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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prompt Stability Matters: Evaluating and Optimizing Auto-Generated Prompt in General-Purpose Systems

Automatic prompt generation plays a crucial role in enabling general-purpose multi-agent systems to perform diverse tasks autonomously. Existing methods typically evaluate prompts based on their immediate task performance, overlooking the intrinsic qualities that determine their reliability. This outcome-centric view n...

Ke Chen, Xucheng Yu, Yufei Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Hybrid Gated Attention

The proposed HyGA sheds light on a more effective, efficient, and stable attention mechanism that contains three types of gating strategies and introduces low-rank matrix decomposition and learnable attention sink to further enhance training efficiency and stability.

Zekun Zhou, Ruo-Bing Xie, Lan-Rui Wang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

IACM-RL: Intent-Aware Context Management and Reinforcement Learning for Complex Tool Invocation under Dynamic Intent Fluctuations

Executing long-horizon tool invocations in real-world environments is severely challenged by dynamic user intent noise. Existing methods attempt robustness via implicit history scanning or text compression, yet predominantly assume perfect instructions in simplistic scenarios. Inevitably, under fluctuating contexts, ob...

Dingwei Zhu, Jiahan Li, Chengjun Pan et al. · 0 citations

DEEPRUBRIC: Evidence-Tree Rubric Supervision for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Deep Research Agents

DeepRubric is introduced, a data construction framework that first determines what an evidence-backed report should be evaluated on and then synthesizes aligned query--rubric pairs from those evaluation targets, achieving comparable performance to prior open state-of-the-art deep research models across three benchmarks...

Ming-Hang Zhu, Chu-Yang Wei, Jun Xu et al. · 5 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ProReviewer: Evidence-Driven Investigation for Scientific Peer Review

Effective peer review requires adaptive investigation that responds to evidence emerging from each paper. Existing LLM-based reviewers largely organize the review process around predefined workflows, leaving limited scope for emerging evidence to reshape investigation. We propose ProReviewer, an evidence-driven review...

Haishuo Fang, Yue Feng, Iryna Gurevych · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Potential for Interactive Complexity in Language Model Responses

Given the increased use of large language models (LLMs) for reading and seeking information and the varying needs and backgrounds of users, direct manipulation of text can be a valuable mechanism for end-user control. However, enabling direct manipulation requires that models generate text consistent with user-requeste...

Indu Panigrahi, Tal August · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Ouvia: A User-centered Framework for Measuring Usability of Speech Translation in Real-World Communication Scenarios

Speech translation (ST) is increasingly adopted in user applications, yet its evaluation largely focuses on decontextualized testbeds and holistic quality, rather than end users' communication needs. We introduce Ouvia, an evaluation framework for measuring user-perceived usability of speech translation outputs in real...

Giuseppe Attanasio, Beatrice Savoldi, Daniel Chechelnitsky et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Robust Asynchronous Planning via Auto-Formalization

LLMs can plan by generating schedules directly as a Planner, or by translating a task into a formal specification for a solver as a Formalizer. Most real-world tasks are asynchronous, with non-uniform durations, concurrency, and execution-time changes, yet existing benchmarks hardly cover them. We unify asynchronous pl...

Jiayi Zhang, Jianing Yin, Ben Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ConRAG: Consensus-Driven Evidence Flow for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) on multi-hop question answering (QA), which requires reasoning over evidence from multiple documents. However, current multi-hop RAG approaches still struggle with evidence selection and information trans...

Yikai Zhu, Kunfeng Chen, Qihuang Zhong et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Reasoning Supervision Hurts: TTCW-Based Long-Form Literary Review Generation

Automatic evaluation of long-form literary writing remains challenging, particularly for creativity-related dimensions such as originality and flexibility. We address the lack of large-scale supervision for structured Torrance Test of Creative Writing (TTCW)-based evaluation by constructing a dataset of 263{,}911 long-...

Jinlong Liu, Mohammed Bahja, Mark Lee · 0 citations

On Challenges in Evaluation Methodology: A Review

This work conducts a scoping review spanning four decades and develops a taxonomy of 22 recurring concerns, finding that some concerns have become less visible in literature and many lack coverage in institutional checklists.

Ruchira Dhar, Qi-Wei Peng, Anders Søgaard · 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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