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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

JAL-Turn: Joint Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Real-Time and Robust Turn-Taking Detection in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems

Efficient and robust turn-taking detection remains a significant challenge in industrial-grade voice AI agents. Existing systems often rely on acoustic or linguistic cues alone, limiting accuracy and stability, whereas directly endowing large language models with full-duplex capability incurs heavy data and deployment...

Yu Pan, Guangzhao Yang, Muhammad Huzaifah et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Counterfactual Graph Approach to Oppositional Narrative Analysis

Distinguishing legitimate critical speech from coordinated conspiracy narratives is a pressing challenge for the integrity of the online information ecosystem, yet prevailing approaches rely on labeled entity roles and rigid predefined schemas that fail to capture the diffuse and context-dependent nature of participati...

Diego Revilla, Martin Fernandez-de-Retana, Lingfeng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Toward Guarantees for Clinical Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Formal Verification

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise in drafting radiology reports, yet they frequently suffer from logical inconsistencies, generating diagnostic impressions unsupported by their own perceptual findings or missing logically entailed conclusions. Standard lexical metrics heavily penalize clinical paraphrasing and...

Vikash Singh, Debargha Ganguly, Haotian Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Associations to Activations: Comparing Behavioral and Hidden-State Semantic Geometry in LLMs

We investigate the extent to which an LLM's hidden-state geometry can be recovered from its behavior in psycholinguistic experiments. Across eight instruction-tuned transformer models, we run two experimental paradigms -- similarity-based forced choice and free association -- over a shared 5,000-word vocabulary, collec...

Louis Schiekiera, Max Zimmer, Christophe Roux et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VERGE: Formal Refinement and Guidance Engine for Verifiable LLM Reasoning

Despite the syntactic fluency of Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring their logical correctness in high-stakes domains remains a fundamental challenge. We present a neurosymbolic framework that combines LLMs with SMT solvers to produce verification-guided answers through iterative refinement. Our approach decomposes...

Vikash Singh, Darion Cassel, Nathaniel Weir et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Retell, Reward, Repeat: Reinforcement Learning for Narrative Theory-Informed Story Retelling

Counterfactual storytelling exposes LLM shortcomings in causal reasoning, where few-shot prompting and SFT fail to produce logical and rational narratives. This case study introduces Retell, Reward, Repeat (RRR), a narrative theory-informed RL pipeline that teaches causal story structure. We extend an existing counterf...

David Y. Liu, Xanthe Muston, Dipankar Srirag et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where is the multimodal goal post? On the Ability of Foundation Models to Recognize Highlights in Videos

Foundation models are used for many real-world applications involving language understanding and generation from temporally-ordered multimodal events. In this work, we study the ability of models to identify the most important sub-events in a video, which is a fundamental prerequisite for summarizing, reasoning over, o...

Aditya K Surikuchi, Raquel Fern\'andez, Sandro Pezzelle · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jan 2026

NeuroFilter: Activation-Based Guardrails for Privacy-Conscious LLM Agents

This work provides the first systematic investigation into probing model internals across a conversation trajectory, moving beyond static, single-prompt analysis to capture the evolving state of privacy-sensitive interactions, and illustrating their applicability across contexts, attack styles, multiple base models, an...

Saswat Das, Ferdinando Fioretto · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Representational Similarity Alignment of Figurative Language in Humans and Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) often produce judgments similar to those of humans, but their interpretation of figurative language remains unclear. We compared human participants and four instruction-tuned LLMs (GPT-4, Gemma-2-9B, Llama-3.2, and Mistral-7B) on their ratings of 240 dialogue-based sentences spanning six li...

Samhita Bollepally, Aurora Sloman-Moll, Takashi Yamauchi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mechanistic Knobs in LLMs: Retrieving and Steering High-Order Semantic Features via Sparse Autoencoders

Recent work in Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) has enabled the identification and intervention of internal features in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, a persistent challenge lies in linking such internal features to the reliable control of complex, behavior-level semantic attributes in language generation. In...

Ruikang Zhang, Shuo Wang, Qi Su · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measuring all the noises of LLM Evals

Applying well-established statistical methods effectively to LLM evals requires consideration of model correlations and prediction noises. Leading evals often ignore data noise, have low statistical power, or make unnecessary trade-offs. We define and measure three types of noise: 1) prediction noise from generating di...

Sida I. Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Semantics as a Shield: Label Disguise Defense (LDD) against Prompt Injection in LLM Sentiment Classification

Prompt injection can cause large language models (LLMs) to deviate from their intended tasks by following instructions embedded in untrusted input. We investigate whether changing a classifier's output labels improves accuracy under such attacks, using sentiment classification as a case study. Label Disguise Defense (L...

Yanxi Li, Ruocheng Shan · 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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