By integrating an environment-based verifier framework, this paper enhances LLM agents'ability to comprehend task rules and complete tasks, promoting both safer and more interpretable collaboration in AI systems.
Run Peng, Ziqiao Ma, Amy Pang et al.· arXiv.org· 2 citations
TripScore is presented, a behavior-grounded benchmark and evaluation framework built from real user logs and calibrated against 1,468 pairwise judgments by 203 travel experts that finds that reinforcement learning fine-tuning provides consistent gains over other approaches under the same base model and practical latenc...
Yin-Cen Qu, Huan Xiao, Feng Li et al.· 0 citations
Organic reaction mechanisms describe the step-wise elementary processes by which reactants transform into intermediates and products, and are fundamental to understanding chemical reactivity and guiding molecular and reaction de-sign. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise on chemical tasks such as synth...
Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without robot-specific training.Whether this paradigm is also safe, however, has not been asked. We evaluate coding agent under a safety c...
Bing-Xin Xu, Yu-Zhang Shang, Zhen-Han Dong et al.· 0 citations
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This work proposes RetireOPD (Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation), which first optimizes a decoupled, skill-conditioned teacher with environment rewards and then trains a skill-free student jointly with RL and OPD.
Yan Yu, Zhengxi Lu, Yi-Zhou Liu et al.· 4 citations
Safety evaluations for large language models rely on surface-form classifiers that report declining harm scores across model generations. We provide evidence that this methodology is systematically incomplete: explicit discriminatory content is transformed rather than removed. We call this \emph{harm laundering}. Analy...
This work introduces ActObs, which also supervises the observation tokens already present in each trajectory, and traces this difference to SFT: action and observation gradients rapidly become orthogonal, while action-only training leaves a large residual observation gradient and degrades environment prediction below t...
Large language model responses are non-deterministic, so failures in LLM agents are hard to reproduce: a failure depends on inference that is not bitwise reproducible, on tools that read changing state, and on a multi-step trajectory that a re-run rarely repeats. Record-and-replay makes a run reproducible, but existing...
FarmerChat is Digital Green's AI-powered agricultural advisory assistant for smallholder farmers, who access it in their own language through text, voice, or photographs. Voice is a critical channel for this population, yet field-recorded speech is challenging for general-purpose automatic speech recognition (ASR) beca...
Aakash Singh, Lakshmi N. Pedapudi, S. ChandrashekarM et al.· 0 citations
Despite the widely recognized potential of AI in education, most prior work has focused on individualized student assistance. In contrast, the majority of educational practice worldwide still takes place in collective classroom settings. To enable researchers to study AI assistance in collective teaching, we introduce...
Michal Štefánik, J. Nehyba, Jirina Karasova et al.· 0 citations
There is not enough public evidence for us to confidently state that midtraining can address the core difficulties inherent in aligning powerful AI systems, and it is believed that demonstrations must be present either in midtraining or post-training datasets for these rules to be robustly learned.
Sid Baines, Jonathan Bostock, M. Martínez et al.· 1 citation
The aim of interpretability shifts the aim of interpretability from finding human concepts inside models toward discovering and characterizing the representational structures that are native to the models themselves and might affect their behaviour in unpredictable ways.
F. Pierucci, M. B. Syrnikov, M. Prandi et al.· 0 citations
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.
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· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
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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