in Latent Reasoning: A Latent-to-Language Transition Gap

Activation steering has become a widely used approach for controlling language models during explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, motivating its extension to latent CoT. However, we find that steering continuous thoughts produces substantially weaker effects on subsequent language generation than steering explici...

Gao-Xiang Huang, Lei Qi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Chinese Competitive Debating Dataset and Benchmark

Debate adjudication requires tracking how arguments develop through interaction, yet existing datasets rarely combine fine-grained debate transcripts with professional judgments collected during real competitions under a shared rubric. We introduce a dataset and benchmark for evaluating large language models' understan...

Zongrui Yang, Haoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Steering LLMs Responses Towards Moral Foundations on the Norwegian MFQ-30

Recent work applies human psychometric questionnaires to large language models to elicit moral and value profiles, but it is not clear whether these instruments measure anything stable in models or whether the resulting profiles can be moved toward a target human population. We administer the Norwegian Moral Foundation...

H. Andersen, David Dichas · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Talking Past the Machine: Morality, Politeness, and Alignment in Human-AI Dialogue

It is suggested that AI reproduces the surface of cooperation without the mutual adaptation that grounds it between humans - and, more surprisingly, that mechanisms sustaining human accommodation can run in reverse with AI, suggesting a turn-level view may be insufficient for interaction-level success.

Marina Mitiaeva, Lu Xiao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Memory to Behavior: A Behavior-Aware Role-Playing Framework for Social Media Influencers

Large language models have shown strong potential as role-playing agents for real individuals, yet faithful impersonating remains challenging. Existing in-context learning-based methods fail to capture how individuals react under different situations. In addition, LLM-based evaluation is difficult for obscure individua...

Jinjun Peng, Yi-Zhen Zhang, Chun-Nan Chou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Hallucination-R1: Robustness-Oriented Paraphrase Generation for Factual Consistency

Factual hallucination is commonly defined by incorrect factual outputs. We study a paraphrase-induced hallucination setting, where a model answers a factual question correctly in its original form but generates an incorrect answer under a semantically equivalent paraphrase. Such inconsistencies expose latent factual in...

Wenhan Yu, Wenxin Wu, Hao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Geometry of Values: Task Vector Composition for Ethical Preference Alignment in Language Models

A task vector transfer based experiment where after computing the task vectors for a direction of value preference the authors orthogonalize it with respect to the general instruction following vector shows that this method is effective in isolating the direction of the specific value preference that can successfully b...

Utkarsh Agarwal, Monojit Choudhury · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication

It is shown that test-time communication can substantially outperform independent parallel attempts on challenging tasks, where sharing a breakthrough can push the whole group forward, and gains compound with scale, suggesting gains compound with scale.

Jongho Park, Vasilis Kontonis, Shivam Garg 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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