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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Eliciting Specifications: When Does Interactive Clarification Help?

LLMs can generate Lean specifications from task descriptions, but those descriptions are often underspecified or ambiguous and may omit verifier-relevant edge cases, yielding imperfect formal specifications. We study whether an elicitation agent (EA) can improve verifier-checked Lean specifications by seeking clarifica...

Mowafak Allaham, Aditya Vempaty, Ashish Jagmohan et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Revealing the Impact of Visual Text Style on Attribute-based Descriptions Produced by Large Visual Language Models

When the visual style of text is considered, a wide variety can be observed in font, color, and size. However, when a word is read, its meaning is independent of the style in which it has been written or rendered. In this paper, we investigate whether, and how, the style in which a word is visualized in an image impact...

Xiaomeng Wang, Martha Larson, Zhengyu Zhao · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DiscoveryRSI: Recursively Learning to Discover Valuable Hypotheses

Scientific discovery requires developing worthwhile hypotheses into practical investigations, yet learning from this evolving research process remains challenging. We introduce an operational definition of valuable and testable research hypotheses: evidence-grounded claims about consequential uncertainties, coupled wit...

Jianyuan Zhong, Chenwei Wu, Zhaochen Yu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Acceptance Is Not Speed: Length Inflation in Training-Free Lossy Speculative Decoding

Speculative decoding typically characterizes speedup by draft tokens accepted per verification round. Lossless verification preserves the target model's output distribution and thus expected completion length, making this metric a meaningful efficiency proxy. Relaxed (lossy) verification accepts tokens that lossless ve...

Chiatzen Wang, Bill Xu, Haochen Gu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Steering beyond Language: Improving Multilingual Training-Free Text Embeddings via Paired-Residual Subspace Removal

This work proposes Paired-Residual Subspace Removal (PRSR), a training-free inference-time intervention that steers LLM representations toward a more language-invariant semantic space and demonstrates that PRSR consistently improves the performance of existing training-free baselines in both monolingual and cross-lingu...

Ailiang Lin, Zhuo-Yun Li, Yu-Song Wang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DLite: History-free Speculative Decoding for Agentic AI

Speculative decoding has become a mainstream technique for accelerating large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to generate candidate tokens that are subsequently verified by the target model. However, agentic workloads introduce long and continuously evolving contexts and frequent multi...

Jiaming Xu, Hanzhen Wang, Tianlang Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Italian lawmaking process: a unified and structured dataset

The Italian legislative process is documented in detailed parliamentary records hosted in institutional websites. However, much of this information is available only as unstructured text, limiting its systematic reuse. We applied a controlled, systematic LLM-based extraction procedure, validated against manually annota...

Matilde Contestabile, C. Ferrara, Giovanni Parrillo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recognizing Study Lineage Is Not Enough: Over-Crediting Same-Trial Evidence in LLM-Based Medical Verification

Publication count is not study count. A model can identify shared trial lineage correctly in a direct task yet over-credit a second publication from the same trial when aggregating evidence. We evaluate this behavior in medical LLM verification using 14 source-audited clinical families and five model conditions. The fa...

Mukand Krishna, Anoushka Harit, Chenghao Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

The Cognitive Cost of LLM Writing: A Reading-Time Comparison with Human Text

Although linguistic differences between human-written and Large Language Model (LLM)-generated texts have been extensively studied, their implications for the cognitive effort involved in reading remain less explored. In psycholinguistics, reading time is commonly used as an indirect measure of cognitive processing eff...

Kamer Cekini, Elisabetta Biondi, C. Boldrini et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

GLOBE: Evolving Structured Agentic Memory for E-commerce Product Optimization in Generative Search

Experiments show that structured behaviors outperform monolithic prompt optimization, while feedback-driven evolution and moderation further improve effectiveness and reduce downside risk, suggesting that agentic memory evolution supports interpretable and transferable product optimization.

Hyunseo Kim, Suil Choe, Suk-Ho So et al. · 0 citations

VISTA: Steering LLMs with Latent User Values Inferred from a Few Survey Answers

Personalizing a language model requires knowing what a person values, which stays largely consistent across tasks. Yet most methods either learn task-specific preferences or place the user's profile in the prompt, where models struggle to act on it. We introduce VISTA (Value-Informed Steering and Targeted Acquisition),...

Yi-Nuo Xu, Jadie Adams, Brian H. Hu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Dec 2024

In Human Memories. Tecnica, creatività e autodeterminazione: una proposta etica

La ricerca indaga il ruolo dell'intelligenza artificiale (AI) nelle moderne pratiche compositive, con particolare attenzione a due casi di studio: Convergence (2020/21) di Alexander Schubert, per Ensemble d'archi e sistema AI, e In Human Memories (2024) di Francesco Vitucci, per quattro violoncelli ed elettronica, la c...

Francesco Vitucci, G. Silvi, Francesco Abbrescia 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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