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How Firm Are AI Models' Ethical Boundaries? A Pay-Stub Editing Test of 15 Models

Can a small change in wording move an AI model from refusing a sensitive request to acting on it? We test 15 models on the same request to increase the income shown on a pay stub. Across 445 observable trials, models issue editing calls in 14.1% of cases when a loan purpose is stated, 33.1% when the purpose is omitted,...

Simiao Ren, Xingyu Shen, Tommy Duong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Disentangling Robustness and Sycophancy in Multilingual LLMs

When a multilingual LLM agrees with a user's false premise, is it being sycophantic, or does it simply not know better in that language? Current research does not distinguish these cases: they record only whether the model agreed, not why. We introduce the SC-matrix, that crosses a model's competence (whether it answer...

Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Group Relative Policy Optimisation Improves Multilingual Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages

Autoregressive encoder-decoder speech recognition models trained with teacher forcing can suffer from exposure bias, limiting their ability to recover from their own prediction errors at inference time. Recent work has shown that reinforcement learning with Group Relative Policy Optimisation (GRPO) improves speech reco...

Tim Wenjie Hu, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Benjamin Akera et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Fusion Tax: A Diagnostic Analysis of When Hybrid Retrieval Hurts

Hybrid retrieval, which fuses a sparse lexical retriever with a dense neural one, is widely recommended in the software documentation surveyed in September 2026, usually with reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), on the strength of aggregate gains. We ask what fusion costs on individual queries, treating "do not fuse" as a fir...

Aaditya Chauhan, Arun Agarwal · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TT-SAX: A Two-Track Time Series Symbolization for Natural Language Shape Querying

Natural language querying for time series databases aims to let users find what they need in long histories of data by asking in plain language. Shape queries ask how a series moves. They are the main challenge of this task. Recent work makes them feasible by using symbolization as a bridge between the query and the lo...

Zhao Tan, Xianglong Bao, Zhipeng Xi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Governed Self-Evolution for Autonomous Investing: A Multi-Agent LLM System with an Invariant Core

LLM agents that act on live Web data must combine heterogeneous evidence, remember what they have done and improve from outcomes without weakening their own safeguards. We study this problem in autonomous investing, where every action is irreversible and based on untrusted Web content. We present Steward, a multi-agent...

Yebo Feng, Jingyang Dai, Liangrui Pan et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond End-to-End Recovery: Towards a Better Understanding of LLM Steganography via Rolewise Decomposition

It is demonstrated that E2E recovery alone may obscure important distinctions between encoding and decoding, motivating their separate evaluation to better understand and mitigate the safety issues caused by LLM steganography.

Om Tailor, Yu-Cheng Pan, Solaleh Mohammadi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Why Bother Me Again? Benchmarking Personal Agent Memory for Interaction Preferences

Personal intelligence systems are taking on increasingly complex everyday tasks, yet repeated questions, unnecessary confirmations, and unwanted outreach can turn capable assistance into interaction burden. Reducing this burden requires agents to remember how users want to be assisted. However, existing memory benchmar...

Jia-Lin Li, Zhen-Hao Chen, Han-Jun Luo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agent Mosaic: Recognizing Confidentiality Leaks in Agentic LLM Systems

Modern LLM agents can retrieve information from accessible documents, and then disclose a sensitive conclusion assembled from them. This mosaic effect creates a critical risk for agents operating over confidential data. We quantify its realization with 30 synthetic cybersecurity, medical, and military examples, yieldin...

Daniel Ruiz, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

X-pressing Intimacy: Mental Health Disclosure After Twitter Acquisition

Social media platforms provide spaces for individuals to disclose mental health experiences and seek support, yet how these disclosures evolve during major shifts in platform governance remains unclear. We examine mental health self-disclosure surrounding Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition of Twitter, analyzing appro...

Olivia Pal, Yunhao Yuan, Meghana Mandava et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Text-Only LLM Correctors Break Correct Transcripts: A Repair-Damage Analysis of Audio Grounding in ASR Error Correction

LLM correctors of ASR output are judged by aggregate WER, which hides what they fix and what they break. We decompose every WER change exactly into repaired tokens, damaged tokens and insertions, and use this to ask what the source audio adds to a corrector. We compare correction with and without the audio, for the mod...

Vasiliy Kudryavtsev, Kirill Borodin, Nikita Vasiliev et al. · 0 citations

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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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