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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Does the Linguistic Register of Thinking Matter? Wenyan as a Compact Reasoning Register for Chinese LLMs

Visible reasoning traces of Chinese reasoning-oriented LLMs are typically written in modern vernacular Chinese, which may be verbose under limited decoding budgets. We ask whether the linguistic register of reasoning can be used to improve efficiency. We propose Wenyan Thinking, which emits intermediate reasoning in Cl...

Minghan Li, Guodong Zhou · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

MakSafe: A Spatiotemporal Semantic Framework for Formal Specification and Compliance Checking of Road Vehicle Safety Rules

MakSafe is presented, a formal spatiotemporal framework for specifying and checking road vehicle safety rules through semantic zones, action-based forecasting, and trace-tree reasoning, avoiding uniform time discretization.

Maksym Labzhaniia, Julien Deantoni, Marie-Agnès Peraldi-Frati et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Recognizing Dialogue Ambiguity via Candidate Set Visual Grounding

Interpreting an ambiguous utterance in real-world interactions often requires context beyond a single utterance. When the utterance refers to objects in a visual scene, it is necessary to maintain and update the set of plausible referents as context accumulates, without assuming that the available information identifie...

Shun Inadumi, Lee Sangmyeong, Koichiro Yoshino · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba

This work finds that gates in retrieval-critical layers are not yet aligned with relevance, and finds that Mamba's retrieval bottleneck extends beyond state capacity: even when capacity is sufficient, the delayed emergence of relevance information across depth often prevents successful retrieval.

Nir Yarden, Amit Ben Artzy, Roy Schwartz · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RouteWeaver: Weaving Mode Selection and Execution into Unified LLM Routing

LLM routing dynamically selects and coordinates heterogeneous language models across diverse tasks. However, existing approaches are largely built around a predefined execution paradigm, such as single-round, multi-round, or agentic routing, which fixes how model calls are organized and limits adaptation to different q...

Xiaohan Wang, Haozhen Zhang, Qingyuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

BANGLAPLAN: A Benchmark for Constraint-Based Planning and Decision-Making in Bangla

This work introduces BANGLAPLAN, a benchmark of 1,000 problems across ten task families grounded in everyday life and institutions in Bangladesh, and suggests that harder problems primarily reduce plan-construction accuracy, while infeasibility detection remains more robust.

Muhamad Mas'ud, S. M. Maksudul Alam, Mohammad Jaminur Islam · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Share the Symbol, Not the Vector: Training-Free Fact Communication Across Language Models

Multi-agent systems allow language models to solve tasks collaboratively by sharing complementary information. These systems typically communicate through text, while recent approaches also explore exchanging internal model states. However, sharing these states across architectures often requires learned translators or...

Xin Li, Mengbing Liu, Hao Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

Interlock: From Local Correctness to Task Completion in Long-Horizon Agents

Large language model agents increasingly undertake long-horizon tasks in complex environments characterized by fragmented evidence, partially completed states, and dependencies across resources and artifacts, and Interlock, a framework for task synthesis that represents each task as a typed completion graph is proposed...

Lin-Ji Hao, Yan-Ji He, Zi-Han Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring and Reducing Unusable Replies of LLM Agents

People delegate multi-step work to LLM agents and read only the reply that the agent hands back. Current evaluation scores task completion and the faithfulness of reports, and it leaves open whether the requester can understand and use the reply. We call this property reply usability and measure it with a reader model...

Yilin Jiang, Fei Tan, Xuanyu Yin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop

Typed decision models need an interface that can use additional reasoning while retaining candidate outputs. We train a shared candidate-answer reader on a frozen Qwen3.5-4B backbone to unify direct decisions with on-demand, interruptible reasoning. The reader returns distributions from empty and partial reasoning pref...

Bin Zheng, Zheng Chen · 0 citations

J-tau: A Fully Localized Japanese Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction

J-tau is presented, the first publicly available Japanese benchmark for evaluating tool-using LLM agents in interactive customer-support scenarios and carefully localizes tau-bench through machine translation, entity adaptation, and human review to enable reliable evaluation in Japanese.

Chihiro Yano, Jun Hirako, Hiroaki Yamagiwa et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Are We Really Measuring Forgetting? Pitfalls in Evaluating Machine Unlearning for Multimodal LLMs

As machine unlearning for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) rapidly advances, rigorous evaluation of its effectiveness becomes increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks largely inherit evaluation protocols from text-only unlearning and overlook the unique challenges of unlearning in multimodal setting...

Oscar Chew, Po-Yi Lu, Yi-Jie Cheng et al. · 0 citations

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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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