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#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Budget-First Tariff Recommendation (BFTR): A Complete Algorithmic Framework for Telecom Plan Recommendation without Overcharging

This paper proposes BFTR (Budget-First Tariff Recommendation), a complete algorithmic framework integrating eight Budget-First strategies, including two original hybrid approaches: Recursive Hybrid (conditional interpolation) and Knapsack-First Hybrid (priority knapsack).

Ghislain Dorian Tchuente Mondjo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observations

Experiments on MemFuseBench show that MemFuse achieves the best overall performance among the evaluated memory systems under all three LLM settings and consistently improves performance on questions requiring cross-source evidence fusion.

Chao Li, Yuanfa Li, Wenhao Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Aslema at NADI 2026: Data Augmentation for Intent Recognition and Slot Filling

This work evaluates four omni LLMs in a zero-shot setting and shows that fine-tuning consistently outperforms zero-shot inference, and explores synthetic data augmentation by using an LLM to generate culturally grounded Tunisian Derja utterances, followed by voice cloning to generate synthetic speech.

Tajwaar Shafiq, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, S. Chowdhury et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

From Storage to Access: Verifiable Activation of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs via Explicit Priming and Implicit Reasoning

VAKE (Verifiable Activation of Parametric KnowledgE), a two-stage reinforcement-learning framework that externalizes latent parametric knowledge through explicit Priming and transfers the acquired elicitation capability to implicit Reasoning, is proposed.

Zuocheng Ying, Yang Yang, Yumou Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Evaluating and Explaining Prompt Sensitivity of LLMs Using Interactions

Interactions are introduced as a fine-grained tool to analyze prompt sensitivity of LLMs and it is discovered that subtle changes to prompts can trigger severe instability in interactions, even when the outputs of the LLM remain the same.

Ruiyang Qin, Qingzhuo Wang, Tian Wang et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

DART-SD: Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents

This work proposes DART-SD (Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation), a novel framework that shifts the paradigm from global forcing to topology-guided localized correction, and significantly outperforms traditional full-trajectory baselines.

Hangrui Xu, Jiarui Wang, Yang Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Pedagogical AI in Mental Health: A Tri-Stream Fine-Tuned LLM Framework for Automated Clinical Supervision and Risk Triage

The system reduces supervisory triage latency from 72 hours to real time (~10 seconds per session), enabling proactive intervention in high-risk cases and addresses the cold-start problem through Bayesian priors and implements timestamp-based modality synchronization for robust multi-modal fusion.

Shreeya Sharma, Ravish Gupta, Saket Kumar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Selection, Recombination, or a Fresh Solve? A Candidate-Free Control for Single-Pass Test-Time Aggregation

This work introduces the missing candidate-free control under the same maximum output-token allowance and stratify by the number of correct candidates, finding that conditioning on an all-wrong candidate pool lowers accuracy relative to a fresh solve.

Guiv Farmanfarmaian · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

From Inference to Adaptation: A Unified Optimal Transport View of Vision Language Model

This work proposes a principled VLM TTA method called \algname, and theoretically reveals that the InfoNCE loss can be neatly reformulated as a Wasserstein OT formulation, thereby unifying the objectives of the inference and adaptation of VLMs to achieve their mutual benefits.

Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Katherine Tieu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Debiased Inference for AI-Generated Data without Gold-Standard Labels: Identification via Multiple Imperfect Measurements

This paper proposes debiased inference with multiple imperfect measurements (DMM), a framework that combines multiple error-prone AI measurements to enable valid downstream inference without gold-standard labels and proves that the DMM estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal.

Naoki Egami, Sooahn Shin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Aug 2026

What Makes Software Issue Resolution Tasks Difficult for Agents?

Background. Advances in agentic systems are simultaneously, and rapidly, saturating benchmarks. Despite this often discussed phenomena, benchmark scores remain difficult to interpret due to the lack of control and characterization of task difficulty. More specifically, we currently have little understanding of what makes one task harder than another, and to what extent task difficulty is predictable from static task properties. Aims. We propose a measurement framework to investigate and systematically quantify what structural properties of software tasks correspond to agent success rates for issue resolution tasks. Method. We conducted a large scale empirical study on CoderForge-Preview, the largest open dataset of coding agent trajectories to date, by extracting features across task patch, repository and prompt. We evaluated the predictive power of each feature against task outcomes using ensemble methods, SHAP attribution, and effect size analysis. Results We found that task difficulty is substantially predictable from static features (AU C = 0.863) and is largely driven by patch fragmentation and repository scale. Prompt linguistic features become visible among top contributors for tasks in the mid-band, revealing a layered structure of difficulty. Conclusion. The difficulty of an issue resolution task is encoded in its structure. This enables static, pre-hoc difficulty estimation and lays the groundwork for difficulty-controlled benchmark construction for evaluation of agents.

Ebtesam Al-Haque, Brittany Johnson · 0 citations

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Looking beyond natural sequences

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 20, 2026

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

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