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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Auditing Future-Memory Use in Point-in-Time Language Agents

Point-in-time (PIT) agents can recall post-cutoff facts even when their external evidence respects a historical cutoff. We examine whether this access predicts evidence gathering in 48 historical company-comparison tasks. Independent closed-book revenue probes identify the better-remembered company for each model on ta...

Rong-Tian Ye · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rethinking Quality in Large Language Model Routing: Security-Conditioned Model-and-Budget Selection

Large language model (LLM) routers reduce serving cost by choosing which model to call and how many output tokens to grant it for each query. Existing routers rank model-budget actions using a single quality metric. This does not work for mixed workloads. For ordinary queries, a good answer is correct and useful (utili...

Yi-Chi Zhang, Zhen-Xiang Huang, Yu-Yang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Coupled Harness--Model Evolution for Scientific Equation Discovery

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to discover scientific equations from experimental data. Such a discovery system has two parts that must work together: a library of executable computational tools and the model's tool-use policy. The tools supply the solving capability, from diagnosing structure in th...

Peng-Ze Li, Jia-Quan Zhang, En-Cheng Su et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Iterate on an LLM, Serve on an SLM

As frontier LLMs gain more capabilities, the cost to run them also goes up. At the same time, small language models (SLMs) also gain more capabilities but have largely been able to keep their cost stable, offering 5-40 times cheaper inference for the narrow, repetitive subtasks that agents decompose work into. However,...

Keegan Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

When Pleasing the User Compromises Care: AI Sycophancy in Caregiver-Mediated Healthcare

Large language model (LLM) alignment often assumes that the user interacting with a model is also the primary beneficiary of its behavior. Yet in many consequential settings, one person directs the system while another bears the consequences. We study this problem in caregiver-mediated healthcare, where parents, pet ow...

Priyadarsi Mishra, Arjun Beniwal, Zi-Yu Yi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven their deployment toward general-purpose harness environments, where LLM-based agents operate in sandbox workspaces and interact directly with file systems and shells. While numerous post-training pipelines exist for tool-use agents, their counterparts for...

Han-Si Yang, Lin-Ji Hao, Hong-Yan Hao et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Oct 2026

IVA, a locally deployable Intelligent Variant Analyser based on a small language model for complete case-level and trio-based genomic interpretation.

A small language model running on local hardware can serve as the reasoning layer for case-level and trio-based variant interpretation when it is surrounded by deterministic safeguards.

F. Santoni, E. Ducret, S. Oreshkov et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Effects of Dish Name, Visible Amount, Persona, and Explicit Instruction on Energy Estimates From Food Photographs by 26 Vision-Language Models: Comparative Evaluation Study

Background: Vision-language models (VLMs) are being considered for estimating energy intake from meal photographs. Prompt descriptions such as a Japanese-dietitian persona shift the estimates, suggesting their use for calibration; what the estimates rest on was unknown. Objective: We examined whether prompt description...

S. Nakagawa, A. Yamamoto · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Development and Evaluation of an Offline Vision-Language Model System for Estimating Nutrients from Meal Photographs on Personal Devices: The PLANS (Personal-device Local Assessment of Nutrients System) Study

An offline VLM on a tablet reproduced server-side energy accuracy and is a candidate tool for dietary counselling where photographs cannot leave the institution; given the wide limits of agreement, its usefulness in practice remains to be examined.

S. Nakagawa, A. Yamamoto · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Oct 2026

Language eligibility criteria and enrolled racial and ethnic composition in US clinical trials: a cross-sectional study

English-language proficiency requirements became more than three times as common between 2010 and 2023 and were associated with lower enrolled proportions of Asian and Hispanic/Latinx participants, which may be a tractable target for improving enrollment equity.

A. Tolas, L.-Y. Du, N. Schutz et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Meta-analysis Open access Oct 2026

Reporting completeness of clinical trials evaluating large language model interventions in medicine: systematic review

Clinical trials of LLM interventions show modest adherence to established reporting guidelines, with persistent underreporting of LLM specific methodological details, reproducibility artefacts, and harms reporting required to support reproducibility and confident appraisal of safety risks before their clinical translat...

David Chen, A. Blayne, T. Ning et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Praxis: the natural scientist's harness for Claude

Praxis configures large language models to do data-driven natural science as a small lab of specialist agents running an explicit, falsifiable scientific method over real data. A domain-agnostic core (method loop, scientist roles, integrity rules, and a provenance-stamped, mechanically validated cache engine) is extend...

Uddipta Bhardwaj, Michele Vallisneri, Giada Badaracco et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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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