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Researchers deployed an automated pipeline to optimize skill descriptions for an enterprise AI agent, achieving 79.2% F1 accuracy versus 79.4% for manual tuning while reducing engineering effort per skill from 120 to 3.8…
Researchers at arXiv trained GPT-2 models on 'impossible' languages and found that while grammatical sensitivity degrades gradually, generative production fails significantly, suggesting transmission failures explain why…
Researchers submitted a system to SemEval-2026 Task 9 for detecting multilingual online polarization using transformer-based models with class weighting and threshold tuning. Their approach achieved competitive F1 macro …
Researchers extend Frictive Policy Optimization (FPO) to handle perceptual asymmetry in dialogue, where participants have asymmetric partial information. Cross-corpora analysis and LLM probing on the HCRC MapTask show th…
Researchers introduced Explanation Quality Markers (EQMs), a set of sixty reasoning patterns scored by large language models, to measure judgment quality in natural-language explanations. In a pre-registered analysis of …
Researchers propose CORTEX, a token-level hallucination detection method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that identifies ungrounded content by comparing internal representations of a large language model with an…
Researchers introduced a semantic-layer-mediated NL2SQL agent that decouples semantic intent from physical SQL execution, achieving 94.15% execution accuracy on the Spider2-snow benchmark and ranking third on the officia…
Researchers introduced a controlled student-teacher protocol to study when natural-language feedback improves multi-turn language agent performance beyond repeated attempts. Testing thirteen open-weight models across fou…
Researchers argue that AI agents should help users construct preferences rather than assume they have well-formed ones, introducing CoPref and CoShop to model and benchmark this. Testing five frontier models on CoShop, n…
Researchers introduced multi-agent deliberation frameworks inspired by courtroom procedures for legal reasoning tasks using large language models. The multi-agent approaches achieved comparable overall performance to bas…
A new study on natural-language-to-Lean formalization reveals that compile-rate evaluation overestimates faithfulness, with a tool-augmented agent achieving 89.5% compilation but only 60.5% consensus faithfulness. The re…
Researchers propose DDIAgents, a mechanism-conditioned multi-agent framework for drug-drug interaction prediction that dynamically orchestrates specialized expert agents and adapts context flow to the inferred interactio…
A developer built Kognita, a managed API that handles chunking, embedding, indexing, and retrieval for AI knowledge layers. The project is seeking 10 teams to test the service for free, with no credit card required and h…
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie argue that anthropomorphizing language around AI hinders clear discussion of what these technologies actually do, and propose alternatives such as "probabilistic automation" instead of "art…
Researchers introduced Multi-Block Diffusion Language Models (MBD-LMs) that enhance parallelism and training methods for faster, more accurate text generation. The MBD-LLaDA2-Mini model achieved a 78% increase in tokens …
Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-facing engineering role…
An AI second brain knowledge base stores information so agents can retrieve it by meaning using semantic search, not keywords. Building one with Claude Code involves setting up automated hourly ingestion pipelines that p…
Google Drive is bringing Ask Gemini and AI Overviews to Android and iOS, allowing users to have multi-turn conversations and get instant search summaries. The features are rolling out over the next few weeks for Google A…
New research shows large language models cannot rely solely on a "correct answer feature" to answer multiple choice questions, as they perform equally well when options precede the question, a scenario where such a featu…
A developer built a generative simulation benchmarking framework for heritage language revitalization, using embodied agent feedback loops to evaluate cultural resonance beyond standard metrics like BLEU scores. The syst…