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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Before Retrieval Begins: Safety and Tool-Use Decisions in LLM Agents

Large language models increasingly act as agents that call external tools, yet most tool-safety research examines only what follows a tool call. The prior decision of whether to call the tool remains largely unexamined and can influence downstream safety. Across the seven open-weight models, the unweighted model-averag...

Aditya Nawal, Manit Baser, M. Gurusamy · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ParetoChat: An LLM-Based Interface for Interactive Multi-Objective Optimization

Multi-objective optimization models are often deployed in settings where decision makers (DMs) must balance some conflicting criteria. In practice, however, stakeholders must translate their qualitative preferences between different criteria into numerical weights, priorities, or reference points required by optimizati...

Gokhan Ceyhan · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Same Person, Different Advice: Auditing LLM Financial Advice with Repeated Risk-Tolerance Responses

AI financial advisers set a client's stock allocation largely from one stated-risk question, yet people do not answer it the same way twice: in a national US panel, 41% of households chose a different answer two years later, and in a laboratory retest a third of people moved two or more points on a 0-10 scale after six...

Soovadeep Bakshi, Apurba Bose, Aishwarya Bose et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Prism Attention: Proposal-Refined Index Sharing Mechanism for Efficient LLMs Inference

Long-context decoding in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly bottlenecked by the memory and computation required to attend over an ever-growing Key-Value (KV) cache at each autoregressive step. Although token-level sparse attention reduces this burden by restricting computation to a small subset of relevant pa...

Zhen-Xu Tian, Ke-Bin Liu, Zheng-Wu Yang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Self-Evolving Agents Can Repair Failures but Struggle to Generalize from Them

Cold-Start Failure-Only Evolution reveals that current self-evolving agents are better at repairing observed failures than building generalizable capabilities from failure, and suggests that current self-evolving agents are better at repairing observed failures than building generalizable capabilities from failure.

Weixiang Zhao, Yi-Chen Zhang, Yan-Yan Zhao et al. · 0 citations

KiranaBench: Can a Language Model Run a Neighbourhood Shop?

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly evaluated on long-horizon tasks, including autonomously running a business. Existing benchmarks for this setting are almost exclusively English-language, Western in retail context, and single-agent, with the agent observing the business directly. We study how these res...

Bhuvan Arora, Ankita Karmakar, Chaitanya Jain et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recognizing Atari and Assessing Sente: Controlled Evaluation Tasks for Language-Based Go Agents

Domain terminology provides concise descriptions of game states and strategic relationships, but whether game-playing language models can accurately recognize these concepts and relate them to move evaluation remains unclear. We construct a controlled evaluation set centered on atari and its relationship to sente in Go...

Taiyi Chen, Iskar Deng, Amandalynne Paullada · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Surface Cues: Robust LLM-Generated Korean Text Detection

As large language models (LLMs) generate increasingly fluent text, the need for reliable detection of LLM-generated content has grown substantially. However, existing research remains heavily English-centric, leaving Korean largely underexplored. Moreover, current evaluations of Korean text detection often rely on supe...

Sungho Kim, SangKeun Lee · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ASR-Style Transcript Normalization Removes Useful Pragmatic Signal for Dialogue Act Classification

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) pipelines often normalize transcripts by removing filled pauses and punctuation and expanding colloquial forms, potentially discarding cues useful for dialogue act classification. We evaluate nine transcript conditions across six classifiers (TF-IDF logistic regression, RoBERTa, BERT,...

Lucky Onyekwelu-Udoka, Md Shafiqul Islam · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Bengali Hallucination Detection with Retrieval and Programs: A System Study

Bengali hallucination detection must distinguish unsupported factual claims from incorrect reasoning, often without a supplied reference passage. We present and characterize an inference-only system that combines response-conditioned query rewriting, hybrid retrieval, and task-specific language-model judging. Six retri...

Shamim Hasan, Samiya Chowdhury · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NLData2Opt: Benchmarking Parameter Derivation and Prediction for Modeling Optimization Problems from Natural Language and Data

Formulating optimization problems from raw inputs of problem descriptions and data is time-consuming and costly. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising way to automate this process, existing benchmarks overestimate their capabilities by relying on idealized inputs where all data is relevant and complete....

Lijia Liu, Kyohei Atarashi, Jiyi Li 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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