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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Self-Assessment Reinforcement Learning for Search-State Awareness in Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

Self-Assessment Reinforcement Learning (SARL), a reinforcement learning framework in which models learn to recognize their own search state during training and improve their search behavior accordingly, without requiring additional assessment at test time, outperforms methods built on auxiliary supervision or multi-age...

Taewhoo Lee, Min-Ju Song, Jungwoo Park et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SIM-UT: A User Simulation based Evaluation Framework for Medical Triage Chatbots

LLM-based chat agents are increasingly used for complex, multi-turn, multilingual medical triage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet evaluation methods focus on single-turn, English-only benchmarks that primarily test the chatbots' knowledge. In practice, users are often confused, overwhelmed, or emotional...

Deepali Mittal, Dheeraj Mundhra, Yulia Sidorova et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MemPlan: Memory-Conditioned PDDL Planning for Partially Observable Text Environments

MemPlan is proposed, a memory-conditioned PDDL planning framework for partially observable interactive text environments, which improves task completion and step efficiency over language-only and PDDL-aware baselines, while substantially reducing online token cost compared with LLM-planning baselines such as ReAct.

Teng-Wei Song, Robert Hoehndorf · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Climbing the Ladder: Automating Data Pipelines and Reproducing Baselines in Low-Resource Settings

The massively multilingual translation systems that now include Sicilian learned it from noisy, non-standardised web text. To obtain better translation quality, we redevelop the small neural machine translation (NMT) system that Wdowiak customized for Sicilian. We rebuild on maintained software the extraction of the pa...

Donato Meoli, Eryk Wdowiak · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CiteAnchor: Source-Aware Grounding for Hallucinated Citation Detection and Resolution

Hallucinated citations make it harder to trace sources and verify the evidence behind scientific claims. Detecting them is difficult because bibliographic records can be incomplete or differ across source types and publication versions. A plausible match alone neither validates the citation nor establishes its underlyi...

Chenyi Tong, Ping Nie, Yu Zhang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring Research Progress and Linguistic Inclusion in Low-Resource Languages

Large Language Models (LLMs) have accelerated research on low-resource and multilingual NLP, but their effectiveness in creating an equitable landscape remains unmapped. We analyze 1,158 peer-reviewed open-access papers published between 2020 and 2025, examining research attention to low-resource languages (LRLs) and r...

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FusionEval: Benchmarking Model Fusion for Large Language Models

Model fusion aims to integrate the capabilities of multi-expert models into a single model. Existing evaluations offer limited coverage of reasoning with long chains of thought and tool use, while strong average performance can mask substantial losses in individual expert capabilities. We introduce FusionEval, a benchm...

Shuo Cai, Yang-Gan Gu, Yuhang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TauIndianBankBench: Procedure-Aware, Action-Oriented Evaluation of Tool-Using Conversational Agents

Many Indian banks serve customers through FAQ pages and scripted chatbots. Assistants based on language models could respond faster and carry out requests such as blocking a card, but only if they give correct information and follow the bank's rules. These rules prescribe a procedure, a set of required steps, such as o...

Krishanu Adhikary, Prashant Devadiga · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Lighthouse: On Building a Trustworthy Digital Assistant for Exploring History with Civil Rights Archives

This work presents the first digital assistant named Lighthouse, the first digital assistant named Lighthouse--commonly called a chatbot--for exploring the Civil Rights period of the United States using data from South Carolina.

John A. Aydin, Angela Williams, Steven Dindl et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Closed-Loop Dual-Reference Guidance for Accent Control in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

Zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning often carries the reference speaker's accent into the target language. We propose closed-loop dual-reference guidance, which pairs the original reference with a reusable native anchor constructed by voice conversion (VC). The references initialize separate language-model (LM) state...

Yuan-Zhong Zheng, Wei Huang, Min-Hua Ma et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Disclosure Begets Disclosure: A Self-Reinforcing Privacy Loop in LLM Agents with Persistent Memory

This work asks how consulting memory during dialogue changes what users go on to say, and thus what the memory comes to reveal, and across four support models, memory raises response quality but also empirical leakage, the share of attribute values correctly inferred from the record, by a margin that widens over sessio...

Masahiro Kaneko, Hiromi Arai, Timothy Baldwin · 0 citations

Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models

Across three visual tasks, it is shown that pathway selection is task-dependent, and that data distribution and prompt design can also modulate which pathway is used to solve the image-based query.

Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1

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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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