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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

HTN-Orchestrate: A Hierarchical Task Network Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration

Orchestrating multiple agents on a complex task requires reconciling local subtask execution with global task planning. Dynamic dispatch approaches provide execution flexibility but do not explicitly model subtask hierarchies or dependencies, while predefined workflows impose this structure but fix the decomposition be...

Yan-Chen Deng, Jian-Guo Huang, Yao-Long Teng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AutoSFT: An Agentic System for Automated Data Research in Supervised Fine-Tuning

Language model agents increasingly automate post-training, but when given the full training stack they converge on supervised fine-tuning and spend most effort revising training data. Existing systems give the agent one kind of control, selecting rows from a fixed pool or calling a generator, whereas a human data engin...

Bing-Xiang He, Peng Sun, Shi-Hao Peng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Believed but Not Said: Measuring Hidden Belief Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Discussions

LLM systems increasingly rely on groups of agents that discuss, critique, and check one another, assuming that peers will catch individual errors. We test this assumption against a minimal adversary. In a ten-agent factual discussion, one or three adversarial agents repeatedly assert a plausible false answer. After eac...

Liangjie Huang, Henry Peng Zou, Wei-Chieh Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RoleQ: Role-Aligned Scales for Converting Language Models to Ternary

RoleQ is introduced, a quantization framework that places scales by the functional roles of Transformer units rather than by the layout of the weight matrix, as conventional formats do, and leads every post-training ternary method at matched or lower memory-resident bits on perplexity, zero-shot accuracy and MMLU.

Johannes Knittel, Alec Helbling, Hanspeter Pfister · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DeciCAD: Harness-Grounded Learning of Action Policies for CAD Agents

Large Language Model agents operate through closed-loop action policies whose decision space is defined by an agent harness. We investigate how this operating space shapes agent behavior and policy learning in computer-aided design (CAD), a professional domain characterized by persistent state, geometric constraints, a...

Yu-Feng Peng, Yi-Xin Zhang, Zi-Yi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

The Self-Improvement Problem

A standard decidable regime used in practice is identified under which exhaustive simulation yields a terminating search procedure with the desired guarantees, and the limit of this recovery is shown: a chain of accepted updates can raise the bounded score in every round while the true score falls.

Brian B. Moser, Stanislav Frolov, T. Nauen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SCRIBE: Scalable Contextual Representations of Interpretable Brain-Grounded Semantics

Understanding how the human brain constructs meaning from real-world language remains a fundamental challenge, as semantics depend on context that varies in natural settings. To enable the study of real-world linguistic meaning in the brain, we introduce SCRIBE, a framework grounded in a neuroscience-informed semantic...

Camila Kolling, Omer Moussa, Emin Çelik et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Decomposing Brain-LLM Alignment with Interpretable Semantic Representations

Large language models (LLMs) predict neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension, but the linguistic information underlying this brain alignment remains difficult to interpret. We use SCRIBE, an interpretable contextual semantic representation spanning 65 neurocognitively grounded semantic properties, a...

Camila Kolling, Mariya Toneva · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Do Agents Need a New Kind of Paper? SPRA: Structured Paper Representation for Agents

Scientific agents must connect research problems, methods, and findings dispersed through narrative articles. We introduce SPRA (Structured Paper Representation for Agents), a paper-level representation of persistent research objects and typed relations. Its empirical-AI profile organizes Problems, Contributions, Compo...

Yu-Tong Leng, Hao-Jiong Chen, Fu-Kai Shang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DocPilot: Interactive Agent Orchestration and Training for Long Visual Document Understanding

DocPilot is introduced, an agentic document framework that supports expressive orchestration and makes complex document solving learnable by small language models (SLMs) and integrates local visual inspection, code-based numerical reasoning, and cross-modal reasoning for multimodal understanding.

Zhuo-Wen Liang, Xiao-Tian Lin, Yu-Yu Luo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Bias Control and Injection for Multi-Agent Aggregation

Multi-agent reasoning with large language models (LLMs) raises a central question for collective decision-making: when agents disagree, whose decision should be trusted? Resolving such disagreements is difficult because agents'decisions are susceptible to non-semantic biases such as majority pressure and response-style...

Sungjae Lee, Soheil Abbasloo, Jabin Koo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Auditing Escalation Reliability in Healthcare LLM Agents: A Perturbation-Controlled Benchmark of Workflow-State Failures

Trustworthy biomedical AI requires reliable action selection when evidence is missing, stale, conflicting, or late, not only accurate answers on static inputs. We instantiate an episode-level evaluation protocol as 400 synthetic healthcare workflow episodes: 40 hand-authored semantic seeds across four task classes, two...

Zihao Zheng (Washington University in St. Louis), Junyi Yao (Washington University in St. Louis), Baichuan Li (Southern Methodist University) 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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