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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Distill, Debate, Discover: Grounding Multi-Agent Research Ideation in Graph-Distilled Insights

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support research idea generation and scientific discovery. Multi-agent debate offers a collaborative approach to this task by bringing together diverse perspectives to develop research ideas. However, a key challenge is how to equip agents with distinct and meaningf...

Qianran Ma, Muxin Liu, Grace Kim et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Preference Optimization Improves Definition Generation: Semantic Change in EU Institutional Sustainable Finance Disclosures

Dictionary-like definition generators are known to be useful for lexical semantic change detection (LSCD). However, they suffer from overly granular sense distribution, producing excessive number of definitions for one and the same lexical sense. In this work, we show that fine-tuning with Direct Preference Optimizatio...

Mariia Fedorova, Andrey Kutuzov, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio · 0 citations
#natural language process... Conference Open access Oct 2026

The Emergence and Sparsification of a Syntactic Circuit

To understand the emergence of grammatical behavior in language models, we track circuits for subject-verb number agreement in pythia-1b and ten seeds of pythia-410m across training. We find that subject-verb agreement is learned early, and is initially handled by a diffuse collection of neurons. However, after agreeme...

Qing Yao, Sasha Boguraev, Tiago Pimentel et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Causality Assessment (MARCA) of Individual Case Safety Reports in Pharmacovigilance

Introduction: Increasing volumes of individual case safety reports (ICSRs) challenge expert-led causality assessment in pharmacovigilance. We developed MARCA (Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Causality Assessment), a four-agent framework for Naranjo-based assessment, and evaluated agreement with human experts and explor...

Daisy Rae Lopez, Angela Boccia, Maurizio Sessa · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FlexA-Mem: Budget-Adaptive Agentic Memory for LLM Agents

Large language model (LLM) agents work in scenarios with very different memory needs. A question about past conversations needs the exact facts it names, while a multi-step task needs a trace of the steps already taken together with details that the next step cannot name. Existing memories are each designed and tested...

Wujiang Xu, Jiaojiao Han, Xi Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Two Uncertainties Are Not One: Disagreement versus Decision-Risk in Cheap Structured Content Moderation

Content moderation compresses a graded, contested human judgment into a binary act (leave up / take down) over billions of items, at a scale where running a frontier LLM on every post is uneconomical. A new class of frozen"System One"models returns typed, calibrated decisions instead of text at ~USD 0.000025 per call a...

Karan Yadav · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Hey, guess what: CUES lead to inferences about typicality

Throughout life, we accumulate knowledge of how typical certain events are. We use this knowledge in daily conversation, often interpreting meaning beyond what has been said explicitly. In this work, we take steps to better understand this meaning recovery, investigating both atypicality and typicality inferences. Firs...

Alison Chi, Sanghyeok Choi, Hannah Rohde et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Each Insufficient in Its Own Way: Calibrating Language Models Across Varying Evidence States

How can a language model know whether it has enough evidence to answer? Language models tend to answer even when the evidence they have is insufficient. Deciding whether to answer or gather more evidence requires a calibrated estimate of how likely an answer is to be correct with the available evidence. However, most c...

Jiayi Li, Dennis L. Shung, Bradly C. Stadie · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Position, Role or Label? A Controlled Study of Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents

LLM agents take instructions from the operator, repository configuration, user, tool results and saved memory, which often conflict. Instruction-hierarchy benchmarks ask whether the higher-ranked source wins, but a source sets position, role and label at once. First, we build WhoWins, 1,080 code-scored scenarios in fiv...

Anish Laddha, Nitesh Pradhan, Gaurav Srivastava · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Parametric Session States Recover Retrieval Intent without Replaying History

Long-running assistants often interpret follow-up requests whose referents, constraints, and active goals were established many turns earlier. The central challenge is therefore not only context length, but retrieval intent: a current query such as ``use the previous configuration'' may omit the project, entity, and ve...

Qingsen Ma, Dianyun Wang, Jiahong Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EviGround-CT: Sentence-to-Volume Grounding for Verifying LLM-Generated Chest CT Reports

Chest computed tomography (CT) reports generated by large language models (LLMs) can describe positive findings that lack localized evidence in the scan. We propose EviGround-CT to verify these findings after report generation. A deterministic extractor identifies positive finding sentences, and a 3D grounding model pr...

Ziyuan Li, Juncheng Ni, Feng Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Benchmark for Controllable Speaking-Style Captioning in Audio-Language Models

Speaking-style captioning (SSC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of how speech is delivered, capturing paralinguistic attributes such as vocal timbre, prosody, and expressivity. Many downstream applications, including conversational AI agents, controllable speech generation, and large-scale audio annotati...

Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Ashwyn Sharma, Liang Lu et al. · 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.

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