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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models

Small models are made more capable through distillation from a larger one that shares their tokenization scheme. However, do distilled byte and token models behave similarly in terms of scaling trends as compute and data increases? To enable this comparison, we introduce two variants to efficiently convert token logits...

Kalyani Marathe, Artidoro Pagnoni, Tomasz Limisiewicz et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Automated Detection and Structuring of Social Tipping Point Evidence in Climate related Documents: A Modular AI Framework

This paper presents an open and modular transformer-based framework that detects and structures social tipping point evidence at the passage level, outperforming both a climate-focused model and untuned language models.

Kavindu Perera, Mohammad Abaeiani, Ekaterina Gilman et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Code Understanding

The results indicate that front-loading code understanding into a reusable, codebase-specialised vector store enables small local models to deliver grounded and repository-specific answers, making the agent well suited as a privacy-preserving development tool for in-house scientific codebases.

Aaron Nobile, Andreas Adelmann, Mohsen Sadr · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Creating an Atomic User Model for Personality-Aware Large Language Model Interaction

Assistants built on large language models are expected to write as their user would, and the dominant approach is single-channel: preferences summarised from conversation history and reinserted into context. This inverts the order of inference. Preferences are the task-dependent surface of a comparatively stable person...

B. Sankar, S. Deepthika, Pawni Yadav et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Scaling Clinical Judgment to Evaluate Medical AI

Blinded physician evaluation has been considered by many to be the gold standard for assessing clinical reasoning in large language models (LLMs). This is difficult to scale; thus, prior studies typically rely on small physician panels, often from a single institution or specialty, which both limits the scientific ques...

Thomas A. Buckley, Zahir Kanjee, Peter G. Brodeur et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GTA: Graph Theory Agent and Benchmark for Algorithmic Graph Reasoning with LLMs

The Graph Theory Agent (GTA), which pairs a preference-trained representation selector with plan-and-decompose scaffolding around a frozen executor LLM, is proposed, which lifts Phi-4 from 53.5% to 69.1% on the benchmark's easy split and from 33.0% to 41.5% on its hard split.

Zi-Xiang Xu, Yan-Bo Wang, Chenxi Wang et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Self-Architecting Protein Transformers: An Empirical Study

This work asks whether a self-architecting transformer, which grows its own width and depth from quantitative signals derived from the attention matrices, can extract competitive protein representations from a single reference proteome.

G. Cirrincione, E. Ficarra, Marta Lovino · 0 citations
#large language models Book Open access Sep 2026

CARE-MoE: Correlation-Aware Expert Placement and Semantic Equivalence Routing for MoE LLM Inference on Edge Devices

CARE-MoE is proposed, an efficient MoE LLM inference framework comprising two core components that balances expert placement by jointly modeling co-activation correlation and hot–cold drift, preventing overload from correlated experts and enabling low-cost adaptive rebalancing.

Zhen-Yu Wang, Wei Li, Ao Ren et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Book Open access Sep 2026

MIGServe: Layout-Aware Multi-Instance GPU Management for Efficient LLM Serving

MIGServe treats the physical layout of MIG instances as a first-class scheduling dimension through three techniques: buddy-aware partition placement, which preserves large contiguous free blocks by allocating next to existing occupied buddies; proactive pair-matching migration, which consolidates fragmented half-full b...

Jian-Wen Chen, Yun-Kai Liang, Bin Gao et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Book Open access Sep 2026

Edge-Cloud Collaborative RAG with Multi-State Semantic Caching

A Multi-State Semantic Cache (MSSC) framework that dynamically maps knowledge chunks into three mutually exclusive states: zero cache, index cache, and full cache is proposed that reduces average service latency by over 40% in dynamic scenarios and suppresses backhaul reconfiguration traffic by up to 38% compared to co...

Kang Liu, Guang-Ping Xu, Ya-Ru Fu et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Going Faster Makes the Wind Stronger, Which Is Why a Sailing Craft Can Outrun the Wind ── dead downwind the apparent wind reaches 0 the instant the boat matches the wind ── across the wind, a boat doing 50 m/s feels 50.9902 m/s ── same wind, same sail: one is capped and the other is not ── [Paper 390]

A sail is pushed by the wind, so a boat cannot outrun the wind──so it seems. This paper shows that changing only the heading removes the cap──neither the wind nor the sail is altered at all. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem or law is claimed──apparent wind, propulsion b...

Yuuki Yamagishi · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

"Finer Grains Are Stronger" Fails, and Not Because the Theoretical Strength Was Reached ── the prediction at 10 nm, 1550 MPa, is only 14.09 per cent of the theoretical 11000 MPa ── the formula reaches theoretical strength at a grain size of 0.187652 nm, smaller than the 0.256 nm atomic spacing ── what acts is the grain-boundary volume fraction, 30 per cent at 10 nm ── [Paper 397]

The Hall--Petch relation says finer grains are stronger, and it reverses at 10 to 30 nm. This paper shows that the reversal is not because the theoretical strength was reached──the prediction there does not even reach 14 per cent of it. No new theorem or law is claimed. Scope of this paper (scope note): No new theorem...

Yuuki Yamagishi · 0 citations

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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.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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