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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CausalMix: Data Mixture as Causal Inference for Language Model Training

In Large Language Model (LLM) training, data mixing plays a pivotal role in determining model performance. Recent methods optimize mixture weights via proxy models, but they rely on the assumption of static data distributions. As a result, when the underlying data pool shifts, these methods require costly retraining fr...

Zinan Tang, Yukun Zhang, Shaomian Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HealthAgentBench: A Unified Benchmark Suite of Realistic Agentic Healthcare Environments for Challenging Frontier AI Agents

As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex, long-horizon reasoning, rigorous evaluation is essential for measuring progress toward real-world healthcare applications. However, existing healthcare benchmarks are often static or narrow in clinical scope, motivating broader evaluation of agents acting on raw pati...

Qianchu Liu, Sheng Zhang, Guanghui Qin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TellOnce: Correcting Coding Agents Once, Improving Their Future Actions

Interactive LLM agents increasingly work with users across tasks, yet remembering a previous correction does not ensure that the agent changes its behavior in the future. In a diagnostic constructed from anonymized real-world agent interactions, agents using Mem0 still violate 57.5% of applicable preference checks. We...

Yujun Zhou, Kehan Guo, Haomin Zhuang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dummy Backdoor as a Defense: Removing Unknown Backdoors via Shared Internal Mechanisms for Generative LLMs

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to the safety and reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs), as they cause models to behave normally on clean inputs while producing attacker-specified responses when hidden triggers are present. Removing such unknown backdoors is particularly challenging when the defender does...

Kazuki Iwahana, Masaru Matsubayashi, Takuma Koyama et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dynamic Short Convolutions Improve Transformers

Transformers have become the dominant architecture for large language models, largely due to the scalability and flexibility of attention, feed-forward layers, residual connections, and normalization. This paper introduces dynamic short convolutions as an additional neural network primitive for improving Transformers....

Oliver Sieberling, Bharat Runwal, Rameswar Panda et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

"I Strongly Suspect This Website Is a Scam": Benchmarking PII Leakage and Detection without Defense in Autonomous Web Agents

Deceptive web content, widely instantiated across the internet and commonly known as \textit{social-engineering attacks}, manipulates autonomous web agents into submitting users' personally identifiable information (PII) to attacker-controlled endpoints. In this paper, we show that social-engineering attacks are highly...

Soham Roy, Sarthakbrata Halder, Arya Bharaty et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Firefly: Illuminating Large-Scale Verified Tool-Call Data Generation from Real APIs

Training tool-calling agents requires large-scale trajectory data with verifiable labels, yet existing approaches either synthesize environments that diverge from real API behavior or generate tasks without ground-truth outcomes for verification. We present FireFly, a pipeline for generating verified tool-call data fro...

Yuxuan Lu, Ziyi Wang, Yingzhou Lu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where and What to Reward? Understanding Generalization Between Verifiable and Open-Ended Domains in Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is widely used to improve the reasoning capability of language models, since model-generated answers can be easily verified by a rule-based verifier. In contrast, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is mainly used to optimize open-ended conversation wi...

Shangjian Yin, Yu Fu, Yue Dong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review May 2026

Web Agents Should Adopt the Compile-and-Execute Paradigm

This work identifies the main barrier to adopting compile-and-execute on the web: For it to work well, tools must map cleanly to semantic actions, with effects known before execution, so a compiler has enough information to emit a program.

Julien Piet, Ann T. Chow, Yi Hou et al. · 7 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mathematical Reasoning via Intervention-Based Time-Series Causal Discovery Using LLMs as Concept Mastery Simulators

Recent methods for improving LLM mathematical reasoning, whether through MCTS-based test-time search or causal graph-guided knowledge injection, cannot identify which concepts causally contribute to a correct answer, as the observed association may be spurious, driven by confounders such as problem difficulty. We pro...

Tsuyoshi Okita · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why Geometric Continuity Emerges in Deep Neural Networks: Residual Connections and Rotational Symmetry Breaking

Weight matrices in deep networks exhibit geometric continuity---principal singular vectors of adjacent layers point in similar directions. While this property has been widely observed, its origin remains unexplained. Through experiments on toy MLPs and small transformers, we identify two mechanisms: residual connection...

Kyungwon Jeong, Won-Gi Paeng, Honggyo Suh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SATFormer: Learning When to Use Early Value Residuals in Transformers

Recent Transformer architectures expose later layers to representations computed in earlier layers, motivated by the observation that low-level features can become harder to recover as the residual stream is transformed through depth. One such method adds static value residuals: learned mixing coefficients that expose...

Skye Gunasekaran, T\'ea Wright, Rui-Jie Zhu 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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